BEST ACTOR

Charlie Plummer has been acting since he was nine years old. He's appeared on stage, starred in Boardwalk Empire, and now he's featured in Ridley Scott's All The Money In The World as J. Paul Getty III. The billionaire's grandson was…

Here is how I personally measure stats: The big guilds > any other award that precedes them. What I mean by that is simply this: that Lady Bird and Get Out were shut out from the Best Director race at the Globes makes their fate a…

Tomorrow morning, the Screen Actors Guild will reveal their awards nominees for the year. So far, the potential nominees are a bit all over the place. We used to build charts to compare the Globes with the SAGs and with the Oscars, but…

There's an air of greatness to Kenneth Branagh, certainly for me encountering him as a fellow Brit. His body of work is extraordinary both behind the camera and in front of the camera. As President of RADA (Royal Academy of Drama and Arts)…

Gary Oldman's pitch perfect performance as Winston Churchill might be one of the last of the great performances where the actor's work alone is the greatest visual effect. As Hollywood moves away from relying solely on the actor and towards…

"I've been really happy with the reception and it keeps going and going. I've not had a day off for so long." Sean Baker says of the buzz surrounding The Florida Project. Swept up in the crest of its success, he has not had a moment to…

The Santa Barbara Film Fest will once again celebrate the Oscar contenders when it begins its 33rd festival year on January 31st. Gary Oldman will be fetted with the Modern Master Award for his work in Darkest Hour, a well deserved honor…

In 2013, two bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon that would change some lives forever. Three people lost their lives, hundreds were injured, and sixteen people lost limbs. One of the people with devastating injuries was…

This is a year of great ensemble work across the board. Often SAG voters will look at the bold names and be more familiar with them, which means they remember and admire their work in previous films, which is why films with many well-known…

Idris Elba is sitting in a Beverly Hills Hotel on a Sunday morning recalling the time he saw A Few Good Men and thinking how lucky Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson were to recite lines like those. Theat 1992 screenplay by Aaron Sorkin is…

PTA did an interview with Entertainment Weekly and gave some juice tidbits about Phantom Thread (how excited are you for this?) How long have you been toying with this idea? It’s very new. It’s a new idea, really within the past few…

I loved the Disaster Artist before I ever even watched The Room, believe it or not. I found the characters compelling, the idea hilarious and if you live here in Los Angeles, not that out of the realm of what people do out here to get…

One of the first interviews I did when I moved to LA a little over three years ago was with Jason Hall when I spoke to him about writing the screenplay for American Sniper. Chris Kyle's story was near and dear to him as he got to know…

Every so often the Best Actor race has one performance that is unequivocal. The weight of the performance, the perfection of the execution makes it the undeniable frontrunner. This was true of Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, true of Forest…

Bring your tissues. Bleecker Street's Breathe is the inspiring true story of Robin Cavendish, a dashing British entrepreneur in 1950s Africa who was just 28 years old when he contracted polio in Nairobi. Paralyzed from the neck down,…

Her designs have been seen in American Hustle, Carol, and Joy, and she recently worked with Ryan Murphy on Feud: Bette and Joan. Production designer Judy Becker is no stranger to working on period films. Her work has also been seen in The…

Hostiles showed in Telluride without a distributor but Indiewire reports that now the film has secured a distributor and will be screening in time for this year's Oscar race. Hostiles is anchored by a brilliant performance by Christian Bale…

As war sirens ring out, Winston Churchill speaks to his country. The clock is ticking and the "full weight of the world is on your shoulders." Gary Oldman takes on Churchill in Darkest Hour and the new trailer from Focus Features gives us…

Major U.S. Cities and States to Observe 50th Anniversary of Trailblazing Marshall’s Swearing in as the First African American Supreme Court Justice  Confirmed participation in: Atlanta; Austin; Baltimore; Broward County, Florida; Beverly…

The cliché about the Best Actor race goes that whoever has the greatest disability wins. It can be true, of course, because often there is little else to differentiate between equally great performances until you factor in level of…