Governors Awards: Angela Bassett Reflects on History of Black Actresses in...
Angela Bassett, collecting an honorary Oscar, gave an impassioned speech about the history of Black actresses in Hollywood and Michelle Satter, becoming the 45th recipient of the Jean Hersholt...
View ArticleHollywood Flashback: 50 Years Ago, ‘The Sting’ Hit the Oscar Jackpot
Sometimes lightning strikes twice — at least it did when Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up. The dazzling leading men made two movies together, both directed by George Roy Hill, that became Oscar...
View ArticleHow Films Like ‘All of Us Strangers,’ ‘Passages’ and ‘Bottoms’ Usher in a New...
A film director sleeping with a young woman behind his husband’s back. A group of horny teenage girls starting a fight club. A middle-aged swimmer attempting to swim from Cuba to Florida. This year,...
View ArticleHollywood Flashback: When Irene Cara’s ‘Flashdance… What a Feeling’ Had It...
The opening synthesizer lines of the song “Flashdance… What a Feeling” offer a sense of promise — something big is about to happen. And the tune, performed by actress and singer Irene Cara for the...
View Article‘The Color Purple’ Costume Designer on Creating a Vision in Red for Taraji P....
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck worked as an assistant to costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers (“swatching fabrics and dressing background players,” she recalls) on Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film adaptation...
View Article“I Am Limitless”: Colman Domingo Reacts to His First Oscar Nomination for...
Colman Domingo became a first-time Oscar nominee Tuesday morning for his leading role in Rustin, the biopic of openly gay civil rights advocate Bayard Rustin directed by George C. Wolfe. Domingo has...
View ArticleDa’Vine Joy Randolph on Her First Oscar Nomination: “To Be At This Moment Is...
Da’Vine Joy Randolph became a first-time Oscar nominee Tuesday morning for her performance as the grieving chef Mary in Alexander Payne’s Christmas dramedy The Holdovers, in which she stars alongside...
View ArticlePaul Giamatti Says Oscar Nomination for ‘The Holdovers’ Makes Him Feel Like...
It’s been almost 20 years since Paul Giamatti’s last Oscar nomination, for Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man in 2006. This year, with Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Giamatti scores his long-overdue first...
View ArticleMatteo Garrone, Tran Anh Hung and More International Helmers on What Drove...
This year’s Palm Springs Film Festival saw not one but two international feature panel discussions hosted by The Hollywood Reporter. The first, moderated by THR’s own Kevin Cassidy, highlighted some of...
View ArticleNikolaj Arcel, Ilker Çatak and Other Shortlisted Filmmakers on Bringing Their...
The second of two panels hosted by The Hollywood Reporter at the Palm Springs International Feature Film featured a breadth of official Oscar submissions from around the world. The discussion,...
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