Oprah Winfrey has long talked about what it would mean to her to win an Oscar. She got close with The Color Purple, but as we know, that movie was nominated for ten Oscars, missed the director nod, and went home empty handed. It was one of the last films with an all black cast to make it to the Oscars until...
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The Supporting Actress category appears to be locked. It’s Anne Hathaway‘s to lose. Part of it is who she is right now in the industry, who she is to the Academy itself, but the other part of it is her work in Les Miserables. For some reason Hathaway has become the object of scorn – maybe because she’s “too smart” at the mic, taking...
I wasn’t going to post this because I’m not sure why Anne Hathaway is being labeled with the “I want to win an Oscar” thing. Sorry, but I don’t see anyone out there in Oscar world that doesn’t want to win. I’ve seen and heard things this year I wish I could unhear. But Hathaway is a disciplined, dedicated artist who turned in two...
Nathaniel over at The Film Experience interviews Nicole Kidman for her latest role in The Paperboy. Kidman goes hot and sexy for her role in the Lee Daniels film, which is always her best side — see To Die For. Yeah, yeah. I suppose i’m lucky enough that now my sensitivity in terms of needing mass approval is so diminished. I’m able to go ‘Hey,...
If you have friends in high places you can get those swanky parties thrown around town this time of year – like the time Arianna Huffington held a party for the King’s Speech. Good times! But if you have friends in high places, and if your movie didn’t make a dime, and if your campaign rides on a wing and a prayer, well, you do what you have to do. Why,...
Since her first film and television appearances thirty years ago, Nicole Kidman has been one of the biggest movie stars in the world (Days of Thunder, Far and Away, Batman Forever), an awards magnet (To Die For, Moulin Rouge!, The Hours), and an artist willing to appear in work as diverse and risky as Dogville, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, and Rabbit Hole....
