538 stories by "Gold Derby"
Could Hugh Jackman be on his way to another Tony Award victory? His new play "The River" officially opened Sunday on Broadway at the Circle on the Square for a 13-week engagement. The show i…
"I'm a realist … sometimes you're popular, sometimes you're not popular. Nobody showed up at my house that I remember and put a gun to my head and dragged me out of the house and said…
The appeal of "Dancing With the Stars" is watching celebs try their hand at a skill they're unfamiliar with. Sometimes the stars surprise us with their natural rhythm, while other stars ... …
Among the 1,700 people who predicted Emmys at Gold Derby, three users tied for having the highest percentage of accuracy (66%) -- jonjon893, JoseGonzalez and PaulV -- but JonJon893 won…
Cicely Tyson is the strong Emmy favorite to win Best Movie/Mini Actress for Lifetime's "The Trip to Bountiful" (click here for our current racetrack odds), but might she be more vulnerable t…
This Tuesday, we'll talk with Christine Baranski about her Emmy-nominated role as Diane Lockhart in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife." Join us for our live chat on August 5 at 2.15 p.m. PT…
The easiest Emmy prediction is picking what will win Best TV Movie. "The Normal Heart" has that in the bag, of course (1-to-10 odds at Gold Derby's Prediction Center) and that's especially g…
On Monday, we'll talk with Mark Ruffalo about his role in the HBO telefilm "The Normal Heart," which premiered on May 25 and earned a whopping 16 Emmy nominations. Join us for our live chat …
Mandy Patinkin is looking to add a Drama Supporting Actor Emmy for "Homeland" to the one he won for his starring role on the drama "Chicago Hope" back in 1996. He reaped a second straight bi…
Veteran actor Robert Morse has earned his fifth Drama Guest Actor nomination for playing Bertram Cooper, founding partner of Sterling Cooper, on "Mad Men." Prior to that, he won an Emmy for …
Unlike their splits over many of the comedy and drama series races, our Emmy experts are unified as to what will win both Best Miniseries and Best TV Movie. And there are overwhelming frontr…
Last year, Best TV Movie/Miniseries Actress resulted in a major upset: Emmy-darling Laura Linney ("The Big C: Hereafter") defeated frontrunners Elisabeth Moss ("Top of the Lake") and Jessica…
After three years of a combined Emmy category for Best Movie/Miniseries, a surge in longform programming led the TV academy to split them again for 2014. Before the awards were consolidatedi…
Columnist Liz Smith gets to the bottom of the rumors that Meryl Streep will play the legendary opera singer Maria Callas. She spoke with director Mike Nichols, who is in charge of the upcomi…
In "Looking," which aired its eight-episode first season in winter 2014, Jonathan Groff plays Patrick, a gay video game designer in San Francisco ambivalent about his love life. The series i…
On Thursday, we'll talk with Jonathan Groff, an Emmy contender for Best Comedy Actor for HBO's freshman series "Looking." He also appeared in the premium network's acclaimed telefilm "The No…
If Jim Parsons claims Best Comedy Actor at this year's Emmys for his work as Dr. Sheldon Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory" he will be tied for most wins in that race with Carroll O'Connor …
In our recent webcam chat (watch below), Emmy-winning actor Jeffrey Wright ("Angels in America") admitted to some trepidation about joining "Boardwalk Empire" in its fourth season:…
Fifteen years ago, Laura Benanti made her Broadway debut as Maria, the nun turned nanny, in an acclaimed revival of "The Sound of Music." Last Christmas, she tackled the part of Elsa Schrade…
Ladies and gentlemen, pull out the popcorn and get ready for a cutthroat battle for the ages this Emmy season as two acting heavyweights are set to duke it out to determine who's the undispu…
Just days after the Tony Awards on Sunday, the two groups that oversee these kudos -- the non-profit American Theater Wing and the Broadway League that represents producers -- announced seve…
Poor John Leguizamo. He's no longer eligible to snag the Emmy he won for "Freak" in 1999 – Best Performance in a Variety Special. The TV academy recently nixed that category, but his n…
Congrats to Dillon Rosenblatt, who won Gold Derby's Tony Awards predictions contest with an impressive score of 89%. That means he picked 23 out of 26 categories correctly – one more t…
Bryan Cranston and Sophie Okonedo won Tony Awards for their Broadway debut. These victories put them in a freshman club that now has 87 members.
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Bryan Cranston on addin…
This marked the 68th annual edition of the Tony Awards and, once again, these kudos proved to be the classiest of them all.
THE GOOD
Hugh Jackman demonstrated his incredible stre…