Lynn Redgrave Articles

Silvio Narizzano, best known for the 1966 swinging London comedy-drama Georgy Girl, died July 26. Narizzano was 84. Based on Margaret Forster's novel, and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason, and Charlotte Rampling, Georgy Girl was considered daring at the time because its plot included sex (of the non-marital kind), abortion, and adultery. For her performance as the homely, ungainly Georgy, Lynn Redgrave was [...]

Lynn Redgrave in Bill Condon's Gods and Monsters (top); Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe in Paul Schrader's Affliction (middle); Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira in Walter Salles' Central Station (bottom) Richard Farnsworth: Oscar Veterans 1999 Lynn Redgrave Lynn Redgrave was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as James Whale's opinionated German maid in Bill Condon's Gods and Monsters. She lost the Oscar [...]

Adrien Brody in Roman Polanski's The Pianist Major Oscar Comebacks Below is a list of 28 actors and directors who had to wait 20 years or more for the next Academy Award nomination in their respective categories, i.e., actors/acting categories; directors/Best Direction category. That's why Henry Fonda is listed first with a 41-year gap between nominations, even though he was shortlisted for the 1957 Academy [...]

Timothy Hutton, Peter Sarsgaard, Liam Neeson as Dr. Alfred Kinsey, Chris O'Donnell in Bill Condon's Kinsey KINSEY Review: Part I Also like the controversial heroes of previous biopics, Dustin Hoffman's Lenny Bruce in Lenny and Montgomery Clift's Dr. Sigmund Freud in Freud, Kinsey is ostracized because he dares tell the uncomfortable truth to a hypocritical society that wants none of it. But unlike Hoffman's abrasive [...]