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Phoebe Eaton

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Phoebe Eaton is a multi-award-winning journalist and playwright-screenwriter who has appeared on many documentary and news shows including Fox's Good Day New York, Dateline NBC (2008), Entertainment Tonight, truTV (2005), and NY1. For the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, the Guardian, et al. she has covered business, crime, politics, and style. She is also an organized crime expert and won a 2021 International Journalism Award from the Press Club of Mexico for cartel reporting in Sinaloa and a 2017 New York Press Award for the same in Guerrero state, Mexico. After graduating from the University of Chicago, she received a U.S.-Japan Foundation media fellowship to interview Tokyo yakuza and police detectives that launched her career as a reporter.  A member of the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit and the Dramatists Guild, she's also been a finalist-winner for her plays and TV pilots, shortlisted for the American Zoetrope Screenplay Award in 2021 and a finalist in 2023's Harvardwood Screenwriting Competition.

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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.