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Connie Nielsen has been confirmed to be joining the cast of MGM+'s Robin Hood show. Her role in the upcoming television series has also been revealed.

Variety broke the news that Nielsen will star in the Robin Hood series as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Her character description reads: "One of the most powerful women in history, Eleanor is a queen, a strategist, and a force of nature. A ruler who has outmaneuvered kings and led crusades, she sees the world for what it is — a battlefield." Robin Hood was greenlit back in September 2024 as a ten-episode series, with production recently starting in Serbia.

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While many of the cast's roles remain a secret, it's been shared that Sean Bean will star as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

The Academy Awards have been handing out a Best Actress trophy since the very first ceremony in 1928. Janet Gaynor for a combo of 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans was the first recipient for his leading roles.

Since then, only one woman has won the category four times: Katharine Hepburn for Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond. Next with three is Frances McDormand. The ladies with two lead wins have included Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Glenda Jackson, Vivien Leigh, Luise Rainer, Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, and Hilary Swank. Streep holds the record of most lead nominations at 17.

The oldest winner was Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy) at age 80. The oldest nominee was Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) at age 85. The youngest winner was Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser...

“Anora” director Sean Baker has won the DGA Award for Theatrical Feature, gaining significant Oscar momentum ahead of final voting.

With its surprising best picture win at the Critics Choice Awards — its only prize of the night — the $6 million dramedy, which claimed the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, has solidified itself as a major contender in an unpredictable awards season.

“I feel like the luckiest guy in the world to be able to do thing I knew I wanted to do since I was 5 years old,” Baker told the crowd Saturday at the conclusion of the 77th annual DGA Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton.

A wide-open year has unfolded with plenty of twists and turns, including campaign controversies and surprising Oscar snubs like DGA nominee Edward Berger and recent Critics Choice shocking victor Jon M. Chu for “Wicked.”

Legendary filmmaker Ang Lee, a two-time Oscar-winning director...

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

These 25 Best Actress 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.

The five most recent...

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has revealed its nominees for the upcoming 2025 awards, and it’s a high-stakes Oscar season, proven by the notable snubs and surprises. The five filmmakers contending for the prestigious DGA Award for Directorial Achievement in Feature Film are the following:

Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez” Sean Baker for “Anora” Edward Berger for “Conclave” Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist” James Mangold for “A Complete Unknown”

It’s a category entirely of first-time DGA nominees. Most notably, this is significant for Mangold, who nabbed the first of his career for the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” which continues to pick up momentum coming after its haul at the SAG Awards noms. After helming films like “Walk the Line” (2005), “Logan” (2017) and “Ford v Ferrari” (2019), this piece of notoriety seemed long overdue.

This is also huge for German auteur Berger, who missed out on a director nom...

Golden Globe Awards 2025 (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The 82nd Golden Globe Awards Ceremony is officially around the corner, and the buzz is increasing. Scheduled for this coming Sunday, Hollywood’s favorites—from veteran faces to those of the younger generation—are gearing up to take the stage as presenters at the first significant event of the movie and television industries in 2025.

Notably, former Golden Globe winners such as Andrew Garfield were recognized for their role in Tick, Tick… Boom! and Colin Farrell, who succeeded Garfield in the same category for The Banshees of Inisherin the following year, are slated to present awards alongside many others.

Check out the presenters and their Golden Globe-winning performances:

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Ben Affleck Revisits Hypnotherapy In Bold 2025 Effort To Quit Smoking For...

Meryl Streep is the best of the best.

Her performance in Sophie’s Choice (1982) has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actress winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts, critics, and editors, who ranked all 97 movie champs.

Diane Keaton ranked second for Annie Hall (1977), with Jodie Foster following in third for The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972) and Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) rounded out the top five.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actress winners is Mary Pickford for Coquette (1929). Just above that film in the rankings are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), Loretta Young for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947), and Marie Dressler for Min and Bill (1931).

Another recent Gold Derby poll of cinema experts declared The Godfather (1972) as the greatest Best Picture Oscar winner of all...

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The time between Christmas and New Year’s is a bit of a vacant blur. But Anthony Hopkins will always have something to celebrate, as December 29th marks his date of sobriety. And to mark his 49th year, Hopkins has shared a lovely video on his Instagram account.

Now 86, Anthony Hopkins took to social media (via Entertainment Weekly) to share his anniversary. “Well, 49 years ago today, I stopped [drinking]. I was having such fun, but then I realized I was in big, big trouble because I couldn’t remember anything and I was driving a car, drunk out of my skull…I phoned up a group of people like me — alcoholic — and that was it. Sober. I’ve had more fun in these 49 years than ever.”

Forty-nine years of sobriety for Anthony Hopkins would put that day in 1975, a time when the legendary actor had already been...

The performance by Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice (1982) has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actress winner ever. The results are from a recent Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts and editors, who ranked all 97 movie champs.

Ranking in second place is Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977). Following in third place is Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Rounding out the top five are Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), and Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actress winners is Mary Pickford for Coquette (1929). Just above that film in the rankings are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), Loretta Young for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947), and Marie Dressler for Min and Bill (1931).

Another recent poll had The Godfather (1972) declared as the greatest Best Picture Oscar winner of all time (view...

Earning an Academy Award is one of the greatest achievements an actor can attain in Hollywood, and several performers have managed this feat at incredibly advanced ages. While many may feel Hollywood is a young person's game, certain actors have consistently done astounding work for decades and have earned awards into their 70s, 80s, and even 90s. The oldest Academy Award winners include some of the greatest actors who ever lived.

While there are plenty of incredible actors who have shockingly never received an Academy Award, these performers show that it’s never too late to achieve that esteemed honor. From the unmatched achievement of Katharine Hepburn’s four Oscar wins at age 74 to recipients who were inching close to 100 years old, while many have criticized the Academy’s biases, these honors prove actors don’t let ageism stand in the way of Oscar greatness. These were the oldest actors to ever win Academy Awards.

Following its very successful crowdfunding campaign, Amicus Productions was resurrected, with plans to develop a brand new horror anthology film, the first from Amicus since 1974's Beyond the Grave. In the tradition of films like Tales From the Crypt and Asylum, In the Grip of Terror has been in production, and we have first-look photos from the film's The One-Way Ward segment, starring Jane Merrow, Megan Tremethick, Jonathan Hansler, and Chris Capaldi:

"Amicus Productions, the iconic British horror brand synonymous with classic anthology films, proudly announces the participation of legendary screen actress and Golden Globe nominee Jane Merrow (The Lion in Winter, The System) in its highly anticipated return to the genre. Merrow stars as Matron Margaret, a commanding figure in the chilling hospital-set segment The One-Way Ward, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s horror short story Cool Air.

Joining Jane Merrow is Megan Tremethick (Ghost Crew, The Slave and...

Katharine Hepburn is one of the most well-loved and celebrated actors of all time, both by fans and critics, and her long list of Oscars awards and nominations is proof of this fact. Hepburn was known for her vivacious personality both on and off-screen, as she often played very strong and independent women. This personality made her an icon, and it helped her to continue to push the boundaries in her career. It is no wonder that Katharine Hepburn's movies led her to become one of the most awarded performers.

Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1907, and she began acting in 1928 after becoming interested in acting during college. She began her career in the theater before transitioning to Hollywood, where she found greater success with her first film, A Bill of Divorcement. Hepburn's acting career spanned seven decades, and she starred in some of the most well-known movies from the golden age of Hollywood,...

Denzel Washington is on his way to making Oscar history for his performance as a former slave who plots to be the emperor of Rome in Paramount Pictures’ “Gladiator II,” the latest from director Ridley Scott. Right now, he has two Academy Awards to his name for “Glory” (1989) in Best Supporting Actor and “Training Day” (2001) in Best Actor. If he were to prevail for “Gladiator II” in early 2025, he would join an exclusive list of seven other people to win at least three times in the acting categories.

Here are the actors who have achieved this important Oscars milestone:

Katharine Hepburn (4)

Won Best Actress for “Morning Glory” (1933), “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967), “The Lion in Winter” (1968), and “On Golden Pond” (1981)

Frances McDormand (3*)

Won Best Actress for “Fargo” (1996), “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017), and “Nomadland” (2020). *She also has a fourth Oscar for producing “Nomadland.”

Meryl Streep (3)

Won Best Actress for “Sophie’s Choice...

TheWrap secured seven first place wins at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, including a Best Entertainment Blog win for founder, CEO and editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman’s “Waxword.”

TheWrap as a whole also won second place in the category of Best Entertainment Website, Online.

Other first place winners included Alexei Barrionuevo, Adam Chitwood, Matthew Creith, Jeremy Fuster, Natalie Korach, Andi Ortiz and Drew Taylor. Barrionuevo and Korach took home the honor for Best Music Feature, Online for their deep dive into the aftermath of the Hamas attack on the Supernova music festival, “Death in the Desert: When Hamas Came to an Israeli Rave, Friends Perished.” The piece was described as “A compelling and moving account of a music festival and its tragic aftermath through the words of those affected” by one of the organization’s judges.

In the Hard News category as it related to TV and streaming, Fuster won...

In the near-century history of the Oscars, there have only been three occasions where an actress has won the Best Actress award for portraying historical queens. Movies where a female monarch from history is put front-and-center have been a popular avenue explored again and again by Hollywood for decades.

Over the years, Hollywood films retold the stories of Catherine the Great, Cleopatra, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Victoria, and more numerous times. And though this is a trend that the industry has yet to abandon, the list of actresses to receive the highest honor for that performance is considerably short. Interestingly, there have only been three times in Oscar history that an actress has won the Best Actress award for portraying a famous queen.

Katharine Hepburn Won An Oscar In 1968 For Portraying Eleanor Of Aquitaine Katharine Hepburn Starred In The Lion In Winter

In one of the best movies of her career,...

Since its creation nearly a century ago, the Oscars has seen many talented actors receive nominations across the Academy's different acting categories. The Oscars are recognized as the most coveted awards in the movie industry. Since its first award ceremony in 1929, many actors have had the honor of winning the Oscar for their acting abilities in various acclaimed movies.

The Academy has four different categories where a person's acting abilities are recognized: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Dozens of actors, such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr, received several nominations before ever winning an Oscar. Others have a mix of nominations and wins between all four of the available categories.

Peter O'Toole Received 8 Academy Award Nominations Across 4 Decades

Irish-British actor Peter O'Toole holds the distinctive record of having the most Oscars nominations, without any wins. He made his film debut in the 1962 epic movie Lawrence of Arabia,...

Mikey Madison is the current Best Actress Oscar frontrunner for her heartbreaking performance in the title role of Sean Baker‘s “Anora.” Her likeliest competitors are two past Oscar winners — Nicole Kidman, 57, for “Babygirl” and Angelina Jolie, 49, for “Maria” — plus six-time nominee Amy Adams, 50, for “Nightbitch” and Karla Sofia Gascon, 52, for “Emilia Pérez.”

At age 25, Madison has one advantage over her main rivals for the award: her youth. Of the 97 winners of this race, almost one-third (32) were in their 20s.

Among those ingenues to take to the stage to collect this coveted prize was Emma Stone, who was 28 when she won for “La La Land” in 2017. Stone was 35 when she picked up a bookend Oscar earlier this year for “Poor Things,” which made her the 35th Best Actress winner in her thirties.

Bracketing Stone’s two wins were five women who defied this bias toward youth: 60-year-old Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once...

Timothy Dalton is a British actor most famous for playing James Bond in the late 1980s, appearing in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and got his start on the stage, before making his film debut with a supporting part in 1968's The Lion in Winter. Larger roles followed, notably in Wuthering Heights and Flash Gordon, before he found international stardom as 007. Dalton was underrated as 007, with a darker and more restrained take on the character in comparison to the more lighthearted installments that had preceded him.

Denzel Washington has consistently delivered standout performances — including as a director in recent years! — across his decades-long career. He already has two Oscars to his name and could be on his way to a third Academy Award with his role in Ridley Scott‘s “Gladiator II.”

This follow-up to the 2000 Best Picture champ stars Lucius (Paul Mescal) as Lucius, the grandson of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Lucius is forced into slavery but resolves to fight as a gladiator under the leadership of power broker Macrinus. And that’s where Washington comes in. The titanic Washington plays Macrinus, who is the mentor figure to Lucius and also opposes the rule of emperors Caracalla (Fred Hechinger) and Geta (Joseph Quinn).

We are predicting that Washington will be nominated for Best Supporting Actor alongside Samuel L. Jackson (“The Piano Lesson”), Clarence Maclin (“Sing Sing”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), and Stanley Tucci (“Conclave...

More than 50 years later, Glenn Close is recalling the piece of wisdom from a screen legend that got her interested in acting.

The Academy Award nominee recently described her “huge respect” for Katharine Hepburn and revealed how the late actress inspired her to take up the profession while she was attending Virginia’s College of William & Mary.

“The thing I’ve always loved about Hepburn is she seemed to really know who she was,” Close recently told People.

She recalled seeing Hepburn appear on an The Dick Cavett Show in 1973 while painting scenery for her school’s theater.

“I remember she said, ‘No regrets, no regrets.’ Fabulous,” she recounted. “She was so phenomenal, so herself. So the next day I went to the head of the [theater] department and I said, ‘Please nominate me for a series of auditions.’ And from that, I got my first job that fall.

Katharine Hepburn...

The legendary Peter O’Toole was born on August 2, 1932. One of the most esteemed actors of his generation, he also holds the dubious record of earning the most Best Actor Oscar nominations (eight) without a win. O’Toole’s trophy case isn’t exactly bare — he won three Golden Globe Awards from eight nominations and received an honorary Academy Award for his lengthy career.

And as younger generations begin to discover his work, his reputation has only grown over the years, particularly for his big splash on the world’s film stage for his performance in “Lawrence of Arabia,” work that is astonishing in its complexity.

Take a photo gallery tour of his career ranking his 12 best film performances from worst to best. It includes ‘Venus,’ ‘My Favorite Year,’ ‘The Stunt Man’ and more.

Those About to Die stars a talented cast led by Anthony Hopkins, and is an intriguing swords-and-sandals epic set in ancient Rome. The series explores the seedy underworld of crime surrounding the Roman Empire's sports industry, impacting the political dealings of Emperor Vespasian and his sons. The stand-alone historical series is a blend of action and political drama with recognizable faces from Game of Thrones and Ted Lasso, among other noteworthy TV series and movies.

Iconic action director Roland Emmerich is behind Peacock's new swords-and-sandals epic series Those About to Die, which introduces a new host of characters vying for position and wealth in ancient Rome. The stand-alone historical drama is based on Daniel P. Mannix's 1958 book Those About to Die, and is set during the reign of the real Roman Emperor Vespasian circa 79 Ad. The series focuses on the seedy underworld of crime surrounding the Roman Empire's sports industry,...

Halle Berry and Glenn Close are set to star alongside Kim Kardashian in an upcoming Hulu legal drama that hails from Ryan Murphy, Variety has learned.

The series was first announced in December 2023 and is currently titled “All’s Fair.” As reported at that time, Kardashian will play a successful divorce lawyer who leads an all-female law firm in Los Angeles. Exact details for Berry and Close’s characters are being kept under wraps. Both women will also serve as executive producers on “All’s Fair,” as will Kardashian. Close will produce under her Trillium Productions banner.

The role marks a return to television legal dramas for Close, who famously starred in the FX series “Damages” as notorious lawyer Patty Hewes. Close earned two of her three Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe for her work on the show. Close is a 14-time Emmy nominee and won her other statuette...

For over a decade, Roger Moore had the task of living up to everything that Sean Connery had put in place as 007. And while some will defend Moore forever, we can’t forget the clown costumes, slide whistles, gondola chases, and so much more that pushed James Bond into an uncharted level of ridiculousness. Perhaps all of this could have been prevented had Timothy Dalton not been so green, turning down On Her Majesty’s Secret Service because he was in his mid-20s. That’s all hypothetical, of course, but Timothy Dalton would go on to reinvent James Bond in a way that may not have sat with contemporary audiences but marked a true challenge for what it meant to carry the torch. Dalton played 007 just twice; and with that, we’d challenge you to name just as many worthwhile post-Bond movies from the underappreciated actor (who we’re...

Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar in 2020 and received his sixth Academy Award nomination for “The Father.” With his impressive body of work, it’s somewhat stunning to realize he was 54 years old before he became a household name.

Hopkins was born on New Year’s Eve in 1937 to working-class parents in Wales. He was inspired by fellow Welsh actor Richard Burton to study drama. Young Hopkins found success in theater, eventually becoming an understudy for Laurence Olivier, successfully taking over when Olivier became ill. Although his career was thriving in the theater, Hopkins decided to try his luck in television and films, and soon received his break in 1968 playing Richard the Lionheart in “The Lion in Winter.” Hopkins worked steadily on both the small and big screens, often receiving praise for his work. However, it was over 20 years before he became one of the most recognized actors in the...

Since 2020, the Oscar for Best Actress has exclusively gone to performers with more than 80 minutes of screen time in their respective films. These especially lengthy recent turns account for about one-fifth of the winning ones that have ever hit that benchmark in the 96-year history of the category. Scroll through our photo gallery to find out which 10 Best Actress-winning performances are the longest of all time.

This countdown is presented in terms of physical screen time, meaning any time an actress can actually be seen on screen or heard off screen. Moments involving silent and non-visible scene presence do not apply here. All 99 of this category’s winning performances were able to be counted, including the three that earned Janet Gaynor (“7th Heaven”; “Street Angel”; “Sunrise”) the inaugural prize in 1929 and the two from Katharine Hepburn (“The Lion in Winter”) and Barbra Streisand (“Funny Girl”) that tied for the 1969 honor.

This year’s Tonys will be held on June 16, so the American Theatre Wing will likely be announcing its lifetime achievement award recipient in the near future. Who do you think should take home this prestigious trophy? It has gone to veteran stage performers, directors, choreographers, playwrights, songwriters, producers and designers. In some years we get multiple recipients.

Last year these honors went to legendary actor Joel Grey and composer John Kander. The following living female Broadway vets have also received this award in the past and thus won’t be chosen again: Jane Greenwood, Rosemary Harris and Graciela Daniele. Here are 10 possible women the Tonys could award, all veterans over the age of 65. Vote to let us know who you’d like to see honored.

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Debbie Allen

Two-time Tony nominated actress for her performances in revivals of “West Side Story...

Christopher Walken, who took inspiration from the legendary rock and roll singer Elvis Presley for his hairstyle and has never changed it, has often inspired the imitation of his speaking style due to its uniqueness.

Walken is one of those few actors in Hollywood who is not only known for his acting abilities but also his distinctive yet recognizable way of speaking.

Christopher Walken in Dune: Part Two

The Dune: Part Two star has gained a reputation in the industry as one of the best actors. Even so, his distinctive speaking style is something that is considered his prominent asset and can be recognized easily. He once revealed the story behind his unique speaking style.

Christopher Walken on How He Got His Unique Speaking Style

Christopher Walken began working as a lion tamer in a circus when he was a teenager. Presently, he is best known as an actor, which...

By delivering performances that add up to almost four and a half hours, the four acting Oscar winners of 2024 came within six minutes of setting a new academy record for highest single-year screen time average. Ultimately, they landed in fifth place with a mean of one hour, four minutes, and 57 seconds, thus becoming only the 12th winning quartet (and sixth in 10 years) to exceed 60 minutes.

Newly crowned Best Actor and Actress champs Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”) and Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) are credited with a whopping 81% of their foursome’s screen time total, respectively clocking in at 1:53:10 and 1:37:19 and outpacing all of the 2024 nominees by at least four minutes. Supporting honorees Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”) and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”) gave the fourth and sixth shortest nominated performances of the year, reaching individual screen times of 23:50 and 25:29.

Considering this group’s screen time percentages,...

The historical epic “Becket” is turning 60 this week. When it was released, “Becket” was considered Important. It was a huge and handsome production with sumptuous sets and costumes and a cast seemingly of thousands. And it featured two of the top and sexiest stars of the day – Peter O’Toole, fresh from his Oscar-nominated triumph in 1962’s “Lawrence of Arabia” and Richard Burton whose career had been overshadowed with his high-profile love affair with Elizabeth Taylor that began during the production of the infamous 1963 “Cleopatra.”

Set in the 12th century England, “Becket” revolves around the relationship between the hedonistic King Henry II (O’Toole), who never met a wench he didn’t bed, and Thomas Becket, his loyal friend and wingman for Henry’s sexual escapades. And because the Production Code was still in force, the film can only imply that Henry is in love with Becket. Henry makes Becket his...

Since 1940, the record for highest average screen time between same-year lead acting Oscar winners has been held by Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh (“Gone with the Wind”), whose mean of one hour, 54 minutes, and 43 seconds will likely never be surpassed. Nonetheless, there is a brand new pair in second place, as 2024 Best Actor and Actress champs Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”) and Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) came within 10 minutes of dethroning the long-reigning duo. Indeed, both together and separately, their especially lengthy performances inspired several brushes with Oscars screen time history.

Murphy was specifically awarded for one hour, 53 minutes, and 10 seconds of acting work, while Stone clocked in slightly lower at one hour, 37 minutes, and 19 seconds. Understandably, each far outpaced all of their fellow nominees, respectively landing 27 and 22 minutes above their lineups’ averages. Their own average of one hour, 45 minutes, and 15 seconds makes them only the second pair of lead victors to exceed 100 minutes.

Numerous actors aspire to stand on the illustrious stage and utter the iconic words, “I would like to thank The Academy,” as they receive the coveted Oscar. The Oscar is the pinnacle of achievement in the filmmaking industry, a dream for many. However, the reality is that not everyone can emerge victorious.

Many actors have come to understand that even multiple nominations don’t guarantee a win. The competition at the Academy Awards is fierce, and not everyone will have the honor of seeing their name engraved on the prestigious golden statue. We are now listing four deserving actors who finished their careers without ever winning an Oscar.

4 Actors Who Ended Their Careers Without An Oscar Win

As previously noted, securing an Oscar remains the pinnacle of acknowledgement for numerous actors, yet several top stars have not won the prestigious award. In fact, some actors concluded their careers without ever attaining an Academy Award.

The decades-long history of the Oscars is filled with numerous records. And the acclaimed Hollywood star Cate Blanchett has also earned a place in the history of the prestigious awards with her remarkable performance in the 2004 crime drama The Aviator. Starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, she took on the role of Katharine Hepburn, a four-time Best Actress Oscar winner, who graced the silver screen for over six decades.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett in The Aviator

Based on Charles Higham’s 1993 Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, the film follows Howard Hughes, a pioneering aviator, and film producer, showcasing his rise to success, struggles with mental health, and passionate pursuits in aviation and filmmaking during the golden age of Hollywood.

Cate Blanchett’s Singular Achievement at the Oscars

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett, Martin Scorsese’s 2004 film The Aviator received critical acclaim and numerous accolades. It received 11 nominations at the 77th Academy Awards,...

Oscars Trivia: Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn. (Photo Credit – IMDb)

As everyone gears up for the 2024 Academy Awards, we have another interesting Oscars Trivia for you. If you’ve followed the award ceremony for years, you must be aware that there have been times when the Academy grabbed headlines for unexpected events. From The Godfather actor Marlon Brando not attending the awards to the Will Smith and Chris Rock slap gate, there’s a lot that startles the audience. But did you know, once, two actresses won the Best Actress Award at the same time?

Yes, you read it right. In 1969, there was a tie between Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn for the Best Actress category at the Oscars. Barbra was nominated for Funny Girl, and Katharine was nominated in the same category for her performance in The Lion in Winter. However, only one of the actresses was present for the award ceremony.

Best Actress has come down to the two-horse race we always thought it would do as we enter Oscars weekend. “Poor Things” star Emma Stone took home the Best Comedy Actress Golden Globe as well as the Critics Choice and BAFTA awards for Best Actress. Meanwhile, “Killers of the Flower Moon” performer Lily Gladstone landed the Best Drama Actress Golden Globe and snagged the SAG award for Best Actress. That has left us Oscarologists split. Gladstone is slightly ahead in our Oscars odds chart for Best Actress but, truthfully, it could go either way.

Or could it go the same way?

Could Stone and Gladstone produce a delightful shock and share the Best Actress Oscar in a tie? Wouldn’t that be fun? Stone and Gladstone both seem like they’d be overjoyed if that were to happen, and so would we be. Best Actress has ended in a tie before.

When I was a little kid back during the Pleistocene era, there were annually three things you had to watch that were can’t-miss viewing: the annual broadcasts of “The Wizard of Oz” on CBS at Thanksgiving and “It’s a Wonderful Life” on NBC at Christmastime – and the Academy Awards in April. I didn’t have a particularly close family growing up, but we would all huddle on the couch and practically join hands while tuned to this trio of yearly spectacles. It’s hard to imagine now in our everything-on-demand viewing culture, but in the years before streaming and video, “Wizard of Oz” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” were once massive, once-a-year events.

And the Academy Awards still is.

What’s that you say? The Oscar ratings have fallen off a cliff over the past several years? Well, maybe. But it doesn’t matter. They’re still the granddaddy (and grandmama?...

The Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, is the most prestigious award that someone from within the film fraternity can win. It is every actor’s dream to etch their name in the annals of film history, a recognition of their mastery over the art form that takes a significant amount of time to refine. Over the years, several actors have won the award, thus setting themselves apart from the rest. In this article, we will take a look at five such actors whose Oscar records will not be broken anytime soon.

The film industry has seen the rise and fall of actors. While not everyone can make it big, those who have managed to do so have left their mark forever.

It is worth noting that an Oscar alone does not determine one’s talent, as it is merely a reward for the work that they put in.

Peter O'Toole, despite his acclaimed career, never won an Academy Award, despite being nominated 8 times. O'Toole holds the record for the most nominations without a win in the Best Actor category. In 2002, O'Toole received an Honorary Academy Award for his achievements in the entertainment industry.

One celebrated actor once referred to himself as a loser when it came to the Oscars, despite his acclaimed career. Throughout the history of the Oscars, there have been many who have had the honor of winning the award for their acting abilities. But while many actors have yet to win this award, there is one actor who never managed to do so, despite multiple nominations.

Actors such as Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were nominated several times, before winning the Oscar. Others such as Bradley Cooper, Saoirse Ronan, and Amy Adams have received several Oscar nominations but haven't won the prestigious award. Irish-British actor,...

The motion picture academy has handed out Oscars for leading performances since the first ceremony in 1929. While the Best Actor prize is typically taken by a veteran, the Best Actress Oscar has tended to go to an ingenue. However, those age biases could be changing.

While a whopping 32 of the 96 Best Actress champs were in their 20s when they picked up their Oscars, the last five women to win were: 60-year-old Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”); 45-year old Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”); double champ Frances McDormand, 45-year-old Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) and 50-year-old Renee Zellweger (“Judy”). Yeoh’s closest rival last year was Cate Blanchett, 53, for “Tar.” (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2024 Oscar predictions for Best Actress.)

Besides Zellweger, the only other Best Actress champs in their 50s were both 54 when they won: Julianne Moore, who finally prevailed after four losses for “Still Alice...

The Lion In Winter is a 1968 film that may not come to mind immediately when thinking of 1960s historical dramas, with it being a big year for the genre. Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra are tough acts to follow, but that doesn't mean there's a decent amount of prestige behind this film. Directed by Anthony Harvey, editor of Kubrick classics Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, The Lion In Winter also has what would eventually be an all-star cast. Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn, at the early stages of their careers, are found at the forefront of this fictionalized retelling of King Henry II's reign of the Angevin Empire. This is also the major debut of both Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton.

Katharine Hepburn holds the record for the most Oscar wins in acting categories, with four wins for Best Actress. Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and Frances McDormand are the only living actors with three Oscar wins in the acting categories. Frances McDormand has the best chance of tying Katharine Hepburn's record, as the other three actors are either retired or haven't received recent Oscar nominations.

Only four actors alive today come close to matching an Oscars record that Katharine Hepburn set 42 years ago and has held ever since. Hepburn was one of the great classic movie actors from Hollywood's Golden Age and starred in some of the best films of all time from that era. She was a prominent leading lady for decades, starring alongside fellow Hollywood legends like Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, and so many more.

Hepburn had a very successful acting...

In 1964 Barbra Streisand became a star when she opened the original Broadway production of “Funny Girl” as real-life actress, singer and comedian Fanny Brice. Despite rave reviews, she ended up losing the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical to Carol Channing for “Hello, Dolly!” But in 1968 Babs made her motion picture debut in a film adaptation of “Funny Girl” directed by William Wyler, reprising her role as Fanny. She went on to win the Oscar for Best Actress (famously in a tie with Katharine Hepburn for “The Lion in Winter”). In 1970 Eileen Heckart was Tony nominated for her featured performance as Mrs. Baker in “Butterflies are Free,” but lost to her co-star Blythe Danner. But in 1972 Heckart reprised her role in a film adaptation, which won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

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NCIS veteran David McCallum, also known for his Emmy-nominated role in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., died peacefully this morning of natural causes at New York Presbyterian Hospital, surrounded by family. He was 90, having celebrated his birthday less than a week ago.

A fan favorite, McCallum was the last remaining original cast member on CBS’ NCIS, in which he played Chief Medical Examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard, an eccentric but highly efficient investigator with a knack for psychological profiling, for two decades.

David McCallum as Medical Examiner Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard. (Photo by Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images)

“For over 20 years, David McCallum endeared himself to audiences around the world playing the wise, quirky, and sometimes enigmatic, Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard,” said NCIS executive producers Steven D. Binder and David North. “But as much as his fans may have loved him, those who worked side by side with David loved him that much more.

Robert De Niro will go down in Oscars — and cinema — history as one of the best actors of all time and could solidify that status by winning a third Oscar for his turn in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” By so doing, he’s set a new record for the longest gaps between Oscar wins.

Earlier this year, Judd Hirsch set a new record for the longest gap between Oscar nominations after he reaped a Best Supporting Actor bid for “The Fabelmans” 42 years after his nomination for “Ordinary People” in the same category. However, the record for the longest gap between Oscars wins has stood firm for some time and is held by Helen Hayes. She won her first Oscar in 1932 (for Best Actress) for “The Sin of Madelon Claudet.” She won her second Oscar almost 40 years later in 1971, for Best Supporting Actress for “Airport.”

De Niro could extend that...

Anthony Hopkins, a renowned actor, has been married to Stella Arroyave since 2003, and she has been a supportive presence throughout his career. While Hopkins is known for his acclaimed roles, Arroyave has also made a mark in the industry, both as an actor and as a producer and director. Arroyave has worked on several projects, including starring in a film with Hopkins and directing a film called Elyse. She is currently working on a documentary about her husband's life.

Anthony Hopkins is an award-winning actor who is known worldwide for his decades of performances, but some may not know that his wife Stella Arroyave is a Hollywood talent in her own right, despite starting in the industry later in life. Arroyave and Hopkins have been married since 2003, and she has been a fixture in the latter half of his career. Hopkins began his acting in the English theater system in the 1960s.

“Star Trek” hasn’t been recognized by the Emmys for acting since the original series aired in the 1960s. Back then Leonard Nimoy earned three bids for his iconic role as Spock. But no actors from the franchise have been nominated since. Will that change with the third and final season of “Star Trek: Picard”? The Paramount+ series submitted the following 12 actors for consideration on the Emmy ballot.

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Best Drama Actor

Patrick Stewart

Best Drama Supporting Actor

LeVar Burton

Michael Dorn

Jonathan Frakes

Ed Speleers

Brent Spiner

Todd Stashwick

Best Drama Supporting Actress

Michelle Hurd

Gates McFadden

Amanda Plummer

Jeri Ryan

Marina Sirtis

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Perhaps surprisingly, “Picard” didn’t enter any performers for consideration in guest categories. That means no Michelle Forbes,...

Actors play a lot of roles, but it is rare for the same actor to play the same character in two entirely different movies. However, it is incredibly fun when this does happen, as it allows an actor to show what a character would act like under different direction and in different circumstances as part of a different story. Sometimes actors reprise roles for cameos, and other times actors again fill the main role in a different film. Either way, an actor playing the same role in an entirely different movie is always interesting, and here are the 10 best examples of this occurring.

Even when utilizing the same historical figure, movies sometimes use a different actor in order to differentiate themselves from predecessors. However, sometimes an actor is so good in a role that they just have to be used again, with them returning for entirely different films. Other times,...

To this day, no actor has won more Academy Awards for acting than the legendary and world-renowned Katharine Hepburn. Her whopping four Oscars for Best Actress fail to wholly measure the impact and influence she left behind. For one, Hepburn never won for her most iconic roles and films. Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond, the films which featured Oscar-winning performances, are not cinematic landmarks to the likes of Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and The African Queen. If the star ever needed another notch on her belt as a Hollywood giant, Hepburn's portrayal in The Aviator by Cate Blanchett amounted to the first and currently only time that an acting Oscar was awarded to someone playing an Oscar winner.

With over 100 acting credits to his name, many of which are bonafide legendary performances, Anthony Hopkins has proven himself time and again as one of the best actors of his generation, and possibly of all time. After graduating from London's famed Royal Academy of Dramatic in 1963, Hopkins began his career on the stage, tackling the bard, as well as classic and modern plays at the Royal Court Theatre and The Old Vic. He also regularly appeared on British television, taking on episodic guest roles in shows like "The Man in Room 17" and "Department S."

In 1968's "The Lion in Winter, " Hopkins had his cinematic breakout role as Richard the Lionheart. Often remembered for the best actress tie between Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) and Barbra Streisand (for "Funny Girl") at the Academy Awards, "The Lion in Winter" saw Hopkins more than hold his own against stalwarts Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.

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If you're ranking the most important years of American cinema, it's pretty difficult not to slot 1967 at number one. That year brought forth a major cultural and artistic shift in the medium, forever changing what American audiences thought cinema could be. This was the arrival of the New Hollywood and featured films that did more than just push the boundaries of mature subject matter, sex, violence, and politics on screen. They destroyed them. The two pillars of the year were Arthur Penn's bloody, sexy "Bonnie and Clyde" and Mike Nichols' coming-of-age dramedy "The Graduate," each becoming two of the three highest-grossing films of the year.

When the 1968 Oscars ceremony rolled around, both films found themselves in the best picture category.