Kathy Bates Articles

Best Supporting Actress Penélope Cruz, Nine A film director’s seductive mistress (if she’s half as tantalizing in the film as she is in the above photo, Cruz deserves not only a nod but the golden statuette itself) Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air A professional downsizer’s trainee Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire A pregnant, illiterate teen’s Mom from Hell Julianne Moore, [...]

Directed by Stephen Frears and adapted by Christopher Hampton from Colette’s novel, Chéri stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a 1920s French courtesan who teaches a young man (Rupert Friend) the ways of love and sex. Also in the Chéri cast: Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Anita Pallenberg, Frances Tomelty. Chéri opens in the US on June 26.