In January 2018 – less than eight months after she won her first Tony Award for “A Doll’s House, Part 2” – Laurie Metcalf was given her first shot at an Oscar thanks to her work in…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PM“The Audience” – a play about Queen Elizabeth II and her various prime ministers – was a landmark in the career of Helen Mirren. This 2013 reprisal of her Oscar and BAFTA winning rol…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMThe 1976 establishment of the Society of West End Theatre Awards (renamed the Laurence Olivier Awards in 1984) signaled the introduction of the British entertainment industry’s own acting …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMAt the fifth annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 1953, Helen Hayes won the Best Actress award, thereby becoming the first performer to ever achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. This past Oscar an…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMOver the past half decade, film academy members have demonstrated a clear preference for lengthy featured male performances while generally being drawn to comparatively shorter female ones. …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMSince the first Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony in 1995, only four performers have nabbed trophies for roles that had previously earned them Tony wins. Brian Dennehy (“Death of a Sales…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:01PMThere are many different types of existing works from which a film’s screenplay can be adapted, and the academy has honored scripts built from just about every source material imaginable. …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:06AMWhen “Mudbound” brought Mary J. Blige Oscar bids for acting and songwriting (“Mighty River”) in 2018, a trail was blazed and an annual tradition began. In 2019, Lady Gaga won for pen…
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