Eddie Redmayne is doing all he can to keep in shape for his role as the Emcee in “Cabaret” — which includes weekly bouts of “torture.” “It’s quite full on,” he told the New York Post exclusively at the show’s opening on Saturday. “There is this amazing man named Greg, who is kind of a … Read more
Tommy Shelby is headed to the big screen. Cillian Murphy is reportedly set to reprise his role as the Irish-Romani gang leader in a “Peaky Blinders” movie, according to Steven Knight, who created the hit British crime drama. “He definitely is returning for it,” Knight, 64, told Birmingham World of Murphy, 47, at the premiere … Read more
Best in show. On Wednesday, Elizabeth Berkley, 49, attended a “Showgirls” screening at the Academy Museum’s David Geffen Theater in LA, where a sold-out crowd of 1,200 gave her a standing ovation. As she addressed the crowd, she said that after she got cast in the 1995 movie, she asked her agent if there was … Read more
I was at the Oscars when director Jonathan Glazer made his speech after winning a little bald man for his Holocaust film, “The Zone of Interest” — and I was furious. Glazer stood up and in front of hundreds of celebrities said, “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of … Read more
She may not have won Best Actress … but she did win Most Loved. Lily Gladstone officially broke her silence after losing the highly coveted Oscar for Best Actress to “Poor Things” lead Emma Stone. “Feeling the love big time today, especially from Indian Country,” the “Killers of the Flower Moon” star posted on X … Read more
She might have “done the thing,” but Jamie Lee Curtis … won the thing. Angela Bassett felt “gobsmacked” after losing the 2023 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress to Jamie Lee Curtis. “I was,” Bassett, 65, told Oprah Winfrey during a recent interview on the Oprah Winfrey Network. “I thought I handled it very well, and … Read more
“It is incredibly difficult to do, even in a film situation because you have to have really clear marks and you’ve got to practice it over and over. It’s militarylike,” Moore added. “So you can imagine how hard it is to do on a live show.” In the end, the troupe only worked with the … Read more
The comeback of live event TV continues. ABC’s telecast of the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday drew 19.5 million viewers, hitting a four-year viewership high, according to Nielsen. The live TV audience was up from last year’s 18.8 million, the third consecutive year that Oscar viewership has grown. The ratings report will prompt cheers at … Read more
The first thing you notice about Cillian Murphy is his eyes. As a young filmgoer, I clocked them in the historical drama “Girl With a Pearl Earring” (2003), when he was romancing Scarlett Johansson. But over the years I came to find myself more and more taken by the rarity of Murphy’s transmutable talent as … Read more
“My name is Greta Gerwig, and I am the co-writer and director of ‘Barbie.’” “(SINGING) I’m just Ken. Anywhere else, I’d be a ten.” “The thing that I can say most about this sequence is that this was the thing that I most knew what I wanted it to be, and no one else knew … Read more
“Queen!” It was a Friday night in January, and Snoop Dogg had just rolled into a cocktail party hosted by Donna Langley, NBCUniversal’s chief content officer and studios chairwoman. His shouted greeting, paired with a jaunty deferential dance, seemed to leave her a bit embarrassed. “We’re here to celebrate filmmakers and films,” Langley told the … Read more
It was the highlight of her evening! Gwyneth Paltrow went viral after posting a video of herself reacting to the 2024 Oscar win of her “Iron Man” co-star Robert Downey Jr. for Best Supporting Actor — in the middle of getting her roots bleached. In a Sunday Instagram Story, the “Seven” actress held up her phone … Read more
Emma Stone’s Best Actress win at the 2024 Oscars prevented “Killers of the Flower Moon” star Lily Gladstone from making history as the first Native American woman to win in the category. Stone, 35, tearfully accepted the award for “Poor Things,” although she, too, appeared stunned by her win. She also suffered a wardrobe malfunction … Read more
Cillian Murphy won the Oscar for best actor for his portrayal in “Oppenheimer” of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who developed the atomic bomb and was haunted by its impact. “For better or for worse, we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world,” Murphy said in his acceptance speech. “So I would really like to dedicate this … Read more
There was getting to be the feeling that “I’m Just Ken” might actually win Best Original Song over “What Was I Made For?” — Billie Eilish’s far superior “Barbie” tune. After all, another Oscar win would make Eilish, 22, and her producer brother, Finneas, 26, the youngest two-time Academy Award winners in history after their … Read more
Last year’s Oscar for best actress went to a universe-hopping laundromat owner who at one point appears to have hot dogs for fingers. Naturally, this year had to go even stranger. The award went to Emma Stone for her performance in the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed “Poor Things” as Bella Baxter, once dead but resurrected by a … Read more
Billie Eilish’s tender, yearning ballad “What Was I Made For?” won for original song, ensuring that “Barbie” will leave the ceremony with at least one Oscar. The soundtrack for Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film became a powerhouse unto itself, loaded with songs by A-list stars. “What Was I Made For?,” which Eilish wrote with her brother, … Read more
The Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov used his acceptance speech for “20 Days in Mariupol,” which won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday, to give an emotional denunciation of the continued invasion of his country by Russian forces. “I’ll be the first director on this stage who will say, ‘I wish I never made … Read more
Lily Gladstone, whose powerful performance in “Killers of the Flower Moon” fueled a rapid ascent to Hollywood stardom, ended a career-defining awards season run at the Oscars, where she was the first Native American person to be nominated for a competitive acting Academy Award. Gladstone played a wealthy Osage woman whose family becomes a target … Read more
Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal in “The Holdovers” of a warm, witty cafeteria matriarch grappling with how to endure the holiday season at a boarding school after the loss of her son. It was Randolph’s first win at the Academy Awards on her first nomination. She was … Read more