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For the past dozen years, the eventual Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor has hailed from a Best Picture nominee. But that streak could finally end this year, based on Gold Derby’s predictions.

Kieran Culkin is the odds-on frontrunner to win Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Real Pain. He plays Benjamin “Benji” Kaplan, who embarks on a roadtrip through Poland with his cousin, David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg), following the death of their grandmother. The Searchlight Pictures film also received a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Eisenberg, who directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the project, but it was snubbed in Best Picture.

Culkin has dominated the precursor awards and should he prevail at the Oscars, he would end a 12-year streak that began after Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2011). Plummer notably claimed this award at age 82, making him the oldest acting winner at that time (an...

Paramount+ has announced this week that the eight-episode series “Happy Face” will premiere on March 20 with two episodes, and they’ve also released the official trailer.

“Happy Face” starring Dennis Quaid (The Substance) will be streaming exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and international markets where the service is available. Following the premiere, new episodes will drop weekly on Thursdays, with the season finale on May 1.

Annaleigh Ashford (“American Crime Story”) co-stars, with series regulars also including James Wolk, Tamera Tomakili, Khiyla Aynne and Benjamin Mackey.

“Happy Face” is inspired by the true-life story of Melissa G. Moore, as well as the critically acclaimed Happy Face podcast from iHeartPodcasts and Moore; and the autobiography Shattered Silence, written by Moore with M. Bridget Cook.

At 15, Moore discovered that her beloved father was the prolific serial killer known as Happy Face. As an adult, she has changed her name and guarded...

Paramount+ today revealed the teaser trailer and premiere date for its original drama series Happy Face. The eight-episode season will premiere on Thursday, March 20 with two episodes, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and international markets where the service is available.

Following the premiere, new episodes of the series will drop weekly on Thursdays, with the season finale on May 1.

Happy Face is inspired by the true-life story of Melissa G. Moore; the critically acclaimed Happy Face podcast from iHeartPodcasts and Moore; and the autobiography Shattered Silence, written by Moore with M. Bridget Cook.

At 15, Moore discovered that her beloved father was the prolific serial killer known as Happy Face. As an adult, she has changed her name and guarded her secret while her father has been serving life in prison.

Jumping off from Moore’s true-life story, the Paramount+ Original Series follows Melissa (Annaleigh Ashford) and her incarcerated father,...

The Oscar race is a marathon, not a sprint. There are dozens of pit stops along the way and trophies to be given out before the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, March 2. Keep track of precursor wins here with our scorecard. This includes honors from major film festivals, critics groups, guilds, and televised shows of the 2024-25 Oscar season. Wins are listed in order of announcement and in accordance with candidates’ FYC campaigns.

Updated: Friday, Jan. 24 with Denver Film Critics Society winners.

Since her Best Comedy/Musical Actress victory at the Golden Globes, Demi Moore has earned 10 Best Actress prizes, including five consecutively. The haul has brought her precursor win total to 16, passing Marianne Jean-Baptiste for second place for the season thus far (Mikey Madison leads Best Actress contenders with 27 wins). Did Moore’s Globe victory for The Substance and moving speech give her a boost? Well, Moore, who’s been nominated...

Ahead of the Oscar nominations being unveiled, USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and the Adobe Foundation have released a new edition of their Inclusion List, with a focus on movies.

The top-scoring movies for supporting gender inclusion on screen and behind the cameras were A Thousand and One, You Hurt My Feelings, The Marvels, Priscilla and Barbie. For race and ethnicity, the top-scoring movies were Joy Ride, A Thousand and One, The Color Purple, House Party and The Blackening.

In an earlier Inclusions List, 476 theatrically released movies from 2019 to 2023 were analyzed, with on screen and behind-the-camera data used to determine the 150 most inclusive films in that four-year period. The latest Inclusion List builds on that ranking with a new set of films from 2023.

“Our goal with the Inclusion List is to celebrate those who are showcasing and working with exceptional talent from all backgrounds. In the second year of its release,...

Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” was a poster child for the power of inclusion when it broke box office records in 2023, but the $1.45 billion-grossing movie is only the 119th most inclusive film made in the past five years, according to the Inclusion List.

The annual list — presented by Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, in collaboration with the Adobe Foundation — is a data-driven ranking that identified the 150 most inclusive films from 2019 to 2023 and ranks a single year’s films across gender, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+, disability and age representation.

“Our goal with the Inclusion List is to celebrate those who are showcasing and working with exceptional talent from all backgrounds,” stated Dr. Smith in a press release announcing the researchers’ findings. “In the second year of its release, the newest iteration of the Inclusion List spotlights films, filmmakers, and distributors who clearly demonstrate that inclusion...

The second iteration of The Inclusion List from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has identified the 150 most inclusive films from 2019 to 2023, adding to its initial class of 100 films by naming 50 new titles for the year 2023.

Four films from that year have made it into the Top 10 Most Inclusive Films for that timespan, according to the study released Wednesday, with A Thousand and One taking the No. 2 spot overall, Bottoms coming in seventh, The Color Purple ninth and The Blackening in 10th.

The list’s point system took into account talent both in front of and behind the camera, with a total of 20 points broken down into 10-point halves for both on-screen and off-screen inclusion. Two distinct processes were used, one for leads/co-leads and the other for all speaking characters. A film could earn up to 10 points for on-screen inclusion based on the five inclusion indicators across leads/co leads (up to 5 points) and all speaking characters (up to 5 points).

A Thousand and One ranks second with a score of 13.6/20, while Bottoms scores a 12.2/20. The Color Purple and The Blackening are tied with a score of 11.8/20. The highest scoring film on the list remains Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King (2022) with a 15/20.

The list also evaluated 2023 films displaying the best inclusivity across five categories: gender, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+, disability, and age. It named five of the most inclusive 2023 films within each of those categories.

The 2023 films that scored the highest for the gender indicator of inclusion were A Thousand and One, You Hurt My Feelings, The Marvels, Priscilla and Barbie. A Thousand and One also scored high on the race/ethnicity list alongside 2023’s Joy Ride, The Color Purple, The Blackening and House Party. In the LGBTQ+ category, the top five films of 2023 were All of Us Strangers, Theater Camp, Bottoms, Knock at the Cabin and Saltburn. 2023 releases ranking high in the disability category included What Happens Later, John Wick: Chapter 4, Moving On, Golda and The Holdovers. Films from 2023 that scored highest in their representation of age on the big screen were Moving On, Book Club: The Next Chapter, Marlowe, The Miracle Club and Golda.

Researchers also took into consideration the race and ethnicity of crew members in the roles of director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor, composer, production designer, costume designer, casting director and assistant director.

The second Inclusion List also names 25 top achievers across inclusion metrics and 50 new winners for 2023 cinema. Released Jan. 22, the results calls attention to directors, editors and distributors involved in projects with the highest percentage of women and people of color employees who aided in the process of production from start to finish line.

Related: Women-Led Films Fell Close To 30% In 2023, Near A 10-Year Low, Per Study

Out of 400 evaluated directors, five were named the most inclusive: Catherine Hardwicke, Olivia Wilde, Destin Daniel Cretton, Reinaldo Marcus Green and Kasi Lemmons.

Eight editors were noted for their work in film over the past five years, including Annette Davey, Anne McCabe, Blair McClendon, Catrin Hedström, Hilda Rasula, Harry Yoon, Mary Jo Markey.

Related: Hispanics & Latinos Still Invisible In Hollywood, A Trend Across 16 Years, New Study Reveals

The top distributors — companies responsible for bringing top-ranking diverse films to audiences — were listed by the quantity of how many films released: Universal (29), Sony Pictures (21), Warner Bros (18) and, for smaller distributors, A24 (14), MGM (10) and Bleecker Street (9).

A panel discussing the results featuring Smith, Sumi Parekh, Executive Director, Group Effort Initiative, Tracy Oliver, Screenwriter, Director, Producer and Showrunner, Jesse Williams, Actor, Director, Activist, Dewayne Perkins, Writer, Actor, Producer, and Amy White, Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Adobe, is set for Friday at Adobe House on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival.

Despite the (ongoing) drama surrounding "It Ends With Us" — and, in particular, its two stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the latter of whom also directed the film — the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's best-selling 2016 novel of the same name earned an abundance of cash at the box office when it came out in the summer of 2024. Why do I bring up the movie's financial success amidst the apparent, alleged strife between Baldoni and Lively? Because studio executives very likely watched "It Ends With Us" crush the summer box office and thought, "What other Colleen Hoover books can we possibly adapt?"

As for Hoover herself, she worked closely with the team on "It Ends With Us" to create the film — she was quite present during the press tour — and told The Hollywood Reporter that she loved seeing her work adapted for the screen. "It's very surreal," Hoover said in August...

Mark your calendars, Oscars fans, because the 97th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 2, 2025 on ABC. The annual star-studded ceremony will honor movies released in theaters within the 2024 calendar year of eligibility. AMPAS members will vote on the Oscar winners in 23 categories, including Best Actress. But who will win? Here at Gold Derby, thousands of users have been making and updating their 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Actress, so let’s take a look at all of the top contenders in our photo gallery below.

These 25 Best Actress hopefuls are listed in order of their racetrack odds, which are derived from the combined forecasts of four unique groups: experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, editors who cover awards year-round for this website, top 24 users who had the best accuracy scores last year, and the mass of users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

The five most recent...

The trailer for Love Me unveils more of the post-apocalyptic romance movie. The upcoming release, which is the debut feature of co-writers and co-directors Sam and Andy Zuchero, stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as a buoy and a satellite who assign themselves human forms and fall in love after humanity's end. Early Love Me reviews coming out of the movie's premiere at Sundance in January 2024 have been mixed, resulting in the movie so far earning a 47% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Bleecker Street has now debuted the official trailer for Love Me online. The trailer kicks off by following the initiation of the connection between the two artificial intelligences as they experiment with using virtual avatars inspired by YouTubers who are also played by Stewart and Yeun. As their bond strengthens and they learn about the world through whatever information survives on the Internet, they begin to develop more of...

Meryl Streep is the best of the best.

Her performance in Sophie’s Choice (1982) has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actress winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts, critics, and editors, who ranked all 97 movie champs.

Diane Keaton ranked second for Annie Hall (1977), with Jodie Foster following in third for The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972) and Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) rounded out the top five.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actress winners is Mary Pickford for Coquette (1929). Just above that film in the rankings are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), Loretta Young for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947), and Marie Dressler for Min and Bill (1931).

Another recent Gold Derby poll of cinema experts declared The Godfather (1972) as the greatest Best Picture Oscar winner of all...

The performance by Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice (1982) has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actress winner ever. The results are from a recent Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts and editors, who ranked all 97 movie champs.

Ranking in second place is Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977). Following in third place is Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Rounding out the top five are Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), and Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actress winners is Mary Pickford for Coquette (1929). Just above that film in the rankings are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), Loretta Young for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947), and Marie Dressler for Min and Bill (1931).

Another recent poll had The Godfather (1972) declared as the greatest Best Picture Oscar winner of all time (view...

Kristen Stewart has come a long way from her Twilight days. Once criticized for her acting skills, she went on to win an Academy Awards nomination in 2022 for her movie Spencer. The movie highlighted a turbulent period in the life of Princess Diana, and Stewart’s acting gained overwhelming praise for embodying the late princess.

Kristen Stewart in Happiest Season (2020) | Credit: Hulu

Although the award eventually went to Jessica Chastain for her role in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, some fans disagreed with the verdict. According to them, the award should have gone to Kristen Stewart, as they think she did a better job than Chastain in her movie. However, many have a different opinion on the matter, and for what they believe are very good reasons.

Oscars 2022 saw a race between Kristen Stewart and Jessica Chastain

Oscars 2022 was an event filled with leading women from the industry. Not only...

Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett will star opposite Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-seller Verity.

Michael Showwalter is (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) is directing the film that is planned for a theatrical release. Nick Antosca, wrote the current script following the previous work of Hoover and Lauren Levine, scribes Hillary Seitz, Angela Lamanna and the team of Will Honley and April Maguire.

Verity centers on struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, who is hired by Jeremy Crawford to complete the remaining books in a series penned by his wife, author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), who has suffered a mysterious accident. Lowen soon learns that a secret unfinished manuscript may reveal clues about the family’s past. Amazon describes the book as a “gothic, psychosexual thriller in the vein of Rebecca and Gone Girl.”

Johnson will play Ashleigh, the writer, while Hartnett will play Jeremy, the husband.

Angelina Jolie is a strong contender for Best Actress at the 2025 Oscars thanks to her performance in Maria. She plays opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín's drama acquired by Netflix, and the dramatic turn has brought her plenty of awards buzz. She's our predicted Best Actress winner for the 2025 Oscars at the moment even. Now that Maira is streaming on Netflix and more people - specifically Oscar voters - have the chance to witness or revisit her performance, this is the time when Jolie's campaign should be pushed extra hard for her third Oscar nomination.

The visibility that comes with Maria streaming on Netflix should bolster Angelina Jolie's Oscar chances. It's now something that most people have access to, whereas Mikey Madison (Anora) may still be missed by some, and most have yet to see Nicole Kidman (Babygirl). Netflix also boasts a strong history of securing Oscar...

Three years after starring as Thena in the movie Marvel doesn't like to talk about (Eternals), Angelina Jolie returns to the big screen as the protagonist of Maria, which serves as the last installment in a trilogy that began in 2016. The biographical psychological drama, directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, follows the later years of famous opera singer Maria Callas' (played by Jolie) life. Maria is set in the 1970s in Paris, where Callas lived away from the public eye until her death in 1977.

Maria premiered on August 29, 2024, at the 81st Venice International Film Festival and was released in some theaters in the United States on November 27. However, as of December 11, it's available to stream on Netflix.

Maria's reviews have been rather positive, with many critics praising Jolie's performance as the renowned opera singer. However, some might be surprised to learn that the 2024 Netflix movie isn't the first of its kind.

The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has applied the nominations for its 12th annual Muahs Guild Awards, which will be handed out in February. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is tied for the film lead with three noms alongside The Substance and The Deliverance.

The long-awaited Tim Burton sequel actually scored five noms if you count the two for a related deodorant commercial.

Also vying for Muahs are such top-grossing and/or awards-season hopefuls as Wicked, Deadpool & Wolverine, Gladiator II, Emilia Pérez, The Last Showgirl and Megalopolis. See the full list of nominees in 23 categories spanning motion pictures, television, live theater, commercials and music videos below.

On the TV side, Dancing with the Stars — which waltzed off with three Muahs in 2024 — leads everyone with five nominations, followed by Saturday Night Live and the MTV Video Music Awards with four each. The Penguin waddled away with three.

The Muahs Awards in October revealed...

As I approached her Friday night at her table where well-wishers were congratulating her on being this year’s recipient of the 38th American Cinematheque Award, Jessica Chastain caught my eye and immediately grabbed me and exclaimed, “Can you believe this? Can you believe this?, I am so stressed out tonight. I have never been so stressful. This is like going to your own funeral, ” she laughed before I told her she has had a remarkable career to date and deserves this kind of career recognition that the Cinematheque gives for those they define in mid-career. Chastain isn’t even 50 yet. She told me she knew she might get emotional but was going to do everything she could not to cry when delivering her speech. For this rabid film fan getting this honor from an organization that lives and breathes movies and their continued restoration and health, it was a very big deal.

As befitting its name, the American Cinematheque keeps the art form of film running in theaters. The non-profit, founded in 1984, showcases 1,500 films a year, programming year-round at three Los Angeles theaters, and its annual awards show helps raise money to keep those films in front of an audience. This year’s honorees (who will be feted at the Beverly Hilton on Dec. 6) have had extraordinary careers and share a passion for cinema.

Jessica Chastain, the 38th recipient of the American Cinematheque Award, follows in the footsteps of Eddie Murphy, who was its first honoree, and other Hollywood royalty like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scor-sese, Denzel Washington and Al Pacino.

The star of films like “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Interstellar” and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” Chastain is no stranger to accolades, having earned an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Drama Desk and three SAG Awards. She is also an Emmy and two-time Tony Award nominee.

At the 94th Academy Awards in 2022, Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" was nominated in 10 categories: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, and Best Make-Up and Hairstyling. Conspicuously missing from that capacious list was, of course, Best Director — a truly mystifying omission on the part of the Academy considering Villeneuve pulled off the impossible by successfully adapting Frank Herbert's supposedly "unfilmable" book.

At the time, one of the movie's stars, Josh Brolin, was very unhappy about Denis Villeneuve's Oscars snub for "Dune." The actor, who had previously worked with Villeneuve on "Sicario" and plays House Atreides Warmaster Gurney Halleck in the "Dune" films, posted a video to Instagram where he described the decision as "almost numbing" and "flummoxing," even while he congratulated his other "Dune" colleagues on their nominations. Despite Brolin's protestations, however,...

Anne Hathaway is set to star in Amazon MGM Studios’ feature adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s thriller novel Verity.

Michael Showalter (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) is directing the film that is planned for a theatrical release. Nick Antosca wrote the current script following the previous work of scribes Hillary Seitz, Angela Lamanna and the team of Will Honley and April Maguire.

Verity centers on struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, who is hired by Jeremy Crawford to complete the remaining books in a series penned by his wife, author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), who has suffered a mysterious accident. Lowen soon learns that a secret unfinished manuscript may reveal clues about the family’s past.

Serving as producers are Nick Antosca and Alex Hedlund for Eat the Cat, Showalter and Jordana Mollick for Semi-Formal Productions, Hathaway for Somewhere Pictures, Hoover for Heartbones Entertainment and Stacey Sher for Shiny Penny. Executive producing is Heartbones Entertainment’s Lauren Levine.

Anne Hathaway will star in the upcoming film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling book “Verity.”

She will play Verity Crawford, a famous author who is unable to finish her thriller novel after a car accident leaves her badly injured and incapacitated. So her husband Jeremy offers a struggling writer named Lowen a huge sum of money to complete the remaining books in the series. Lowen accepts the gig but uncovers dark secrets in the process — including an unfinished manuscript that hints at chilling admissions about Verity and her family’s past — leaving Lowen to determine if Verity is a gifted fictionist or deranged psychopath. The roles of Jeremy and Lowen have yet to be cast.

Michael Showalter, who worked with Hathaway on this year’s rom-com “The Idea of You,” is directing the film for Amazon MGM. It will be released in theaters. Nick Antosca wrote the script after...

Exclusive: Following the success of the Amazon film The Idea of You, Anne Hathaway and director Michael Showalter have found their next big project to team up on. Hathaway is set to star in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming feature Verity, which Showalter is helming. Based on the No. 1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover, the current script is written by Nick Antosca. Prior drafts were penned by Hillary Seitz, Angela Lamanna, and Will Honley & April Maguire. Sources say the film will be released in theaters.

Producers for the project include Eat the Cat’s Antosca and Alex Hedlund, Semi-Formal Productions’ Showalter and Jordana Mollick, Somewhere Pictures’ Hathaway, Heartbones Entertainment’s Hoover and Shiny Penny Stacey Sher. Heartbones’ Lauren Levine will executive produce. The film will fall under Semi-Formal Productions’ first-look film deal with the studio.

The story follows, Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer who is on the brink of...

The Match Factory has officially launched sales on Michel Franco’s upcoming movie Dreams at the AFM in Las Vegas, having been attached to the film for the past year.

The second collaboration between Franco and Jessica Chastain, the film is in post-production and Tmf is sharing a first promo with buyers.

Chastain plays socialite and philanthropist Jennifer, whose young ballet dancer lover Fernando leaves everything behind in Mexico to join her in the U.S., narrowly escaping death in the process.

He believes she will support him in his dreams of being internationally recognized and living in the U.S. His arrival disrupts Jennifer’s world, and she will do anything to protect both their futures—and the carefully curated life she’s built.

Isaac Hernández co-stars as the young dancer. He is currently a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre,...

Updated with new category and submissions deadline extension: Brush up on those contenders: The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has revealed the timeline for its 2025 Muahs Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievements for make-up artists and hair stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials and live theater.

The guild also revealed a new Broadway and International Live Theater Award, which will be handed out during the 12th annual ceremony on Saturday, February 15, at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Nominees will be revealed on Tuesday, December 10.

Maestro, Saltburn and Barbie were the big film winners at the 11th annual Muahs in February. Since the modern Muahs Awards began in 2014, one of its marquee film winners for makeup or hair has gone on to claim the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar every year except once. The 2022 Academy Award went to The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which was up for three of...

Andrew Garfield, known for his performances in films such as The Amazing Spider-Man and Tick, Tick… Boom!, has often spoken about his mother, Lynn Garfield, and her battle with pancreatic cancer. In recent interviews, the actor has opened up about the profound impact her illness and eventual passing had on his life, both personally and professionally.

One of the three major Spider-Men to have been cast in recent decades, the loss of his mother in 2019 played a huge role in the actor’s life.

When did Andrew Garfield lose his mom? Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in The Amazing Spider-Man | Credits: Sony Pictures

Andrew Garfield lost his mother, Lynn, to pancreatic cancer in 2019. At the time, he was in the middle of filming The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a biopic where he portrayed televangelist Jim Bakker, according to Metro. Lynn had encouraged Andrew to take the role despite her diagnosis,...

Andrew Garfield is recalling how Jessica Chastain ensured he got to spend time with his mother, Lynn Garfield, before she died of pancreatic cancer in 2019.

The actor recently expressed in an interview with People magazine that he will be forever “grateful” for his The Eyes of Tammy Faye co-star for her help during that difficult time.

“What was amazing was that [Searchlight Pictures’ David Greenbaum] and Jessica rearranged the schedule last-minute — put filming on hold [in North Carolina] for a few days so that I could go back [to England] and be with my mom for 10 days,” he said.

Garfield added that he and Chastain “would have deep conversations because we were both getting to know each other as people. I’m really very grateful for that time with her because it was the time when my mum was really sick and ultimately passed away.”

The two actors starred in the 2021 biopic about the rise, fall and...

Andrew Garfield reflected on how Jessica Chastain made it possible for him to be with his mom before she passed away.

The 41-year-old The Amazing Spider-Man star’s mother passed in 2019 from pancreatic cancer. At the time, he was working on 2021′s The Eyes of Tammy Faye with Jessica.

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“What was amazing was that [Searchlight Pictures’ David Greenbaum] and Jessica rearranged the schedule last-minute — put filming on hold [in North Carolina] for a few days so that I could go back [to England] and be with my mom for 10 days,” Andrew said during a conversation with People.

He said that their costar Vincent D’Onofrio also spoke to him.

“Because he had his own experience with a loss that he wasn’t able to make it back for, he said, ‘Go. You got to go.’ And I was like, ‘Well, I know I’ve got to go and thank you,’” Andrew recalled.

Andrew Garfield recalled in a recent interview with People how Jessica Chastain ensured he would spend time with his mother, Lynn, in England before she died in 2019 of pancreatic cancer. At the time, the two actors were working together in the U.S. on the Tammy Faye Bakker biopic, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” which Chastain also produced.

“What was amazing was that [Searchlight Pictures’ David Greenbaum] and Jessica rearranged the schedule last-minute — put filming on hold [in North Carolina] for a few days so that I could go back [to England] and be with my mom for 10 days,” Garfield said.

Chastain and Garfield starred in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” as televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker, respectively. Based on a true story, the 2021 biopic follows Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker’s rise from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network, as well as a Christian theme park.

Garfield told People about...

As Andrew Garfield opens up about the death of his late mother, he’s praising his The Eyes of Tammy Faye family for helping him through the loss.

The 2x Oscar nominee recently said he was “really very grateful” for his time on the 2021 Tammy Faye Bakker biopic with co-star Jessica Chastain, who ultimately helped him get home to be with his mother Lynn in her final days before dying of pancreatic cancer.

“What was amazing was that [Searchlight Pictures‘ David Greenbaum] and Jessica rearranged the schedule last-minute — put filming on hold [in North Carolina] for a few days so that I could go back [to England] and be with my mom for 10 days,” Garfield told People.

Noting that he and Chastain would frequent the Bakkers’ former Christian theme park Heritage USA together while filming, Garfield added, “We would have deep conversations, because we were both getting to know each other as people. I’m really very...

Andrew Garfield is grateful to have filmed the 2021 film The Eyes of Tammy Faye with Jessica Chastain — especially because Chastain supported him through the death of his mother, Lynn, in 2019. In a new interview, Garfield reveals Chastain helped move around the biopic’s filming days so that he could see Lynn before she died of pancreatic cancer at age 69. “What was amazing was that [Searchlight Pictures’ David Greenbaum] and Jessica rearranged the schedule last-minute, put filming on hold [in North Carolina] for a few days so that I could go back [to England] and be with my mom for 10 days,” Andrew tells People. Garfield says he and Chastain “would have deep conversations” as they got to know each other while filming the movie, for which Chastain won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as televangelist Tammy Faye Messner and Garfield played husband Jim Bakker. “I’m really very grateful for that time with her,...

Mikey Madison is the current Best Actress Oscar frontrunner for her heartbreaking performance in the title role of Sean Baker‘s “Anora.” Her likeliest competitors are two past Oscar winners — Nicole Kidman, 57, for “Babygirl” and Angelina Jolie, 49, for “Maria” — plus six-time nominee Amy Adams, 50, for “Nightbitch” and Karla Sofia Gascon, 52, for “Emilia Pérez.”

At age 25, Madison has one advantage over her main rivals for the award: her youth. Of the 97 winners of this race, almost one-third (32) were in their 20s.

Among those ingenues to take to the stage to collect this coveted prize was Emma Stone, who was 28 when she won for “La La Land” in 2017. Stone was 35 when she picked up a bookend Oscar earlier this year for “Poor Things,” which made her the 35th Best Actress winner in her thirties.

Bracketing Stone’s two wins were five women who defied this bias toward youth: 60-year-old Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once...

The Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling is particularly tough to predict early on because of the complicated system by which the nominees are determined in two stages. First, upwards of 15 members of the branch who attend special screenings cast preferential ballots with the top 10 vote-getters moving on to the second stage (it was a lucky seven till 2021). Those members from the first stage and any other members who either attend screenings of excerpts from these semi-finalists or attest that they have seen them cast preferential ballots and the top five films are nominated; that is up from three in years past. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.)

The award for Best Makeup was introduced in 1981, following an outcry over the lack of recognition for Christopher Tucker‘s groundbreaking work on “The Elephant Man” (1980). Hairstylists began sharing the award with makeup artists in 1993 when “Mrs. Doubtfire” won.

For Elton John and his husband David Furnish, televangelist Tammy Faye has long been a figure of fascination.

The two were drawn to her not only for her over-the-top style, including her bold eye makeup and mannerisms, but also her compassionate interview with pastor Steve Pieters, a gay man living with AIDS, in 1985 on her popular Christian television show Tammy’s House Party. That moment, as well as her complicated legacy intertwined with the rise of televangelism and the downfall of her former husband and their television empire, led John and Furnish to option the rights to turn her story into a West End show and now a Broadway musical.

“I toured America for so long and so often that she became someone I was very, very interested in, and that pivotal moment when she did have the pastor on was equivalent to Princess Diana holding the man’s hand in the Lighthouse in London.

Nicole Kidman could be on the verge of receiving her sixth acting Oscar bid for the upcoming A24 erotic thriller “Babygirl,” directed by Halina Reijn, best known for the indie film “Bodies Bodies Bodies” (2022). With the movie already making its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival and Kidman taking home the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, let’s take a closer look at her five previous Oscar nominations, including her one win.

Her first recognition came for the Baz Luhrmann jukebox musical “Moulin Rouge” (2001), where Kidman portrayed a cabaret performer and courtesan in love with an English poet. It is certainly one of her most physical performances, as she performs extravagant musical numbers and showcases strong emotions as her character Satine suffers through an illness. Kidman won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and was part of the movie’s eight Oscar nominations,...

Saoirse Ronan is gearing up for a fierce Oscar season, with two performances poised to battle for the industry’s top honors.

Variety confirms Ronan will compete in both the lead actress race for the Sundance hit “The Outrun” and supporting actress for her upcoming work in the World War II epic “Blitz” — potentially setting her up as a double acting nominee this awards season. If double-nominated, which is currently projected on Variety Awards Circuit’s predictions, she would be the 13th person and youngest actor to receive two acting nominations in the same year. Seven of the 12 previous actors went on to win for one of their nominated works.

Read: You can see all Academy Award predictions in all 23 categories on one page on the Variety Awards Circuit: Oscars.

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In “Blitz,” which is set to debut as the opening film at the BFI London Film Festival, Ronan plays Rita,...

Actress Jessica Chastain (“Mothers’ Instinct”) poses for the new Beymen Fall/Winter 2024 clothing campaign, with a shaved poodle look, photographed by Rafael Pavarotti:

“…following acting studies at the ‘Juilliard School’, Chastain was signed to a talent holding deal with television producer John Wells.

“She was a recurring guest star in several television series, and took on roles in several stage productions.

“After making her feature film debut in the drama ‘Jolene’ (2008), Chastain had her breakthrough in 2011 with six film releases, including the dramas ‘Take Shelter’ (2011) and The Tree of Life’ (2011).

“She received Academy Award nominations for playing an aspiring socialite in the period drama ‘The Help’ (2011) and a ‘CIA’ analyst in the thriller ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ (2012).

“Greater commercial success came with the science fiction films ‘Interstellar’ (2014) , ‘The Martian’ (2015), and the horror film ‘It Chapter Two’ (2019).

“Chastain received further acclaim for playing strong-willed women in the dramas ‘A Most Violent Year...

It’s an often-touted cliche that a great way to win an Oscar is for a performer to portray a real-life person. Cillian Murphy won Best Actor earlier this year for playing J. Robert Oppenheimer in “Oppenheimer,” Jessica Chastain took home Best Actress in 2022 for her portrayal of Tammy Faye Bakker in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” and Rami Malek won Best Actor in 2019 for his depiction of Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

It’s curious, then, that Best Actress has often been rewarded to performers playing fictional characters rather than real people. Over the past decade, 28 of the 50 nominations have been for original turns, with a whopping seven of those winning out of 10. Here’s the complete breakdown.

Two out of 2024’s Best Actress nominees were nominated for playing fictional people. The others were Annette Bening (“Nyad”), Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), and Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”). However,...

Five additional sexual assault charges were filed against actor Gabriel Olds in Los Angeles this week related to claims brought by three new victims.

Olds, whose credits include Six Feet Under, NCIS and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, was charged one count of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation, one count of sexual penetration by use of force and one count of sodomy by use of force. These bring the total number of charges against him to 12. He had previously been charged for allegedly assaulting three women whom he dated in the Los Angeles area between 2013-2023.

The actor was arrested in early August, following a warrant issued by L.A. Superior Court for $3.5 million. The district attorney charged him with seven counts of sexual assault after a 41-year-old woman alleged that he’d raped her in her L.A. home. After that claim, two other women alleged...

This year’s 2024 TIFF Tribute Award honorees addressed a packed black-tie Fairmont Royal York Ballroom. Sometimes the tributees go on to Oscar glory. For example, after his 2019 tribute, Joaquin Phoenix went on to win Best Actor for “Joker,” Variety Artisan Award winner Roger Deakins landed a cinematography win for “1917,” and after his 2020 tribute, Anthony Hopkins grabbed an Oscar for Best Actor for “The Father” and TIFF tributee Chloé Zhao won Best Director for her movie “Nomadland.” The list goes on. Eventual Best Actress Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain was tributed at TIFF for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” as was Brendan Fraser for his work as an actor on the movie “The Whale.” And tributee Michelle Yeoh went on to win Best Actress for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Many on this year’s list harbor similar hopes. Here are the award winners:

Angelina Jolie, TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media,...

As I sat through the North American premiere of Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Maria Callas at the Telluride Film Festival, which stars Angelina Jolie as the famed opera singer, I couldn’t help but recall a line from Al Pacino in “The Godfather Part III” (1990): “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”

It’s been an awfully long time since Jolie was contending for a statuette — her last acting nomination was for 2008’s “Changeling” and she’s spent the time since then starring in popcorn movies like “Salt” and “Maleficent” or directing films like “Unbroken.” But if you needed a reminder of what a formidable acting talent Jolie is, it’s on display in her transformative portrayal of one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. It’s a chameleonic turn that can best be described as a a kind of cinematic possession.

A new fan-made trailer imagines the return of Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Gates for an action-packed new adventure involving an old ship. The trailer teases Jessica Chastain's introduction as the film's key villain. Though Cage has previously expressed doubt regarding National Treasure 3, the director, producer, and screenwriter have all expressed optimism, and work on the script remains ongoing.

National Treasure 3 gets a new fan-made concept trailer, imagining Nicolas Cage's franchise return and the introduction of a new villain played an Oscar-winning star. Released in 2004, the first National Treasure film introduces audiences to Cage's Benjamin Gates as he quests after a lost treasure. Since the release of the sequel in 2007, interest in a potential National Treasure 3 has remained high, with franchise director Jon Turteltaub recently confirming that development on the project remains ongoing.

Though the real National Treasure 3 seemingly remains in the script stage, a new...

“The Runarounds,” a young adult drama inspired by the real eponymous band, has added six series regulars to its cast. Brooklyn Decker, Maximo Salas, Marley Aliah, Hayes MacArthur, Mark Wystrach and Shea Pritchard are joining on to the cast of the series, created by “Outer Banks” creator Jonas Pate and produced by Skydance Television.

The series stars William Lipton, Axel Ellis, Jeremy Yun, Zendé Murdock and Jesse Golliher of the real-life band —alongside creator Pate’s daughter Lilah Pate and Kelley Pereira.

Per the show’s logline: “The series follows a tight-knit group of young adults from all walks of life who come together to form a rock band the summer after graduating from high school. Against the backdrop of Wilmington, North Carolina, The Runarounds will have to choose between succumbing to the pressures of real life or risking it all to become the greatest band of all time.”

“The Runarounds,...

Gabriel Olds has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting three women whom he dated between 2013 and 2023, with seven felony counts against him.

The 52-year-old actor, who played televangelist Pat Robertson in the 2021 film “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” was arrested on Wednesday and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

The D.A. is recommending he be held on $3.5 million bail. If convicted, he faces a maximum life sentence.

Olds is charged with three counts of forcible rape; one count of rape of an unconscious or asleep person; one count of sodomy by use of force; one count of assault with intent to commit a felony; and one count of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend, or child’s parent, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón.

“The pain and suffering these victims have endured is beyond words and no one should ever experience such a betrayal of trust.

Update, 2:35 Pm: The Eyes of Tammy Faye actor Gabriel Olds is looking at a life sentence if found guilty of raping three women, LA District Attorney George Gascón said today.

Arrested by the LAPD on August 7, the 52-year-old actor is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon out at the Airport Courthouse. The Da’s office will ask the court to order Olds be held on bail of $3.5 million.

Olds is charged with a trio of forcible rape counts in relation to women he had relationships with from 2013 – 2023. Specifically, those charges are one count of rape of an unconscious or asleep person; one count of sodomy by use of force; one count of assault with intent to commit a felony; and one count of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend, or child’s parent.

“The pain and suffering these victims have endured is beyond words and no one should...

Hollywood actor Gabriel Olds, who has appeared in dozens of supporting television and film roles over the past several decades, was arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning and charged with seven counts of sexual assault, according to local authorities, who said they are seeking out other possible victims or witnesses in a series of alleged attacks that date back to over a decade ago.

Olds, 52, was taken into custody in the Crestwood Hills area of Los Angeles after the L.A. Superior Court issued a warrant for his arrest for $3.5 million in July. The district attorney had charged him with seven counts of sexual assault after a 41-year-old woman reported that he’d raped her in her L.A. home; following the woman’s report, two other women came forward to police saying Olds had raped them in incidents dating back to 2013, according to a press release from the LAPD.

Veteran character actor Gabriel Olds was arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday and has been charged with seven felony sexual assault charges, according to the LAPD. The 52-year-old actor who played Pat Robertson in the Jessica Chastain starrer “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” was taken into custody by West Bureau investigators around 9:40 a.m. near the area of Norway Lane and Norman Place in Brentwood. Olds is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations-West Bureau’s Special Assault Section detectives say they are now seeking additional victims and witnesses in a series of sexual assaults in the Los Angeles area that they believe may be tied to Olds, a Yale University alum and son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds.

On January 19, 2023, a 41-year-old woman told police that Olds raped her at her home in Los Angeles. Two additional adult victims subsequently came forward and...

Da’Vine Joy Randolph has already had a great 2024. The performer won an Oscar on her first nomination — taking home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Alexander Payne‘s “The Holdovers.” However, her year just got even better with an Emmy nomination on the cards for her guest role in Hulu’s comedy series “Only Murders in the Building.” Created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman, the comedy series follows Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez as three occupants of a New York City apartment building who are drawn into solving murders due to their love of true crime. The first season was so popular that two more seasons quickly followed, along with a host of A-list actors joining the cast including Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd.

The show has always featured a host of great guest stars, best of all Randolph. She plays Detective Donna Williams, who is...

Actress Jessica Chastain (“Mothers’ Instinct”) poses as the new ‘global brand ambassador’, for Damiani jewelry, photographed by Juankr:

“…following acting studies at the ‘Juilliard School’, Chastain was signed to a talent holding deal with television producer John Wells.

“She was a recurring guest star in several television series, and took on roles in several stage productions.

“After making her feature film debut in the drama ‘Jolene’ (2008), Chastain had her breakthrough in 2011 with six film releases, including the dramas ‘Take Shelter’ (2011) and The Tree of Life’ (2011).

“She received Academy Award nominations for playing an aspiring socialite in the period drama ‘The Help’ (2011) and a ‘CIA’ analyst in the thriller ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ (2012).

“Greater commercial success came with the science fiction films ‘Interstellar’ (2014) , ‘The Martian’ (2015), and the horror film ‘It Chapter Two’ (2019).

“Chastain received further acclaim for playing strong-willed women in the dramas ‘A Most Violent Year’ (2014), ‘Miss Sloane’ (2016), ‘Molly's Game’ (2017) and...

The Eyes Of Tammy Faye The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, 9pm, Film4, Monday, July 15

Jessica Chastain takes centrestage in this biopic, which was a long-time passion project for the star and is based on the cult documentary of the same name. She plays televangelist Tammy Faye, who rose to fame with her husband Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield), after the pair met at bible college. Michael Showalter directs with a deliberately kitsch air that emphasises the fakeness which shrouded the pair's ascent, as they gathered pots of cash from their true believers along the way. Tammy was a natural performer and the film zeroes in on this suggesting that even she might not have truly known where make-believe ended and reality began. That she was also part of a fiction that she may well have been unaware of gives the film a melancholic note. While the biopic structure is a bit inflexible,...