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Exclusive: Mark Johnson is closing in on two decades at AMC. The Oscar-winning film producer behind such movies as Rain Man, The Notebook and The Holdovers started his run at the cable network with Vince Gilligan’s Emmy-winning Breaking Bad. It led to seven other series to date — and more in the works as Johnson has renewed his first-look deal with AMC Studios.

“Why wouldn’t I be at AMC?,” he told Deadline in an interview tied to the new pact. “They truly celebrate the story. You look at the success they’ve had, it is still very much the leader and the benchmark: good writing, good characters and good television.”

Johnson has become a franchise player for AMC. Along with executive producing Breaking Bad and prequel Better Call Saul, he oversees the Anne Rice universe, which spans Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches — both headed into Season 3 after...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

We’re presenting an Ib Technicolor print of Howard Hawks’ Hatari! this Friday and Sunday; Friday also brings Mad Max: Fury Road on 35mm and Agnès Varda’s Lions Love (…and Lies); prints of John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan play on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Bam

The Sealed Soil begins playing in a new restoration (watch our trailer debut).

Museum of the Moving Image

Cassavetes’ Gloria plays Saturday and Sunday; Raiders of the Lost Ark and prints of Hooper and Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior screen in “See It Big: Stunts!“; Troma’s Curse of the Weredeer shows on Saturday, while films by Nadia Shahib are presented on Sunday.

IFC Center

Ran continues screening in a 40th-anniversary restoration; Before Sunrise and Goodfellas play daily; Children of Men, To Live and Die in L.

1940 US six-sheet for The Grapes of Wrath. Art by Thomas Hart Benton.In Henry Fonda for President (2024), Alexander Horwath’s brilliant disquisition on acting, politics, and America, Fonda recalls how he tied himself to a seven-year contract with Darryl F. Zanuck in order to get the lead role in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). “I’d worked with Zanuck several times,” Fonda says, in audio taken from the last interview he gave before his death. “I’d done a lot of films there [at 20th Century-Fox], and he was always after a contract, and I wasn’t interested until Grapes of Wrath, and that was bait. He said, ‘I’m not going to let you play Tom Joad if I can’t control you.’ I did Grapes of Wrath, and I followed it with some of the worst shit I’ve had to do in film.”Horwath’s documentary also shows an...

Dalene Young, the screenwriter whose credits included the coming-of-age comedy-drama Little Darlings, featuring Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol, and the Mary Steenburgen-starring drama Cross Creek, has died. She was 85.

Young died May 9 in Portland, Oregon, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, her husband, director Robert Martin Carroll, announced.

Young received a Daytime Emmy nomination for co-writing the 1999 Showtime children’s special Locked in Silence and landed a Christopher Award and a Humanitas Prize nomination for her work on the 1992 NBC telefilm Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted.

She also wrote the films The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) and Baby Luv (2000) and other telefilms, including 1983’s Will There Really Be a Morning? — based on actress Frances Farmer’s autobiography — 2000’s The Last Dance and 2002’s Miss Lettie and Me.

“In her heyday, she was arguably the top writer of made-for-television movies,” her husband noted.

Young had a long career on the stage as well,...

On Tuesday May 13 2025, Bravo broadcasts The Valley!

Grapes of Wrath Season 2 Episode 5 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Valley,” titled “Grapes of Wrath,” promises to bring plenty of drama and tension as the group’s retreat in Santa Barbara takes a turn for the worse. As the weekend unfolds, emotions run high, leading to conflicts that could change the dynamics of the group forever.

In this episode, Jesse and Michelle find themselves at the center of a heated argument. Their relationship has been shaky, and this confrontation is set to bring all their unresolved issues to the surface. Viewers can expect passionate exchanges that reveal deep-seated feelings and frustrations, making it a must-watch moment for fans of the show.

Meanwhile, Nia faces her own challenges when Zack drops a bombshell. He reveals that some members of the group have been talking behind her back, leaving her feeling blindsided and betrayed.

How would you like to spend a special Mother's Day with your Mom? Here’s a suggestion -- why not sit down for a couple of hours and watch one of these movies that’s all about mothers, both terrific and horrible? Our ranked photo gallery above includes many fine suggestions, all of which feature an Oscar-winning performance by an actress who plays a mother where that role was pivotal to the plot.

Though there are thousands of films in which one character happens to be a mother, you won’t find them all on this list. Besides the fact that these 18 films contain a maternal performance that won an Academy Award, they show a wide array of what it means to be a mother. There's the courageous mother, the inspirational mom, the loving mother and even the monstrous mother. Lead and supporting actresses include Shirley MacLaine, Frances McDormand, Brie Larson,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Museum of the Moving Image

Johnnie To’s The Heroic Trio and To & Ching Siu-tung’s Executioners play in See It Big: Stunts!; John Waters’ Serial Mom screens on Friday and Sunday; Amir Azizi’s Two Dogs shows on Saturday.

Japan Society

A massive Mikio Naruse retrospective, featuring numerous imported 35mm prints, has begun.

Roxy Cinema

Heat shows on Friday; John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath screens on 35mm this Saturday, as does King Vidor’s Stella Dallas; Cinderella plays for free on Sunday, along with a print of All About My Mother.

Film Forum

A restoration of René Clément’s Forbidden Games begins a run (watch our trailer debut); a new 35mm print of 8½ and Mort Rifkin favorite A Man and a Woman continue; The Incredibles screens Sunday morning.

Bam

Haydn Keenan’s Going Down, newly restored, begins a run.

Francis Ford Coppola, one of Hollywood's most important living directors, is set to receive the Life Achievement Award from the AFI in their upcoming ceremony. Taking place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on April 26, the event, titled "The 50th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Francis Ford Coppola," will be televised on TNT, although no official air date has yet been announced. However, what has been confirmed is that the prestigious award will be handed to Coppola by two Hollywood legends who happen to be very close to the director: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

As reported by IndieWire, the American Film Institute selected Coppola to be the next recipient of the prestigious award. Lucas and Spielberg will join other incredibly important guests such as Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Adam Driver, Spike Lee, Al Pacino, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell and Diane Lane,...

Henry Fonda for President. From Fail Safe.“What America needs is a kind of self-demystification,” muses Alexander Horwath in his new documentary, Henry Fonda for President (2024). Horwath, an Austrian film historian and curator, believes this can be accomplished through the medium of Henry Fonda. He sees Fonda, in a decidedly concrete and nonmystical way, as America itself. To prove that thesis, Horwath has filmed an essay, not a biography, and his approach is deliberately eccentric. His own feelings about the US—what its history, principles, and delusions look like to an outsider’s eyes—are at least as much a part of this three-hour film as Fonda is.Horwath, though a deep admirer of Fonda, is not a conventional “fan.” He has no use for “TCM Remembers”–type tropes, even the ones audiences most expect, such as identifying costars; either you recognize John Carradine, Vera Miles, or young Anthony Quinn,...

AMC is making a big investment in more Rolin Jones literary adaptations of American novels. The Interview With the Vampire showrunner will spearhead a new anthology franchise called Great American Stories for the network. Each season will be an adaptation of a different classic from American literature. The first season will be an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Depression-era novel, The Grapes of Wrath. AMC announced Great American Stories on April 7. Here’s everything there is to know so far about the franchise. What is AMC’s Great American Stories? Great American Stories is a new TV franchise produced by AMC Studios and built on iconic American stories, starting with Steinbeck’s timeless novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Each season of the anthology series will be devoted to a different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit. Rolin Jones will adapt The ...

AMC Networks is working on a TV series adaptation of the classic novel The Grapes of Wrath as part of its new Great American Stories anthology series.

The purpose of the new anthology series is to focus on a “different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit.”

The first season of the series will be an adaptation of the classic John Steinbeck novel with Friday Night Lights‘ Rolin Jones set as the writer.

“For more than a year we have been searching for the perfect story to launch our next big television franchise, and we found it in The Grapes of Wrath, which is as timely and relevant today as it was when first published in 1939,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks (via Variety). “Our country is built upon so many unforgettable historic and dramatic moments, tales of bravery and courage,...

AMC Networks’ 2025 upfront presentation on April 9 is set to reveal more details about its upcoming projects, and it seems that fans of American literature might be getting what they want from the new series.

The Great American Stories anthology project was announced some time ago, and we have now received the first details ahead of the presentation that is scheduled for April 9.

Namely, the title of the first great American novel that is going to be adapted has seemingly been revealed, and it is one of the most important works of 20th-century American literature!

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Great American Stories is an anthology project whose each season “will be devoted to a different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit.” And while more information about the project is going to be revealed soon,...

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed early this morning that AMC Networks is working on a new franchise that is “built on iconic American stories.” AMC Studios will be producing a new series based on the famous John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath as part of a new series that is set to be called The Great American Stories anthology. The series will be airing on the AMC channel as well as streaming on AMC’s primary streaming service AMC+. The company stated, “Each season of the anthology series will be devoted to a different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit.”

Rolin Jones, who adapted Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire for the network, will also be helming Grapes of Wrath before “managing the franchise” afterward and “working with acclaimed creative talent connected to individual seasons,” according to AMC. Jones’ resume also...

If you’re one of those people who prefer a good book to the boob tube, AMC is about to make you feel conflicted.

On Monday, AMC Networks announced it is developing a new TV franchise produced by AMC Studios and “built on iconic American stories.” Up first: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

“Each season of the anthology series will be devoted to a different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit,” the company said. The Great American Stories anthology will air on the AMC cable channel and stream on AMC’s primary streaming service (out of a bunch), AMC+.

If you want to Anne Rice-ify classic American literature, who better to adapt the novel than Rolin Jones, who did the same thing with Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (and Friday Night Lights, and Boardwalk Empire)? Jones will take...

AMC is developing a new TV franchise called “Great American Stories,” which will kick off with a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” Rolin Jones (“Interview With the Vampire”) will adapt the book for this initial season and then oversee the franchise, with Mark Johnson — who oversees the Anne Rice Immortal Universe for the network — also onboard to help launch and manage “Great American Stories.” The show will roll out on AMC and AMC+.

Per AMC, each season of the anthology series will be devoted to a different celebrated work, historical moment or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit.

“This is a very big swing for our studio president Dan McDermott. It’s a very serious, longterm commitment to actually tackling either a classic story or a classic moment in time and telling that story with incredible creators,” chief commercial officer Kim Kelleher told TheWrap.

A TV series about the Great Depression not set in the present will launch a new AMC/AMC+ anthology.

AMC Networks announced on Monday that Great American Stories, a new TV franchise produced by AMC Studios and built on iconic American stories, will kick off with an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

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Brooke Shields has already penned multiple memoirs, and now she’s becoming a novelist — or at least playing one on TV.

Acorn TV announced on Monday that Shields will star in Allie & Andi, a new crime drama from creator/writer Robin Bernheim (Star Trek: Voyager, When Calls the Heart). The pair has previously collaborated on Netflix’s Mother of the Bride.

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AMC is paying homage to its roots as the American Movie Classics channel with a potential new franchise in development. Produced by AMC Studios, Great American Stories is an anthology series where each season “will be devoted to a different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit.” The first season will be based on John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath. The announcement was made today ahead of AMC Networks’ 2025 upfront presentation on April 9.

“For more than a year we have been searching for the perfect story to launch our next big television franchise, and we found it in The Grapes of Wrath, which is as timely and relevant today as it was when first published in 1939,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “Our country is built upon so many unforgettable historic and dramatic moments, tales of bravery and courage,...

The Academy Awards likely aren’t that important in the grand scheme of film history, but legendary actor Henry Fonda winning his first competitive Oscar merely five months before dying is perhaps one of those things that makes you think on a cosmic scale. Henry Fonda for President, coming at a moment when it seems like the whole American project is explicitly dying in front of our very eyes, probably isn’t afraid to make you lean that way. It’s hard not to be at least a little moved by this film, even if it eventually comes to suggest a bludgeoning.

Film historian and director Alexander Horwath’s three-hour video essay throws out a grand spectrum of ideas over its perhaps-too-long runtime. But things begin when Horwath cites his own radicalized moment of cinephilia: a family trip to Paris in the summer of 1980, where, as a teen, he catches...

John Fordisn’t only the most iconic filmmaker behind American Western cinema, but the single most successful director when it comes to the Academy Awards; Ford received a record-breaking four wins for Best Director, even though How Green Was My Valley is the only one of his films that also won the award for Best Picture. The Oscars’ affinity for Ford’s work is understandable, as he both crafted a beautiful style of naturalistic visual storytelling and had the bravery to tackle projects that delved into somewhat controversial material. Although his Oscar-winning films The Grapes of Wrath and The Quiet Manhave since been heralded as classics, Ford won his first Best Director Oscar for the thrilling psychological drama The Informer. An edgy study in morality and guilt, The Informer was a brilliant exercise in tension that was radically ahead of its time.

No streaming service does a director retrospective like the Criterion Channel, and March offers two masters at opposite ends of exposure. On one side is Michael Mann, whose work from Thief through Collateral (minus The Keep) is given a spotlight; on the other is Alain Guiraudie, who (in advance of Misericordia opening on March 21) has five films arriving. (2001’s duet of That Old Dream That Moves and Sunshine for the Scoundrels have perhaps never streamed in the U.S. before.) Meanwhile, three noirs from Douglas Sirk are programmed alongside a Lee Chang-dong retrospective that features three new restorations.

Showcases will be staged for Dogme 95, Best Supporting Actor winners, and French Poetic Relaism. Welles’ The Trial gets a Criterion Edition alongside Demon Pond; Horace Ové’s newly restored Pressure makes a streaming premiere alongside spruced-up copies of Amadeus, Love Is the Devil, Port of Shadows, and Burning an Illusion, as...

One of the most influential auteurs of all time, John Ford is an icon of the Golden Age of Hollywood whose filmography has had an invaluable impact on the history of cinema. Ford began his directorial career in 1917, amassing 147 credits as a director throughout his nearly fifty years working in Hollywood. A filmmaker of immense range, Ford excelled at making war movies, comedies, crime dramas, documentaries, adventure films, and period pieces. However, it is Ford's prowess within the Western genre that truly made him a legend. During his career, Ford directed 56 Westerns, many of which rank among the greatest Westerns ever made.

Ford holds the Academy Award record for most wins for Best Director, winning for The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man. Ironically, Ford never won an Academy Award for any of his iconic Westerns. In 1973, Ford became the inaugural recipient...

John Ford was the four-time Oscar-winning director who made over 140 films in his long career, spanning the silent era through the 1960s. Yet how many of those titles are classics? Let’s take a look back at 20 of Ford’s greatest movies, ranked worst to best.

To this day, Ford holds the all-time Oscar record for Best Director victories with four: “The Informer” (1935), “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940), “How Green Was My Valley” (1941), and “The Quiet Man” (1952). Of those, only “How Green Was My Valley” also won Best Picture (Ford also competed as a producer on “The Quiet Man.”).

Interestingly enough, the one Best Director nomination he lost was for the film that had perhaps the most profound impact on his career: “Stagecoach” (1939). The first of many westerns Ford shot in his beloved Monument Valley, it was also the beginning of a long and iconic career with leading man John Wayne,...

After being postponed as a result of the Southern California wildfires that have leveled parts of Los Angeles this past week, the nominations for the Producers Guild Awards were announced today, with the ceremony still scheduled to take place Saturday, February 8 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Facing off this year in the category of Theatrical Motion Picture are the producers for “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown, “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez,” “A Real Pain,” “September 5,” “The Substance,” and “Wicked.”

Named for one of the original producers and studio executives, a man responsible for films such as “The Jazz Singer” and “The Grapes of Wrath,” the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures has long been considered an accurate predictor of Best Picture Oscar winners, with 14 of the past 20 recipients going on to claim the top prize at the Academy Awards, including “Oppenheimer,...

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 Director. But who will win? Here at Gold Derby, thousands of users have been making and updating their 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Director, so let’s take a look at all of the top contenders in our photo gallery below.

These 25 Best Director 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.

There will be five...

If one thing is certain about uncertain times, it’s that people will still try to create art. And it was in the midst of the boredom and artistic desperation induced by Covid-19 lockdown that Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, and Mark Oosterveen came up with the idea to stage a production of Hamlet inside the virtual cityscape of Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto Online.

GTA Online is something of a perfect conduit for what Crane and company attempt to create. After all, the subtext of Grand Theft Auto V’s single-player campaign is the idea of men trying to divine meaning from what they do and what still needs doing. That campaign also represents another level down of Rockstar’s meta-creative reckoning with the monsters they’ve unleashed. That side of GTA 5 has since been utterly eclipsed by its lawless online counterpart, which made an already popular game into...

Kurosawa Akira understood the American western beyond the mythos of the lone warrior. The western is one of the most political of genres, concerned with how resources are dispersed. The struggle in American westerns between various enforcers embodies the tug of war between the working-class and robber barons, and Kurosawa saw in these stories parallels to Japan’s fraught cultural shifts. In the case of 1961’s Yojimbo, and to a lesser extent its sequel, 1962’s Sanjuro, he uses the western template to riff on Japan’s postwar leap into capitalism.

The very first conversation in Yojimbo is between a ronin who calls himself Sanjuro (Mifune Toshiro) and a man who regrets the new generation’s obsession with money. Kurosawa stages this encounter as a comic scene, but the man’s alienation stings, especially as Kurosawa lingers on the rhythmic sound of his wife working her loom for the silk she weaves as a side hustle.

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In his autobiography "Born To Run," Bruce Springsteen wrote how when he was first struggling as a musician, songwriting was the skill he chose to concentrate on refining. His writing was "the most distinctive thing [he] had going," he felt back during the early '70s — as do his legions of fans to this day.

When I listen to Springsteen, I don't just feel a story being told or a mood being conjured, I feel the characters, as if years of inner life are conveyed in a few minutes. Springsteen's 1982 song "Atlantic City" is one of the most cinematic I've ever heard, with a simple but evocative story (a desperate young man in love turning to crime). The verses of "Atlantic City" escalate the hopelessness, but one coupled with a refrain of possibility in the chorus.

"Well, I got a job...

His career spanned more than five decades, and his influence on movie-making remains unparalleled. Still, even the biggest movie lovers may not know his name, John Ford. Often associated with Westerns, Ford made movies across genres, pushing the envelope at every turn. His efforts garnered him four Academy Awards for Best Director, a record that remains in place more than 50 years after his death.

Ford started making movies during the era of silent films but moved to Westerns during the 1930s. Notoriously harsh with his actors, Ford collaborated with greats like John Wayne, Henry Ford, and Maureen O'Hara on several occasions. He made several movies with Wayne, including Stagecoach and The Searchers, often regarded as two of the most influential films in cinematic history.

John Ford's Career Started His Career In Hollywood As An Actor

John Ford wasn't the only member of his family who moved to Hollywood from their family home in Maine.

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On May 16, 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out its first two Academy Awards for Best Director to Frank Borzage ("7th Heaven") and Lewis Milestone ("Two Arabian Knights"). This was the only year the organization distinguished between drama and comedy, but it would not be the last time either of these men took home the top prize in their field. Milestone would win again in 1930 for his heartbreaking adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front," while Borzage, a visual storytelling master whose every film you should absolutely watch, triumphed anew in 1932 with the pre-code classic "Bad Girl."

Throughout the Academy Awards' history, 21 directors have earned more than one Best Director Oscar. 18 have won it twice (Alfonso Cuarón was the most recent filmmaker to join the two-time ranks with "Roma"), while Frank Capra and William Wyler are the only three-time winners.

John Ford's success at the Oscars speaks to the director's reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Over the course of his long career in the industry, Ford worked with many of the most prominent actors in Hollywood from the 1920s to 1960s, pumping out a long list of memorable hits at the box office. Many were born from his collaborations with John Wayne, but it's important to note that his own directorial style, not necessarily Wayne or any other actor, that made Ford the Hollywood legend he is today.

Ford's work represents a very distinctive version of America, and his films often centered on specific themes and genres. Ford is well known for making Westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, among many others. John Ford was also well known for having served in World War II and for...

Ward Bond, a familiar face in the classic Hollywood Western genre, was a frequent collaborator of John Wayne. In fact, he was one of John Waynes most frequent co-stars and he even left Wayne a shotgun in his will. Throughout his career, Bond appeared in numerous films, often portraying rugged, no-nonsense characters, including an astonishing 13 Best Picture nominees an enviable record for any actor.

While Ward Bond may not have been a leading man, his solid performances and distinctive presence made him a valuable asset to any movie he acted in, such as the historically just ridiculous 1956 epic The Searchers. From supporting roles to more substantial parts, Bond's contributions to the genre are sometimes overlooked.

Ward Bond Appeared In 13 Movies Nominated For Best Picture 3 Of These Movies Were Oscar Best Picture Wins

In todays Hollywood landscape, top-billing actors can be more selective with the roles they take. It is hard...

I’ve been told many times that the best way to see America is to drive across it. You can look at as many maps as you want, but there are things about its mammoth scale that can’t be conveyed in two dimensions. While there are a lot of stretches of highway that can help you understand that scale, there is no path more lauded, more steeped in American history and culture, than the one John Steinbeck nicknamed the Mother Road: Route 66.

Stretching from Chicago (where I was born...

The Screen Actors Guild has announced that actress, activist, and icon Jane Fonda will officially be the 60th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award, SAG-AFTRA’s highest tribute, at the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards taking place on Sunday, February 23, 2025.

Given each year to a well-established performer who has contributed to improving the image of the acting profession and has a history of active involvement in humanitarian and public service endeavors, the SAG Life Achievement Award recipient is nominated and voted on by members of the SAG-AFTRA National Honors and Tributes Committee.

In reaction to news of the honor, Fonda said in a press statement, “I am deeply honored and humbled to be this year’s recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award. I have been working in this industry for almost the entirety of my life and there’s no honor like the one bestowed on you by your peers.

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In this interview with Cbr's Kevin Polowy, Hold Your Breath directors Karrie Crouse and Will Joines share why the Dust Bowl era is the perfect backdrop for a psychological horror film. Inspired by Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl documentary and The Grapes of Wrath, they discuss how this bleak period in American history becomes fertile ground for fear and suspense.

Hold Your Breath follows a family struggling to survive the devastating Dust Bowl, battling against not just nature, but the growing terror within. The film stars Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford, Alona Jane Robbins and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in a chilling story of resilience and horror. Catch Hold Your Breath streaming on Hulu starting October 3rd.

Filmed in the freezing Nevada desert under studio pressure, Ford’s 1924 epic was a huge hit. It was the springboard for the director’s astounding career of westerns, idealism and high drama

Had the Oscars been around in 1924, when director John Ford’s epic western The Iron Horse was released, the critically lauded film would have swept up the lot. Though it might be largely forgotten now, this black and white silent movie, which turns 100 on 28 August, marked the point where Jack Ford – a former fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants props guy who also acted a bit, and was first hired as a director by virtue of being available – became master film-maker John Ford, the director many still herald as the greatest of all time. When The Iron Horse was inducted into the Library of Congress film archive in 2011, the official registry citation stated that it “established Ford’s reputation as one of Hollywood...

The 1940s are considered to be a prime decade for classic films and a pivotal period for the Golden Age of Hollywood. The decade delivered signature classics, such as Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and The Grapes of Wrath, which are just a few among many titles that remain to be beloved by generations of cinephiles. Between the rise of film noir and the popularity of screwball comedies, the 1940s brought audiences an assortment of movies that allowed escapism for every kind of movie-goer.

Alfred Hitchcock has long been revered as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. He also holds the unfortunate distinction of being one of Oscar’s biggest losers, with five Best Director nominations and no wins. Still, who needs an Oscar when you’ve impacted world cinema as significantly as “Hitch” has? Let’s take a look back at 25 of his greatest films, ranked from worst to best.

Known as “the Master of Suspense,” Hitchcock cut his teeth directing silent movies in his native England. With films like “The Lodger” (1927), he gained a reputation for helming tense and stylish psychological thrillers. With the invention of sound came an added element to Hitchcock’s work: a sly sense of humor.

He moved to America in 1940 to direct two films that earned Best Picture nominations: “Foreign Correspondent” and “Rebecca,” which took home the top prize. Hitchcock competed for directing “Rebecca,...

Cate Blanchett thinks ‘Borderlands’ is "fun, fun, fun" but acknowledges it probably won’t be remembered as a cinematic classic.While early previews of the action-adventure movie - which is an adaptation of the video game franchise of the same name - haven’t been kind, the 55-year-old actress has insisted the flick is still an entertaining watch, even if it won’t be heralded as one of Hollywood’s biggest masterpieces. She told USA Today: "People say, ‘Oh, that was a flop’ or ‘that was a hit.’ But sometimes the films we hold up as the greatest of all time were not financial or audience successes, yet they’ve become classics."I’m not saying ‘Borderlands’ is a classic! It’s fun, fun, fun, but it’s not ‘Citizen Kane!’"The ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ star described the picture as its "own strange, weird thing" which had a "motley quality...

My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.J.D. Vance’s bestselling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy was posited as an important, even essential book that liberals...

Brian De Palma's 1983 film Scarface is a fat hunk of heavy-duty filmmaking. Showcasing across-the-board talent, it's a film that remains stunningly modern: superlative camerawork, a script by Oliver Stone, and a lead performance by the often magnificent Al Pacino -- the latter of which is as fascinatingly artificial as it is shorn to the cruel, hard bits of human behavior. Even the actor's height seems to have received a liberal trimming.

These three components, a holy trinity of over-the-top artists, only broach the immense amount of work that went into the film, from the supporting cast, crew, and, of course, euro-disco and Edm pioneer Giorgio Moroder. Scarface is a gargantuan, garish epic that spares no expense -- from cars to mansions; even the setting sun itself seems to be under the sway of De Palma's will. In short, here is the rare film that matches its form to...

Screen Rant compiles the definitive list of the best movies of all time, based on critical scores and audience opinions. The list includes a diverse range of films, from classic dramas to animated favorites. These movies are highly acclaimed for their storytelling, performances, and significant contributions to cinema history.

Here are the Best Movies of all time, as evaluated by Screen Rant. Covering Guillermo del Toros Pans Labyrinth to Alfred Hitchcocks classic thriller Rear Window, with cartoon rats, gangsters and superheroes in between, its the perfect list for emerging cinephiles or checking off essential watches.

Deciding the best movies ever takes a balance of objective and subjective preference, which can differ for industry professionals and general viewers. Something as important as the greatest movies of all time requires some advanced thinking, beyond the opinion of a single writer. With that in mind, Screen Rant's ranking collates critical scores and the...

Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) award-winning podcast The Plot Thickens will premiere season five, Decoding John Ford, on June 6, co-produced by Novel. Host Ben Mankiewicz strips back the mythology to reveal Ford's brilliance – alongside the often ugly, uncomfortable truths about his life and movies, asking whether we can ever truly separate art from the artist. This season features scores of never-before-heard archival interviews, including John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Woody Strode, and John Ford himself.

“John Ford is a mercurial figure. Not surprisingly given his stature, the stereotypes about Ford are incomplete,” said TCM Host Ben Mankiewicz. “This is a man defined by contradictions: he revered the military and envied those who served yet bristled at authority; Ford became known as one of Hollywood’s leading conservatives, yet one of his finest films is 1940’s The Grapes of Wrath, one of the most progressive films of classic...

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When Bernard Hill died recently, I wrote about the unique feeling accompanying the real-life death of an actor when that actor has been especially associated with a dramatic death scene onscreen. That feeling is only magnified when it’s been a very long time since the actor performed the demise in question. Juanita Moore, with her character’s funeral in 1959’s “Imitation of Life” being the grandest of any in the movies, only dying in real life in 2013 is an example.

One of the most extreme of these has just occurred, a death that also represents the severing of another critical link to Old Hollywood. Darryl Hickman died this past Wednesday, May 22, at the age of 92. He was a child actor in “The Prisoner of Zenda” and John Ford’s “The Grapes of Wrath” who, upon exiting his teenage years, decided he wanted to become a monk. He entered a...

Darryl Hickman, a child actor in Leave Her to Heaven and The Grapes of Wrath, died at 92 on Wednesday, May 22, his family said. No cause was given.

Hickman appeared in more than 40 films, having been a contract player at Paramount and MGM.

He portrayed the youngest member of the Joad family, Winfield, in John Ford’s 1940 adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, as well as a role as the younger version of Van Heflin’s character in the 1946 noir, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

In 1945’s Leave Her to Heaven, Hickman played Danny, younger brother to Cornel Wilde’s Richard. Danny was disabled by polio and when he comes to live with Richard and his wife, Ellen (Gene Tierney). He drowns by Ellen’s hand in the middle of a lake due to jealousy of Richard’s affection for the boy.

In 1951, he briefly retired from acting to enter a monastery,...

Darryl Hickman, who appeared in such films as The Grapes of Wrath and Leave Her to Heaven as a youngster before becoming a CBS executive in charge of daytime drama and an actor once more, has died. He was 92.

Hickman, who lived in Montecito, died Wednesday, his family announced.

He was the older brother (by three years) of the late Dwayne Hickman, who starred on the 1959-63 CBS comedy The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Darryl appeared with his brother in Captain Eddie (1945) — he played famed fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy — and on three first-season episodes of Dobie as older brother Davey, who came home from college.

In 1951, after appearances in more than 40 movies, Hickman — who had been a contract player at Paramount and MGM — became disillusioned with the business and entered a monastery, though he was back in show business before long.

Hickman had made his first...

You know that feeling of watching someone ice skate for the first time? Or when a little kid finally tries riding their bicycle without training wheels? That's sort of the feeling I get watching Steven Spielberg's movie adaptation of "The Color Purple."

Make no mistake: Spielberg's 1985 film version of Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, which he directed from a script by his eventual "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" co-writer Menno Meyjes, is quite lovely to look at; it's a Spielberg picture so that much goes without saying. Whoopi Goldberg is similarly splendid as the grown-up Celie Harris-Johnson, a queer Black woman living in early 20th-century Georgia who endures horrific abuse at the hands of the men in her life yet finds kindness, support, and love from the Black women around her.

It's not that Spielberg had never tackled a "serious" adult movie before that,...

Henry Fonda earned his first Oscar nomination for his indelible turn as Tom Joad who becomes head of his family of Oklahoma tenant farmers in John Ford’s 1940 masterpiece “The Grapes of Wrath’ based on John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. And 44 years later, his two-time Oscar-winning daughter Jane Fonda had her “Grapes of Wrath” moment in the ABC Mother’s Day movie, “The Dollmaker.”

Based on Harriette Arnow’s 1954 novel of the same name, the three-hour drama set in the final two years of World War II, finds Fonda playing the indomitable Gertie Nevels, a caring, loving and uneducated mother of five. A sharecropper in Kentucky, Gertie dreams of owning her own farm and has saved enough money to buy one. Her husband (Levon Holm) isn’t much of a farmer but is good at fixing machines. When he gets a job as a mechanic at a factory in Detroit,...

I recently wrote about the surprise Best Supporting Actress Oscar win by Anna Paquin for 1993’s “The Piano.” At 11 years of age, she became the second youngest competitive Academy Award recipient in history. She remains the last child Oscar champ, though several have since been nominated.

The record for the youngest competitive Oscar victory by a child (someone age 17 or younger) was actually set two decades before the practically hyperventilating Paquin accepted her statuette. And it was in the same category — Best Supporting Actress. Ten-year-old Tatum O’Neal, daughter of the late Ryan O’Neal (a Best Actor nominee for 1970’s “Love Story”), delivered a performance in “Paper Moon” that was loved enough by the academy to bring her the coveted award. The younger O’Neal played Addie Loggins, a child turned con artist who teams up with a man posing as her father during The Great Depression. She was nominated alongside...