“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s visually inventive comedy-drama about the friendship between a misfit teenager and a classmate diagnosed with leukemia, received both the grand jury prize and the audience award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night.
The deal to see the film, which has a leading nine Oscar nominations, is available through Feb. 5 at five valley theaters.
The city of Las Vegas is providing the free tickets to the screening at noon Feb. 7 at the South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South.
“Boyhood” is the overwhelming favorite to capture best picture, best director and best supporting actress at the Feb. 22 Academy Awards, according to the odds posted by Johnny Avello, director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas.
The actor, who adopts a mud-thick West Texas drawl and disappears behind a beard, an array of sweat-stained baseball caps and an extra 40 pounds of muscle to portray Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, is astonishingly good in the best work of his film career.
Show business satire “Birdman” and colorful caper “The Grand Budapest Hotel” led the Academy Awards nominees on Thursday with nine nods apiece, including best picture, in the quest for Hollywood’s top film prize.
