From left: Claire Foy, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet and John David Washington are among a slew of actors hoping their multiple performances in 2018 increase their awards chances Sometimes an actor can knock a single performance out of the park so definitively that an Oscar nomination or even a win can seem inevitable. Sometimes merely the role and the casting …
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“Sometimes they say I’m mad but, a grain of madness is the best of art.” From Academy Award-nominated director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) comes an eclectic and subversive take on the life of famed painter Vincent van Gogh starring two-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe as the troubled artist. The trailer reveals the film’s unconventional style …
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Writer/director Dan Fogelman has spent the last two years making viewers care and cry on the small screen with his Emmy-winning hit series This Is Us. He returns to the big screen with his second feature, Life Itself, which looks to extract emotions and tears as well. The film centers on a couple (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) as they …
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Operation Finale is a true story follows the 1960 covert mission of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac) as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann (Oscar winner Ben Kingsley), the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps. The film is directed by Chris Weitz (About a …
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CBS Films has picked up the U.S. distribution rights to At Eternity’s Gate, the Julian Schnabel-directed Vincent Van Gogh biopic starring Willem Dafoe. The film explores Van Gogh’s short but explosive painting career as well as his spiral into depression that end in the celebrated artist taking his own life. The film also stars Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen (earning raves …
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From Dan Fogelman, the creator of the Emmy and Screen Actors Guild-winning television series This Is Us comes his second feature film, the sure to be tear-inducing Life Itself. The film centers on a couple (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) that lead a multi generational love story spanning both decades and continents, from the streets of New York to the Spanish …
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Academy Awards producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd have announced 10 more presenters for the 90th Oscars® telecast. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Oscars will air live Sunday, March 4, on the ABC Television Network. The additional presenters include Gal Gadot, Mark Hamill, Armie Hammer, Oscar Isaac, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gina Rodriguez, Eva Marie Saint, Wes Studi, Kelly Marie Tran and …
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Fresh off the Toronto and Venice Film Festival announcements, Paramount has debuted the first look and trailer for George Clooney’s Suburbicon starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Josh Brolin and Oscar Isaac. It seems that Clooney must have really liked his time with the Coen brothers in Hail, Caesar! as Suburbicon, which was co-written by Clooney, his longtime producing partner Grant …
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The 2016 Toronto International Film Festival® has added two Galas and 14 Special Presentations to its highly anticipated Galas and Special Presentations lineups, including new films from Oscar Isaac (The Promise) and Bryan Cranston (Wakefield and In Dubious Battle, directed by James Franco). Both The Promise and Wakefield have been in the Oscar conversation for the actors but currently neither film …
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As promised, part two of our final Emmy predictions find their way into Emmy Podcast #15 (check out Emmy Podcast #14 here) where we talk exclusively about the incredibly competitive Limited Series acting categories, most especially just how many acting nominations can The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story get and will Fargo and/or American Crime be left in its …
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