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For the second straight year, Netflix live-streamed the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The experience went extremely well, proving once again that the streamer is getting ever-better at such events. Maybe the SAG Awards won't bring the same viewing numbers as an NFL game, but the ceremony is just as worthy of a watch.

Netflix also came away with two winners on Sunday. Emilia Pérez missed out on Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, but Zoe Saldaña won for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. That trend hopefully will continue when the Oscars are held in March. She is worthy of another win.

Jessica Gunning won for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for her work in Baby Reindeer. She was also worthy of the victory, and won an Emmy in the same kind of category for the role.

The actors have weighed in on the 2025 Oscar race — and it's potentially game-changing.

Sunday’s 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards saw several of this year’s key competitors face off one last time before the Academy Awards on March 2 and the ceremony delivered more than a few surprises. Perhaps none was more significant than Timothée Chalamet winning Best Actor for his turn as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown in an upset over the awards-season favorite, The Brutalist star Adrien Brody. Or maybe it was Conclave thwarting high-powered rivals Anora and Wicked to land the night's biggest prize of best film ensemble.

Wicked came into the evening with a record-tying five nominations for film categories but failed to win anything. Anora, after a dominating run in precursor awards in recent weeks, finished 0-for-3.

Meanwhile, Demi Moore re-established herself as the Oscar frontrunner for Best Actress for The Substance after holding...

The Screen Actors Guild Awards were handed out Sunday at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in a ceremony that was livestreamed on Netflix.

FX’s Shōgun won for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series, as stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai grabbed gold for Best Drama Actor and Actress. Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building took home the award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series, and Martin Short walked away with Best Comedy Actor. Hacks’ Jean Smart won for Best Comedy Actor and Actress. Meanwhile, The Penguin’s Colin Farrell and Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning won...

The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards delivered the expected TV nominees on Wednesday and some truly wild surprises. Emmy and Golden Globe champ Shōgun led the way with five nominations, including for stunt ensemble, as it is on track to complete its awards season sweep. Fellow Emmy and Globe winner Hacks nabbed two nominations in comedy, while top rival The Bear scored four. But then there were not one but two individual nominations for Kathy Bates, a Bridgerton resurgence, and a Squid Game shutout. Here are nine takeaways from Tuesday’s nominations.

1. Bridgerton is back

The regency hit scored two nominations, for drama ensemble and actress for Nicola Coughlan, neither of which were forecasted in the odds. It was in 18th place in ensemble, and Coughlan was in 12th. In hindsight, we should’ve taken Bridgerton way more seriously — and perhaps we would’ve had it aired in the fall instead of the spring and summer.

Maybe Kathy Bates won’t have to rip up her next acceptance speech.

Bates just earned two more SAG nominations for the CBS freshman series Matlock and the Max film The Great Lillian Hall — her ninth and 10th nomination of her career. She won two Sags in 1997 and 1999 for The Late Shift and Primary Colors, respectively. She’s already an Oscar winner for Misery and a two-time Emmy winner for American Horror Story and Two and A Half Men.

Bates received a 2025 Golden Globe nomination for playing Madeline Matlock in the clever update of the old ’80s series that starred Andy Griffith. Video of the 76-year-old actress went viral on Sunday after she was filmed ripping up her acceptance speech after Shōgun’s Anna Sawai took the Globe for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series.

Bates was the only actress to receive a SAG nomination for a drama on broadcast TV.

Demi Moore and Adrien Brody, as well as Ralph Fiennes and Karla Sofía Gascón are among lead acting nominees announced by SAG Awards on Wednesday morning.

Lead female acting nominees include Cynthia Erivo, a lead in Wicked which leads the way on five nominations, Pamela Anderson for The Last Showgirl, and Mikey Madison for Anora.

Brazil’s Fernanda Torres, a Globe winner last Sunday for I’m Not Here, did not make the cut. Other omissions include Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Denzel Washington for Gladiator II, Angelina Jolie for Maria,and Golden Globe winner Sebastian Stan for A Different Man.

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Kathy Bates… and Kathy Bates are among the nominees for the 2025 SAG Awards, announced on Wednesday morning.

All told, FX’s Shōgun leads the TV pack with five total nominations, followed by FX/Hulu’s The Bear (with four nods) and HBO’s The Penguin (three).

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“The Great Lillian Hall” reunites three “American Horror Story” actresses to deliver a tour de force in TV movies. Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, and Lily Rabe all star in this HBO TV Movie, directed by Michael Cristofer, that follows the careers of fictional Broadway actress Lillian Hall.

It’s Lange who plays Lillian and the veteran actress has turned in another masterclass in acting. She has always been a commanding screen presence and that doesn’t change here as she depicts a legendary actress as a triumph on stage but a nervous wreck in rehearsals while she battles with early dementia. It’s always a treat watching icons play icons (Lange did this again in “Feud: Bette and Joan”) and while Lillian is fictional, the impact is no less felt. Critics agree, this could be Lange’s greatest performance yet.

Caryn James (The Hollywood Reporter) observed: “Jessica Lange is perfection...

(This Interview Contains Spoilers About The HBO Film)

For Mac Quayle, composing the score for the HBO film project “The Great Lillian Hall” proved something of a departure from his most recent projects, which have included nine seasons of the FX anthology “American Horror Story,” the Fox/ABC procedural “9-1-1” and the Netflix drama “Leave the World Behind.” “Lillian Hall” tells the story of a legendary Broadway star (Jessica Lange) fearfully facing the ticking clock of time while doggedly working to defy it following a dementia diagnosis. In talking to director Michael Cristofer about the music, “we recognized this is an intimate story about Lillian Hall and this sudden dementia that she’s experiencing,” Quayle recalls. “We thought that (when) it needed some music that it shouldn’t be too big, it needed to have a little more intimate sound. So we chose as our palette nine strings and piano,...

On May 31, 2024, “The Great Lillian Hall” premiered on HBO to predominantly positive reviews from critics. In the film, Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Jessica Lange plays the titular character, a Broadway star battling dementia as she prepares for a big role on the Great White Way. The movie reunites Lange with her “American Horror Story” co-stars Kathy Bates and Lily Rabe, who play Lillian’s assistant and daughter, respectively. Pierce Brosnan and Jesse Williams also star.

The HBO movie is loosely inspired by actress Marian Seldes, who was the aunt of the film’s screenwriter, Elisabeth Seldes Annacone. Michael Cristofer directed the movie for HBO Films. Read our full review round-up below.

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Caryn James of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “Jessica Lange is perfection as the fictional actress Lillian Hall, known for decades as...

Jessica Lange shines in The Great Lillian Hall, receiving praise for her award-worthy performance in this HBO original movie. The film is inspired by the life of stage actress Marian Seldes, blending real-life events with a compelling fictional narrative. The Cherry Orchard, a play by Chekhov, plays a significant role in the film, adding depth to the story of Lillian Hall's dementia.

In The Great Lillian Hall, the titular character is a legendary Broadway actress who gets diagnosed with dementia while rehearsing to open a major production. Jessica Lange stars as Lillian Hall, delivering a brilliant performance as a woman whose mood and mental state changes throughout the film. With Lily Rabe and Kathy Bates also featured, the HBO movie is an American Horror Story reunion that was 10 years in the making. Other cast members include Pierce Brosnan, Jesse Williams, Michael Rose, and Cindy Hogan.

The Great Lillian Hall...

In “The Great Lillian Hall,” Jessica Lange plays a veteran theater actress — a legend of the Broadway stage — who is always putting on airs, reciting bits from her favorite roles, and carrying on in the tradition of fabled actresses who get known for playing characters like Blanche DuBois because they’ve actually got a lot of Blanche in them. (They believe their own illusions.) Yet just because Lillian Hall is a flamboyant grand dame doesn’t mean that she’s not showing you who she is. Lange, a beauty at 75, has a face that has only grown more expressive with the years. In “The Great Lillian Hall,” that face is a map of emotion we read. Even when Lillian is being deceptive (even when she’s deceiving herself), the majesty of her feelings shines through.

There’s a moving scene in which she’s seated on a porch with her adult daughter,...

Depending on how Russian your sense of humor is, Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” could be classified as either the darkest of comedies or a tragedy that sometimes manages to be mildly humorous. The play follows a past-their-prime family of Russian aristocrats who are forced to sell their eponymous orchard, which they spent most of their lives ignoring and neglecting. But once it’s time to actually part ways, they become overwhelmed by morose nostalgia as they struggle to let go of something that they assumed would always be there. It’s both a brilliant satire of wealth-induced decadence and a somber exploration of how humans struggle to say goodbye at the ends of their eras.

So it’s fitting that, whether she knows it or not, Lillian Hall’s (Jessica Lange) upcoming turn as Madame Lyubov Andreievna Ranevskaya in “The Cherry Orchard” will be her final performance. Michael Cristofer...

Welcome to Emmy Experts Typing, a weekly column in which Gold Derby editors and Experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the Emmy race — via Slack, of course. This week, as the eligibility period closes Friday, we discuss two last-minute limited/TV movie hopefuls.

Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! We’re at the end of 2024 Emmys eligibility, and not without some last-minute entries. This week, Netflix added “Eric” to its stable of limited series contenders — joining fellow May release “A Man in Full,” as well as “Ripley,” “Griselda,” “Painkiller” and presumed frontrunner “Baby Reindeer.” Meanwhile, over at HBO, “The Great Lillian Hall” is here, a TV movie that puts Jessica Lange in contention for Best Limited/TV Movie Actress. It’s funny: Neither of these projects feels like they connected with critics and the late drops are always dicey when there are too many shows to watch in the first place.

I am a sucker for movies about Broadway and those who spend their lives in the theatre. Of course the crown jewel of the genre is the Oscar-winning All About Eve, but there are so many others including 1933’s Morning Glory which won a young Katherine Hepburn her first Academy Award, as well as its rarely seen remake, 1958’s underrated Stage Struck. Ginger Rogers did a good one, too: Forever Female. The list goes on and on and now includes a stellar new entry, The Great Lillian Hall which gives the great Jessica Lange a challenging role worth her talents.

Premiering on HBO May 31, just barely under the wire for Emmy consideration, Lange’s performance as a stage legend facing dementia should send chills down the spine of any other contenders for Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie this season. This veteran star simply knocks it out of the park.

"The play is my life! And no one is going to take that from me!" HBO has unveiled an official trailer for The Great Lillian Hall, a brand new HBO Original Movie set for a streaming debut on Max next week. It'll be out to watch on May 31st, which is just around the corner. When beloved Broadway actress Lillian Hall (Jessica Lange) starts forgetting her lines, she must reckon with the sacrifices she made for her career. Hall, a beloved Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in the rehearsals her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most. The illustrious Jessica Lange star as Lillian Hall in this, joined by Kathy Bates as Edith Wilson, Lily Rabe as Margaret Tanner, Jesse Williams as David Flemming, and Pierce Brosnan as Ty Maynard. While...

Jessica Lange is perfection as the fictional actress Lillian Hall, known for decades as a revered star of the theater. During rehearsals for her starring role in The Cherry Orchard, she is having unusual difficulty memorizing her lines, and before long learns that the cause is early dementia. Despite that ominous theme, The Great Lillian Hall is a lovely tribute to life in the theater, with all its personal compromises, and a showcase for Lange, who deftly shows the character as a vulnerable woman and also displays the distinct style of Lillian the bravura actress.

Lillian is such a star that she is the key to the box office in the Broadway revival of Chekhov. The film’s trajectory takes her through rehearsals, and in and out of her personal life as she grapples with her diagnosis, in a plot driven by the question of whether she’ll make it to opening night.

Jessica Lange may have hinted at her own retirement for years, but the legendary actress is actually playing it out onscreen with her latest film “The Great Lillian Hall.”

Lange stars as the titular (fictional) iconic stage actress who grapples with her own legacy amid a dementia diagnosis. Her daughter (Lily Rabe) struggles with separating her mother Lillian from her Broadway fame, while Kathy Bates, Jesse Williams, and Pierce Brosnan round out the cast.

“I have lived my entire life in a place that creates illusions,” Lange says in the trailer as Lillian. Yet upon her cognizant decline, what’s real anymore, anyway?

“The Great Lillian Hall” is directed by Michael Cristofer. The official synopsis reads: “As beloved Broadway star Lillian Hall (Lange) pours her heart, soul, and time into preparing for her next big role, she finds herself blindsided by confusion and forgetfulness. Battling against all odds to make it to opening night,...

A new trailer for The Great Lillian Hall has been released, giving audiences their first taste of the upcoming dramatic story about a legendary performer who might lose everything during the final stage of her career. The movie will follow the titular character, portrayed by Jessica Lange, as she prepares to deliver one of the most important performances of her career. After building a trajectory for herself that earned her the title of "First Lady of American Theater", Lillian Hall is looking to delight audiences once again with the undeniable force of her talent. However, everything will change for the artist overnight.

The Last of Us won’t be back until 2025, but HBO on Wednesday gave fans a glimpse of what their favorite post-apocalyptic pair will be up to in Season 2.

The first photos from The Last of Us‘ sophomore season show Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie looking a little older (and maybe worse for wear) when the show returns. The images were released as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s annual upfronts presentation in New York City. Check out the shot of Joel at the top of this post, and Ellie below.

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Cognitive decline is waiting in the wings for The Great Lillian Hall in the trailer for the HBO’s star-packed new film.

The premium cable network shook up the 2024 Emmy race with its 11th hour acquisition of the showbiz-themed film starring Jessica Lange as an iconic Broadway diva facing the ultimate test.

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Wallace Beery from Pancho Villa to Long John Silver: TCM schedule (Pt) on August 17, 2013 (photo: Fay Wray, Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa in ‘Viva Villa!’) See previous post: “Wallace Beery: Best Actor Oscar Winner — and Runner-Up.” 3:00 Am The Last Of The Mohicans (1920). Director: Maurice Tourneur. Cast: Barbara Bedford, Albert Roscoe, Wallace Beery, Lillian Hall, Henry Woodward, James Gordon, George Hackathorne, Nelson McDowell, Harry Lorraine, Theodore Lorch, Jack McDonald, Sydney Deane, Boris Karloff. Bw-76 mins. 4:30 Am The Big House (1930). Director: George W. Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Leila Hyams, George F. Marion, J.C. Nugent, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz, Claire McDowell, Robert Emmett O’Connor, Tom Wilson, Eddie Foyer, Roscoe Ates, Fletcher Norton, Noah Beery Jr, Chris-Pin Martin, Eddie Lambert, Harry Wilson. Bw-87 mins. 6:00 Am Bad Man Of Brimstone (1937). Director: J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Wallace Beery, Virginia Bruce, Dennis O’Keefe. Bw-89 mins.

Psycho. The Birds. Rear Window. North By Northwest. Every film geek knows the major works of Alfred Hitchcock, but have you ever seen 1927's The Ring? It's Hitchcock's fourth film, and while it's never quite been considered a classic, the silent film was an influence on Martin Scorsese when he directed Raging Bull awhile back. The Ring stars Carl Brisson and Ian Hunter as two boxers who battle for the love of the same woman, played by Lillian Hall Davis. For those not heading to Comic-Con this year, you can check this out for free since the film is getting the online live-stream treatment on Saturday, July 14th. More below! Here are a few stills from Alfred Hitchcock's influential film The Ring: A website called The Space is hosting the live-stream, and you can bookmark the page right now to prepare for the upcoming show. But here's the catch.

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