Talk:Jason Reitman

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Jason Reitman article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article is written in Canadian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, centre, travelled, realize, analyze) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Actors and Filmmakers

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography
	This article is supported by WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers (assessed as Mid-importance).

Canada Low‑importance

	Canada portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CanadaWikipedia:WikiProject CanadaTemplate:WikiProject CanadaCanada-related
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Comedy

	Comedy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Comedy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of comedy on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComedyWikipedia:WikiProject ComedyTemplate:WikiProject ComedyComedy
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Tate USA

Should some mention of Mr Reitman being in Tate USA be here? http://www.tateusa.com

Wife?

His wife is Michele Lee (no Wikipedia entry), not Michele Lee. I removed the link and specified that it's "writer Michele Lee," as IMDB categorizes her. Calindigo 03:12, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the movie in the article

maybe the movie is "Juno"213.140.17.100 05:40, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Writing controversy

It appears that edit 338587185 by Katrinamsnbc does not have a neutral point of view. I would appreciate someone else reviewing the edit to make certain it meets Wikipedia's neutral point of view standards. If Katrinamsnbc is associated with MSNBC, there may also be a conflict of interest in this edit. Katrinamsnbc has only made two edits, both related to this topic. --Dan Dassow (talk) 19:21, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The section should be written like this, from the "Up in the Air" paragraph above:

Reitman's Up in the Air screenplay has received wide praise and won the Golden Globe Award for best screenplay in 2010 (reference), although the Los Angeles Times raised controversy about the writing origins of the film.(reference)

I'll change it to this tomorrow if no one objects. The subject shouldn't be a paragraph, as it only has one article as a source and would thereby be attributing undue weight. But since the LA Times wrote on it -- definitely a reliable source -- it's at least notable to warrant a mention in the article.Svernon19 (talk) 10:00, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the revision that Svernon19 suggests. It is similar to what was done for Up in the Air (film)#Writing. --Dan Dassow (talk) 18:44, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let's be explicit about this. Let's say what the LA Times says, that the film had been under development by the time Reitman took it on, and that a previous version of the script existed. We should also consider who actually got credit for the script - at least one source says both Turner and Reitman got credit. DJ Clayworth (talk) 18:52, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to 'Up in the Air' Holds a Damage-Control Screening by Steve Pond (January 25, 2010) Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman talked about their respective contributions at a Writer's Guild of America screening of Up in the Air on Sundary January 24, 2010.
Paraphrasing Steve Pond's article slightly, "Sheldon Turner discovered Walter Kirn’s book around 2001, and wrote a screenplay that he sold to DreamWorks in 2003. Years later, Reitman discovered the book as well. He persuaded his father, Ivan Reitman, to buy the rights – and while the elder Reitman commissioned a screenplay from Ted and Nicholas Griffin, Jason proceeded to write his own script. He did so, he said, completely independently of the Turner script, although he incorporated some elements from the script the Griffins had written for his father. And they, in turn, had seen and taken elements from Turner’s script."
The WGA awarded credit to both Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman.
--Dan Dassow (talk) 08:26, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To clear this up: Reitman bought the rights to the book and Turner just ripped off Kirn? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.115.86.234 (talk) 21:45, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Filmography and accolades

The filmography for Jason Reitman only mentions Academy Awards. His list of accolades includes other accolades beyond the Academy Awards. See List of accolades received by Up in the Air for details for other accolades for Up in the Air beyond those for screenplay.

Screenplay (with Sheldon Turner)
- Academy Awards (nominated - pending)
- BAFTA Awards (nominated - pending)
- Golden Globe Awards (won)
- Satellite Awards (nominated)
- Writers Guild (nominated - pending)
- Broadcast Film Critics (pending)
- Chicago Film Critics (won)
- Houston Film Critics (won)
- Indiana Film Critics (won)
- Los Angeles Film Critics (won)
- National Board of Review (won)
- New York Film Critics (nominated)
- Central Ohio Film Critics (won)
- Oklahoma Film Critics (won)
- Richard Attenborough Award (won)
- Southeastern Film Critics (won)
- St. Louis Gateway Film Critics (runner-up)
- Toronto Film Critics (won)
- USC Scripter Award (won)
- Vancouver Film Critics (won)
- Washington D.C. Area Film Critics (won)

--Dan Dassow (talk) 20:18, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"a Canadian film director who also holds a U.S Citizenship"

I don't know that there's a test saying who is a Canadian and who just holds Canadian citizenship (but isn't Canadian). Most people would determine one's nationality by one's citizenship. Hence, the statement that appears later in the article, "Reitman is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada", is the appropriate description of Reitman's nationality. The statement above is awkward and potentially misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sslevine (talk • contribs) 11:35, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Jason Reitman. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071016213234/http://ignoremagazine.com/features/tobacco_road/index.html to http://ignoremagazine.com/features/tobacco_road/index.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 20:00, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]