{"id":7598,"date":"2009-03-05T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T05:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=7598"},"modified":"2009-03-05T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T05:57:03","slug":"vale-horton-foote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/03\/05\/vale-horton-foote\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Horton Foote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7600\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7600   \" title=\"foote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/foote.jpg\" alt=\"Horton Foote - 1916-2009\" width=\"265\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/foote.jpg 1228w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/foote-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/foote-698x1024.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horton Foote - 1916-2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A while back, we posted an obituary for the passing of Robert Mulligan, the director of the Oscar-winning <em>To Kill A Mockingbird<\/em>. Some more sad news to relay today, as fellow <em>Mockingbird <\/em>alum Horton Foote, has also passed.<br \/>\nFoote won an Oscar for his adapted screenplay for <em>Mockingbird<\/em>, and also backed this up with an Academy Award for <em>Tender Mercies<\/em>. An active theater playwright and raconteur, Foote enjoyed a celebrated career spanning several decades.<br \/>\nHowever, he will be most remembered for his subtle, careful extrapolation of Harper Lee&#8217;s classic novel of prejudice and racism in the deep south of America, and transformed the written word into a film classic.<br \/>\nHorton Foote also received a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his play, <em>The Young Man from Atlanta<\/em>, as well as countless other nominations for various writing awards throughout his life. He was also nominated for his screenplay for <em>The Trip To Bountiful<\/em>in 1985, a film which saw Geraldine Page win her Best\u00a0Actress Oscar.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7599\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7599\" title=\"43718049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/43718049.jpg\" alt=\"Foote in his favourite place: the theater.\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/43718049.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/43718049-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foote in his favourite place: the theater.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foote died today, aged 92, at his home in Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, we posted an obituary for the passing of Robert Mulligan, the director of the Oscar-winning To Kill A Mockingbird. Some more sad news to relay today, as fellow Mockingbirdalum Horton Foote, has also passed.<br \/>\nFoote won an Oscar for his adapted screenplay for Mockingbird, and also backed this up with an Academy Award for Tender Mercies. An active theater playwright and raconteur, Foote enjoyed a celebrated career spanning several decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}