Zeitlin, directing his first feature film, says it wasn't about executing a perfect plan.
At its core, Mr. Zeitlin's film is a tale of daughter and father struggling to survive.
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Also garnering critical acclaim was "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " the feature-film debut of director Benh Zeitlin.
Russell for Silver Linings Playbook, Steven Spielberg for Lincoln, and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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Based on a play by Lucy Alibar, who wrote the screenplay with Zeitlin.
Zeitlin had begun the search for Hushpuppy in early 2009 in New Orleans.
Benh Zeitlin did a masterful job with Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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From the unique Louisiana locations to the effects used to create the Aurochs, Zeitlin is the main reason this film comes alive.
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"The radiation environment in deep space is several hundred times what it is on Earth, and that's even inside a shielded spacecraft, " Zeitlin said.
If one looks at the film's credits, "Beasts" is a film by Court 13, not a film by director Benh Zeitlin, says Mr. Gottwald.
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There are outside chances for David O Russell for Silver Lining Playbook, Michael Haneke for Amour and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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It didn't take Zeitlin long to realize he'd found his Hushpuppy.
Zeitlin and his colleagues found voyagers could be exposed to between 554 and 770 millisieverts of ionizing radiation during the trip, depending on the level of solar activity.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin's low-budget indie about a little girl from Louisiana whose pluck helps her survive a devastating Delta disaster, is unquestionably one of the former.
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The radiation exposure from a Mars journey is similar to getting a full-body CT scan every five or six days, said lead researcher Cary Zeitlin of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
The radiation astronauts would face on a round trip would be comparable to getting an abdominal CT scan "about once every five days, " said Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist for the NASA-led Martian Radiation Environment Experiment.
As it turned out, she came from the bayou communities where Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar were writing the script (based on Alibar's stage play Juicy and Delicious), and where the film would eventually be shot.
The tastes of the directing branch skews indie, arty, and avant-garde, but from talking to voters, it seems as though the Affleck snub came about simply because a majority of nominators were so sure Affleck was in that they spent their votes on longshots, such as "Beasts of the Southern Wild's" Benh Zeitlin and "Amour's" Michael Haneke.
Despite the fact this was the first feature film by filmmaker Benh Zeitlin and starred unknown actors in all its roles, the film has gone to receive over 35 awards for both the director, the screenwriter Lucy Alibar, and most importantly, landing its leading lady the distinction of being the youngest nominee ever for an Oscar Academy Award for best actress.
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