Trailer for ‘James White,’ starring EGOT-contender Cynthia Nixon

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Cynthia Nixon and Christopher Abbott in James White

 

Every year of awards season we always comb through who is potentially up for rounding out their EGOT wins (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) and this year Cynthia Nixon could find her ‘O’ with the film James White. A Locarno and Toronto International Film Festival entry this year and Sundance winner, the film tells the story of drug and alcohol addiction and a devastating cancer diagnoses. Christopher Abbott (Girls) co-stars and provides the titular role.

James White hits theaters November 13, 2015 from The Film Arcade.

From Yahoo:

[box type=”shadow” align=”alignleft” class=”” width=””]Josh Mond’s heartbreaking coming-of-age drama “James White” blew audiences away at the Sundance Film Festival earlier the year, going so far as to win the festival’s Best of NEXT award, and now it’s getting a hearty awards push from distributor The Film Arcade. The company has announced the movie will hit select theaters on November 13. Former “Girls” star Christopher Abbott plays the eponymous James White, whose self-destructive lifestyle must be reevaluated after his mother (Cynthia Nixon) gets diagnosed with cancer. Reviews out of Sundance praised the leads’ performances, and The Film Arcade will mount their biggest awards push yet for Abbott and Nixon. “What people have really responded to when seeing this film, whether audiences or critics, is that the performances from Christopher and Cynthia are just astonishing,” said Andy Bohn from Film Arcade. “Both of them give the performances of their career.” Before it hits theaters in November, “James White” will be playing the Toronto International Film Festival, where its awards buzz will most certainly continue to grow.[/box]

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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