Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. With ten wins – and three nominations – to date, relative film newcomer Jessica Chastain is the top Best Actress pick this awards season…
Meryl Streep in Hope Springs. In movies since the late 1970s – she was first seen in a small role in Fred Zinnemann’s Julia (1977) – Meryl Streep seems to…
Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone. The SAG Awards usually bypass performers in non-English-language films. This year, however, could be a major exception thanks to two well-received French-language dramas: Jacques…
Amour with Emmanuelle Riva. Michael Haneke’s French-language drama Amour is easily the top Best Foreign Language Film pick this awards season. Strangely, the film’s veteran leading man, Jean-Louis Trintignant, hasn’t…
Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow. The “war on terror” thriller Zero Dark Thirty has yet to open in the U.S., but it can already be labeled as one of…
Michael Haneke at the 2012 European Film Awards. The story of an elderly couple facing illness and death, Amour was the top winner at this year’s European Film Awards, collecting…
Zero Dark Thirty with Jessica Chastain. Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for – and eventual assassination of – Osama bin Laden, has already stirred quite a…
Jodie Foster: Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Jodie Foster will be the next Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced – by way of Foster’s…
Seth MacFarlane Oscars host confirmed: Unusual pick Seth MacFarlane, best known internationally for the comedy box office hit Ted, will host the 2013 Oscar ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 24, Oscarcast…
Best Actor Oscar: Joaquin Phoenix a potential contender. 2013 Oscar predictions Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis Joaquin Phoenix and Daniel Day-Lewis look like the two shoo-ins for the 2013…
Honorary Oscar: George Stevens Jr. George Stevens Jr. is the founding director of the American Film Institute. During his tenure, the AFI established the Center for Advanced Film Studies and…
Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Christian Petzold drama ‘Barbara’: Germany Oscar Submission Starring Nina Hoss, writer-director Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s…
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis for Oscar 2013? Ever since it was announced that Steven Spielberg was going to direct an Abraham Lincoln biopic, film pundits, bloggers,…
A Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his…
Avatar 2 news: Sequels to be filmed concurrently says Sigourney Weaver Avatar 2, 3, 4 to be filmed concurrently. [Photo: Sigourney Weaver in Avatar.] Audiences are clamoring for original fare,…
Django Unchained trailer with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx Django Unchained trailer is out. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino of Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds fame, Django Unchained is set…
On the Road interview: cast members Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley March 21 update: “It’s interesting to play characters that have existed,” says Kristen Stewart in an On the…
First lesbian kiss? Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace go for it in Passion. Rachel McAdams kisses Noomi Rapace in Brian De Palma’s thriller Passion, a remake of Alain Corneau’s Crime…
Emma Thompson back as Gareth Peirce? Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson may once again play human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, according to Screen Daily. Nearly twenty years ago, Thompson played…
Harvey Weinstein “entourage” apparently includes the current French president. The Legion d’Honneur Chevalier was nominated by none other than Nicolas Sarkozy, whose behind-the-scenes support for the powerhouse Hollywood producer and…
Kirk Baxter, Tina Fey, Bradley Cooper, Angus Wall. Presenters Tina Fey and Bradley Cooper pose with Oscar winners Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall backstage at the 84th Academy Awards, held…
Maya Rudolph. Maya Rudolph attends the Governors Ball after the 84th Academy Awards ceremony held at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood on Feb. 26, ’12. Rudolph wasn’t nominated for any…
‘The Artist’: Best Picture winner makes history. Best Picture winner ‘The Artist’: Two ‘First Times’ in Oscar history Pictured above are several cast members of Best Picture winner The Artist…
Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the Governors Ball following the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 26. Along with Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg produced…
Octavia Spencer. In this very artistic picture, Octavia Spencer admires her Oscar statuette at the Governor’s Ball, following the 2012 Annual Academy Awards from Hollywood, CA Feb. 26. Spencer was…
This Is Not a Film with Jafar Panahi and the iguana Igi. Under house arrest[1] following accusations of spreading “propaganda against the Islamic Republic” of Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Cannes…
Famous Children of Famous Parents: Edoardo Ponti and Nastassja Kinski, with Enrico Lo Verso in The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars. Edoardo Ponti & Bryce Dallas Howard live action shorts…
The Intouchables movie: France’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entry. In the cast: Omar Sy as Driss, François Cluzet as Philippe. The Intouchables movie, France’s biggest French-language blockbuster at the…
Best Supporting Actress Nominees pre-1950 still alive, Oscar nonagenarians / centenarian. (Image: Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce, with Joan Crawford.) Following Celeste Holm’s death today and Ernest Borgnine’s death last Sunday,…
Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur While delivering her intro for the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony, Mistress of Ceremonies Bérénice Bejo waxed poetic: “If festivals are…
Edward G. Robinson is an iconic all-American gangster in Mervyn LeRoy’s landmark but creaky 1931 crime movie Little Caesar.
Jean Dujardin. Jean Dujardin made film-award history after he won the 2012 Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as a fading silent film matinee idol in Michel Hazanavicius’ The…