Payne, Oh on the Outs
Talk about your sour grapes.
Alexander Payne, who won an Oscar last month for cowriting Sideways--a movie about a guy going nowhere in his love life and career who embarks on a wine-tasting trip with his best friend--is now back to square one himself when it comes to romance.
The filmmaker and actress-wife Sandra Oh, who starred in the hit indie comedy, have announced they "have mutually decided to separate."
"They have been together for five years and were married in 2003. The couple will remain friends," a rep confirmed in a statement released Friday. The couple had been hitting the awards circuit together in recent months, including celebrating at post-Oscar parties.
They didn't have any children.
Perhaps Payne and a good buddy should hit the wine country--it might inspire a sequel.
Before he and partner Jim Taylor scored the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Sideways, the writer-director's biggest success was About Schmidt, a road-trip comedy featuring Jack Nicholson as another lovable loser who realizes the failure his life has become.
His other credits include 1999's high school black comedy Election and the 1996 abortion satire Citizen Ruth.
For his next adventure, Payne returns to the road to helm Nebraska, about a father who talks his son into driving him from Montana to the Cornhusker State to pick up his lottery winnings.
Before her supporting turn in Sideways, Oh was perhaps best known for appearing on the HBO sports-themed series Arli$$ and a string of bit parts in such films as The Princess Diaries, Full Frontal and Under the Tuscan Sun. She next hits the big screen in the indie comedy Hard Candy and has a lead role in ABC's upcoming medical drama Grey's Anatomy.






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