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There are plenty of contenders for the greatest film of the 2000s decade. The first decade of the new century was absolutely stacked to the brim with instant classics in every conceivable genre, and fans have been relentless in their debate over the best of the best. Comedy fans come to the table with all-time greats like Superbad, Juno, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Action fans pull The Dark Knight, Kill Bill, and Children of Men out of their holsters. Finally, drama fans mention Academy Award-winning heavy hitters from 2007, like No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. An often forgotten contender for best of the decade, however, comes in the form of a fellow 2007 release that was completely shut out at the 80th Academy Awards ceremony.

Zodiac is a 2007 mystery film directed by David Fincher that...

Last month, Deadline broke the news that Oscar-winning Juno writer Diablo Cody, who has also written the genre films Jennifer’s Body and Lisa Frankenstein, will be producing Forbidden Fruits, which will mark the feature directorial debut of Meredith Alloway and is an adaptation of the Lily Houghton stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die. Now, Deadline reports that Lili Reinhart (Hustlers), Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Victoria Pedretti (You), Alexandra Shipp (Barbie) and newcomer Emma Chamberlain have signed on to star in the film, which has also secured a U.S. and Canadian distribution deal with IFC Films and the Shudder streaming service. IFC Films is planning a 2026 theatrical release.

In Forbidden Fruits, Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But...

Sabrina Carpenter has gone viral yet again for her “Juno” performance on the Short n’ Sweet Tour!

The 25-year-old singer picks a different sexual position to simulate during every show while performing the song. She does the move after singing the lyrics, “You make me wanna make you fall in love / Oh, late at night, I’m thinking ’bout you, ah-ah / Wanna try out some freaky positions? / Have you ever tried this one?”

The “Juno” position at the first Paris show on Sunday (March 16) was the perfect choice.

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Sabrina had two male dancers join her at the top of the stage to simulate the Eiffel Tower position, in which she bent over between the two guys as they held hands above her.

Most fans are loving the moment, with plenty left speechless by Sabrina’s bold choice. Of course, there are some prude people...

Sabrina Carpenter went from sweet to spicy during her Short n’ Sweet tour stop at the O2 in London on Saturday night. While making the night’s honorary arrest during “Juno,” the singer chose Spice Girls’ Emma Bunton as the recipient of her fuzzy pink handcuffs. “You’re kind of spicing up my life a little bit,” she told Baby Spice.

“Please, please, please Arrest me for being a fan!!! @sabrinacarpenter you were amazing,” Bunton wrote on Instagram, where she reshared a clip from the arrest. In a photo dump...

Following a recent scandal alleging that the folk artist and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie had fabricated her Canadian Indigenous roots, the Polaris Music Prize and Juno Awards have revoked honors bestowed on the musician.

The release of a 2023 documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) called Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous identity into question. A fervent activist for Indigenous causes, as reflected in songs like “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone,” Sainte-Marie had long claimed that she was born and raised on a Cree reservation in Saskatchewan. However, the CBC program uncovered she was in fact born in Massachusetts.

Earlier this year, Sainte-Marie, was stripped of her Order of Canada appointment. Now, the Polaris Music Prize and the Juno Awards have decided that her collected accolades from both institutions will be rescinded, due to her inability to provide tangible proof of her Canadian and/or Indigenous identity.

The Polaris Prize was first...

Filmmaker and USC alumnus Jason Reitman is slated to receive the Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Master of Comedy Award at the seventh edition of the USC Comedy Festival, set for March 28-30 at the campus.

The three-day festival aims to examine the role that comedy plays in shaping popular culture and social movements. The tribute to Reitman, the helmer behind such films as 2024’s “Saturday Night,” 2009’s “Up in the Air” and 2007’s “Juno,” will close the festival and include a Q&a on stage with film historian and critic Leonard Maltin.

USC launched the event in 2011, the same year it established the USC Comedy department with the goal of “championing comedy as a field of university study.” The festival has been held every other year since. This year’s event includes a panel on AI’s impact in the creation of comedy (session title: “Can Comedy Be Automated?...

Legacy sequels, reboots, and delayed follow-up installments are extremely commonplace in the world of horror filmmaking and it sounds like “Jennifer’s Body,” a cult horror film that ended up becoming quite popular long after its theatrical release, is potentially getting a second installment over fifteen years later.

Written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (“Juno”) it was helmed by Karyn Kusama and released by 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox), which paired actresses Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox with the latter being comically sacrificed (by a character played by Adam Brody) only to be resurrected as a demonic entity that starts feeding on her male classmates.

Continue reading ‘Jennifer’s Body’ Sequel Teased By Star Amanda Seyfried: “I Think We’re Making Another One” at The Playlist.

Hopefully you haven't had your fill of legacy sequels or continuations yet because it sounds like a new Jennifer's Body movie might be in development! During the recent premiere of her Canadian drama Seven Veils, star Amanda Seyfried chatted with some fans and, when asked about the sequel possibility, cheekily said that she thinks a sequel might be happening. Watch the TikTok video here.

Someone asks her if she just confirmed the news and Seyfried responds, "I didn't confirm it, I said I think," and then she playfully winks at the group. That sounds like promising news to me! Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean Jennifer's Body 2 is really going to happen, but it is certainly a positive sign of the movie's future.

It would be nice to see Seyfried and Megan Fox reunite with writer Diablo Cody and maybe even director Karyn Kusama. The 2009 comedy horror movie was heavily...

We are well past the point of Peak TV — the era named by FX President John Landgraf about just how many television shows and channels seem to exist now — where we used to only have a handful of network options and a smattering of cable choices. Now, we have hundreds upon hundreds of shows each year, yet so few shows break through the noise unless you happen to notice that one of them has been canceled despite never having had the name recognition of something like "The Big Bang Theory" or "Game of Thrones." What's more, some shows can have a noticeable impact at the moment, but they don't seem to resonate once they're off the air. Those two aforementioned titles are among the most familiar to the American masses despite not having aired new episodes for years. It helps that they've each had spin-offs, and live on via reruns in some cases,...

Sabrina Carpenter has resumed the Short n’ Sweet Tour for her first shows of 2025 and there has been a change to the setlist!

The 25-year-old singer wrapped the first North American leg of the tour back in November 2024 and she launched the European leg with a show on Monday (March 3) in Dublin, Ireland.

The Europe shows come just weeks after Sabrina released the deluxe version of her Short n’ Sweet album, which included several new songs. The setlist has changed amid the release of new music with some songs added in!

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Fans who didn’t get a chance to catch Sabrina on tour in 2024 will have another chance as she has announced 17 more shows in North America for the end of the year. Tickets are on sale this week.

So, how has the set list changed? See the new run-of-show below!

1. “Taste”

2. “Good Graces...

Exclusive: The Whiplash Oscar winner is boarding the David Ayer directed Paramount Pictures production Heart of the Beast opposite Brad Pitt.

It’s the second time that J.K. Simmons as worked with Ayer after the 2005 Christian Bale crime drama Harsh Times, and it’s the third time he’s starred in a Pitt movie after 2001’s The Mexican and the Coen Brothers George Clooney-Frances McDormand 2008 comedy caper Burn After Reading.

Deadline first told you about Heart of the Beast.

Cameron Alexander, who penned the script, will executive produce. The movie follows a former Army Special Forces Soldier and his retired combat dog who battle for survival after a plane crash deep in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness.

Damien Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton are producing under their Wild Chickens Productions banner as part of their first-look deal with the studio. Ayer is producing under his Crave Films banner, with Temple Hill Entertainment,...

Love, laughs, and labor pains — these movies prove pregnancy is the ultimate plot twist.

I watched the new Amy Schumer comedy,“Kinda Pregnant” with my wife last night and it was (on the whole) a good time. First, it’s actually funny and second, it pays off the high concept in all the ways you want it to (more on this shortly). I love romantic comedies, and so it got me thinking about all the other rom-com pregnancy movies out there. Not that many get made (Hollywood is a male-dominated industry), but there are some excellent movies among the ones that did. Here’s my list of the top 7 pregnancy rom-coms you can stream right now.

Top 7 pregnancy rom-com movies you can stream right now

No. 7: ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting’

No. 6: ‘Kinda Pregnant’

No. 5: ‘Babes’

No. 4: ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’

No. 3: ‘Baby Mama’

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Wicked, Conclave, and Nosferatu took top honors at the 29th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards (aka the Excellence in Production Design Awards) Saturday. Rachael Harris hosted the show from the InterContinental Ballroom in Los Angeles.

The Art Directors Guild divides its top film prizes into Period, Contemporary, and Fantasy Feature categories, which went to the Oscar-nominated production designers for Nosferatu, Conclave, and Wicked, respectively. Since the inception of these awards, the winner of one of those three has gone on to win the Best Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 19 of the 28 years and 10 of the past 11 years. The three films will go up against Dune: Part Two and The Brutalist next month for the production design Academy Award, with Wicked considered not only the frontrunner but a heavily-favored one at that.

Nosferatu won top Period Feature over fellow nominees A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Gladiator II, and Saturday Night.

“Nosferatu” (Craig Lathrop), “Wicked” (Nathan Crowley), and “Conclave” (Suzie Davies) were the period, fantasy, and contemporary production design winners at the 29th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, held February 15 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

Also winning for animation was “The Wild Robot”, following its Annies sweep and Ves prizes. On the TV side, “Shōgun,” “Squid Game,” “Fallout,” and “The Penguin” were the winners for their production designers in their respective categories.

The Lathrop win for “Nosferatu” was not surprising when you consider that “The Brutalist” production designer Judy Becker is not an Adg member. She has been the presumptive Oscar favorite for channeling Oscar-nominated Adrien Brody’s visionary architect, László Tóth, in applying a Brutalist style to the architectural designs of mid-century Pennsylvania with its bold shapes and function over form aesthetic.

Lathrop, who has worked on all of director Robert Eggers’ other films, received his first Oscar nomination for “Nosferatu.

“Conclave, “Nosferatu,” and “Wicked” won honors at the 28th Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) Excellence in Production Design Awards, Saturday at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

The Adg divides live-action features into three categories. Production designer Craig Lathrop’s work on early 1800s-set horror adaptation “Nosferatu” won the award in the period film category. Production designer Nathan Crowley’s creation of the “Wicked” land of Oz won the award for a fantasy film, and production designer Suzie Davies’ Vatican sets delivered “Conclave” the trophy for a contemporary film.

“Conclave,” “Nosteratu” and “Wicked,” along with Adg nominees “The Brutalist” and “Dune: Part Two” are nominated for the Oscar in production design. A year ago, “Poor Things” won the Adg Award for a fantasy film en route to an Oscar win in the category.

At the Adg Awards, “The Wild Robot” continued its winning streak, collecting the Adg Award in feature animation.

The Art Directors Guild came together tonight to celebrate the 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on Saturday night, February 15, 2024.

The awards took place before over 1,000 guild members and industry executives, with actress and comedian Rachael Harris serving as host. Skye P. Marshall, Jason Ritter, Jennia Aponte, Lamorne Morris, Devon Sawa, Anna Newell, Kurtwood Smith, Eve Harlow, Peter Facinelli, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Al Madrigal, Samantha Hanratty, Garrett Dillahunt, Vella Lovell, and many more attended the event.

During the ceremony, the Adg’s National Executive Director Chuck Parker praised “Keep California Rolling,” a developing campaign from the Entertainment Union Coalition (Euc) and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), in support of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed tax incentive for Los Angeles-based film and television production. Parker galvanized the crowd with his comments: “We can do this! We need jobs now!

Exclusive: Oscar winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody is producing the feature directorial debut of Meredith Alloway, Forbidden Fruits.

Alloway is co-adapting the feature with playwright Lily Houghton off the latter’s play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die.

The project follows Free Eden employee Apple, who secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their “girl boss” ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.

Cody, Mason Novick, Trent Hubbard and Mary Anne Waterhouse are set to produce the feature, via Novick’s Mxn Entertainment banner.

EPs are Charlie Traisman and Katherine Romans from Madhouse Films alongside Casey Durant and Rachel Douglas from Range. WME Independent will be handling sales for the project.

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The early 2000s were known for a number of outlandish comedy films. With creative minds like Judd Apatow and Adam McKay in the director and producer's seat and hilarious actors like Seth Rogen and Will Ferrell bringing their films to life, many of the films that emerged during this period shaped how modern audiences perceive comedy.

Today, the comedy genre can feel distant from this pivotal period, although more diverse voices are making a name for themselves in the comedic field. It's fun to revisit the past and remember the films that reflected a time that was truly like no other.

This Dramedy Was So Resonant, it Was Nominated For Best Picture Juno

Definitely a more dramatic pick among these entries, hence why it's at the technical last spot, Juno featured a variety of powerful moments ranging from hilarious to heart-wrenching. The film stars Eliot Page as witty teenager Juno...

“Invincible” is back for Season 3 and boasting the same stellar cast that made the first two so great.

Much of the actors return again to voice their characters based on the Robert Kirkman comic book. Season 3 finds Mark at odds with Cecil all while trying to prepare mentally and physically for the threat of more Viltrumites heading to Earth.

Here are all the “Invincible” characters coming back for Season 3 — and the voice cast behind them.

Invincible (Credit: Getty Images/Prime Video) Steven Yeun as Mark Grayson/Invincible

Steven Yeun plays Mark Grayson, a.k.a Invincible. Yeun is most well-known for playing Glenn for years in “The Walking Dead” – a series based on a different comic book series by “Invincible” creator Robert Kirkman. He has also appeared in “Minari,” “Nope,” “Okja” and the Netflix series “Beef.”

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There are only a handful of dramedies in recent years that have been just as endearing as they are timeless. Perhaps the likes of Juno, The Truman Show, andBegin Again may come to mind – flicks that induce just as many belly laughs as they do heartfelt tears. Writer/director James Griffiths’ The Ballad of Wallis Island is a quaint little film that fits such a bill. It presents itself as an innocent comedy infused with a bit of lovely folk music but reveals itself as a heartfelt tearjerker that sneaks up on you and will tear and gnaw at your heartstrings.

Diretor Jason Reitman on the set of Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone Copyright © 2024 Ctmg, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **All Images Are Property Of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc Jason Reitman, a four-time Academy Award nominee, continues to showcase his versatility as a filmmaker with an impressive portfolio of projects, including Juno, Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking, and the Ghostbusters reboot. With his latest film, Saturday Night, Reitman takes audiences behind the scenes of one of television’s most groundbreaking moments. Set on the evening of October 11, 1975, Saturday Night captures the chaos, creativity, and excitement as a fearless team of young comedians and writers geared up for a night that would make television history. The film brings to life the 90 frantic minutes leading up to the debut broadcast of Saturday Night Live, taking viewers into the heart of the action, where emotions ran high and every second counted.

Since the start of the millennium, there have been some especially strong Best Original Screenplay winners. It’s an especially eclectic list that ranges from Little Miss Sunshine (2007) to Juno (2008) to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2012) to Spotlight (2016). The five most recent victors are Bong Joon-Ho and Han Jin-won for Parasite in 2020, Kenneth Branagh for Belfast in 2021, Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman in 2022, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once in 2023, and Arthur Harari and Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall last year.

This year’s group includes three writers also nominated for Best Director and whose movies also received Best Picture bids: Sean Baker for Anora, Brady Corbet (and partner Mona Fastvold) for The Brutalist, and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance. Also honored in the category are Previous Oscar nominee (for acting) Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain and Moritz Binder,...

Fresh off the Grammys. where she claimed two trophies at Sunday’s ceremony, Sabrina Carpenter has announced a deluxe version of her smash album, Short n’ Sweet. Carpenter announced the project with the tracklist reveal, which features a new version of “Please Please Please” with the one and only Dolly Parton. Appropriately, the album will land on Valentine’s Day, February 14th.

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On Instagram, Carpenter called the deluxe version a “thank you for giving this album two Grammys” and expressed her excitement around the A-list guest. “Yes that does say featuring Miss Dolly Parton,” she wrote. “She wouldn’t want me to swear but holy shit!”

At this weekend’s Grammy Awards, Carpenter brought the house down with her musical theater-inspired performances of “Espresso” and “Please Please Please.” Next, the artist will continue the “Short n’ Sweet Tour” throughout Europe and the UK.

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Four new actors have just been added to the cast of The Odyssey, the next feature film from Oscar-winning Oppenheimer helmer Christopher Nolan.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, The Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page is one of the latest actors to join The Odyssey. This marks a reunion with Nolan, as Page previously appeared in the director's hit 2010 movie Inception. Also reuniting with the revered filmmaker is Himesh Patel (The Franchise), who appeared in 2020's Tenet. Bill Irwin (Legion), who voiced Tars the robot in 2014's Interstellar, has also been cast in The Odyssey. Meanwhile, Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) is getting her first chance to work with Nolan as the fourth new casting addition for the upcoming movie.

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Christopher Nolan has is taking four more actors on his hero’s journey — and most are familiar faces to his world.

Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton round out the supporting cast of The Odyssey, Nolan’s adaptation of the epic poem by Homer that he is making for Universal.

Page is a Nolan veteran, having the memorable role of architecture grad student Ariadne in 2010’s Inception. Patel too is a Nolan alum, with a role in 2020’s Tenet, while Irwin had the memorable voice role of Tars the robot in Interstellar.

Universal had no comment on the castings. The quartet of actors join a cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal and Benny Safdie.

The studio describes the project as a “mythic action epic shot across the world across the world using brand new Imax film technology.

Christopher Nolan’s next big epic at Universal, The Odyssey, has added Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton.

For Patel, Page and Irwin, it’s a reteam with the 2x Oscar-winning filmmaker. Patel starred in Nolan’s 2020 Tenet, Page in 2010’s Inception, and Irwin in 2014’s Interstellar. For 2x Oscar nominee Morton, it’s her first time working with Nolan.

The foursome join a booming ensemble that counts Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie and Charlize Theron.

Nolan’s mythic action epic, shot with new Imax cameras, is based on the ancient Greek poem by Homer which follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his perilous journey home after the Trojan War. The classic explores themes of heroism, loyalty, cunning and the struggle against divine will. The tale includes iconic stories like Odysseus’ encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens and the witch-goddess Circe,...

Gold Derby’s top news stories for Jan. 31, 2025 Reality Smash Married at First Sight heads to Peacock

The hit long-running wedding-themed reality series Married at First Sight has been snapped up by the NBCU streamer Peacock and will begin running there with its 19th season later this year. No terms were announced in the deal for the show that’s produced by Kinetic Content and Chris Coelen that originally launched in July 2014 and has run for more than 200 episodes on the A&e Networks channels. Deadline reports that there was a bidding war for the series among multiple companies interested in the format, which is one of the most popular reality formats around the world. It casts stranger couples who meet for the first time at the alter.

The 18th season of Married at First Sight, featuring couples from Chicago, premiered on Lifetime in October – the show’s home since its fifth season.

Warner Bros horror Companion leads new releases at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend in 561 cinemas.

Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star in the dark comedy about a weekend away that goes wrong when a human android, built for companionship, reveals itself. It marks the feature debut of Drew Hancock while further cast include Rupert Friend, Lukas Gage and Jaboukie Young-White.

Thatcher most recently starred in fellow horror title Heretic which surpassed £6m late last year and Quaid had a role in 2023’s Oppenheimer (£60m). Companionis produced by Zach Cregger who wrote and directed Barbarian which cracked £1m...

Jennifer Garner is headed to Peacock for the TV adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s “Five-Star Weekend.”

Garner will star in the series based on the book by “The Perfect Couple” author, which was granted a series order at the streamer, Peacock announced Monday. In the series, Garner will star as Hollis Shaw, a famed food influencer known for her delicious recipes, impeccable taste, and warm demeanor who suffers a devastating loss.

The official logline for the series is as follows: “Unable to move forward, the death starts to expose the cracks in Hollis’s picture-perfect life—her strained marriage, her complicated relationship with her daughter, and her growing pursuit of validation from her followers. In an effort to overcome grief and find herself again, Hollis gets the idea to host a weekend away at her house on Nantucket with three friends from different stages in her life: her childhood, her twenties,...

Jason Bateman, a name synonymous with versatility, has been lighting up screens for over 40 years. From his unforgettable comedic timing in rom-coms to his intense portrayal of Marty Byrde in the gripping drama Ozark, he’s proven time and again that he can do it all. But while his on-screen charm is hard to miss, there’s a lot more to this talented actor and director than meets the eye.

Jason Bateman in the sitcom Arrested Development | Credit: 20th Century Fox Television

His journey hasn’t always been smooth, but he is as inspiring as his performances. If you think you know Jason Bateman, think again. Here are ten unknown facts about the man behind the characters we all love.

10. Jason Bateman started his acting career as a child actor

Jason Bateman’s journey into acting began at a young age, long before he became the household name we know today.

How many times can the characters say “cabbages” in a movie before making you want to throw cabbages at the screen? With “Bubble & Squeak,” writer-director Evan Twohy sets out to answer that question — and little else of relevance to contemporary audiences. Not all movies need to serve up profound insights into the human condition, but the ones that don’t should at least be entertaining, and Twohy’s particular strain of absurdism is not just contrived, but deeply unfunny.

Set in a small, unnamed Slavic nation (most of which appears to have been shot in Estonia), “Bubble & Squeak” begins with a silly premise, with the interrogation (by an eccentrically disfigured Steven Yeun) of a newlywed American couple accused of smuggling cabbages into a country where the vegetables are expressly forbidden. The husband and wife are Declan (“Yesterday” star Himesh Patel) and Delores (Sarah Goldberg of “Barry” fame), a...

Emilia Pérez's Karla Sofía Gascón has just made history, becoming the first openly trans nominee for an acting Academy Award. Gascón has earned a nomination in the Best Actress race for portraying the titular character in Netflix's genre-bending (and divisive) feature. The film leads the pack with 13 nods (the most of any movie): alongside Best Actress, the film has earned nominations for Best Supporting Actress (for Zoe Saldaña who earned the Golden Globe), Cinematography, Directing (for Jacques Audiard), Adapted Screenplay, International Feature Film, Editing, Sound, Makeup and Hair, Original Score and two nominations in the Original Song category for "El Mal" and "Mi Camino."

With her historic accomplishment, Gascón joins a limited number of artists: Composer Angela Morley achieved a milestone as the first transgender person to receive Academy Award recognition. She earned nominations for her scores in 1974's The Little Prince and 1978's The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella...

The 2025 Oscar nominations were revealed bright and early Thursday morning, with Spanish-language “Emilia Pérez” topping all nominees with 13, including Best Picture.

Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays the film’s title character, lands herself in the Oscar history books as the first out trans actress to receive a nomination. Coralie Fargeat is this year’s only woman to break into the male-dominated Best Director category, for her body-horror shocker “The Substance.”

Here are notable highlights from this year’s Oscar nominations.

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Karla Sofía Gascón solidifies her place in Oscar history as the first out transgender woman to land an acting nomination. The “Emilia Pérez” star, who received a Best Actress nod, isn’t the first trans actor to be recognized by the Academy. Elliot Page, who came out as trans in 2020, was nominated for an Oscar for their lead role in “Juno” back in 2008.

Colman Domingo and Cynthia Erivo,...

Emilia Pérez first picked up Oscar buzz when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where film pundits praised the musical-drama-comedy’s leading lady, Karla Sofía Gascón’s performance. Gascón received her flowers Thursday morning making history as the first openly trans actress to earn an Oscar nomination.

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, follows a cartel leader, played by Gascon, who is in search of gender affirming surgery and seeks help from a Mexico city lawyer Rita, played by Zoe Saldaña. After becoming Emilia Perez, the former drug boss returns to Mexico,...

Karla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history Thursday as the first openly transgender actor to land an Academy Award nomination.

Gascón scored her first career nomination Thursday morning in the Best Actress category for her lead role in Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language operatic musical, “Emilia Pérez,” cementing her place in the Oscar history books.

The landmark Oscar nomination is groundbreaking for the transgender community as it marks the first time an out trans actor has broken through in a major acting category with the Academy.

Gascón isn’t the first trans actor to be recognized by the Academy, however. Elliot Page, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for their leading role in “Juno,” came out as trans through an Instagram post in December 2020, 12 years after being nominated.

The Academy has also previously nominated trans filmmakers and musicians. Composer Angela Morley was the first openly transgender Oscar nominee in 1975 for co-writing...

Critics have had mixed feelings about “Emilia Pérez.” Some praised it for its bold and unique blend of crime drama and musical elements, while others criticized it for its portrayal of Mexico and the lack of Mexican actors. Overall, it’s been a controversial film that has sparked a lot of discussions – but one thing was sure during the release – it’s going to be nominated for a lot of awards.

The Oscar nominations have dropped and the star of the movie Karla Sofía Gascón has been nominated for her role in the film. Gascón is the first openly transgender actor to get an Oscar nomination.

In the Netflix movie, Emilia (played by Gascón) is a feared drug lord who asks a lawyer, Rita (played by Zoe Saldaña), to help fake her death and get gender-affirming surgery. Variety’s main film critic, Peter Debruge, praised the film, saying Gascón “lights up” in her role.

Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón has made Oscar history. The titular Emilia Pérez star was just nominated for Best Actress, making her the first openly transgender performer ever nominated in the category. She stars in the musical as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes a gender transition but can’t fully escape her past.

This nomination is historic, but it didn’t come as a surprise. Beginning at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, Gascón and costars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz were jointly named Best Actress. Emilia Pérez was then acquired by Netflix, which released it in theaters on Nov. 1 and on its streaming platform on Nov. 13.

Since then, the film has been enthusiastically embraced by awards groups. It received 10 Golden Globe nominations, the most ever for a comedy or musical, including one for Gascón. It went on to win four of those awards, including the top prize for best film.

Karla Sofía Gascón has become the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. The Spanish star is recognized for her performance in the titular role of Jacques Audiard’s musical crime film “Emilia Pérez.”

The Netflix film follows Emilia (Gascón), a feared drug lord who seeks the help of a lawyer, Rita (Zoe Saldaña), to fake her death and undergo gender-affirming surgery. Variety‘s chief film critic Peter Debruge praised the Spanish-language film in his review, writing that Gascón “electrifies” in her role.

This isn’t Gascón’s first history-making nod this awards season: She became the first transgender woman to win the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival and was the first trans woman nominated for film acting at the Golden Globes.

Only three openly trans people have been nominated in any categories at the Oscars before: composer Angela Morley, musician Anohni and documentarian Yance Ford.

Fresh from making Golden Globes history, Karla Sofía Gascón has now become the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for a BAFTA Film Award.

The Spanish performer has been recognized in the Leading Actress category for her role in Emilia Pérez, in which she stars as a Mexican drug kingpin who transitions into a woman.

Gascón will compete for the BAFTA prize alongside five other nominees: Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun), Demi Moore (The Substance), Mikey Madison (Anora), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked).

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BAFTA counts Elliot Page as a past transgender film nominee for his role in Juno, but this was before his transition. Annie Wallace, a transgender actress, was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA Award in 2016 for her role in soap Hollyoaks.

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The Art Directors Guild has announced the nominees for its 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. The Adg Awards celebrate excellence in production design across theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films. The 2025 Cinematic Imagery Award will be presented to Academy Award®-nominated director and filmmaker Jason Reitman, whose body of work includes “Juno,” “Up in the Air” and “Saturday Night.”...

The Art Directors Guild Awards has announced the nominations for its 29th annual kudos, and all five of this year’s predicted production design Oscar nominees received bids from the guild on Thursday: The Brutalist and Gladiator II in the period race, Dune: Part Two and Wicked in the fantasy category, and Conclave in the contemporary contest.

This group, which celebrates excellence in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, and music videos, has an impressive track record for previewing the Academy Awards. Over the past 28 years, the eventual Oscar winner for Best Production Design has always numbered among the Adg nominees in the various categories, including last year when Poor Things prevailed at both events.

This year’s honors will be distributed on Feb. 15 during a ceremony hosted by comedian and actress Rachael Harris at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. (See the complete list of names below.) Final voting for guild members opens on Jan.

The Art Directors Guild has announced the nominees for its 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. Production design is all about worldbuilding, and so it’s fitting that the nominees are spread out by the kinds of worlds production designers are asked to create and the demands of their setting. The feature film nominee categories are amongst period settings, contemporary settings, and fantasy settings and the television shows are divided further by format between single-camera hourlong, half-hour, multicamera series, limited series, and TV movie, among others.

But the nominees themselves align with IndieWire’s predicted frontrunners for the Oscar category. “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked,” among others, are nominated in the fantasy feature film category, while “The Brutalist,” and “Conclave” each received nominations in period feature and contemporary feature, respectively. On the TV side, “Shōgun” continues its conquest of guild nominations with one for period single-camera series, but “Squid Game,...

The Art Directors Guild (Adg, IATSE Local 800) has announced the nominees for its 29th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, set to be held Feb. 15 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

Feature nominees include the production designers on A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Gladiator II, Nosferatu and Saturday Night in the period film category; Alien: Romulus, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Dune: Part Two, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Wicked for fantasy film; and Civil War, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Substance and Twisters in the contemporary film category.

Over the past six years, the winner of the Adg’s fantasy film prize has gone on to win the Academy Award for production design three times: Poor Things in 2024, Dune in 2022 and Black Panther in 2019. During that time, the winner of the period film prize won the production design Oscar twice: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2020 and Mank in 2021. In 2023, the...

“The Substance,” “Conclave” and “Wicked” are among the films nominated by the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) for its 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories.

The Adg divides live-action features into three categories: period feature film, fantasy feature film and contemporary feature film. “A Complete Unknown,” “The Brutalist,” “Gladiator II,” “Nosferatu” and “Saturday Night” were nominated in the period feature film category. In the fantasy film category, “Alien: Romulus, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, “Dune: Part Two,” “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and “Wicked” all landed nods. “Civil War,” Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez” and “The Substance” and “Twisters” earned contemporary film nominations.

While it’s difficult to use the Adg winners as a precursor to the Academy Awards, last year’s winner “Poor Things” (Shona Heath and James Price) went on to win the Oscar. Previously, 2023 winners “Dune” (Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos) also won the Oscar for production design.

Jonathan Kimble Simmons, aka J.K. Simmons, is the Academy Award-winning actor who first came to fame as a song-and-dance man on Broadway. He then segued to a celebrated career in television and finally began an illustrious film career that has endured for 30+ years.

Simmons was a long-time theater actor — he had a memorable turn on the 1992 Tony broadcast in a striped purple suit raising his jazz hands in a number from “Guys and Dolls” — until he made his way to television and stunned audiences as white supremacist inmate Vern Schillinger in the HBO series “Oz.” Hollywood then came calling, making a big splash in the “Spider-Man” films and capping it off by winning the Oscar, the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award for his chilling performance as a music teacher in “Whiplash.” He has since gone on to join the DC and Marvel universes.

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The nominations won’t be announced till January 9, but the Art Directors Guild has found a host for its 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. Actress Rachael Harris will command the stage for the February 15 ceremony at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

“I am honored to host the Adg Awards this year,” Harris said in a statement. “Production designers and their teams are the unsung heroes of film and television, creating the worlds we inhabit on screen. Their artistry and craftsmanship inspire me and I’m delighted to celebrate their incredible work.”

Harris most recently starred in Season 1 of Disney+’s “Goosebumps,” but you’ve seen her in everything from “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” to “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Modern Family,” “Suits,” “Happy Endings,” and as a series regular on “Lucifer.” Harris’ film credits include “The Hangover,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” trilogy, “Best in Show,” and “Natural Selection.

Deadpool & Wolverine is the second highest-grossing movie of 2024, with $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, but does that mean it should have a chance at an Academy Award? Franchise star, producer, and co-writer Ryan Reynolds thinks so and is making a case for it. As with every movie released in 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine is beginning its "For Your Consideration" campaign ahead of the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, whose nominees will be announced on Jan. 17, 2025.

While speaking with IndieWire, Reynolds explained why he believes Deadpool & Wolverine is worth consideration for an Academy Award, particularly Best Adapted Screenplay. Reynolds believes there is a genre bias against the film, not because it is a superhero movie but as a comedy, which many people dismiss as not being as important as dramatic fiction or that most of the movie was improvised. Yet Reynolds believes the movie's ability to balance both comedy and...

Sabrina Carpenter had the biggest year of her career in 2024, and she further proved herself as one of the biggest stars in music with her recent NPR Tiny Desk concert. Carpenter's 2024 album Short n' Sweet debuted at #1 on Billboard 200 and is nominated for Album of The Year at the 2025 Grammy Awards. The former Disney actress recently concluded the North American leg of her tour, which produced several viral social media moments. From covering songs like Abba's "Mamma Mia" and trying new poses during "Juno" every night, Sabrina Carpenter's tour took social media by storm.

Furthering her star power, the "Espresso" singer released a Netflix Christmas special called A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter. It included performances from Carpenter of songs off her 2023 Christmas EP, Fruitcake, as well as covers of classic Christmas songs like "Last Christmas" featuring Chappell Roan. As the year comes to a close, Carpenter has a lot to prepare for.

Netflix's new holiday action thriller Carry-On, starring Taron Edgerton and Jason Bateman, is currently dominating the site’s movie charts, with critics and viewers alike praising Bateman’s turn as a methodical villain facilitating a terrorist attack. Though he’s known primarily for his comedic roles, Carry-On isn’t the first time Bateman has played an antagonistic role, earning a SAG Award in 2023 and four Emmy nominations for his performance as the money laundering anti-hero Marty Byrde in Ozark. But if you go back further, you'll find Bateman playing a unique — and much more realistic — kind of antagonist in the 2007 coming-of-age film, Juno.

Sabrina Carpenter wants to know if NPR is hiring! The pop star packed her sultry, country-tinged Tiny Desk performance Friday with sweet storytimes of the songs on Short ‘n Sweet as she joked about the radio station’s “working environment.”

“NPR, I’ve been watching this show… everyone says this, whatever. You guys are great! You guys know you’re great!” joked Carpenter, backed by a full band and string ensemble that could barely fit in the minuscule corner cubicle.

Carpenter opened her show with “Taste,” with Carpenter showing off...