Best Makeup, 72nd Annual Academy Awards . Please note that all release dates are subject to change. Some of my favorite movies have been about prison inmates, including I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , Cool Hand Luke , The Shawshank Redemption , and Stir Crazy . The men in a prison are either guilty of their crime, or they're not, and are wrongfully imprisoned. In either case, this pegs every inmate in the prison as an intriguing story waiting to be told.
Prisons are, in that way, a microcosmos into themselves, like an antfarm or a city in a bottle.
Director Ted Demme has a deft hand with this brand of comedy, and so his place here as helmer should be a good sign of the kind of humor that might await us. A good deal of the above commentary was also used in my preview of The Green Mile , as I felt both movies shared a great deal despite being completely different films in tone and content.