Vanessa Redgrave Articles

Jessica Chastain, The Help 2012 Oscar Predictions – Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Albert Brooks, Kenneth Branagh, Nick Nolte, Viggo Mortensen The list of potential Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominees is nearly as long as the list of female cast members in Tate Taylor's socially conscious comedy-drama The Help. In fact, several The Help actresses are either likely or possible Oscar contenders. Much like [...]

BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder [Photo: Laurence Olivier] 1971 Alfred Hitchcock 1972 Freddie Young 1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie 1974 David Lean 1975 Jacques Cousteau 1976 Charles Chaplin, Laurence Olivier 1977 Denis Forman 1978 Fred Zinnemann 1979 Lew Grade, Huw Wheldon 1980 David Attenborough, John Huston 1981 Abel Gance, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1982 Andrzej [...]

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho set The first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship, "awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image," was director Alfred Hitchcock in 1971. Dozens of film, television, and assorted media personalities have become BAFTA Fellows since then, though the pattern here — as most elsewhere — is that achievements by men [...]

Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn So, does A Separation's Sareh Bayat have a chance at a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination? If only a nomination for the London Film Critics' Circle Awards had that sort of influence. Were that so, Nicolas Winding Refn's thriller Drive and Tomas Alfredson's spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, each nominated for six London Critics awards, would surely be [...]