Scott Campbell

Glasgow

Film and TV Writer at Freelance

Staff Writer at Far Out Magazine

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Articles

Has one movie ever won all four acting Oscars?

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 21:45, UK The most prestigious – and therefore one of the rarest – accolades in Oscars history is to sweep the board and claim the elusive ‘Big Five’, but has any movie been packed so full of awards-worthy performances that it’s managed to win all four of the acting prizes? Since It Happened One Night made history by claiming ‘Best Picture’, ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Actor’, ‘Best Actress’, and ‘Best Screenplay’, only two more films have taken home the quintet.
How Kim Basinger went bankrupt from a movie she wasn't in

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 21:15, UK Contracts aren’t always worth the paper they’re printed on in Hollywood, but there’s a reason why studios have so many legal eagles ready, willing, and able to mount a challenge. On one hand, Kim Basinger managed to avoid starring in a Razzie-winning movie. On the other, it ruined her financially. When faced with the choice of appearing in a terrible film or going bankrupt, at least 99% of actors would choose the former for obvious reasons.
The one actor Al Pacino called the second coming of Marlon Brando

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 20:45, UK Maybe one day, another actor will become the benchmark by which all spiritual successors are measured and judged. Then again, considering that it’s been over 70 years since Marlon Brando changed the face of American cinema forever, and he’s still the first name on everybody’s lips when a potential heir emerges, maybe not. If anything, it’s getting a little lazy at this point.
The only 'Bond girl' banned from appearing onscreen

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 20:15, UK Befitting the franchise’s reputation as a product of its time, it’s not even surprising to know that the most unsung and underappreciated female actor in James Bond history was denied a role because the director didn’t think she was attractive enough to appear on camera.
The Oscar-winning actor who owes their career to Jack Nicholson

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 19:15, UK Even the actors who become legends need to start at the bottom, and it helps if they can find a mentor willing to guide them at the beginning of their careers. Jack Nicholson had one, and once he’d become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, he took a member of the next generation under his wing.
The "career-changing" role Matt Damon regrets not playing

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 18:45, UK He wasn’t a complete unknown before Good Will Hunting, but neither was Matt Damon particularly well-known as an actor. He was a guy who’d been in some things that people had seen, albeit always in a supporting role opposite much more illustrious co-stars. His early roles included Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts, Geronimo: An American Legend with Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall, and Courage Under Fire with Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan.
Quentin Tarantino worked Kurt Russell so hard he hallucinated

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 18:15, UK Even though it’s a pitfall countless child stars have found themselves unable to avoid, Kurt Russell didn’t struggle with alcohol or drugs when he was one of the industry’s most ubiquitous young actors. When his star continued to rise throughout the hedonistic ‘New Hollywood’ era, he was never in the headlines for the wrong reasons.
Mel Brooks names the single greatest movie of his career

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 17:15, UK Asking a filmmaker to pick the best movie of their career is like asking a parent to name their favourite child. In theory, all of them are viewed equally and loved as much as the rest. Then again, Mel Brooks has never been one to follow convention, so it makes sense there’s a picture he called his pinnacle. The EGOT winner’s career was born from taking risks and upending the establishment, and he had to fight to do it.
'Hero': The movie Quentin Tarantino always wishes he made

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 16:45, UK If Quentin Tarantino wanted to direct a movie that was either written by someone else or set in an established world that he hadn’t created, then he would have done it by now.
The cinematic father figures who inspired Guillermo del Toro

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Scott Campbell

Fri 11 April 2025 15:45, UK Despite maintaining a signature style since the beginning of his career, Guillermo del Toro wasn’t influenced solely by horror and fantasy. He was to a massive extent, but his inspirations stretch much further than frights, far-flung whimsy, and gothic tragedy. Raised primarily by Disney’s Pinocchio and James Whale’s Frankenstein, those two seminal pictures have defined del Toro for the last three decades.