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Mark Obmascik

Mark Obmascik
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Mark Obmascik

Mark Obmascik has been a journalist for two decades, most recently at the Denver Post, where he was lead writer for the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and winner of the 2003 National Press Club Award for environmental journalism. His freelance stories have been published in Outside and other magazines, and he has aired numerous political stories on public affairs and television news programs. An obsessed birder himself, he lives in Denver with his wife and sons.

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The Big Year will be released on September 27, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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Wicked Local Brewster, November 2, 2011
...that stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. The main characters in the film are based on Mark Obmascik’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name. Artist Cathy Clark, whose artwork illustrates the column and whose designs are carried on...
Wicked Local Truro, November 2, 2011
...that stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. The main characters in the film are based on Mark Obmascik’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name. Artist Cathy Clark, whose artwork illustrates the column and whose designs are carried on...
WBUR On Point, October 19, 2011
...But we’ve got the real thing. This hour On Point: extreme birding’s “big year.” -Tom Ashbrook Mark Obmascik, Author and Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and author ofThe Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession Greg Miller, an avid...
New Yorker, October 17, 2011
...positions and reanimated them in his paintings. In “The Big Year,” which is based on a book by Mark Obmascik, the character played by Owen Wilson fails to show up for a scheduled insemination of his wife because he gets a tip on a snowy owl, choosing...
Deadline.com, October 16, 2011
...at least made successful prequels this summer…)  Credited screenwriter Howard Franklin’s script is a fictionalized adaptation of Mark Obmascik’s non-fiction book of the same name about of all things – birdwatching — but more so about a...
Deadline.com, October 16, 2011
...at least made successful prequels this summer…)  Credited screenwriter Howard Franklin’s script is a fictionalized adaptation of Mark Obmascik’s non-fiction book of the same name about of all things – birdwatching — but more so about a...
Washington Times, October 13, 2011
...as an object lesson in the pitfalls of adapting quirky non-fiction for the screen. The movie, like the Mark Obmascik book on which it’s based, focuses on three competitors in a crazy, year-long race among dedicated birders don’t say bird-watchers to...
Entertainment, October 13, 2011
...competition. Rashida Jones also stars, and David Frankel directs. “The Big Year” was first a best-selling book by Mark Obmascik and published in 2004 about the 275,000-mile odyssey of three obsessives in the birding contest in 1998. The movie, while...
OleOle - Football News and Opinion, October 12, 2011
...with binoculars?'' Download The Big Year To be honest, we were wondering too. The film was inspired by Mark Obmascik's award-winning 2004 nonfiction book about competitors in 1998's Big Year, an annual contest in which birders travel across North America...
Screen Rant, September 7, 2011
...Frankel and  The Man Who Knew Too Little  screenwriter Howard Franklin on  The Big Year , an adaptation of Mark Obmascik’s 1998 book, “The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession.” The punchline? You get a movie that truly looks like...