Michael Keaton and Edward Norton in Birdman
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1 of 1Michael Keaton and Edward Norton in Birdman
Why?
Movie awards season is upon us again, and right out there with the
frontrunners, currently a hair’s breadth clear of its closest competitors (Boyhood,
Mr Turner, The Imitation Game), is the audacious industry
satire Birdman. A blistering account of a deranged Broadway vanity
project, the movie was named Best Picture at New York’s Gotham Independent
Film Awards earlier this week, while its star Michael Keaton was named Best
Actor, an honour he received again, the following night, at America’s
National Board of Review awards.
Keaton, inevitably, is Birdman’s secret weapon, and is as close to a guaranteed
