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Ya se ha desvelado el primer tráiler y póster de la película Ella McCay, escrita y dirigida por James L. Brooks, uno de los nombres más influyentes de la comedia dramática hollywoodense.

En Ella McCay, una joven política idealista hace malabarismos con sus problemas familiares y su difícil vida laboral mientras se prepara para ocupar el puesto de su mentor, el gobernador en funciones del estado desde hace años.

La película, una comedia sobre las personas que amas y cómo sobrevivir a ellas, reúne a un reparto de lujo que incluye a Emma Mackey (Barbie), Jamie Lee Curtis (La noche de Halloween), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses), Kumail Nanjiani (La gran enfermedad del amor), Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), Spike Fearn (Alien: Romulus), Rebecca Hall (The Studio), Julie Kavner (Los Simpson), Becky Ann Baker (Jackpot!), Joey Brooks...

Whoever coined the proverb, “You can pick your friends but not your family,” was onto something. There’s no end to the aggravation family can cause, and Emma Mackey‘s Ella McCay is about to discover how difficult it is to get ahead when people you left behind pop back into your life. James L. Brooks returns to the director’s chair after a 15-year hiatus, with today’s Ella McCay trailer highlighting his latest effort for the silver screen.

Ella McCay stars Sex Education and Barbie actress Emma Mackey as Ella, a woman who’s fought for everything she’s achieved throughout her emotionally turbulent life as a lawyer turned political figure. Jamie Lee Curtis plays Ella’s supportive aunt, while Woody Harrelson plays Ella’s estranged father, who pops back into her life at the most inopportune time. Rebecca Hall plays Ella’s late mother, with Jack Lowden,...

James L. Brooks is finally back directing, exactly 15 years after his last film.

Brooks returns with “Ella McCay” after 2010’s “How Do You Know.” The Academy Award-winning writer/director helms the original film, which stars Emma Mackey as a lawyer spanning years of her life. Jamie Lee Curtis plays her supportive aunt, while Woody Harrelson is Ella’s (Mackey) wayward father, and Rebecca Hall is her late mother.

Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Fearn, Julie Kavner, Becky Ann Baker, Joey Brooks, and Albert Brooks also star.

The logline for “Ella McCay” reads: “An idealistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the people you love and how to survive them.” The film is also set in 2008.

Brooks told The Hollywood Reporter that he wanted “Ella McCay” to capture the excitement of politics in the early 2000s. “The film is set in 2008, before we had this enormous division,...

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"Star Trek: Voyager" was a big deal for Paramount back in 1995. It was the first new "Star Trek" show to launch after the conclusion of the powerhouse "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1994, leaving it and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" — the "new kids" on the block — to fend for themselves. What's more, the premiere of "Voyager" also launched Paramount's new TV network, Upn, a massively ambitious media venture that, it was hoped, would provide legitimate competition for the other major TV players of the era. Upn ended up crashing and burning after a decade, but "Voyager" eventually found a respectably sized audience. This was, however, after several years of struggling, and several instances of recasting.

Most notably, "Star Trek: Voyager" had trouble finding a captain. The show's central character was to be named Captain Elizabeth Janeway, and she was...

Dick Cavett is still miffed about a publicity stunt 50 years later. The iconic talk show host, who led his own eponymous series for decades, visited the Criterion Closet (in the below video) to reminisce about a few of his most beloved films — and most infamous moments on his series.

Cavett recalled how the cast of “Husbands” were some of the most “crappy” guests on “The Dick Cavett Show” in 1970. Actors Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, and John Cassavetes, who also directed the film, appeared on Cavett’s show on September 18, 1970. The trio pretended to faint, stripped off their socks, and had a meandering discussion onstage. Watch it here. Apparently, it was so bad that Cassavetes preemptively blamed whether or not “Husbands” flopped in theaters on the talk show appearance.

“That’s the movie that these three guys came on and made total asses of themselves. You can find it online: ‘The...

Sensitivity Warning: This article explores the evolving conversations around representation in Hollywood, including historically harmful practices of casting today. Its purpose is to reflect on where we’ve been- and where we’re going. The Question The most recent use of blackface in an American film I can think of is in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ where it’s deployed in a genius twist of satire: a white, Australian method actor (played by Robert Downey Jr.) undergoes a pigment-altering surgery to play an African-American man. To this day, the comedy catches major flack- arguably more flack than the character receives within the world of the movie- essentially being derided for what some argue is the fundamental reprehensibility of blackface, even when used as a device to mock the offensive practice itself. Alternatively, blackface has been employed metatextually, for the sake of misunderstanding- a fundamental comedic device that dates back to the Greeks.

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The official trailer for Edgar Wright-helmed The Running Man has been unveiled. The high-octane, action-packed adventure stars Glen Powell and Josh Brolin. It is based on Stephen King’s classic dystopian novel of the same name.

What Is The Running Man About?

As seen in the trailer, the movie is set in a near-future society obsessed with spectacle and survival. It follows Ben Richards (Powell), a desperate father who wants to secure life-saving treatment for his daughter. In order to reach his goal, Ben volunteers for a brutal reality TV deathmatch.

The show, titled The Running Man, challenges contestants to survive for 30 days on the run across a surveilled nation, hunted by professional killers and civilians, and offers a $1 billion winning prize. The movie’s trailer already teases high-stakes action sequences and a gripping storyline.

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Do You Know The Unusual Story Behind Katharine Hepburn & Peter O’Toole’s Lifelong Friendship? (Photo Credit – Prime Video/Wikipedia)

Katharine Hepburn had zero tolerance for stupid behavior. If someone came off to her as unprepared or unworthy, she let them know it. It was said at that time that Hepburn’s sharp tongue could cut through ego without hesitation and that fierce clarity made her a legend, especially when she stood firm against old Hollywood standards or wore pants like it was no one’s business but her own. It also meant she wasn’t the easiest person to work with unless you had a thick skin and confidence to spare.

An Awkward First Meeting Between Katharine Hepburn & Peter O’Toole

Through most of her career, Hepburn matched energies only with actors who could hold their own. She fiercely respected Spencer Tracy and worked best with performers with their own sense of control.

The third and final season of Squid Game just dropped on Netflix, and it has a lot of what you'd expect from the show, namely bloody mayhem as a new crop of cash-strapped individuals play deadly children's games until one finally takes home the grand prize...or doesn't, you'll have to watch to find out for sure.

While I'm not willing to spoil everything about the ending, there's one thing I have to talk about. The final scene of the show is set in Los Angeles. We see a person in a suit playing a game of ddakji — that's the game where you throw down a heavy piece of folded paper onto the ground in an attempt to flip another piece of paper upside-down — with some random dude. This is how ordinary people get recruited into the Squid Games; the person in the suit is a recruiter, and the dude...

You really want to play a round of ddakji right now?! Up to you, but you should definitely stop reading straight away if you're not caught up on the full third and final season of "Squid Game," including the final moments of the series finale. Spoilers ahead!

In October of 2024, we learned that David Fincher, one of the sharpest and most revered directors of his generation, is "quietly working" on a spin-off of "Squid Game," Hwang Dong-hyuk's wildly popular South Korean series that became an international sensation when it hit the streamer back in 2021. Now that the original show has concluded after three seasons, we're definitely going to see the "Squid Game" universe keep expanding further and further; even beyond Fincher's alleged project, we could get a prequel at some point or, say, a spin-off centered around a major character like Lee Byung-hun's Front Man. With all of that said,...

During her storied multi-decade tenure at ABC News, Barbara Walters could always be trusted to book the high-profile interviews — and secure the exclusive scoops — that few other journalists could get. Now, a buzzy new documentary is telling us everything about the late broadcaster's own life and career, from the friends she made, the criticisms she endured and the romances that formed and fizzled in the public eye.

Following its premiere at the Tribeca Festival last month, Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything launched on Hulu on Monday. Directed by Jackie Jesko, the film shows how Walters' intense drive propelled her rise to the top of the TV news game. But that ambition also led to a strained relationship with the people in her life, including her daughter, Jacqueline Dena Guber, who declined to appear on-camera.

In a recent interview, Jesko says that she took direction for how to approach her subject's...

In classic film circles, “Bringing Up Baby” is just one of those movies that everybody knows about. It’s Cary Grant. It’s Katharine Hepburn. It’s Howard Hawks. All “Old Hollywood For Dummies” buzz words. But the movie — a notorious flop upon release — is a historical curiosity not because it is a cute, zany screwball comedy of a bygone era — though it is. “Bringing Up Baby” just happens to have what is likely first usage in film of the word “gay” to mean something other than happy. At least we think it does.

“My understanding is that by the time ‘Bringing Up Baby’ came out, the word ‘gay’ was known in some circles to mean homosexual,” TCM host Dave Karger said during a recent interview with IndieWire. “And the story goes that Cary Grant ad libbed that line. So, I would like to think that he that Cary Grant...

In a field that was once dominated by men in every way, Barbara Walters managed to single-handedly pave the way for women, becoming one of the most renowned journalists and television news broadcasters of all time. She is also responsible for creating the women-led talk show that everyone still loves to this day, The View. In her career, Barbara Walters had interviewed every sitting President and First Lady, as well as a variety of people like Katharine Hepburn and Saddam Hussein.

It’s safe to say that Barbara Walters was a force to be reckoned with. On December 30, 2022, the journalist left the world at the age of 93. Here’s what caused her death and what happened to her $175 million fortune.

Barbara Walters’ declining health Barbara Walters in a still from Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything trailer | Credits: Hulu

From ABC News to Today, Barbara Walters left her mark on every corner of broadcast journalism,...

Do movie stars still exist? Film journalists, cinephiles, and producers have been debating this point for over a decade, declaring the movie star extinct.

But throughout the 2010s, Hollywood leaned into intellectual properties and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while original films starring A-list talents like Jennifer Lawrence (“Passengers”), Johnny Depp (“The Lone Ranger”), and Will Smith (“Gemini Man”) flopped, and gradually everybody seemed to be lining up to pay their respects at the grave of the movie star.

They’ve blamed the death on Hollywood’s hunger for IP, the erasure of the mid-budget movie, and the rise of television. But many of these arguments miss the forest for the trees: We not only still have movie stars today, but stardom today is very similar to what it was in the Golden Age of Hollywood. The film industry is not post-movie stars, and big-name actors still influence audiences’ viewing habits and films’ financial success.

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John Wayne was a terribly opinionated man who sometimes gave voice to some truly terrible opinions. The politically conservative movie star, who skipped out on World War II while several of his equally famous peers, like Henry Fonda and James Stewart, bravely served, did not think highly of people who looked and lived differently than he did. It's practically cliche at this point to cite the notorious interview he gave to Playboy in 1971, but it is impossible to responsibly consider the man's life without noting that he believed "in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility." In the same conversation, he also called "Midnight Cowboy," which won Best Picture in 1969, "a story about two f***." Roger Ebert once wrote that Wayne was profoundly "unenlightened," which leaves open the possibility that he might've been less of...

Max Clayton will star as C.K. Dexter Haven in Ogunquit Playhouse’s reimagining of High Society. The production will run from July 24 – August 23. High Society features music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Arthur Kopit, with additional Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. High Society takes Philip Barry's beloved comedy The Philadelphia Story and weaves in the sophisticated elegance of Cole Porter’s music. Centered on the taming of the brazen young socialite Tracy Lord, the characters made famous by Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart in George Kukor’s Oscar-winning 1940 film were given new life in 1956 by Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra in the musical adaptation. <br...

Marion Morrison belongs on the Mount Rushmore of movie stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Never heard of him? We bet you have. He went by John Wayne. The American Film Institute inexplicably put him at number 13 on their list of 100 Biggest Stars (what were they smoking and where can we get some?). Sure, we love Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and Cary Grant too, but you won't see their mugs at highway gas stations nationwide splattered on every sort of memorabilia you can imagine. John Wayne, and John Wayne alone, was more than a movie star. He was a symbol of the country he called home, with all of its greatness and contradictions. These roles are the reason why.

This is not "John Wayne's Best Movies," though naturally there's considerable overlap. Sure, these are great movies, but we're not ranking the film's overall quality. This is about Wayne's work.

“Twin Peaks” actors Ray Wise (Leland Palmer), Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran), Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan), and Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer) along with “Twin Peaks: The Return” executive producer Sabrina S. Sutherland will embark on a US tour for a “Conversation with the Stars.”

They’ll share first-hand recollections and behind-the-scenes stories on the East Coast in August before heading to the West Coast in October. Lee will only be in attendance for the October dates.

The events include a special video tribute to co-creator David Lynch. Photos and autographs are also available for an additional fee.

“David was very happy that we were going to have this cast tour to celebrate Twin Peaks with the fans all around the U.S.,” Sutherland told THR. “It’s sad that I won’t be able to call him each night to let him know how the show went as I had promised.

Billy Williams, the esteemed British cinematographer who shared an Oscar for shooting Gandhi and also was nominated for his work on the Glenda Jackson-starring Women in Love and Henry Fonda’s final film, On Golden Pond, has died. He was 96.

Williams’ death was announced in British Cinematographer magazine. No details on the cause of death were provided.

“With deep sorrow, we bid farewell to Billy Williams — an outstanding British cinematographer, laureate of the ‘Golden Frog’ for exceptional achievements in the art of cinematography at the Camerimage Festival in 2000,” tweeted the official X account of Camerimage, the Poland-based film festival dedicated to cinematography.

Williams also served as the director of photography on John Milius’ The Wind and the Lion (1975), Stuart Rosenberg’s Voyage of the Damned (1976), Martin Brest’s Going in Style (1979) and Peter Yates’ Suspect (1987).

The London native received an early career break when he was hired for Ken Russell...

Barry Diller has one request before settling in on his living room sofa for a two-and-a-half-hour interview about the juicy revelations in his new tell-all memoir, Who Knew. “Don’t write about my house,” he says. “Don’t describe the decor.”

Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk

Consider it done. No mention here of the serene, unostentatious Beverly Hills mansion tucked behind a gate, the site of his annual Oscar party. Not a word about the furnishings, some of them chosen by his late friend Sandy Gallin — the manager to Michael Jackson and Dolly Parton and charter member of what Mike Ovitz once dickishly derided as the “velvet mafia.” Color schemes? Fabric choices? Forget it. This is a safe space.

Everything else, though, is fair game. Diller’s marriage to Diane von Furstenberg. His romantic entanglements with men over the years. His close alliances and bitter battles with Hollywood legends from David Geffen...

Marlon Brando & Jack Nicholson Smiling Together (Photo Credit – Wikipedia)

Marlon Brando, by the early 70s, was back in the spotlight. After years of erratic behavior and fading relevance, he clawed his way back with a powerhouse performance as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather and followed it up with the bold and divisive Last Tango in Paris.

Hollywood, the never-forgiving movie industry, which had once rolled its eyes at his antics, now praised him again as the gold standard.

Jack Nicholson: The Wild New Star On Brando’s Radar

Around that same time, Brando noticed a younger face rising fast. He was a wild one with a sharp mind who was not following the usual Hollywood script. He had turned down the role of Michael Corleone, citing his non-Italian roots, and instead veered toward films that broke rules, such as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, and The Last Detail (all...

Exclusive: You haven’t really made it as a mogul until you’ve written a memoir. Few rise to that rarefied space and have lasted there as long as has Barry Diller, a first-ballot Hall of Fame exec whose Simon & Schuster memoir Who Knew I happened to lay hands on. It hits bookshelves Tuesday.

It takes a special set of skills and accomplishments to make one care enough to read one of these. Deadline has heard that Ari Emanuel, of WME, Endeavor, UFC and WWE fame, might be quietly writing one of these with J.R. Moehringer, the Pulitzer winner who fashioned his life into The Tender Bar and who ghost-wrote Prince Harry’s Spare. The agency has ghosted us on numerous inquiries, but if true, that tale would also qualify as a future must-read. I’d buy it just for an honest explanation of how he got the brain trust...

Mission: Impossible Or James Bond: Which Film Had The Biggest Explosion? ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia )

When it comes to massively mounted, slickly choreographed, and (literally) explosive action sequences, both Mission: Impossible and James Bond films have proved their mettle in the past. But one of these films has created a unique world record for the biggest explosion in a movie. Was it a Mission: Impossible film starring Tom Cruise, or a James Bond flick featuring Daniel Craig?

The Film With The Biggest Explosion Record

The record for the biggest explosion in a film is held by Daniel Craig’s Spectre, the 24th film in the James Bond series. According to a report by Cbr, in an action sequence in the movie, when James Bond and Madeleine Swann (played by Léa Seydoux) escape the base of Blofeld, they blow up the entire compound. This took a whopping 8,418 litres of kerosene, making it...

Se7en Movie Original Ending Fight(Photo Credit –Netflix)

David Fincher’s Se7en, if seen from a modern lens, stands not only as a defining work in the director’s career but as one of the most enduring American thrillers ever made. While Fincher, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and even Kevin Spacey tend to steal most of the spotlight in public memory, the film owes its entire existence to the quiet brilliance of Andrew Kevin Walker. His name may not echo as loudly as the stars, but without him, none of it would’ve existed.

Andrew Kevin Walker: A Career Hinged On One Script

Walker had no significant credits to his name back in the early ’90s. Se7en was his big leap, a script written out of frustration during his time in New York and crafted with a raw edge that sliced through the typical Hollywood formula.

It wasn’t...

Katharine Hepburn Was Once Called Box Office Poison—Here’s How She Staged Her Comeback(Photo Credit –Wikimedia)

Katharine Hepburn stepped into Hollywood with a fire that couldn’t be ignored. In a time when the silver screen was shaping the dreams of millions, she carved her path instead of following the trends. Her fierce presence in A Bill of Divorcement lit a fire under the decade, and soon, she was everywhere. Films like Morning Glory and Little Women only further cemented her place in the spotlight. But stardom, especially in Hollywood’s Golden Age, was never guaranteed to last. That same spotlight could turn harsh, and tragically, by the end of the 1930s, it did.

Katharine Hepburn’s Shine Began to Fade

The industry shifted fast, and Hepburn’s films no longer drew crowds. Her films, such as Sylvia Scarlett, Mary of Scotland, and The Little Minister, failed to capture the box office.

James Stewart, more affectionately known as "Jimmy" to his fans, was an Oscar-winning performer who became famous for his polite, gentle screen persona, often playing the aww-shucks boy next door. Yet he also showed his range with a series of performances that found him playing against type. Let's take a look back at 25 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1908, Stewart earned his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor for playing an idealistic young senator in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), which firmly established him as the patron saint of the common man. He clinched his one and only victory the very next year for "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), playing a tabloid reporter who stumbles into the marital strife of a high society couple (Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant).

After serving in WWII, Stewart returned home to play George Bailey, a businessman contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve, in...

The Museum of Modern Art is spring cleaning its archives for a special ode to Old Hollywood. The exhibit “Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography,” which will open June 28, 2025 and be on display through June 21, 2026, features the best studio shots of iconic stars such as Clara Bow, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Taylor, Harry Belafonte, and more.

This is the first major exhibition of Hollywood studio portraiture to be showcased from the Museum Department of Film’s film stills archive since 1993. “Face Value” will feature over 200 works from 1921 to 1996, with studio photography of Joan Crawford, Louis Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louise Brooks, Mia Farrow, Dennis Hopper, Lena Horne, Buster Keaton, Anna May Wong, W. C. Fields, Hattie McDaniel, Lupe Velez, Mae West, Bela Lugosi, Carmen Miranda, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, Spencer Tracy, and Oprah Winfrey, in addition to the aforementioned stars. Historical figures such as Jackie Robinson, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,...

To celebrate actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who has been a part of a myriad of excellent projects from the Hindi and South industries, Subhash K Jha lists her best performances… so far!

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Samantha rocked Rajamouli’s show long before Baahubali. This is a love triangle with a twist. It’s a story of a man, a woman, and…a fly! By now, we’ve all heard of Rajamouli’s Eega cracking box office records in Tamil. The Hindi version comes to us with a tremendous pre-release expectations. Shall we just say, we were Eega to see this film? On paper, Makkhi must have sounded like a corny adventure saga about a fly’s vendetta spree against a man who would go to any lengths to win over a girl who rebuffs his every gesture. Sudeep’s effectual destruction by the fly has to be seen to be believed.

Some may not remember it, but the Shonda Rhimes Era of television was a beautiful time.

Before One Chicago and FBI, the person who dominated an entire three-hour block of television was none other than the queen of drama and procurer of All the feels, Ms. Shonda Rhimes.

We lament appointment TV all the time, as it’s something we rarely see these days, but no one had an entire demographic of people in a proverbial chokehold quite like Shonda Rhimes on a Thursday night.

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Seriously, there were weekly watch parties for Scandal. And Grey’s Anatomy? It was the exact type of series you gossiped about the next day.

Don’t get me started on How to Get Away with Murder, and how scandalous it was, as well as how often many of us would find ourselves reciting lines like we had the script in hand.

Ahem,...

Top 5 Martin Scorsese movies that slayed at Box Office (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

While Martin Scorsese films often tackle gritty, thought-provoking themes, he’s also proven to be a force at the box office. From mobsters to saints, and from the streets of New York to the heights of Hollywood, Scorsese’s career has spanned decades of commercial hits that showcase his genius in both storytelling and visual artistry.

Sure, he’s been known for pushing boundaries and making films that aren’t always designed for mass appeal, but there’s no denying his impact on both critics and audiences alike. Some of his films are as revered for their craft as they are for their box office success. So, grab your popcorn and buckle up as we dive into the top 5 Scorsese flicks that made the most money at the worldwide box office, because even legends need a little box-office love!

Spencer Tracy was the two-time Oscar winner starred in a variety of classics before his death in 1967, including nine films opposite fellow legend Katharine Hepburn. Let's take a look back at 20 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Tracy pulled off the rare hat-trick of winning back-to-back Best Actor Oscars, first for his performance as a Portuguese sailor in "Captains Courageous" (1937), then for playing a dedicated priest helping wayward youths in "Boys Town" (1938). It's a feat that would only be repeated once more in this category by Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia" in 1993 and "Forrest Gump" in 1994).

Tracy would compete seven more times in the category: "San Francisco" (1936), "Father of the Bride" (1950), "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), "The Old Man and the Sea" (1958), "Inherit the Wind" (1960), "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" (1967), which was recognized posthumously.

He's perhaps best remembered for starring in nine films with Hepburn, starting...

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They did things differently back in the early days of Hollywood. It all started humbly with the development of "talkies" when synchronized sound was introduced in 1927's The Jazz Singer. The train didn't stop here, however, as new groundbreaking film technologies have been discovered every single year since. From Technicolor, Eastman color, and digital cinema, all the way to 3D and even 4D. The cinema experience is becoming more visually striking and immersive by the second, and it doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon. Despite these advancements making film an interesting medium to track the growth of, some can't help but be nostalgic for the olden days. Fans and filmmakers alike are concerned that these new advancements strip the filmmaking process of the love that made...

David Lean was born on March 25, 1908. The Oscar-winning director became famous for a series of visual striking, technically ambitious epics, but how many of those titles remain classics? In honor of his birthday, let's take a look back at all 16 of his films, ranked worst to best.

Lean cut his teeth as a film editor, cutting a number of prominent movies including "49th Parallel" (1941) and "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" (1942) for his contemporary, Michael Powell. He transitioned into directing, working alongside acclaimed playwright Noel Coward with "In Which We Serve" (1942). The WWII Naval epic was a joint venture for the two, with Coward (who also wrote and starred) handling the acting scenes and Lean tackling the action sequences.

He earned his first Oscar nominations for writing and directing "Brief Encounter" (1945), a big screen version of Coward's play about two strangers (Trevor Howard and Best Actress nominee Celia Johnson) who...

John Wayne was one of the biggest movie stars in the history of the medium, but because he reigned during the 1940s, 1950s, and some of the 1960s, he was not a beneficiary of franchise filmmaking. This was a blessing, as it allowed the star to entrust his coarse brand of heroism to great filmmakers like John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Don Siegel, all of whom were free to tweak his persona within reason while not being yoked to an ongoing narrative arc that forced them to color inside pre-determined lines. Look at it this way: instead of Wayne and Ford making a series of Ringo Kid movies after the success of 1939's "Stagecoach," they were able to re-team on original stories like "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," and "The Searchers," which challenged the Duke to play different kinds of hard men facing different kinds of dilemmas.

When...

Earning more than one Academy Award during a career is a surprising rarity for actors. Katharine Hepburn holds the record of four Oscars, while the rare feat of winning three rests with Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Walter Brennan, Meryl Streep, Ingrid Bergman, and Frances McDormand. For filmmakers themselves, it is a bit of a different metric, as the ones behind the camera push all aspects of the production. A win for a film is often attributed, in part, to their work.

Steven Spielberg's work has been monumental in defining the modern face of cinema, and the success of his films at the Academy Awards reflects this unparalleled career over five decades, starting when Jaws became his first film to win an Oscar. Fifty years of excellence seem challenging to beat, yet one director's films won more Oscars within four decades: William Wyler. Let's compare the impressive records of the two cinema titans.

Best Actor Oscar Winners List (Photo Credit – Instagram/Wikipedia)

The Academy Awards have long vaunted acting titans, and a rare few male actors have commandeered the Best Actor statuette more than once, with Daniel Day-Lewis scaling the peak thrice. From living legends like Tom Hanks to recent winners such as Adrien Brody, 10 men are trailing Day-Lewis’ record. Here is every name with two or more wins in this hallowed category.

1. Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Day-Lewis stands alone with three Best Actor Oscars, a feat no other man has matched. His wins were facilitated thanks to dramatic transformations for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln—roles that exhibit him as an unforgettable chameleon. The Irish actor has retired since 2017’s Phantom Thread, but his five nominations out of fewer than a couple dozen movies certainly make us wonder whether Day-Lewis could come back for that gold once again...

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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The debut scores for Daredevil: Born Again on Rotten Tomatoes are revealed.

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...

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The 97th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 2, 2025. It will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The event will be live-streamed in India on Monday in the wee hours of 5 A.M. on March 3, 2025. There are only a few hours left, so the red carpet has been rolled out, champagnes have been kept on ice, celebs are getting ready to turn heads with their glamorous looks, and we are waiting for the new batch of Oscar winners.

Conan O’Brien is going to host the event this year. Everyone is anticipating the big night to celebrate the huge wins. Before the celebration for this year begins, here’s a list of actresses, from Meryl Streep and Jane Fonda to Katharine Hepburn and others, who have won the maximum number of Oscars over the years. Scroll ahead.

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Mrs. Miniverwas a sensation when it was released in 1942, providing a patriotic tonic to a nation that had just entered the Second World War. The highest-grossing film of its year, it earned 12 Academy Award nominations and won six, including Best Picture, spawned a sequel, and turned its stars Greer Garson (who won Best Actress) and Walter Pidgeon into a bonafide box-office duo that rivaled Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Yet how many people talk about it today, aside from citing it (unfairly) as an example of Oscar bait? Those willing to rediscover it might be surprised to find that it's far from sentimental awards fodder, but rather a somber look at the human cost of war.

American Horror Storystar and Hollywood icon Jessica Lange confirms she will not be returning to the hit anthology series.

Per Deadline, Lange shot down the possibility of returning to American Horror Story during a recent appearance at the Glasgow Film Festival for the premiere of director Jonathan Kent's feature film adaptation of playwright Eugene O'Neil's Long Day’s Journey Into Night. When asked about a potential return to the series, Lange responded with an emphatic "Oh Christ, no." Lange added, "I mean, I haven't done it for more than 10 years, 12 years, so, no, I'm not doing it." When asked if the series' upcoming thirteenth season potentially being its last had any impact on her decision, Lange replied with a simple, "No."

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Winning one Oscar is already a big achievement, and winning more than one Oscar is pretty impressive. Even more impressive is winning two Oscars in back-to-back years, which is something only 16 people have done, including the likes of Spencer Tracy, Tom Hanks, and Katharine Hepburn. So what could be more impressive than that? Winning three Oscars in consecutive years, which is something that only one person has done, and that person was Emmanuel Lubezki. From 2014 to 2016, he was the undisputed king of Hollywood cinematographers, unloading three straight Sistine Chapel-level works that stand as the pinnacle of his staggering career.

We all call the Academy Awards "the Oscars," but have you ever stopped and considered why? Much like everyone has gotten into the colloquial habit of calling all bandages "Band-Aids," referring to Hollywood's highest honor as an Oscar has become a sort of no-brainer. "The Oscars" is a nickname nearly almost as old as the awards show itself.

However, there was a time when those handsome 8-and-1/2-pound statues of gold were exclusively known as the Academy of Awards of Merit. The history of how "Oscar" burst onto the scene is a somewhat contested one, and there are a few different origin stories to tell. Read on to learn how Oscar was born before the 97th Oscars stream this Sunday, March 2nd at 7:00 p.m. E.T.

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The first Academy Awards were on May 16, 1929, shortly after the establishment of the Academy of Motion Picture...

The Academy Awards have honored legendary actors like Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sidney Poitier, Al Pacino and Katharine Hepburn. They also once nominated the Bass-o-Matic guy.

It’s easy to forget that Dan Aykroyd was nominated for an Oscar back in 1990, thanks to his work in a certain 1989 film — no, not Ghostbusters II. Although, if there was a “Best Performance By An Actor Pretending to Drive a Slime-Covered Statue of Liberty With a Nintendo Controller” category, he would have been a shoo-in.

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Aykroyd was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for playing Jessica Tandy’s son in Driving Miss Daisy. Today the movie is generally considered to be one of the worst Best Picture winners in Oscars history, a tone-deaf exploration of racism whose primary focus was to alleviate white guilt. Making its shortcomings all the more glaring was the fact that Spike Lee’s more challenging, nuanced take on contemporary race relations,...

For 94 years, the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, have celebrated and honored some of the greatest artists in film of our time. Even though the future looks bright for women and minorities, it is no secret that film endures as a male-dominated industry and that there is a lack of recognition of many female actors and artists' talents. Despite these circumstances, exceptionally talented women such as Edith Head, Katharine Hepburn, and Meryl Streep have never failed to put their abilities to practice and were deservedly critically acclaimed for it in return.

When Halle Berry made her big-screen debut as the crack-addicted Vivian in the most harrowing section of Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever," she put the entire world on notice that she was going to be an actor first and a movie star second. Obviously, she would quickly learn early in her career to play the Hollywood game and accept thinly-written roles that asked her to do little more than look like one of the most breathtakingly beautiful people on the planet, but she never went more than a year or two without challenging herself. This was particularly difficult to do, given the dearth of complex roles being written for Black women at the time.

Berry was 10 years into her film acting career when she landed the role that would change everything for her. As Leticia Musgrove in Marc Forster's bleak 2001 drama "Monster's Ball," she summoned up a fierce symphony of heartbreak,...

Over the last few years, the Oscars have had their fair share of notable, eye-catching moments, from Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's little oopsie when they inadvertently announced the wrong winner for Best Picture to "Parasite" dominating to Will Smith and the infamous slap. But while moments like "La La Land" briefly taking the Best Picture Oscar from "Moonlight" are as unforgettable as they are awkward, they only tiptoe so close to the precipice of absolute, wild insanity. It's not as if "La La Land" actually did steal an Oscar away, for example. And it's not as if a film or person has won an Oscar only to lose it. 

As unprecedented as that sounds, though, you only have to cast your gaze as far back as the 1969 Oscars ceremony to glimpse some truly jaw-dropping one-time events. For instance, that's the year when the Best Actress Oscar went to...

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Connecticut is one of the smallest, and more anonymous, of the 50 American states. With New York to the west of us and Boston to the east, the Nutmeg State has an unavoidable vibe of being stuck between two actually interesting places. I'm a lifelong Connecticuter, but I can't say we share the same fervor of statewide pride as, say, Texas does.

If we have a statewide reputation, it's for being a (new) haven of rich, sleepy suburbs — so no surprise that many of your favorite actors have settled in Connecticut. We gave Hollywood Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, Meg Ryan, Paul Giamatti, Seth MacFarlane, and many more. Plus, the stereotypes of the state make it a favorite for dramas and/or comedies (often both in one film) tackling suburban ennui. There's no real town named Stars Hollow, but "Gilmore Girls" gets the Nutmeg mood right.

With the much-anticipated Oscars night quickly approaching, it's only natural to look back on some significant winners from the past. Since the esteemed ceremony's inception in 1929, plenty of filmmakers, actors, and movies have set several long-standing records. The most awards won by a single film is a three-way tie between Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — each earning a remarkable 11 wins. Katharine Hepburn set the record for Best Actress with four Oscars, Parasite was the first non-English film to win Best Picture, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki has taken home three consecutive awards for his work in Gravity, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), and The Revenant.

While these artists and their films are undoubtedly award-worthy, there are some winners audiences may not realize have maintained their records for decades. One of those Oscar-recipients is Batman v. Superman actor Ben Affleck. In 1997, alongside co-writer and actor Matt Damon,...

Best Actress is consistently one of the most interesting categories in any Academy Awards ceremony. Not only is it usually far more interesting than its male counterpart—largely thanks to the abundance of rich female performances in any given year—but it has also presented some of the most exciting races in the ceremony's history. From Katharine Hepburn versus Barbra Streisand in 1969 to Viola Davis versus Meryl Streep in 2012, Best Actress has been home to some brilliant showdowns that have gone on in Oscar history.