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JON FROSCH As we reconvene for our annual back-and-forth about the year's greatest film performances, I'm struck by how many of my faves found actors playing characters who range from [...]

ACTRESS LINDSEY MCKEON HAD long sensed that something was wrong. That she'd lost herself, been led astray. Like others before her, and many after her, it's why she ultimately left [...]

Well-versed in the modern period drama with a twist, director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Favourite) had a simple edict for the costume design of Poor Things. As British costume designer [...]

The Oscar-winning actress, who at the time had just launched her retail company Draper James, is in the center, outfitted preposterously with a vacuum, an apron and an evening gown. [...]

THR film critics welcome Adam Driver to the pantheon of greats, debate J.Lo's Hustlers hype, pledge allegiance to Timothee Chalamet and celebrate career bests (Antonio Banderas), breakouts (Taylor Russell) and [...]

As THR's annual Actress Roundtable kicks oil, Judy star Renee Zellweger takes a quick swig from her glass of water. 'I was grabbing this to set myself up to not [...]

She's got two hot awards contenders--Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story and Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit--her Avengers spinoff Black Widow and the mantle as the world's highest-grossing actress, but Scarlett Johansson isn't [...]

It's pretty common for a cast to say that they enjoy spending time together, but it's obvious that it's true when it comes to the tight-knit group who star on [...]

'It would feel odd not to have my partner with me,' says Jeff Bridges of Loyd Catlett, who's spent five decades on set with the Oscar winner, stepping in for [...]

JON FROSCH Last year in these pages, we championed five actors we thought really rose above the rest. This time, we're spreading the love around. I personally don't feel as [...]

How high are the fashion stakes during awards season? Global media, film awareness, designer cachet and, if the stars align, Oscar glory and maybe a beauty contract as THR presents [...]

The Favourite blows up convention (and the Oscar race) with a devious all-female love triangle as Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman preside over the season's most outrageous spectacle [...]

Beloved maitre d' Dimitri Dimitrov spent 18 months training ex-magazine editor Gabc Doppelt to take over his Sunset Tower perch. Here's how the handoff went When Jeff Klein installed Dimitri [...]

The whole season was very much about the disparity between how we present ourselves, in this age of social media, and who we really are,' says The Morning Show showrunner [...]

What makes a Megan Stalter character? The pandemic-era internet comedian turned show-stealing supporting player has become synonymous with a certain kind of kooky personality--marked by a subpar grasp on social [...]

BEST PICTURE [up arrow] Tar This sleeper best picture Oscar contender --also nominated for directing, writing and acting Oscars--was the big winner at the London Critics Circle Awards on Feb. [...]

BEST PICTURE CODA [up arrow] Sian Heder's charming portrait of a hearing girl from an otherwise deaf family--the film swept Sundance this year en route to a record-breaking distribution deal [...]

Survey the industry's top star-makers and they'll all tell you a version of the same thing: Hollywood stardom isn't what it used to be. Sure, a fresh-faced actor can still [...]

GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA Colmati Domingo Euphoria The veteran character actor could earn his first Emmy nomination for his second season playing Ali, a man in recovery who meets [...]

Reshaping Other Beloved Faces Into Historical Figures Makeup artists explain how they turned Sean Penn and Sarah Paulson into infamous political players As Sean Penn's prosthetic makeup and hair designer [...]

After directing Tilda Swinton in Three Thousand Years of Longing, filmmaker George Miller understood why such auteurs as Wes Anderson and Luca Guadagnino repeatedly call on the versatile actress to [...]

How profitable and powerful were Adam Sandler and Will Smith in the 2000s? Their hit films 'bought our houses,' joked execs. But as audiences turned, the duo became the flashpoint [...]

BEST PICTURE Spider-Man: No Way Home [up arrow] On the heels of its opening (second best of all time), this critically acclaimed superhero flick (94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) became [...]

BEST PICTURE King Richard [up arrow] Following the Nov. 9 publication of Will Smith's memoir, Will, the 'Fresh Prince' did a wave of promotion for his Warner Bros, best picture [...]

FROM THE START, STEPHEN DALDRY KNEW HE would have to confront one unavoidable image in Extremely Loud 8; Incredibly Close, his adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel about the aftermath [...]

IT HAS BEEN MANY YEARS SINCE THERE was an Oscar race with as much uncertainty so late in the season as this one, especially in the four acting categories. This, [...]

JENNIFER LAWRENCE CRIED WHEN Winter's Bone accepted into the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The picture, set in the Ozark Mountains, might have been tiny, but the actress had recognized that [...]

WHO ARE the frontrunners in this year's awards race? In the pages that follow, we offer brief profiles of some of the leading above-the-line contenders for picture, director, actor and [...]

Fans of Silicon Valley know him as Richard Hendricks, the adorably nerdy computer wiz whose Pied Piper startup may or may not reinvent the internet in the HBO comedy's upcoming [...]

Nail-biting parents are routinely seen on KN the soccer sidelines or in the audience of ballet recitals. And occasionally they turn up in Hollywood pitch meetings. Crystal Grace found herself [...]

King Lear, the BBC and Amazon Studios' co-production of the Bard's cautionary tale of greed and control via a dysfunctional royal brood, brought Sir Anthony Hopkins back to his theatrical [...]

Ubiquitous supporting player Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Killing Eve, Barry, Veronica Mars, The Good Place) lands her first series lead on Marc Cherry's new CBS All Access drama, Why Women Kill If [...]

Mati Diop was deep into postproduction on her film Atlantics when she found out she had been accepted into the competition lineup in Cannes. 'I was very happy, but at [...]

At a table read last summer for Quentin Tarantino's ninth feature, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Mike Moh was seated between Dakota Fanning and Luke Perry. Al Pacino made [...]

The 14-year-old star of Dumbo wasn't initially so keen on acting. 'I'd only seen it as, like, the cool thing that my mum does sometimes,' says Nico Parker, the middle [...]

A Star Is Born, with its symmetrical plotline of rising and falling stars, is Hollywood's canonical myth-saga, capturing both the glory and cruelty of the modern entertainment industry. The fourth [...]

Loyd Catlett, 65, the longtime stand-in for the Globe and Oscar winner--and now 2019 Cecil B. DeMille honoree--recalls their decades of doubling: 'Jeff can imitate me better than I can [...]

FIRST-TIME CHARMERS Girls Trip breakout Tiffany Haddish lands her first Emmy nomination, joining a handful of other newbies vying for the trophy KATT WILLIAMS ATLANTA JIMMI SIMPSON WESTWORLD TIFFANY HADDISH [...]

COMEDY LEAD ACTOR ALEC BALDWIN 30 Rock (NBC) PRO The 10-time nominee is everywhere, from Rock of Ages to the cover of Vanity Fair to Capital One commercials. And 30 [...]

CALL IT THE $10 MILLION KISS. That's how much Kristen Stewart stands to lose if Universal decides not to go ahead with a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, [...]

If you aim to embody the indomitable spirit of a beloved subject named twice in the title of her bio-musical, you'd better be up to the challenge. Adrienne Warren has [...]

BEST ACTRESS Charlize Theron Bombshell Sizzle reels at Nov. 8's American Cinematheque Awards and Hollywood Film Awards on Nov. 1 both reminded audiences that from drama to action, Theron is [...]

Just how angry is Jared Leto over Joker? Last week THR reported that the 47-year-old actor, who played the grinning crime lord in 2016's Suicide Squad, felt 'alienated and upset' [...]

'Back in the day, horny women were to be feared--and now they're given Emmys.' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE Fleabag's creator and star, during her Oct. 5 Saturday Night Live monologue, describing her [...]

Angelina Jolie's on-again-off-again relationship with her dad, Jon Voight, seems to be on again. The 80-year-old Midnight Cowboy star--who once publicly suggested that his superstar daughter had 'mental problems'--turned up [...]

Know anyone who does a good Vin Diesel impression? The makers of Bloodshot, Sony's upcoming action movie about a dead Marine resurrected using nanotechnology, were recently looking for a stunt-talker [...]

Remember Charlotte Kirk? She's the British actress whose affair with Kevin Tsujihara (who pushed for roles for her in movies like How to Be Single and Ocean's 8, as reported [...]

Focus Features' chairman scores with Downton Abbey's $31 million stateside launch, the best opening in the Universal-owned specialty distributor's history. Please Note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

The American Dream is alive and well in Florida, at least on cable this summer. Or, rather, as represented on shows like TNT's Claws, Pop's Florida Girls and Showtime's new [...]

Tarak Ben Ammar and Mark Burg think Nate Parker deserves a second chance. The two producers bankrolling American Skin, Parker's follow-up to his 2016 directorial debut, The Birth of a [...]