Sep 17, 2026 · 52 min · 10 segments
Two movies about corporations that will kill to keep their profits going, and the fixers on their teams that make their evil deeds possible finally deciding to do the right thing — it's *Michael…
A law firm brings in its fixer to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
And this is one of those cinephile movies where we don't talk about it in the day-to-day in the way that we might talk about a movie like Moonlighting, or even My Cousin Vinny.
It's a very like, if somebody wants to talk about film, they're going to talk about Michael Clayton.
And the other six nominations were were Best Picture, Best Actor, George Clooney, Best Supporting Actor, Tom Wilkinson, who was, for me, the star of the show.
How did he not win? What were the categories that year? Because Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men won.
This is where the Oscars get a little unfair, where any awards is unfair in how they group things.
Javier Bardem is what Anton Chigurh being the same level of supporting as Tom Wilkinson, as Arthur and Michael Clayton.
Awards chatter, FYC events for a movie that is not currently streaming in a single location.
A law firm brings in its fixer to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
And this is one of those cinephile movies where we don't talk about it in the day-to-day in the way that we might talk about a movie like Moonlighting, or even My Cousin Vinny.
It's a very like, if somebody wants to talk about film, they're going to talk about Michael Clayton.
And the other six nominations were were Best Picture, Best Actor, George Clooney, Best Supporting Actor, Tom Wilkinson, who was, for me, the star of the show.
How did he not win? What were the categories that year? Because Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men won.
This is where the Oscars get a little unfair, where any awards is unfair in how they group things.
Javier Bardem is what Anton Chigurh being the same level of supporting as Tom Wilkinson, as Arthur and Michael Clayton.
Awards chatter, FYC events for a movie that is not currently streaming in a single location.
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