The Disaster Artist himself, Tommy Wiseau, is pulling out all the stops in his bid to get into the 90th annual Academy Awards Sunday night in Los Angeles. This awards season has been a cultural renaissance for Wiseau, the star and director of the so-bad-it’s-good cult classic The Room. Self-financed by Wiseau to the reported tune of $6 million, The Room, co-starring Wiseau’s friend Greg Sestero, only played on one screen and made $1,200 in its initial two-week run, only to be discovered by the midnight movie crowd worldwide – and eventually turned into a hit big screen biopic by James Franco.
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