BEST ACTRESS
Backstage at the 91st Academy Awards
Where to begin this year? What an honor, as always to be back in the press room, backstage, deep inside...
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...
Viola Davis Gets a BAFTA Bump as Best Actress Heats Up
The Best Actress race for most of the year seemed locked into five: Glenn Close for The Wife, Lady Gaga...
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...
Best Actress — How Often Do The Globes, SAG, and Oscar Overlap
Best Actress remains a mystery. There doesn't seem to be any sort of slam dunk winner at the moment, just...
New York Film Critics Make Their Own History with their Choice of Regina Hall for Best Actress
That no African American female has never won Best Actress at the New York Film Critics is not a comment...
Kiki Layne Discusses Her Acting Debut In If Beale Street Could Talk. “We recognized that in order for this to succeed, some of our walls had to come down.”
Her performance in Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk is one of the most powerful performances you will see all...
Cicely Tyson’s Moving Acceptance Speech at the Governors Awards
Ava DuVernay paid tribute to Cicely Tyson at last night's Governors Awards. Here is her acceptance speech.Tyson was nominated once...
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...
Best Actress — Most Competitive in Years, Will Publicity Make the Difference?
If you're a big star, chances are you will get publicity when you do things like talk shows, show up...
Glenn Close to Receive the Icon Award from the Palm Springs International Film Fest
The later tribute festivals, like Palm Springs and Santa Barbara, are generally in the Phase 2 part of the things....
The Net for Best Actress Widens as More Films Head into the Oscar Race
The Best Actress race is the most crowded it has been in years. It's so crowded that the Best Actress...
Viola Davis “I, As An Actress, I Have To Mirror Life. That’s My Only Inspiration.”
Interview contains plot spoilers Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo, and Elizabeth Debicki take front and center in Steve...
Gay Gasp! Cate Blanchett Is Coming for That Emmy!
Best Actress – Less About the Role, More About the Star
Unlike the Best Actor race, Best Actress is often about the person playing the role more than it is about...
Middleburg Film Festival: Interview – Roma’s Yalitza Aparicio On Auditioning For Cuaron. “We thought it could be human trafficking”
Learn her name. Yalitza Aparicio is someone you'll be hearing throughout the awards season. Her performance in Roma is a...
Melissa McCarthy and the Fresh Air Interview
I have to confess something to you, my friends. After two decades of life doing this "stuff" I almost hate...
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...
Cannes Dispatch – That’s a Wrap
The 72nd Cannes Film Festival officially came to a close earlier today after jury president Alejandro González Iñárritu crowned this...
A Deadly Virus Lands On American Soil In National Geographic’s ‘The Hot Zone’
Jazz Tangcay Reviews The Hot Zone. The thrilling new drama series about how Ebola almost caused a catastrophe on American...
Will ‘Family,’ ‘Jeffersons’ Make a 2019 Emmy Return?
In what used to be referred to more commonly as "sweeps month," ABC and Sony Pictures TV released Live in Front...
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us Is an Unmissable Knockout
“It’s a start, a work of art To revolutionize make a change nothing's strange People, people we are the same...
Cannes Dispatch – Will Win / Should Win
All 21 films in competition at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival have now screened, and yours truly made sure to...
Review: Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin Shows Us A Whole New World
I didn't realize just how deep my love for Disney's 1992 Aladdin ran. When the film first came out, I...
The Hive Mind Sharpens its Knives for Tarantino
You knew this was coming, right? If you have a pile of dry brush and a whole bunch of people...
Cannes Dispatch – Parasite
You don’t necessarily expect to see Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s name included among cinematic celestials like Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodóvar,...
Cannes Dispatch – Ira Sachs Talks Frankie, Isabelle Huppert and Queer Cinema
Celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs is a 6-time Spirit Awards nominee known for such critically acclaimed films as KEEP THE LIGHTS...
With the Release of His Fourth Film, Pittsburgh Doctor/Filmmaker Ravi Godse Proves Laughter is the Best Medicine
Awards Daily's Megan McLachlan chats with the Pittsburgh doctor/filmmaker Ravi Godse, whose work attracts the likes of Richard Kind, Steve...