Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration (2006) is a film about actors in a film, not a film about a film. The actors range from young up-and-comers to middle-aged never-wases. None of the actors are has-beens.
The thread that runs through this film begins when an on-set make-up artist relates to an actor that her (the actor's) yet-to-be-completed performance was mentioned on a blog as "Academy Award-worthy." As the film proceeds, all but one of the core actors is rumoured to be considered, and this of course magnifies the neurosis actors are known for. (The actor who is nominated turns out to be the one whose name was never mentioned.)
For Your Consideration is structurally different from other Christopher Guest films, though like Best in Show (2000), it contains a "months later" leap. Unlike Best in Show, the leap occurs much earlier in the film, turning what started as tragedy into farce.
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