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 "Lady Bir…
"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 role from t…
The 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 Tr…
At 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…
Over 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. …
Since 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 Salesma…
There 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. Vo…
When "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 penning "Sh…