281 stories by "Daniel Montgomery"
William Shakespeare is quite prolific for a playwright who has been dead for four centuries. His plays have been adapted many, many, many times. But 2019 is unique in that one of his most fa…
It looks like there's a new handy shortcut to EGOT. First Cynthia Erivo won a Tony, Grammy and Emmy for Broadway's "The Color Purple." Then Ben Platt and Rachel Bay Jones achieved the same h…
"One Day at a Time" creator Gloria Calderon Kellett reccently scared fans of her Netflix sitcom when she tweeted that the show might be at risk of cancellation. "[Netflix] made clear that th…
It’s been a good couple of weeks for Ariana Grande. Despite clashing with the Grammys executive producer over a performance that never ended up happening, she won her first ever Grammy…
The Grammys aren’t just the biggest awards of the year for music, they’re also one of the biggest platforms for artists to reach new listeners. And after this year’s prizes…
The Oscar race for Best Supporting Actor is shaping up to be all Mahershala Ali all the time for “Green Book,” but is there a chance Sam Elliott (“A Star is Born”) co…
The 2019 Grammys telecast lasted almost four hours, but somehow there were moments we didn’t see on TV. The recording academy has released a video of some of the candid behind-the-scen…
The Grammys are only as good as their performances, which is to say the 2019 Grammys were pretty great. That’s what I thought, anyway. What often feels like an awkward mash-up of artis…
Despite controversies surrounding female musicians last year and this year, it looks like women will dominate the Grammys on Sunday night, February 10, according to the combined predictions …
As if the Grammys needed another controversy about how female musicians are treated by the recording academy. Ariana Grande isn’t performing at the awards despite being nominated twice…
It was recently reported that Lady Gaga would be attending the Grammys on February 10 instead of the BAFTA Awards on the same day. Now the recording academy and CBS have officially revealed …
The Directors Guild Awards honor the best achievements behind the camera in both television and film, so who will be this year’s top picks when the industry’s directors have thei…
Comedian Bo Burnham earned raves from critics for his debut feature film, the coming-of-age comedy “Eighth Grade,” which has earned him recognition from groups including the Goth…
Soundtrack songs used to be all the rage at the Grammys. But none have won Record of the Year since “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, the inescapable hit from “Titan…
Ariana Grande has made frequent appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, but a number-one hit eluded her for most of her career. Now she has gone two-for-two. Her last single R…
There are only six categories to be handed out for film at the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, January 27, but the more than 100,000 members of the SAG-AFTRA industry union …
Songwriter extraordinaire Diane Warren just received her 10th Oscar nomination for Best Original Song, but she has never won, so it’s appropriate that her song is titled “I’…
After months of speculation, analysis and anticipation, the 2019 Oscar nominations will finally be announced in the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday, January 22. And we think the musical …
The Oscar for Best Original Song looks like it might be a cakewalk for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s “Shallow” from “A Star is Born.” But they face a tougher c…
Norah Jones did it in 2003. U2 did it in 2006. Adele did it in 2012 and 2017. Bruno Mars just did it in 2018. But it seems like it should be very hard to do. I’m talking about achievin…
So far the awards season has been a real nail-biter, but Bradley Cooper is holding on to the lead in our predictions for both Best Picture and Best Actor for “A Star is Born.” An…
The Oscar race for Best Picture is still up in the air, especially after the Golden Globes, which picked “Bohemian Rhapsody” for Best Film Drama over presumed Globes and Oscar fa…
Lady Gaga has a champagne problem next month. She’s nominated for five Grammys including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Shallow,” her “A Star is Born…
Hollywood awards often slap the stud: denying awards to male sex symbols, perhaps because entertainers who are desirable to women aren’t taken as seriously by the predominantly male in…
“A Star is Born” didn’t earn the most Golden Globe nominations this year — that turned out to be “Vice” with six bids — but we do think it will win …