‘Half Nelson’ at 20: How a $700,000 Indie Addiction Drama Earned Ryan Gosling His First Oscar Nod

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‘Half Nelson’ at 20: How a $700,000 Indie Addiction Drama Earned Ryan Gosling His First Oscar Nod

IndieWire·Ryan Lattanzio·about 23 hours ago

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‘Half Nelson’ at 20: How a $700,000 Indie Addiction Drama Earned Ryan Gosling His First Oscar Nod

Ahead of a new dual-disc 4K re-release and a return to theaters, filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden look back on their indie drama, starring Gosling as a freebasing middle-school teacher.

'Half Nelson'

“He said it felt like we were the kind of people who talked about the script like we were plotting to build a bomb,” laughed Ryan Fleck, remembering how he and his longtime filmmaker partner, Anna Boden, convinced Ryan Gosling to star in their feature debut, “Half Nelson.” “It was probably a little bit true though,” adds Boden. “We hadn’t done much except try to make this movie for a long time, and maybe that came off the page.…

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‘Half Nelson’ at 20: How a $700,000 Indie Addiction Drama Earned Ryan Gosling His First Oscar Nod