Quentin Tarantino is wrong about Paul Dano, but everyone is already telling him that. For more than two decades, Dano has shaped one of the most quietly radical careers in American cinema. T…
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
"Hamnet," "Marty Supreme" and a powerful one-two punch from Warner Bros. " "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners" " are among the American Film Institute's 10 best films of the year, the o…
Renate Reinsve almost didn't make it to Los Angeles for our interview. Three years ago, while traveling for Oscar campaigning after her breakout role in "The Worst Person in the World," she …
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
Three years after his triumphant Oscar win for "The Whale," Brendan Fraser has found his next deeply personal project in an unlikely place: Tokyo. In Hikari's "Rental Family," Fraser plays P…
This story contains major spoilers for "Wicked: For Good." Jon M. Chu isn't shy about it " the second half of his two-film adaptation is the one where he tears down walls. Literally. One of …
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Honorary Oscars to actor and producer Tom Cruise, choreographer and actor Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas at the 16…
Cynthia Erivo didn't mince words when discussing the challenges she and co-star Ariana Grande have faced while promoting "Wicked: For Good." "We have come through some shit," Erivo told a pa…
Chloé Zhao emerges from her cave " her words, not mine " with "Hamnet." It's a film that feels less like a period drama and more like a spiritual excavation. The co-writer and director, who…
Regina Hall defies expectations. She reinvents herself every few years, prompting audiences to reconsider their perceptions of her. From the slapstick absurdity of "Scary Movie" to the layer…
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
Zoey Deutch has ideas. They're sharp, original and delivered with the kind of disarming charm that makes you wonder why Hollywood hasn't already followed her lead. "Don't you think there sho…
Nina Hoss enters a conversation about "Hedda" the way her character Eileen Lövborg enters that fateful party: She commands the space, is unapologetically present and utterly impossible to…
Laura Dern is fearless, from her breakthrough in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" to her Oscar-winning turn in "Marriage Story." But as the Variety Awards Circuit Pdocast met with the star to d…
Will "Stranger Things" conquer more than the Upside Down? Netflix has revealed its awards strategy for the fifth and final season of "Stranger Things," submitting the entire acting ensemble …
Dame Helen Mirren will be honored with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award during the new primetime special "Golden Eve," which airs Thursday, Jan. 8, prior to the Golden Globes ceremony …
Laura Dern loved her mother, and that was evident anytime she had a chance to talk about it. In a conversation recorded just two weeks before her mother Diane Ladd's death on Monday, the Osc…
Emily Blunt doesn't believe in half measures. Whether she's playing a time-looping soldier in "Edge of Tomorrow," a pill-popping commuter in "The Girl on the Train," or a grief-stricken wife…
Jessie Buckley is heading home, and there's a reason the excitement beaming from her is palpable. "I get to snuggle for 12 hours with my daughter on a plane," she says, with the relief of so…
The hymns are alive with the sound of music. Mona Fastvold's "The Testament of Ann Lee," a historical drama starring Amanda Seyfried as the 18th-century religious leader who founded the Shak…
Is it time for "Wicked" to conquer the Oscars, for good? Universal Pictures' musical fantasy sequel appears poised to match or exceed its predecessor's impressive showing at the Academy Awar…
Gus Van Sant is still moving. "I think a lot of the films I've made, even unintentionally, have been based on real things," Van Sant says with his familiar mix of understatement and curiosit…
Director Jon M. Chu has spent more than five years bringing the beloved Broadway musical "Wicked" to the big screen. Now that both installments are complete, he's reflecting on the epic scop…