Swinton also beat Cate Blanchett (as a mid-'60s take on Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There") and Amy Ryan (a difficult working-class mother in "Gone Baby Gone").
"I'm in a car running from the tornado, " said Amy Sharp, who last week pulled her fourth-grade daughter from the Plaza Towers Elementary School as a storm approached with 210 mph winds.
Damon and Affleck (who gives such a nice performance here I'm willing to forgive the clunk-and-clink he had to participate in in "Chasing Amy") are darn good screenwriters, and I'll tell you exactly why I think so.