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George Clooney Up In The Air From the director of "Juno" and "Thank You For Smoking" Use the hashtag #uita or #upintheair on Twitter to see your tweets here! Go to Twitter Sort Tweets: Everyone, Only @JasonReitman (Jason Reitman on Twitter) Visit the official Up in the Air movie site Up In The Air Movie Reviews and News: March 10, 2010Up In The Air Available on Blu-ray and DVD March 9!
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BAFTA Awards
February 22, 2010Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner win the BAFTA Award for Adapted Screenplay.
WGA Awards
February 20, 2010Congratulations to Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for winning the Writers Guild of America award for best adapted screenplay!
Own Up In The Air on Blu-ray & DVD
February 20, 2010Up In The Air arrives March 9 on Blu-ray & DVD! Pre-order now!
Up In The Air receives 6 Academy Award nominations!
February 02, 2010UP IN THE AIR Best Picture Best Director - Jason Reitman Best Adapted Screenplay - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner Best Actor - George Clooney Best Supporting Actress - Vera Farmiga Best Supporting Actress - Anna Kendrick
Up In The Air receives 4 nominations from the London Film Critics’ Circle!
January 25, 2010London Film Critics’ Circle Nominations Film of the Year Director of the Year - Jason Reitman Actor of the Year – George Clooney Actress of the Year – Vera Farmiga
Up In The Air is nominated for 6 BAFTA Awards!
January 21, 2010British Academy for Film and Televisions Arts Nominations: BEST FILM ADAPTED SCREENPLAY EDITING LEADING ACTOR George Clooney SUPPORTING ACTRESS Vera Farmiga SUPPORT ACTRESS Anna Kendrick
Up In The Air Wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay!
January 17, 2010Congratulations to Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for their Golden Globe Award win for best screenplay for Up In The Air!
Up In The Air Editor Dana Glauberman receives an ACE Eddie Award Nomination!
January 12, 2010Editor Dana Glauberman receives an ACE Eddie Award Nomination for Up In The Air!
Up In The Air Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by the Writers Guild Of America
January 11, 2010The Up In The Air Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, based upon the novel by Walter Kirn, has been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by the Writers Guild Of America.
Directors Guild of America nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Up In The Air
January 07, 2010Director Jason Reitman nominated for Outstanding Directorial Acheivement in Feature Film by the Directors Guild of America.
Palm Springs International Film Festival honors Jason Reitman and Anna Kendrick!
January 06, 2010Palm Springs International Film Festival honors Director Jason Reitman as Director of the Year and Anna Kendrick receives the Rising Star Award.
Check out the video about the opening title sequence of Up In The Air!
January 06, 2010Learn more about the work that went into the title sequence of Up In The Air!
Up In The Air nominated for Producer of the Year Award!
January 05, 2010Up In The Air has been nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures by the Producers Guild of America!
Up In The Air wins three awards from the Kansas City Film Critics Association!
January 05, 2010Kansas City Film Critics Association Best Film Best Adapted Screenplay - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner Best Actor - George Clooney
Check out George, Vera & Anna on the cover of Entertainment Weekly!
December 30, 2009On EW.com
St. Louis Film Critics Association names Up In The Air Best Picture!
December 23, 2009St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Best Actor - George Clooney
Q&A with Director Jason Reitman in Los Angeles!
December 18, 2009Live in Los Angeles? Check out the 7:30pm screening of Up In The Air at the ArcLight Hollywood on Monday 12/21 and stick around afterward for a special Q&A with Director Jason Reitman! Click to get tickets!
Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees!
December 17, 2009GEORGE CLOONEY / Ryan Bingham - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for UP IN THE AIR VERA FARMIGA / Alex Goran & ANNA KENDRICK / Natalie Keener both for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for UP IN THE AIR
Up In The Air leads GOLDEN GLOBE nominations with SIX nominations
December 16, 2009Paramount Pictures’ “Up in the Air,” opening nationwide on December 23rd, received the most Golden Globe nominations of any film this year, with a total of six nominees including Best Motion Picture-Drama, Best Director for Jason Reitman, Best Screenplay for Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama for George Clooney, and two Best Performances by Actresses in a Supporting Role for both Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.
Up In The Air receives 6 Golden Globe Nominations!
December 15, 2009Best Picture, Drama Best Actor, Drama Best Supporting Actress, Vera Farmiga Best Supporting Actress, Anna Kendrick Best Director, Jason Reitman Best Screenplay, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Up In The Air is nominated for 8 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards!
December 14, 2009Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Nominations BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR - George Clooney BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Vera Farmiga BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Anna Kendrick BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE BEST DIRECTING - Jason Reitman BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner BEST EDITING
Jason Reitman honored at Palm Springs Film Festival!
December 11, 2009The Palm Springs International Film Festival continued to add to its kudos slate with the announcement Thursday that Jason Reitman will be honored as director of the year...
Take The Up In The Air Quiz for a chance to win!
December 10, 2009Click here to take the quiz or create your own!
Philadelphia Daily News reviews Up In The Air
December 09, 2009Vera Farmiga shines in this glamorous, witty two-hander with George Clooney...
The Huffington Post says "'Up In The Air' is this year's best."
December 09, 2009Read the rest of the Huffington Post review of Up In The Air.
"'Up In The Air' is entertainment first and foremost...but fundamentally romantic." - Dallas Morning News
December 09, 2009Read the rest of the Dallas Morning News review of Up In The Air.
Read the Chicago Tribue review of Up In The Air
December 09, 2009'Up In The Air' has been shaped for George Clooney's prodigious, slightly melancholy charm as a comic leading man...
LA Times reviews Up In The Air
December 09, 2009Kenneth Turan says "Effortless excellence. This is a film that does it all."
Joe Morgenstern calls Up In The Air "a wonderful comedy."
December 09, 2009Read the rest of the Wall Street Journal review!
The Philadelphia Inquirer says "'Up In The Air' is perfectly tailored to George Clooney"
December 09, 2009Read the rest of the Philadelphia Inquirer review of Up In The Air.
"George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick give flawless performances." -Washington Examiner
December 09, 2009Read the rest of the Washington Examiner review of Up In The Air.
San Francisco Examiner reviews Up In The Air
December 09, 2009George Clooney in one of his most gracefully nuanced performances ever...
Boston Herald says "Everyone in 'Up In The Air' is emphatically clever and wearily sarcastic."
December 09, 2009Read the rest of the Boston Herald review of Up In The Air.
The Boston Globe says Up In The Air is "a warm, smoothly made comedy by Jason Reitman."
December 09, 2009Read the rest of the Boston Globe review of Up In The Air.
Newsday reviews Up In The Air
December 09, 2009George Clooney and Vera Farmiga give this movie a sheen of glamour that is usually missing from comedies...
San Francisco Chronicle says Up In The Air is "crisply funny and fleetly paced."
December 09, 2009Read the rest of the San Francisco Chronicle review of Up In The Air.
The Washington Post calls Up In The Air "a smart, alert, supremely entertaining movie."
December 09, 2009Read the rest of The Washington Post review of Up In The Air.
Ryan's Rules Of Travel
December 05, 2009In Up In The Air George Clooney's character, Ryan Bingham, has mastered efficient travel. With the holidays approaching read his rules to become a master yourself and share your own travel rules!
Claudia Puig of USA TODAY reviews Up In The Air!
December 04, 2009“One of the year’s sharpest scripts and an exceptional ensemble cast."
National Board of Reviews names Up In The Air the Best Film of the Year!
December 04, 2009In addition to Best Film of the Year, Up In The Air also wins awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screen.
Entertainment Weekly calls Up In The Air "a rare and sparkling gem of a movie"
December 03, 2009Click here to read the article...
Watch a scene and listen to Jason Reitman describe filming.
December 03, 2009Jason Reitman, the director of "Up in the Air," describes a scene where the lead character, Ryan Bingham, goes to the airport.
Rolling Stones says Up In The Air is "a defining movie for these times"
December 03, 2009Read the rest...
"I'm Changing My Tune on Clooney!" says Rex Reed of the New York Observer
December 03, 2009Click to read more...
The Up In The Air Soundtrack is now available!
December 02, 2009Click to purchase on iTunes
Watch The Myspace Artist on Artist interview with Anna Kendrick and Sad Brad Smith!
December 02, 2009Click to watch now
Watch the featurette with director Jason Reitman on Apple.com
December 01, 2009Click to watch
Read Anthony Lane's review of Up In The Air
November 30, 2009Check out his review for The New Yorker...
Huffington Post says "Up In The Air Soars"
November 30, 2009Read the rest...
GQ calls Up In The Air "The Movie of theYear, the movie of the moment"
November 20, 2009George Clooney amps up his game to a level that defines him as one of the great ones...
Ain't It Cool News Reviews Up In The Air
November 20, 2009UP IN THE AIR is ... the kind of film that announces that there is a new important director on the scene – one for the A-list. Jason Reitman has already shown promise with his previous efforts, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, and JUNO. But promise isn’t the word for UP IN THE AIR – it is something closer to mastery...
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November 19, 2009Click here to download!
Pre-Order the Up In The Air Soundtrack!
November 18, 2009Click to pre-order now.
New Video
November 10, 2009Check out the latest video "Everyone Needs A Co-Pilot" from Up In The Air on Apple.com
Will you be there?
October 30, 2009RSVP for Up In The Air Opening Night in Theaters!
Rhino to release the Up In The Air Soundtrack
October 29, 2009Rhino Presents Soundtrack To Latest Jason Reitman Film, Including CSNY, Elliott Smith, Dan Auerbach, Sad Brad Smith, And Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings...
Check out a song from the Up In The Air soundtrack
October 27, 2009Entertainment Weekly premieres the Sad Brad Smith song "Help Yourself" that is featured on the Up In The Air soundtrack.
New Clip on Apple!
October 16, 2009Check out the latest clip from Up In The Air.
Palm Springs fest awards Anna Kendrick
October 13, 2009Anna Kendrick will receive the 21st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's Rising Star Award for her performance in the upcoming "Up in the Air."...
Broadcast Film Critics Association - Critics' Choice
October 05, 2009
NEW Up In The Air Trailer
October 01, 2009A new trailer for Up In The Air has just launched on Apple. Check it out here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/upintheair
Reitman’s “Up in the Air” Added to Hamptons Fest
September 28, 2009“‘Up in the Air’ represents the filmmaking at its highest level, with sharp direction from Jason Reitman, George Clooney at the top of his game, and Anna Kendrick in a truly star-making performance commented HIFF director of programming David Nugent in a statement. “The film manages to veer so effortlessly between hilarity and pathos, since the issues that explores are serious, but ripe with comic possibilities. Like the best comedies, Reitman and his team walk this tightrope perfectly.”...
'Up in the Air' chosen as closing picture for Austin Fest
September 28, 2009Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," which has been soaring through the fall festival circuit, will close the Austin fest on Oct. 29...
'Up in the Air' tops Rome lineup
September 25, 2009The Rome Film Festival on Friday unveiled a leaner lineup graced with a high-profile competition that includes Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" and a mixed bag of works by international auteurs...
Jason Reitman to receive Aspen Film's New Directions Award
September 24, 2009August 21, 2009 Aspen, Co. - Aspen Film will honor Academy Award® nominated director Jason Reitman (JUNO, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING) with its first ever New Directions Award at this year's 31st annual Aspen Filmfest September 30th through October 4th. In recognition of his tremendous creative achievement as a writer and director, Aspen Film will screen his new feature, UP IN AIR starring George Clooney and present the New Directions Award followed by an on-stage conversation with Mr. Reitman. This special evening will take place Friday, October 2nd, 6:00 PM at the Wheeler Opera House. Gifted with a unique vision, Jason Reitman has forged a distinctive, award-winning signature style that captivates critics and audiences alike. Mr. Reitman has a long association with Aspen Film, dating back to 2000 when his short film, IN GOD WE TRUST won Aspen Shortsfest's Best Comedy and Audience Awards. In 2004, he won the Shortsfest Best Short Short Award for CONSENT...
'Up In The Air' Stars Talk George Clooney and Film's Timely Theme
September 22, 2009After "Juno" nabbed four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, director Jason Reitman was worried he'd become creatively frozen, consumed with the fear his next project could never live up to the praise of the Ellen Page-starring teen-pregnancy comedy. Reitman decided his best bet was to dive into a script he'd been working on for years, even before his directorial debut in 2005: an adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel "Up in the Air." And he decided an even better bet was to cast George Clooney as his star. With the understanding that the Oscar-winning actor had already read the script, Reitman flew out to Clooney's villa in Northern Italy, only to learn he hadn't so much as skimmed the first page. "When I arrived, [Clooney] said, 'So, what are you working on these days?' " Reitman recalled in an interview with MTV News...
The New York Post's Lou Lumenick calls Up In The Air
September 18, 2009It's George Clooney like you've never seen him: immensely charming but vulnerable in ways never before displayed on the screen. That's the consensus on the sublime "Up in the Air," which wowed the press at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday in advance of its red-carpet premiere here tonight. Clooney gives the performance of his career as a slick corporate downsizer whose sole interest in life -- besides one-night stands -- is accumulating 10 million frequent-flier miles from American Airlines as he crisscrosses the US as a hired hatchet man. George Clooney had critics in Toronto swooning over his performance in "Up in the Air," which co-stars Anna Kendrick. This expert blend of cutting social commentary, existentialism and romantic dramedy would seem to hit the same Oscar sweet spot as "Slumdog Millionaire," which won the Best Picture Oscar after its ecstatic reception here a year ago. Clooney previously received a Best Supporting Actor trophy for "Syriana" in 2007, the same year he was nominated for directing and co-writing "Good Night, and Good Luck." He also received a Best Actor nomination for "Michael Clayton" the following year...
Time says Up In The Air is one of the year's best movies
September 13, 2009This weekend George Clooney's in Toronto with Jason Reitman's Up in the Air which, to end the suspense right here, is one of the Festival's and the year's best movies. Actors are salesmen. Stories, characters, movies are their product, and their physicality is the seductive packaging. That makes movie stars the industry's supersalesmen. And no one closes a deal with more assurance or grace than George Clooney. Not that all his pictures are the blockbusters: since A Perfect Storm in 2000, only the Ocean's (Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen) capers have topped $100 million at the domestic box office. But Clooney handsome and affable, and blessed with a wit that can charm and cut is surely the modern idea and ideal of stardom. Other celebrities seem tortured by public attention; Clooney bathes in it. He loves making the sale. This time of year the salesman goes on the road to showcase his new wares at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. He showed up last week on the Lido, a couple of hundred miles from his vacation villa on Lake Como, both to present his Iraq War comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats and to unveil his new inamorata, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. When the film broke down at the evening screening, Clooney serenaded the audience with a comic-opera rendition of O Sole Mio that wouldn't make Placido Domingo envious but did wow the crowd. This weekend he's in Toronto with two films, Goats and Jason Reitman's Up in the Air which, to end the suspense right here, is one of the Festival's and the year's best movies. At a press conference yesterday, when asked why he doesn't have a Facebook page, Clooney smilingly answered, "I'd rather have a prostate exam on live TV by a guy with very cold hands." (See a photoessay on The 65th Venice Film Festival.)...
Owen Gleiberman of Ent. Weekly reviews Up In The Air
September 12, 2009Up in the Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, bouncy and brainy, romantic and real. It's everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do, but we're blessed that Jason Reitman has remembered it. Here are a few of the kinds of movies I wish that Hollywood made a lot more often (or maybe even two or three times a year): a romantic comedy that's not just about situations but behavior, with two flawed and fascinating adults trying to figure out how to act around each other; a movie that connects to a large audience because it taps, in a rich and bold and immediate way, into the fears and anxieties of our time; a comedy in which the dialogue pings with wit and imagination and verve, yet without calling too much attention to itself (so that it doesn't make your teeth hurt the way that Duplicity did); a movie that keeps surprising you because its characters keep surprising themselves. The beauty of Up in the Air, the new film directed by Jason Reitman (Juno), is that it's all those things at once. It's also an indelibly personal movie. Adapted from a novel by Walter Kirn, Up in the Air nevertheless carries a pronounced link to Reitman's first film, Thank You For Smoking (which premiered at Toronto in 2005), with its prankishly subversive tobacco-lobbyist hero. Only now Reitman is working with the polish of a master. In this new one, George Clooney plays a very similar kind of scoundrel, an executive efficiency expert whose entire job consists of jetting from one city to the next, planting himself in offices, and doing the dirty work of downsizing employees, telling each one, face to face, with a kind of eerie empathic dispassion, that they're being let go, and that opportunities await, it's really a beginning not an ending, here's your severance packet, and blah blah blah. (He's also a part-time motivational speaker, pepping up the very sorts of people he fires.)
Read what Roger Ebert thought of Up In The Air
September 11, 2009It was two years ago on Saturday night that Jason Reitman's "Juno" had its world premiere here at Toronto. The standing ovation that night was the most spontaneous and joyous I can remember. Still vibrating, Reitman stood on the stage of the Ryerson Theater and vowed, "I'm gonna open all of my films right here in this theater at Toronto." True to his word, his new film "Up in the Air" played the Ryerson at 6 p.m., Saturday--same time, same place. It stars George Clooney in one of his best performances, as a frequent flyer. His ambition is to pass the 10 million-mile mark in the American Airlines Aadvantage Program, something very few ever do. Asked on an airplane where he lives, he replies, "Here." He's a Termination Facilitator. He fires people for a living. When corporations need to downsize quickly, he flies in and breaks the news to the new former employees. In a lousy economy, his business is great. The film has a lot to say about unemployment, but it isn't about the economy or living on the road. It's about loneliness, a feeling the Clooney character thought he would never experience. To a fellow road warrior (Vera Farmiga), he insists he never wants to get married, never wants to have children, and doesn't own a home. He gives inspirational talks on how to empty the backpack of your life of all those people and possession you've been lugging around...
Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere reviews Up In The Air
September 11, 2009I've just seen the most eloquent, affecting and altogether best film of 2009...so far. Yes, better than my beloved The Hurt Locker. If it doesn't win the Best Picture Oscar next February...well, okay...I'll live. Jason Reitman will live, George Clooney will live, Paramount publicity will live, Brad Grey will live, your family and friends will live, and the sun will come up the next day. But Up In The Air really has it all -- recognizable human-scale truth, clarity, smart comfort, the right degree of restraint (i.e., knowing how not to push it), and -- this got me more than anything else -- a penetrating, almost unnerving sense of quiet. This is one of the calmest and most unforced this-is-who-we-are, what-we-need and what-we're-all-afraid-of-in-the-workplace movies that I've ever seen. From an American, I should say. (The Europeans have almost made job-anxiety films into a genre -- i.e., Laurent Cantet's Time Out, etc.) But I would guess that Up In The Air will play very, very well in Paris. It's a film that walks and talks it and knows it every step of the way. Work, adulthood, asking the questions that matter, compassion, family, stick-your-neck-out, etc. The whole package. With an almost profound lack of Hollywood bullshit and jerk-offery. And a kind of Brokeback Mountain-y theme at the finale -- i.e., "move it or lose it." Up In The Air doesn't tell you what to feel -- it lets you feel what it is. All the best movies do that. They don't sell or pitch -- they just lay it down on the Oriental carpet and say to the viewer, "We've got a good thing here, and if you agree, fine. And if you don't, go with God."...
Public screenings of UP IN THE AIR start at TIFF this weekend!
September 09, 2009Up In The Air is screening at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday, September 12 at 6pm, Sunday September 13 at 11am and also on Saturday, September 19 at 6:30pm...
Up In The Air reviewed by Variety's Todd McCarthy
September 09, 2009Clooney has scarcely ever been more magnetic onscreen than he is here.
Kris Tapley of Incontention.com reviews Up In The Air
September 09, 2009The film is a triumph. I consider it a four-star knockout.