Sebastian Stan’s Trump portrayal is also rewarded after the film had a hard time getting distribution, while Marianne Jean-Baptiste was overlooked.
Category: Actors and Actresses
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Demi Moore Caps a Career Comeback With an Oscar Nomination
She starred in “The Substance,” a body horror-satire that isn’t normally academy fare. But it earned her some of the best reviews of her career.
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Karla Sofía Gascón Makes Oscar History as First Openly Trans Actress to Be Nominated
The “Emilia Pérez” star isn’t the first trans Oscar nominee. Anohni was up for best song, and Elliot Page was a contender before coming out publicly as trans.
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Predicting the Oscar Nominations in a Wild and Wide-Open Season
You can count on films like “Emilia Pérez” and big stars like Timothée Chalamet and Ariana Grande, but this year may hold some surprises, too.
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Against All Odds, a Vegas Theater Scene With a ‘Sense of the Wild West’
Local artists straddle aesthetic and artistic worlds in the land of mega-spectacles and oversize flash.
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Naomi Watts Thinks David Bowie Was Onto Something
“The first album I ever bought was ‘Hunky Dory,’” said the actress and author, “and all those songs, every single one, is amazing.”
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Trump Taps Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight as Hollywood ‘Ambassadors’
The president-elect said the actors would be his “eyes and ears” with the goal of helping the entertainment industry, which he said had lost business to foreign countries.
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With ‘The Brutalist,’ Guy Pearce Makes His Hollywood Return
After roles in “Memento” and “L.A. Confidential” made him famous, Pearce turned his back on Hollywood. At age 57, he’s returned in “The Brutalist.”
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‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Hank Azaria’s Advice for Overcoming Codependency
After his divorce devastated him, Azaria, a well-known voice actor, “dated himself” for a year.
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‘Wicked’ Star Cynthia Erivo Sees Her Characters Through
Whether it’s Elphaba in “Wicked” or Celie in “The Color Purple,” the star doesn’t choose parts “frivolously”; she wants roles that stay with viewers.
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Otto Schenk, Opera Director and Bulwark of Tradition, Dies at 94
A prominent practitioner of the historically grand productions that were once fashionable at the Met, he was especially well known for his stagings of Wagner.
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SAG Award Nominations 2025: ‘Wicked’ Casts a Strong Spell
The box office hit landed five nods, while “The Last Showgirl” received unexpected recognition for stars Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis.