The 27th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, of which The Hollywood Reporter is a major sponsor, kicked off last night with the world premiere of Lawrence Kasdan’s charming dramedy Darling Companion, which Sony Pictures Classics will put into limited release on April 20.
By Josh Abraham
WHAT: The SAG Awards® Ceremony Online Auction benefiting the SAG Foundation’s Literacy and Emergency Assistance programs, offers collectibles from many of the nominees including George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Betty White, and the casts of “30 Rock,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Breaking Bad,” “The Descendants,” “Dexter,” “Game of Thrones,” “Glee,” “Modern Family”, and more.
By Josh Abraham
Six actresses – Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig – from the hit comedy “Bridesmaids” will be presenters at the 84th Academy Awards, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today. McCarthy received her first Oscar® nomination this year for her supporting role in the film, and Wiig also became a first-time nominee for the film’s original screenplay. All six will be making their first Oscar show appearances.
By Sean O’Connell
After more than three decades spent crafting some of the most memorable characters in film history, Gary Oldman earned his first Oscar nomination on Tuesday.
Stop for a minute and say that out loud. Gary Oldman’s first Oscar nomination. I mean, really, Academy. What took you so long.
By Josh Abraham
Super Bowl bound Tom Brady owes a lot of his success to Tom Martinez, the 68-year-old Quarterback coach from California who has mentored No. 12 since he was a boy. So its no surprise that for the past few months the star pupil has been trying to help his teacher, whos in failing health and needs a kidney transplant by asking people through the Internet including his Facebook page to go to MatchingDonors.com to be tested to see if they are a potential compatible kidney donor to Tom Martinez. “Toms a great guy and has given us great visibility,” says Paul Dooley, CEO of MatchingDonors.com, which is trying to find a kidney for Martinez.
By Josh Abraham
Nominations were announced today for the 47th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, a star-studded event produced for television by dick clark productions broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.
By Rhett Bartlett
Directed by Lucy Walker (Waste Land), with the affecting tones of Moby as the soundtrack – ‘The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom’ deserves its Oscar nomination, delivering a profoundly tragic and heartfelt documentary of ruined lives and eternal hope.
This morning’s announcement by the Academy that next year’s Oscar voting will be conducted via electronic voting — also known as “e-voting” — could have far-reaching implications.
The 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will take place on Sunday evening. I’ve already shared my picks and rationale for the eight TV categories; now it’s time to tackle the five film categories!
As was inevitably going to be the case, this morning’s Oscar nominations announcement made a lot of talent, publicists, and studios very happy, but also baffled and disappointed just as many if not more. Here’s an in-depth, category-by-category look at the highest-profile “snubs”…