BEST ACTOR
A Last Bid for A Star Is Born
At last week’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Paul Schrader praised Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born calling her “a...
Best Actor — Real People, Mostly True Stories
Dick Cheney, Vincent van Gogh, Tony Vallelonga, and Freddie Mercury walk into a bar. The only one of the five...
Santa Barbara Film Festival: Rami Malek Receives Outstanding Performer Of The Year Award
We arrived in town just in time for day three of the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The Arlington Theatre's marquee...
The Actors – The Twenty Best Performers at the Top of Their Game
A great performance in a not-so-great movie is still a great performance. A great performance in a great movie is...
Rami Malek Talks About How He Found His Way Into Freddie Mercury -“Look At The Songs And His Songwriting And They Will Lead You.”
Rami Malek is without a doubt brilliant in his performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. His remarkable portrayal will rock...
Best Actor – So Many Strong Performances Makes for a Real Competition [Poll]
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There have been so many leading male performances worthy of an Oscar win this year, starting with Chadwick Boseman as...
Christian Bale Delivers Finest Performance to Date as Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s Vice
Vice screened tonight for the SAG nominating committee and looks to do what The Big Short did last year, at...
Variety Announces Actors on Actors – Here is the Lineup
Variety partners up with PBS So Cal for Actors on Actors for their ninth season. The Oscars have always been...
Green Book Brings the House Down at its AFI Fest Premiere
Last night in Hollywood, Jazz and I attended the premiere of Green Book at the AFI Fest. Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala...
Rami Malek Astonishes as Freddie Mercury – Can He Win?
Our friend Michael Grei told me after seeing Bohemian Rhapsody that he thought Rami Malek was winning the Oscar for...
Lucas Hedges Talks Boy Erased And His Hopes For Raising Awareness About The Damage Inflicted By Gay Conversion Therapy
In Boy Erased, Lucas Hedges plays Jared Eamons, a 19-year-old boy sent by his parents to Gay Conversion Therapy. The...
Best Actor: On Heroes, Failed Heroes, Anti-Heroes
The Best Actor race usually hinges on two things. It's linked to Best Picture by an unseen umbilical cord, and...
Glenn Close, Hugh Jackman and Damien Chazelle on Tap for Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Reporter announced that the notorious Hollywood Film Awards will hand out their top honors to The Wife's Glenn...
First Reformed, The Favourite Lead the 28th Annual Gotham Awards
First the good news - that Paul Schrader's First Reformed comes in with three - Feature, Screenplay and Actor for...
Critics Mostly Go Their Own Way When It Comes to Acting Awards
The next phase of the awards race will be the critics awards. As is almost always the case, they will...
A Star Is Born Becomes Titanic, Too Big to Fail and Official Oscar Frontrunner for Best Picture
I resisted the urge to call A Star Is Born the frontrunner. I guess I did this because I've been...
Damien Chazelle’s Astonishing First Man Makes Landfall
Damien Chazelle has made three major films now that have embedded themselves into American culture. Chazelle is the only American...
A Video by Chris Santana – Oscars 2019
Chris Santana has done a great job putting it all together, I think, emphasizing which films and performances are front...
A Star is Born’s Status as Oscar Frontrunner is Becoming Too Big to Ignore
I can't really fight it anymore, folks. I personally do not have the moral character to resist the category 4...
Why I’m Not Calling A Star is Born the Frontrunner Just Yet
Yesterday on Twitter I was asked by Clayton Davis of Awards Circuit and a few others why I wouldn't call...
The Academy Announces New Rules for 92 Oscars – “International Feature Film” to Replace “Foreign Language” Category
The Academy has scrapped the "Foreign Language Feature Film" category title and replaced it with "International Feature Film," in their...
Composer Patrick Warren Breaks Down the Score of Showtime’s ‘The Chi’ and His Career In Music
Patrick Warren is the composer for Showtime's Peabody Award-nominated series, The Chi. While this is Warren's first gig as the head...
Trailer: First Look At Will Smith In Ang Lee’s Gemini Man
Paramount has released the new trailer for Gemini Man starring Will Smith. In the film, Smith stars as Henry Brogan,...
Zachary Levi To Host MTV Movie & TV Awards
Zachary Levi has been announced as the host of the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards. The ceremony will take...
Our Summer Movie Preview, Part Deux!
This week, the Cooler Gang continues their breakdown of all the major July and August 2019 summer movies in the...
2019 Emmys: Is This Finally The Year for Bob Odenkirk or Jason Bateman to Win a Lead Actor Emmy?
In all likelihood, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series is going to see a major shakeup this year. Half...
Interview: Brian Cox On Playing The Patriarch In ‘Succession’ -” Children are both a blessing and a curse and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
In HBO's Succession, Brian Cox plays Logan Roy - the family patriarch. Early on, Roy suffers a health problem and his children...
Interview: Production Designer Melanie Jones On Creating Sets For ‘The Dirt’ and ‘The Curse of La Llorona
When Melanie Jones works on horror films, she doesn't get scared, because she's in the film. She's building the sets,...
Netflix Launches ‘When They See Us’ First Trailer
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay's Central Park Five 4-part limited series, unveils its first official trailer today. The series...
Interview: Succession’s Jesse Armstrong – “It’s a Comedy of Real Life.”
I recently caught up with showrunner Jesse Armstrong to discuss creating the family dynasty The Roys for last summer's HBO...