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 ...
Tag: BEST ACTOR
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 ...
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Best Actor – So Many Strong Performances Makes for a Real Competition [Poll]
There have been so many leading male performances worthy of an Oscar win this year, starting with Chadwick Boseman as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Best Actor – You Know When You Know
It's odd that so many observers are concluding they know beyond any doubt who is going to win Best Actor ...
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Willem Dafoe Joins the Best Actor Race [Best Actor Poll!]
Willem Dafoe has never won an Oscar. It was surreal watching the awards community get so firmly behind him with ...
Venice Dispatch – First Man
"FIRST MAN chronicles nearly a decade of work that went into accomplishing something that, even when you think about it ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Telluride Review: Darkest Hour
Joe Wright’s stunner is no ordinary biopic of Sir Winston Churchill. It is a vigorously directed, tightly paced war thriller ...
Most Anticipated Performances of 2017
We're just about to head into the thick of it, with the meat of the season still yet to be ...
See New Photos of Liam Neeson as Mark Felt
USA Today's Brian Truitt posts some photos of Liam Neeson as Mark Felt in Peter Landesman's Mark Felt: The Man ...
Watch Denzel Washington’s Electrifying Acceptance Speech at the NAACP Image Awards
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Bohemian Rhapsody, Isle of Dogs Win at CAS Awards
The Cinema Audio Society handed out their awards last night, with Bohemian Rhapsody taking the top prize in Sound Mixing...
Interview: Roma’s Production Designer Eugenio Caballero “We didn’t start by looking at images, we started with conversations.”
While watching Alfonso Cuaron's visual masterpiece, we are transported back to his childhood, back to 1970s Mexico. The details in...
Berlin Dispatch – That’s a Wrap
Another Berlinale, another set of surprise winners/bad predictions! I did slightly better than last year by nailing at least one...
Thank You, Bill Maher — When Will the Madness End?
Bill Maher draws a parallel between the mass hysteria and purity tests afflicting the Democrats (we're doomed, folks) and the...
Interview: Jake Johnson Steps Into The Spider-Verse
Jake Johnson wasn't a comic book fan as a young boy, but when he received the script for the Oscar-nominated...
Bruno Ganz: The Angel Hits The Ground
Bruno Ganz was of Swiss descent, but he became a titan of German cinema. His film debut came all the...
From Fargo To Buster Scruggs, Mary Zophres On Costuming For The Coen Brothers
Mary Zophres has been the head Costume Designer on every Coen Brothers film for nearly 25 years. From Fargo to...
Interview: Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Matthew Price and Ron Bochar On The Sounds of The Show
Production Mixer Mathew Price and Re-recording Mixer Ron Bochar Discuss The Sounds Of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel The sounds...
Academy Reverses Its Decision and Will Air All 24 Categories on Air
The Academy has capitulated on all of their own proposals to shorten the Oscar broadcast and boost ratings: the host,...
Predictions Friday — Last Looks Before Tuesday’s Ballot Deadline
This grim and fretful Oscar season, which should be much more of a celebration than the fear and panic in...