Meryl Streep may reign over the Oscars, but her real kingdom is the Golden Globes.
Her nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins this year -- as Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical -- marks her 30th in 38 years. She will also receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the first person to get that honor in the same year as a nomination in over two decades. (Sophia Loren managed it in 1995.)
Related: Meryl Streep Once Feared Aging in Hollywood Would End Her Career: 'I Thought Each Movie Would Be My Last'
Ahead of tonight's show -- which will no doubt provide at least one more "Yas, Meryl! Yaaas!" moment -- here are 13 reasons why she is and will forever be the Queen of the Golden Globes:
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1. She earned her first nomination in 1979 as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Deer Hunter. (She lost to Dyan Cannon for Heaven Can Wait.) Meryl was nominated...
Her nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins this year -- as Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical -- marks her 30th in 38 years. She will also receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the first person to get that honor in the same year as a nomination in over two decades. (Sophia Loren managed it in 1995.)
Related: Meryl Streep Once Feared Aging in Hollywood Would End Her Career: 'I Thought Each Movie Would Be My Last'
Ahead of tonight's show -- which will no doubt provide at least one more "Yas, Meryl! Yaaas!" moment -- here are 13 reasons why she is and will forever be the Queen of the Golden Globes:
Getty Images
1. She earned her first nomination in 1979 as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Deer Hunter. (She lost to Dyan Cannon for Heaven Can Wait.) Meryl was nominated...
- 1/8/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Everyone talks about Meryl Streep’s record-setting number of Academy Award nominations, but perhaps even more impressive is the number of Golden Globe Award nominations she’s received: 30, as of this year, with her latest nod for Florence Foster Jenkins.
In fact, the Hollywood Foreign Press seems to be so enamored with Streep that they’ll give her a nomination for pretty much anything (even Mamma Mia!). And now, they’re finally giving her the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
In honor of Streep’s incredible feat — only Jack Lemmon has even come close, with...
In fact, the Hollywood Foreign Press seems to be so enamored with Streep that they’ll give her a nomination for pretty much anything (even Mamma Mia!). And now, they’re finally giving her the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
In honor of Streep’s incredible feat — only Jack Lemmon has even come close, with...
- 1/7/2017
- by dianapearltimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
Dci John Luther (Idris Elba) speaks in terse, staccato sentences, as if to match the impression his heavy gait and muscular frame leave on his interlocutors: “Aight mate?” the owner of a gangland watering hole asks him in the fourth installment of “Luther.” “Lookin’ a bit militant there.”
Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), by contrast, speaks in stem-winding, breathless paragraphs, holding his reedy figure still as if to conserve energy for his acumen: “You’re clearly acclimatized to never getting to the end of a sentence,” he tells Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) in “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride.” “We’ll get along splendidly.”
This battle of British detectives, in which we might include “The Night Manager”‘s Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), recruited by British intelligence to infiltrate the inner circle of an international arms dealer (Hugh Laurie), points to a few of the complicating factors in the race for Outstanding...
Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), by contrast, speaks in stem-winding, breathless paragraphs, holding his reedy figure still as if to conserve energy for his acumen: “You’re clearly acclimatized to never getting to the end of a sentence,” he tells Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) in “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride.” “We’ll get along splendidly.”
This battle of British detectives, in which we might include “The Night Manager”‘s Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), recruited by British intelligence to infiltrate the inner circle of an international arms dealer (Hugh Laurie), points to a few of the complicating factors in the race for Outstanding...
- 9/14/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
“Game over, man, game over!” It’s rare for a sequel to live up to the original film, but James Cameron managed to fulfill expectations with Aliens (July 18, 1986). This summer marks the 30th Anniversary of the action-packed sci-fi classic, so “stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen.”
Tune-in Saturday, July 23, to an exclusive Aliens YouTube live stream Q&A with the filmmakers and cast from San Diego Comic-Con! Submit your questions in the comments below for a chance to get them answered. #Aliens30th
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Aliens (1986), San Diego Comic-Con will host an Aliens reunion on Saturday, July 23. Attendees include director James Cameron, producer Gale Anne Hurd, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Michael Biehn, and Carrie Henn.
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The terror continues in James Cameron...
Tune-in Saturday, July 23, to an exclusive Aliens YouTube live stream Q&A with the filmmakers and cast from San Diego Comic-Con! Submit your questions in the comments below for a chance to get them answered. #Aliens30th
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Aliens (1986), San Diego Comic-Con will host an Aliens reunion on Saturday, July 23. Attendees include director James Cameron, producer Gale Anne Hurd, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Michael Biehn, and Carrie Henn.
Subscribe to Fox Movies and follow on https://www.facebook.com/AlienAnthology so you don’t miss this exclusive live event.
The terror continues in James Cameron...
- 7/27/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There are plenty of classic partnerships throughout the history of comedy, Abbott and Costello, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, David Spade and Chris Farley, as well as many others, but we may be on the verge of witnessing the beginnings of the next great comedy team of our generation. Deadline reports that Universal has paid a high six-figures for a script from Sisters scribe Paula Pell by... Read More...
- 1/16/2016
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Confession time. I really wanted to love this movie. I mean, I really, really, really did. Sadly, not everything we want in life comes true. On the other hand, I’m an optimist and try to remain open to compromise. So, while I did not hate the film by any means, I came away only kind of liking Are You Here.
Matthew Weiner makes his feature film debut as a writer and director with Are You Here. For those of you in the know, that alone is quite an exciting idea. For those of you who watch too much reality TV and not enough of the good stuff, Matthew Weiner is known for writing substantially on the AMC series Mad Men and the HBO series The Sopranos. Now that I have your attention, I’m afraid things about about to get real, as in real disappointing.
Are You Here had a lot of promise.
Matthew Weiner makes his feature film debut as a writer and director with Are You Here. For those of you in the know, that alone is quite an exciting idea. For those of you who watch too much reality TV and not enough of the good stuff, Matthew Weiner is known for writing substantially on the AMC series Mad Men and the HBO series The Sopranos. Now that I have your attention, I’m afraid things about about to get real, as in real disappointing.
Are You Here had a lot of promise.
- 8/22/2014
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With each new piece of news we get Iifa in Tampa this year just gets more exciting! In our interview, Iifa and Wizcraft Director Andre Timmins teased us with the news that some big name Hollywood names would be coming to Iifa and now we have the scoop! Renowned actor, Kevin Spacey will be leading an acting workshop during the 15th Videocon D2H Iifa Weekend. How cool is that! Joining him will be the fabulous Vidya Balan.
Andre Timmins, Director – Wizcraft International & Iifa said, “Iifa has always been viewed as a platform to bridge the gap between the Indian film industry and the international audience. It has been our dream to be able to do this with the participation of Hollywood artists being featured within our events and this year as we debut in America we are proud to have achieved this with a masterclass that celebrates accomplished actors...
Andre Timmins, Director – Wizcraft International & Iifa said, “Iifa has always been viewed as a platform to bridge the gap between the Indian film industry and the international audience. It has been our dream to be able to do this with the participation of Hollywood artists being featured within our events and this year as we debut in America we are proud to have achieved this with a masterclass that celebrates accomplished actors...
- 3/5/2014
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
When you think of odd couples, you think of Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, but what about Steve Coogan and Judi Dench? Based on a true story, "Philomena" stars Dench and Coogan and focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee (Dench), mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock and given away for adoption in the United States. “I’d worked with Billy Connolly on Mrs. Brown,” Judi Dench recalls, “and Steve Coogan and Billy are very alike in a way. They’re both real comics, and they apply tremendous dedication to serious acting, something that isn’t their form of work naturally. They’re both very good at it. And then in between takes, of course, they make you cry with laughter. “The more tense it is, the better it is. Perhaps if we’d been doing a comedy, we’d have cried between the takes.
- 12/8/2013
- backstage.com
Cinema is a kind of uber-art form that’s made up of a multitude of other forms of art including writing, directing, acting, drawing, design, photography and fashion. As such, film is, as all cinema aficionados know, a highly collaborative venture.
One of the most consistently fascinating collaborations in cinema is that of the director and actor.
This article will examine some of the great director & actor teams. It’s important to note that this piece is not intended as a film history survey detailing all the generally revered collaborations.
There is a wealth of information and study available on such duos as John Ford & John Wayne, Howard Hawks & John Wayne, Elia Kazan & Marlon Brando, Akira Kurosawa & Toshiro Mifune, Alfred Hitchcock & James Stewart, Ingmar Bergman & Max Von Sydow, Federico Fellini & Giulietta Masina/Marcello Mastroianni, Billy Wilder & Jack Lemmon, Francis Ford Coppola & Al Pacino, Woody Allen & Diane Keaton, Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro...
One of the most consistently fascinating collaborations in cinema is that of the director and actor.
This article will examine some of the great director & actor teams. It’s important to note that this piece is not intended as a film history survey detailing all the generally revered collaborations.
There is a wealth of information and study available on such duos as John Ford & John Wayne, Howard Hawks & John Wayne, Elia Kazan & Marlon Brando, Akira Kurosawa & Toshiro Mifune, Alfred Hitchcock & James Stewart, Ingmar Bergman & Max Von Sydow, Federico Fellini & Giulietta Masina/Marcello Mastroianni, Billy Wilder & Jack Lemmon, Francis Ford Coppola & Al Pacino, Woody Allen & Diane Keaton, Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro...
- 7/11/2013
- by Terek Puckett
- SoundOnSight
Hope you like your odd couples super odd: Deadline reports that Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara are attached to star opposite each other in Don't Mess With Texas. It tells the story of a cop and a prisoner running from dirty cops in Texas. There's no word yet on which will play which, but if 'Spoon ends up the prisoner, maybe it will be revealed that her recent arrest was just a Method acting exercise. Before you get too excited for what will be a silly, silly movie, it isn't set to start production until March 2014. Do you think they'll be more like Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau or old Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau?...
- 6/7/2013
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
Martin Scorsese will present Mel Brooks with the American Film Institute’s 41st Life Achievement Award – America’s highest honor for a career in film. The private black tie gala will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on June 6 and will air on TNT Saturday, June 15, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt and as part of an all-night tribute to Brooks on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Sunday, July 24, at 8 p.m. Et. Brooks will be recognized for his range of mastery as a director, producer, writer, actor and composer.
Martin Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time having received the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to cinema, two AFI Awards, an Academy®Award, a Palme d’Or, Grammy® Award, two Emmys®, four Golden Globes®, a BAFTA and three DGA Awards. Scorsese’s body of work includes films such as The Departed,...
Martin Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time having received the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to cinema, two AFI Awards, an Academy®Award, a Palme d’Or, Grammy® Award, two Emmys®, four Golden Globes®, a BAFTA and three DGA Awards. Scorsese’s body of work includes films such as The Departed,...
- 5/20/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ben Affleck is a favorite to win Best Picture at the Oscars 2013 ceremony for "Argo" (Affleck produced the film with George Clooney and Grant Heslov, meaning he'll accept the award), but it won't be his first Academy Award. As many remember, Affleck and Matt Damon were golden boys at the 70th annual Academy Awards back in 1998, when the fresh-faced actors won Best Original Screenplay for "Good Will Hunting."
"I just said to Matt, 'Losing would suck and winning would be really scary,'" Affleck said while accepting the Oscar from Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Affleck, 25, was the youngest person to ever win Best Original Screenplay. Watch him and Damon accept the Oscar in the most charming way possible below. (Listen for Affleck's voice crack.)
Affleck is a major player at this year's Oscars. His film, "Argo," is up for seven Academy Awards and is the favorite to win Best Picture.
"I just said to Matt, 'Losing would suck and winning would be really scary,'" Affleck said while accepting the Oscar from Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Affleck, 25, was the youngest person to ever win Best Original Screenplay. Watch him and Damon accept the Oscar in the most charming way possible below. (Listen for Affleck's voice crack.)
Affleck is a major player at this year's Oscars. His film, "Argo," is up for seven Academy Awards and is the favorite to win Best Picture.
- 2/22/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
HollywoodNews.com: Last night, stage and screen legend Shirley MacLaine was lauded with the 40th annual AFI Life Achievement Award – the highest honor for a career in film. Some of Hollywood’s most revered luminaries turned out to pay tribute to one of America’s most beloved artists. The gala, entitled “TV Land Presents: AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Shirley MacLaine,” was taped at historic Stage 15 at Sony Pictures Studios last evening and will air on TV Land on Sunday, June 24 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt.
The evening’s festivities kicked off with MacLaine entering the gala of over 1,000 attendees to “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” a song she made famous in the 1969 screen version of “Sweet Charity.” Immediately following dinner, Warren Beatty, MacLaine’s brother, Academy Award®-winning actor and fellow AFI Life Achievement Award recipient (2008), talked about how the AFI Life Achievement Award was established...
The evening’s festivities kicked off with MacLaine entering the gala of over 1,000 attendees to “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” a song she made famous in the 1969 screen version of “Sweet Charity.” Immediately following dinner, Warren Beatty, MacLaine’s brother, Academy Award®-winning actor and fellow AFI Life Achievement Award recipient (2008), talked about how the AFI Life Achievement Award was established...
- 6/9/2012
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
When the biggest movie star on the planet decides to end his four year hiatus from movie screens by making a tired sequel for a forgotten franchise nobody really liked that much in the first place, you really have to applaud the biggest comedy star of his generation for taking the time to do something comparatively obscure and yet – in the scheme of things – much more ambitious. Whilst you shouldn’t need any prodding to guess the identity of the former, the latter is Will Ferrell with his niche Spanish-language comedy Casa de mi Padre (The House of My Father): a small film with little distribution future, parodying Mexican “telenovela” soap operas unfamiliar to great swathes of the cinema going public. It’s not an especially lucrative move (the film struggled to make back even its modest budget in the Us), yet it’s required...
When the biggest movie star on the planet decides to end his four year hiatus from movie screens by making a tired sequel for a forgotten franchise nobody really liked that much in the first place, you really have to applaud the biggest comedy star of his generation for taking the time to do something comparatively obscure and yet – in the scheme of things – much more ambitious. Whilst you shouldn’t need any prodding to guess the identity of the former, the latter is Will Ferrell with his niche Spanish-language comedy Casa de mi Padre (The House of My Father): a small film with little distribution future, parodying Mexican “telenovela” soap operas unfamiliar to great swathes of the cinema going public. It’s not an especially lucrative move (the film struggled to make back even its modest budget in the Us), yet it’s required...
- 6/5/2012
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
Bernie is a troubling feature to sit through. This is a dark comedy that morphs half way through into a trial farce of sorts. Should we laugh at these things or just shake our head at the absurdity? Yet Richard Linklater‘s latest Texas-based film is actually rooted in a true story that played out in public, making it is even more troubling. Thankfully, I had the opportunity at SXSW to sit down at a roundtable with Jack Black, who plays Bernie, to discuss how he developed his version and much more.
How does it feel to join the ranks of Jack Lemmon and Jack Nicholson who’ve romanced Shirley MacLaine on the screen?
Jack Black: You know, it’s a lot of pressure. Those are some powerful Jacks. I feel like the third Jack on that list. Well, I’m definitely the one-eyed Jack.
And you give her...
How does it feel to join the ranks of Jack Lemmon and Jack Nicholson who’ve romanced Shirley MacLaine on the screen?
Jack Black: You know, it’s a lot of pressure. Those are some powerful Jacks. I feel like the third Jack on that list. Well, I’m definitely the one-eyed Jack.
And you give her...
- 4/25/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks: Pickford-Fairbanks Studios Filmmaker Allison Anders will be present at a protest "to lead all supporters" of the old Pickford-Fairbanks Studios, which is set to be (at least partially) torn down in the near future. Located at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Formosa in West Hollywood, the studio currently known as The Lot was bought by the Cim Group, which intends to expand facilities by demolishing near-century-old buildings. The protesters, who have named April 1 "Pickfair Day," are scheduled to assemble outside The Lot at 1 p.m. According to the Save Pickfair Studio website, protest organizers "will, as time and technology allows, be live tweeting and blogging our protest." Organizers suggest that protesters should "bring your friends and all the press," in addition to video and phone cameras. They explain that street parking shouldn't be a problem on a Sunday. I'd never heard of the...
- 4/1/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Oscars 1972: Peter Bogdanovich on 'The Last Picture Show' and that legendary Charlie Chaplin tribute
In 1968 Esquire film writer and MoMA film curator Peter Bogdanovich decided to follow the example of critics-turned-filmmakers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard and try his hand at directing. Four years after moving to Hollywood, Bogdanovich’s second feature film, The Last Picture Show, received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and personal nods for Best Director and for co-writing the Adapted Screenplay. Though the film lost the top prize to The French Connection, the Academy did honor The Last Picture Show with Oscars for Supporting Actor Ben Johnson and Supporting Actress Cloris Leachman at the ceremony on April 10, 1972 hosted by Helen Hayes,...
- 2/23/2012
- by Peter Bogdanovich
- EW - Inside Movies
They've tried everything. One host. Two hosts. Four hosts. 32 hosts. Comic hosts. Serious-thespian hosts. Hollywood-legend hosts. Young hosts. Old hosts. Hip hosts. Square hosts. Singing-and-dancing hosts. Every year, it seems, the Academy Awards goes back to the drawing board to figure out what sort of emcee will keep the show lively, attract viewers (especially younger viewers) and keep them from flipping channels during the slow parts. It's a thankless gig; no wonder Billy Crystal, who's done it eight times, decided to sit out for eight years before agreeing to return to host this year's Academy Awards on Sunday night. The job requires a difficult and rare set of skills: a host must entertain both the Hollywood big-shots in the auditorium and regular folks at home. They can poke fun at the huge egos in the room, but can't deflate them with too much snark, and they can't be too inside-baseball.
- 2/22/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Arnold Schwarzeneger and Sylvester Stallone are officially completing their transformation into Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Shortly after announcing plans to team up together on the new film The Tomb, Arnold posted the above photo of the two aging beefcake superstars hanging out at the local shoulder-resetting joint. “After all the action, stunts & physical abuse shooting The Expendables 2 and The Last Stand,” explained Schwarzenegger, “It was time for a little tune up on my shoulder. Look who was coincidentally waiting in line behind me for his shoulder surgery. Now we’re ready for another round of great times and...
- 2/9/2012
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Did you know that Meryl Streep holds the record for most individual Golden Globe nominations? "Extra" has compiled a list of fun facts about the awards ceremony. The 2012 Golden Globes air Sunday, January 15 on NBC (5 Pm Pst/8 Pm Est)!
Fun Facts About the Golden GlobesGoing National
The first national telecasts of the awards were during a special segment on "The Andy Williams Show" in 1964 and 1965.
The Beginning
Paul Lukas won the Golden Globe Award for...
Fun Facts About the Golden GlobesGoing National
The first national telecasts of the awards were during a special segment on "The Andy Williams Show" in 1964 and 1965.
The Beginning
Paul Lukas won the Golden Globe Award for...
- 1/15/2012
- Extra
The Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual fundraising gala began in 1972. It first honoree was Charles Chaplin, returning to the United States after two decades in exile. Since then, the award has been renamed for Chaplin. That same year, Chaplin was saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with his second Honorary Oscar. The first such award for Chaplin had taken place 43 years earlier, at the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. Chaplin, who won the award for directing, writing, and acting in The Circus, didn't show up to get his booty the first time around. However, he was in attendance in 1972, when he was greeted with a long standing ovation. As quoted in Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar, while looking for the places he used to know in Los Angeles, a dismayed Chaplin remarked: "It's all banks, banks, banks!" Considering that right-wingers were reportedly...
- 1/11/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The 2012 Golden Globe nominees were announced Thursday morning in Hollywood.
As expected, "The Artist" and "The Descendants" led the way with five nods each, but there were plenty of surprises too.
George Clooney is going to have a big night, as his "The Ides of March" scored four nominations, including Best Director.
Breakout star Ryan Gosling scored two nods for his superb acting -- one for "Crazy, Stupid, Love" as well as "The Ides of March.
As expected, "The Artist" and "The Descendants" led the way with five nods each, but there were plenty of surprises too.
George Clooney is going to have a big night, as his "The Ides of March" scored four nominations, including Best Director.
Breakout star Ryan Gosling scored two nods for his superb acting -- one for "Crazy, Stupid, Love" as well as "The Ides of March.
- 12/15/2011
- Extra
Throughout November, Sos staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics.
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Sunset Blvd.
Directed by Billy Wilder
Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
1950 – USA
You must remember this. For me the love affair with movies began with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and a world of smoke, cynicism and smouldering looks. I discovered a copy of Joe Hyams’ biography, Bogart and Bacall, while I was working at my local library around 1980. Obsessing over Hollywood’s most famous May-December romance soon led me to the black and white movies of the 40s, and many late nights watching Hawks, Huston, Curtiz and Billy Wilder.
I don’t know exactly when I first saw Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., but it was about 30 years ago and I have revisited it regularly. The film was significant because for the first time I felt a...
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Sunset Blvd.
Directed by Billy Wilder
Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
1950 – USA
You must remember this. For me the love affair with movies began with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and a world of smoke, cynicism and smouldering looks. I discovered a copy of Joe Hyams’ biography, Bogart and Bacall, while I was working at my local library around 1980. Obsessing over Hollywood’s most famous May-December romance soon led me to the black and white movies of the 40s, and many late nights watching Hawks, Huston, Curtiz and Billy Wilder.
I don’t know exactly when I first saw Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., but it was about 30 years ago and I have revisited it regularly. The film was significant because for the first time I felt a...
- 11/15/2011
- by Susannah
- SoundOnSight
Roger Ebert is regarded as one of the greatest film critics in the world. But after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, he was left unable to speak, eat or drink. In an extract from his new book, Life Itself, he explains how his life has been changed
My secret as an interviewer was that I was actually impressed by the people I interviewed: not only by Bill Clinton, John Wayne or Sophia Loren, but by Sandra Dee, Stella Stevens and George Peppard. I am beneath everything else a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance. I become their advocate and find myself in sympathy. I can employ scorched-earth tactics in writing about a bad movie, but I rarely write sharp criticism of actors themselves. If they're good in a movie, they must have done something right.
My secret as an interviewer was that I was actually impressed by the people I interviewed: not only by Bill Clinton, John Wayne or Sophia Loren, but by Sandra Dee, Stella Stevens and George Peppard. I am beneath everything else a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance. I become their advocate and find myself in sympathy. I can employ scorched-earth tactics in writing about a bad movie, but I rarely write sharp criticism of actors themselves. If they're good in a movie, they must have done something right.
- 11/6/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
The Kennedy Center Honors have been handed out since 1978. Recipients hail from various branches of the American performance art world — including film, stage, music, and dance — even though performers more closely associated with British show business have managed to sneak in every now and then, e.g., Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Pete Townshend. Since recipients are supposed to attend the Washington, D.C., ceremony in order to take home their Kennedy awards, Doris Day has remained unhonored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Katharine Hepburn kept putting it off until she finally relented in 1990. (Irene Dunne, see above photo, was one who managed to be honored though absent due to ill health.) Ginger Rogers, for her part, was present at the ceremony, but her films with Fred Astaire weren't — because Astaire's widow, Robyn Astaire, demanded payment for the televised clips. At the time, Kennedy Center Honors...
- 9/7/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Chris Wilkinson on lesser but still great Billy Wilder!
Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon first met on this film, the beginning of a beautiful friendship. A seven-week hiatus ensued between the scene of Matthau racing up the stairs to Lemmon’s apartment, check in hand, and his opening the door, as Matthau suffered a near-fatal heart attack at the top of the stairs. When he finally returned, forty pounds lighter, Billy Wilder directed him to “act heavier”. He followed those instructions and landed an Oscar as best supporting actor. UK
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Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon first met on this film, the beginning of a beautiful friendship. A seven-week hiatus ensued between the scene of Matthau racing up the stairs to Lemmon’s apartment, check in hand, and his opening the door, as Matthau suffered a near-fatal heart attack at the top of the stairs. When he finally returned, forty pounds lighter, Billy Wilder directed him to “act heavier”. He followed those instructions and landed an Oscar as best supporting actor. UK
Click here to watch the trailer!
- 8/27/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
I'm waiting on certain Hollywood legends to find descendents in current cineplex stars. Far as I'm concerned, we're in dire need of a new Jack Lemmon, a new Shirley MacLaine, and a new Madeline Kahn, along with many, many others. But every so often, a millennial star finds a way to exhume the spirit of an old star while adding refreshing relevance. I present to you the following hypothesis in silver screen genealogy: Cameron Diaz is our new Goldie Hawn.
- 6/24/2011
- Movieline
Hollywood is famous for its bromances. From Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese to Ron and Clint Howard to Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, you write an itemized list that included hundreds, but that doesn't make it any less exciting when a new bromance emerges. Case in point: Barry Levinson and Al Pacino. The actor and director, aged 71 and 69, recently partnered for the Emmy-winning HBO movie You Don't Know Jack. Then Levinson convinced Pacino to join him in Gotti: Three Generations as famous mobster Aniello Delacroce. Now, they're set to adapt a Philip Roth novel to the big screen. What the hell is going to happen next weekend? Jet skiing? Rock climbing? Late night carousing? The Philip Roth novel in question is called The Humbling, and it was released in 2009 to largely poor reviews. Exactly why Pacino and Levinson have set their sights on The Humbling is anyone's guess, but the...
- 6/11/2011
- cinemablend.com
The Dallas International Film Festival Announces Scott Z. Burns to receive the Dallas Shining Star Award
Horton Foote to be posthumously honoured with the Dallas Star Award
Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois named as recipients of the Texas Avery Animation Award
Additions to the Festival Line Up
The Dallas International Film Festival presented by Cadillac (March 31 . April 10, 2011) announced today that two new Honorees have been added to the slate of Dallas Star Award recipients . writer, producer and director Scott Z. Burns (The Informant, The Bourne Ultimatum) and posthumously to Texas legend and Academy-Award winner Horton Foote(To Kill A Mockingbird, Tender Mercies). The popular Texas Avery Animation Award presented by Reel FX Entertainment will be awarded to the writers and directors of the Academy Award nominated How To Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders. Previous recipients include Pete Docter (Up), Henry Selick (Coraline),Chris Wedge (Robots)and Brad Bird (Ratatouille,...
Horton Foote to be posthumously honoured with the Dallas Star Award
Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois named as recipients of the Texas Avery Animation Award
Additions to the Festival Line Up
The Dallas International Film Festival presented by Cadillac (March 31 . April 10, 2011) announced today that two new Honorees have been added to the slate of Dallas Star Award recipients . writer, producer and director Scott Z. Burns (The Informant, The Bourne Ultimatum) and posthumously to Texas legend and Academy-Award winner Horton Foote(To Kill A Mockingbird, Tender Mercies). The popular Texas Avery Animation Award presented by Reel FX Entertainment will be awarded to the writers and directors of the Academy Award nominated How To Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders. Previous recipients include Pete Docter (Up), Henry Selick (Coraline),Chris Wedge (Robots)and Brad Bird (Ratatouille,...
- 3/30/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A hundred years of handsome Hollywood hotties, from Douglas Fairbanks Sr. to George Clooney, in three and a half minutes: And in between Douglas and George: Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, William Holden, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Jack Lemmon, Sean Connery, Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, Peter O’Toole, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Warren Beatty, Dennis Hopper, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Harrison Ford, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Christopher Walken, Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, John Travolta, Antonio Banderas, Tim Robbins, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt,...
- 2/19/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
One of the great romantic movies and one of Billy Wilder's biggest hits. Fred MacMurray, who was genuinely startled by Jack Lemmon's improvs with his nose spray, stepped into his role on two weeks' notice after first choice Paul Douglas died suddenly. The Lemmon-Shirley MacLaine gin game was added because MacLaine was constantly playing cards on set.
- 2/13/2011
- Trailers from Hell
Filed under: Features, Cinematical
In the history of film, there has never been another actor quite like Jack Lemmon. He was the comic cohort of Walter Matthau, Billy Wilder's muse, and easily one of the most talented actors of his time (or any other). His work was the definition of classic American manhood, and on this Black Friday, the most holy of capitalist days, we immediately think back to some of Lemmon's most lasting works -- the films that had the nerve to challenge the modern myth of The American Dream.
So when you're done with the malls and the crowds, for this installment of Actors We Miss we thought you might like to take a moment to remember Mr. Lemmon, not only for his comedic talent and heart-warming characters, but also for the films that challenged the demise of morality and the rise of capitalism -- if nothing else,...
In the history of film, there has never been another actor quite like Jack Lemmon. He was the comic cohort of Walter Matthau, Billy Wilder's muse, and easily one of the most talented actors of his time (or any other). His work was the definition of classic American manhood, and on this Black Friday, the most holy of capitalist days, we immediately think back to some of Lemmon's most lasting works -- the films that had the nerve to challenge the modern myth of The American Dream.
So when you're done with the malls and the crowds, for this installment of Actors We Miss we thought you might like to take a moment to remember Mr. Lemmon, not only for his comedic talent and heart-warming characters, but also for the films that challenged the demise of morality and the rise of capitalism -- if nothing else,...
- 11/26/2010
- by Jessica Barnes
- Moviefone
Filed under: Features, Cinematical
In the history of film, there has never been another actor quite like Jack Lemmon. He was the comic cohort of Walter Matthau, Billy Wilder's muse, and easily one of the most talented actors of his time (or any other). His work was the definition of classic American manhood, and on this Black Friday, the most holy of capitalist days, we immediately think back to some of Lemmon's most lasting works -- the films that had the nerve to challenge the modern myth of The American Dream.
So when you're done with the malls and the crowds, for this installment of Actors We Miss we thought you might like to take a moment to remember Mr. Lemmon, not only for his comedic talent and heart-warming characters, but also for the films that challenged the demise of morality and the rise of capitalism -- if nothing else,...
In the history of film, there has never been another actor quite like Jack Lemmon. He was the comic cohort of Walter Matthau, Billy Wilder's muse, and easily one of the most talented actors of his time (or any other). His work was the definition of classic American manhood, and on this Black Friday, the most holy of capitalist days, we immediately think back to some of Lemmon's most lasting works -- the films that had the nerve to challenge the modern myth of The American Dream.
So when you're done with the malls and the crowds, for this installment of Actors We Miss we thought you might like to take a moment to remember Mr. Lemmon, not only for his comedic talent and heart-warming characters, but also for the films that challenged the demise of morality and the rise of capitalism -- if nothing else,...
- 11/26/2010
- by Jessica Barnes
- Cinematical
Filed under: Columns
Ah, curmudgeons. They've been a Hollywood staple since the dawn of movies, and Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau perfected the cinematic archetype in their aptly titled 'Grumpy Old Men.' We've grown to love movie curmudgeons over the years - y'know, prickly men getting on in years who are quick to shout out insults but almost always prove to have hearts of gold. (Well, hearts less cold than they initially appear, at least.) Last year, 'Up's Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner) was everyone's favourite curmudgeon du jour.
This week's release of 'Morning Glory' looks poised to earn Harrison Ford a spot in the movie curmudgeon hall of fame. He plays a sour morning show anchor who reluctantly accepts a job co-hosting America's lowest-rated national morning show. Much to the chagrin of his ambitious producer, played by the Rachel McAdams, Ford's grumpy character...
Ah, curmudgeons. They've been a Hollywood staple since the dawn of movies, and Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau perfected the cinematic archetype in their aptly titled 'Grumpy Old Men.' We've grown to love movie curmudgeons over the years - y'know, prickly men getting on in years who are quick to shout out insults but almost always prove to have hearts of gold. (Well, hearts less cold than they initially appear, at least.) Last year, 'Up's Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner) was everyone's favourite curmudgeon du jour.
This week's release of 'Morning Glory' looks poised to earn Harrison Ford a spot in the movie curmudgeon hall of fame. He plays a sour morning show anchor who reluctantly accepts a job co-hosting America's lowest-rated national morning show. Much to the chagrin of his ambitious producer, played by the Rachel McAdams, Ford's grumpy character...
- 11/11/2010
- by Annette Bourdeau
- Moviefone
In this treasure chest of lyrics and essays, Stephen Sondheim appraises his own work with eye‑widening honesty
One of the hundreds of photographs accompanying his Collected Lyrics shows Stephen Sondheim at the piano in a publishing house sporting a fedora and a faintly rumpled expression. Looking like a cross between Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau – the innocence and experience of American movies – he's actually acting in June Moon, a 1974 TV film of a play about a Tin Pan Alley composer. Although his screen performances have been extremely rare, character has been the driving force in the career of one of the key figures in 20th-century theatre.
Lyricists tend to be good phrase makers and Sondheim has made his fair share. "The ladies who lunch" was coined as the sung title of a song of galvanising self-disgust written for Elaine Stritch's uber-sardonic Joanne in Company. And before that, there...
One of the hundreds of photographs accompanying his Collected Lyrics shows Stephen Sondheim at the piano in a publishing house sporting a fedora and a faintly rumpled expression. Looking like a cross between Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau – the innocence and experience of American movies – he's actually acting in June Moon, a 1974 TV film of a play about a Tin Pan Alley composer. Although his screen performances have been extremely rare, character has been the driving force in the career of one of the key figures in 20th-century theatre.
Lyricists tend to be good phrase makers and Sondheim has made his fair share. "The ladies who lunch" was coined as the sung title of a song of galvanising self-disgust written for Elaine Stritch's uber-sardonic Joanne in Company. And before that, there...
- 10/9/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Hoo-ah! Back in 1997, Kevin Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live and showed off a number of fairly spot-on impressions: Christopher Walken, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon and, of course, Al Pacino. As the first official trailer for Casino Jack can attest, over 13 years later, the man's still got it -- at least when it comes to Pacino. Though if you're asking yourself why Spacey does a Pacino impersonation in the middle of a film about D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff, you're not alone.
- 9/16/2010
- Movieline
By Christopher Stipp
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my new column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Toy Story 3 Footage Preview
So, I was able to see the first 70 minutes of Toy Story 3 this week.
Watching the movie begin, hearing the reactions of the college students who literally grew up with this franchise, I was worried something wasn’t going to be right. That there was going to be something there on the screen I could no longer identify with a decade after Toy Story 2 debuted in the theaters. I was shocked that it’s been fifteen years since the first installment came out, the number 95 pasted on the runaway train in the opening sequence feeling like a tender callback to that time.
I was worried, fraught with nervousness that somehow I made the wrong choice...
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my new column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Toy Story 3 Footage Preview
So, I was able to see the first 70 minutes of Toy Story 3 this week.
Watching the movie begin, hearing the reactions of the college students who literally grew up with this franchise, I was worried something wasn’t going to be right. That there was going to be something there on the screen I could no longer identify with a decade after Toy Story 2 debuted in the theaters. I was shocked that it’s been fifteen years since the first installment came out, the number 95 pasted on the runaway train in the opening sequence feeling like a tender callback to that time.
I was worried, fraught with nervousness that somehow I made the wrong choice...
- 4/23/2010
- by Christopher Stipp
Courtesy of New Films International
The Lightkeepers hearkens back to a traditional style of filmmaking. Which means one has a setting, and some characters to interact in that setting. That's it. The story never gets too deep but does contain elements that many can relate to. Based on all the above, the flick needs performers that can breathe life into many simplicities.
Fortunately, the 90 minute flick secured talent with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner. The only other characters that share just as much screen time as the two award-winning performers are Tom Wisdom and Mamie Gummer. So when these talented pieces are in play, can they enable an entertaining story? For their part, yes.
Our story is set in 1912 on Cape Cod island. Seth Atkins (Dreyfuss) is a cranky-old lighthouse keeper who has a strong distaste for women. As head lighthouse keeper, he does need to hire assistants to help...
The Lightkeepers hearkens back to a traditional style of filmmaking. Which means one has a setting, and some characters to interact in that setting. That's it. The story never gets too deep but does contain elements that many can relate to. Based on all the above, the flick needs performers that can breathe life into many simplicities.
Fortunately, the 90 minute flick secured talent with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner. The only other characters that share just as much screen time as the two award-winning performers are Tom Wisdom and Mamie Gummer. So when these talented pieces are in play, can they enable an entertaining story? For their part, yes.
Our story is set in 1912 on Cape Cod island. Seth Atkins (Dreyfuss) is a cranky-old lighthouse keeper who has a strong distaste for women. As head lighthouse keeper, he does need to hire assistants to help...
- 3/18/2010
- Tampa Film Examiner
Courtesy of New Films International
The Lightkeepers hearkens back to a traditional style of filmmaking. Which means one has a setting, and some characters to interact in that setting. That's it. The story never gets too deep but does contain elements that many can relate to. Based on all the above, the flick needs performers that can breathe life into many simplicities.
Fortunately, the 90 minute flick secured talent with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner. The only other characters that share just as much screen time as the two award-winning performers are Tom Wisdom and Mamie Gummer. So when these talented pieces are in play, can they enable an entertaining story? For their part, yes.
Our story is set in 1912 on Cape Cod island. Seth Atkins (Dreyfuss) is a cranky-old lighthouse keeper who has a strong distaste for women. As head lighthouse keeper, he does need to hire assistants to help...
The Lightkeepers hearkens back to a traditional style of filmmaking. Which means one has a setting, and some characters to interact in that setting. That's it. The story never gets too deep but does contain elements that many can relate to. Based on all the above, the flick needs performers that can breathe life into many simplicities.
Fortunately, the 90 minute flick secured talent with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner. The only other characters that share just as much screen time as the two award-winning performers are Tom Wisdom and Mamie Gummer. So when these talented pieces are in play, can they enable an entertaining story? For their part, yes.
Our story is set in 1912 on Cape Cod island. Seth Atkins (Dreyfuss) is a cranky-old lighthouse keeper who has a strong distaste for women. As head lighthouse keeper, he does need to hire assistants to help...
- 3/18/2010
- Tampa Film Examiner
Did you know that Jamie Foxx holds the record for most Golden Globe nominations in one year? "Extra" has compiled a list of fun facts about the awards ceremony before the 2010 Golden Globes air Sunday, January 17 on NBC!
Fun Facts About the Golden GlobesL.A. Love
The first telecasts of the Globes were from 1958-1963 — but were only aired locally in Los Angeles.
Going National
The first national telecasts of the awards were during a...
Fun Facts About the Golden GlobesL.A. Love
The first telecasts of the Globes were from 1958-1963 — but were only aired locally in Los Angeles.
Going National
The first national telecasts of the awards were during a...
- 1/17/2010
- Extra
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy². Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer and Bogie. 'Coop' again. William Holden and Marlon Brando a few years late. Ernest Borgnine, Yul Brynner and Alec Guiness. David Niven, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster. Maximillian Schell, Gregory Peck and Sidney Poitier who made history. Rex Harrison, Lee Marvin, Paul Scofield, Rod Steiger, Cliff Robertson and 'The Duke'. George C Scott though he refused. Gene Hackman. Marlon Brando by way of Sacheen Littlefeather. Jack Lemmon, Art Carney, Jack Nicholson and (posthumously) Peter Finch. Richard Dreyfuss, Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Henry Fonda. Ben Kingsley, Robert Duvall, F Murray Abraham,...
- 11/15/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The first DVD box set devoted to the beloved late actor Jack Lemmon isn't quite what his son, Chris Lemmon, originally envisioned.
"I thought it would include his gems with Billy Wilder," says Lemmon, who was approached by Sony, the owners of Columbia Pictures, his father's home studio in the 1950s and '60s.
"But I quickly learned that studios -- MGM owns most of the Wilder pictures -- aren't interested in collaborating," he says. "And Sony wanted to focus on his lesser-known films from Columbia.
"I thought it would include his gems with Billy Wilder," says Lemmon, who was approached by Sony, the owners of Columbia Pictures, his father's home studio in the 1950s and '60s.
"But I quickly learned that studios -- MGM owns most of the Wilder pictures -- aren't interested in collaborating," he says. "And Sony wanted to focus on his lesser-known films from Columbia.
- 6/9/2009
- by By LOU LUMENICK
- NYPost.com
As you probably know, we're in the final countdown of Jay Leno's tenure on the Tonight Show. The genial funny man says goodbye on May 29th and, if you're old enough to remember back that far, it's hard not to recall the late Johnny Carson's final evenings in the Burbank studio.
Aside from being an Academy Award-winning actor (The Usual Suspects and American Beauty), Kevin Spacey is also known for doing some pretty great impressions, most notably Christopher Walken, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
Spacey also does a pretty good impression of Carson and has performed it for David Letterman a couple times. Last night, Spacey did a few minutes of his Carson impression for Leno the other night -- complete with props. Take a look...
Here, Spacey explains how he approaches doing impressions and his Carson one in particular.
Aside from being an Academy Award-winning actor (The Usual Suspects and American Beauty), Kevin Spacey is also known for doing some pretty great impressions, most notably Christopher Walken, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
Spacey also does a pretty good impression of Carson and has performed it for David Letterman a couple times. Last night, Spacey did a few minutes of his Carson impression for Leno the other night -- complete with props. Take a look...
Here, Spacey explains how he approaches doing impressions and his Carson one in particular.
- 5/15/2009
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
.It.s either very new cheese or very old meat.. Neil Simon.s play is transformed into a film that would only cement the fact that its two stars were made for each other. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau would become a team in this tale of opposites driving each other crazy in a New York apartment. Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) is a divorced, sloppy sportswriter who hosts a poker game in his Manhattan digs. His buddies Speed (Larry Haines), Roy (David Sheiner), Vinnie (John Fielder), and Murray (Herb Edelman) are all gathered around the card table in the hot apartment. Oscar gets a call that his pal Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon), who was supposed to be at...
- 3/27/2009
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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