“I don’t believe in competition in my field, because we are comparing different roles,” Youn said. “I’m just lucky tonight. Luckier than the other nominees.” Youn was also asked backstage about collaborating with “Minari” Plan B executive producer Brad Pitt, whom she met for the first time on Sunday night during the Oscars show, and what kind of film she’d want to next team with him on. “It will never happen with my English....
Some categories, like Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Best Actor in a Drama, even had multiple nominees from the same show; four of the seven slots in the former category were taken up by actresses from “The White Lotus.” It was proof of a core problem when it comes to issues of nominee diversity: Not only were the voters not looking at different actors for nominations, they also weren’t watching nearly as much television to begin with, preferring instead to stick with a few popular shows as opposed to spreading the love....
“Billions” star Asia Kate Dillon read off the nominations, led by “The Bear,” “Pachinko,” “The Porter,” “Severance,” and “Station Eleven” in the Best New Scripted Series category. On the new non-scripted or documentary series side, “Children of the Underground,” “Mind Over Murder,” “Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?,” “The Rehearsal,” and “We Need to Talk About Cosby” earned top noms. This is the first Independent Spirit Awards ceremony with gender-neutral acting categories. TV star Dillon, who identifies as non-binary, has advocated for gender-neutral award shows....
Ahead of their respective upfronts, networks are supposed to reveal their new fall schedules. While NBC followed the rules (and tradition), Fox left us hanging. Still, mere hours into the 2022 broadcast upfront week, we’ve already got some winners and losers; guess where Fox ranks with the whole schedule holdup? (We suppose it’s fair to say that any show making the fall slate is a winner to some degree. Don’t agree?...
Delivering sumptuous visuals of a different ilk is “A Suitable Boy,” a six-part BBC miniseries set in 1950s India, during the country’s first years of independence from British colonial rule. The entire series was directed by Mira Nair, the Oscar-nominated Indian-American filmmaker who achieved international renown with her 2001 Golden Lion winner “Monsoon Wedding.” Nair’s involvement has attracted an impressive cast of Indian screen stars, and she does an excellent job of wrangling the many supporting characters and emphasizing the more humorous elements in the script....
Zhao recently sat down with Iñárritu for a conversation about directing at Bardo Experience, a Netflix event promoting Iñárritu’s new film “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” which represents Mexico in the International Feature Oscar race this year. The topic eventually turned to the future of cinema as an art form, with Zhao predicting that the future can be bright as long as filmmakers don’t play things safe. Watch the full conversation in the video below....
In an interview with Wired discussing her career and meme-spawning new film, “M3GAN,” the former “Girls” star candidly discusses her approach to press duties and how she handles being the daughter of former news anchor Brian Williams. “It doesn’t feel like a loss to admit it,” she said of being a working actor with famous parents. “If you trust your own skill, I think it becomes very simple to acknowledge.” Williams’ career proves her point; elsewhere in the interview, she shared that her “M3GAN” contract negotiations to play the creator of the titular AI being — intended to take care of her newly orphaned niece before going on a bloody rampage — came with the offer of an executive producer role, one that she threw herself into with enthusiasm....
