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Interview: Charlie Plummer on Playing Paul Getty III and Working with Ridley Scott
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…
The State of the Race: The SAG Awards Make the Race Even More Unpredictable
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…
Screen Actors Guild Preview, Predictions, and Contest!
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…
Interview: Kenneth Branagh Takes On Agatha Christie and Works With Christopher Nolan On Dunkirk
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)…
As Darkest Hour and Roman Israel Open, the Best Actor Race Waits for One More
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…
Interview: Sean Baker On Making The Florida Project
"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…
Gary Oldman Will Receive the Maltin Modern Master Award at the SBIFF
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…
FYC: Interview – Jake Gyllenhaal Takes On the Physical Challenge of Playing Jeff Bauman in…
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…
(POLL) Best Ensemble: A Great Lead Performance is Often Paired with an Equally Great Supporting…
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…
AFI Fest Interview: Idris Elba On Working with Jessica Chastain and Starring in Aaron Sorkin’s…
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…
“If you have a character like that, what would it take to disrupt his life. Usually, it’s love…
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…
New Trailer: One of the Best Films of the Year, The Disaster Artist
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…
Interview: Jason Hall Steps Behind the Camera in Thank You for Your Service.
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…
Best Actor – Gary Oldman’s Astonishing Work and Those Who Could Upset [Poll!]
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…
Interview: Andrew Garfield On How the Breathe Script Inspired His Own Life.
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,…
Interview: Judy Becker on Working with a ’70s Sporting Color Palette for Battle of the Sexes
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…
Scott Cooper’s Hostiles Officially Joins Oscar Race
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…
New Darkest Hour Trailer – Churchill Fights Back
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…
October 2, 2017 Declared Thurgood Marshall Day
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…
Best Actor: Gary Oldman and His Challengers
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…