Jim Broadbent Articles

Tilda Swinton in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin THE ARTIST, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE HELP, DRIVE: BAFTA Nominations LEADING ACTOR BRAD PITT Moneyball GARY OLDMAN Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy GEORGE CLOONEY The Descendants JEAN DUJARDIN The Artist MICHAEL FASSBENDER Shame LEADING ACTRESS BÉRÉNICE BEJO The Artist MERYL STREEP The Iron Lady MICHELLE WILLIAMS My Week with Marilyn TILDA SWINTON We Need [...]

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher drama The Iron Lady has been acquired for U.S. distribution by The Weinstein Company (TWC). Directed by Mamma Mia!'s Phyllida Lloyd, and featuring Jim Broadbent as Thatcher’s husband, Denis, The Iron Lady is expected to hit U.S. theaters some time in 2011. That, of course, means the 17th Oscar nomination for Meryl Streep, [...]

Meryl Streep as the Anna Wintourish Miranda Priestly and Anne Hathaway in David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada Meryl Streep (not Emma Thompson, sigh) "is in talks" to play Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's Thatcher, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lloyd has previously worked with Streep in the blockbuster musical Mamma Mia!. As per the Reporter, Jim Broadbent is also in talks to play Thatcher's [...]

Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Oliver Maltman in Mike Leigh's Another Year Mike Leigh's old-age/death/family drama Another Year, screened in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, has so far been one of the highlights of the festival for some. But definitely not for everyone. Reviewers, however, seem to have been unanimous in their praise of the film's cast, which includes Rush Sheen, Jim Broadbent, [...]