Antonio Banderas’ first Oscar nomination came in Monday morning for his leading role in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory. “I was surprised” Banderas said, not only because he had been fairly absent from the campaigning scene due to the opening of his new theater, Teatro del Soho Caixabank, in his native Malaga, but…
Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar made his return at Cannes this year with Pain & Glory, a deeply personal and semi-autobiographical film about an aging filmmaker reflecting on his life and legacy and dealing with the loss of his youth.
The movie stars frequent Almodóvar collaborator Antonio Banderas as Spanish director…
Antonio Banderas will receive the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s International Star Award, Actor for his performance in Pain and Glory, the fest announced today. The award will be presented at the festival’s Film Awards Gala on Thursday, Jan. 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
The…
Antonio Banderas came to the ninth annual Deadline Contenders Los Angeles all day event last month and told the packed DGA Theatre audience of Academy and key guild members how he approached what has become the most acclaimed role of his career to date in Pain And Glory. He won the Best Actor prize at this year’s…
Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas have made eight movies together, and their latest, Pain & Glory, may represent the high point of their collaboration. In perhaps Almodóvar's most directly autobiographical film to date, Banderas literally wears the auteur director's clothes to play a Spanish filmmaker named…
On this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, Antonio Banderas visits our studio to discuss his latest film, and eighth collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory. This is the film that won Banderas the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and has put him front and…
In conversation with Deadline's Pete Hammond at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, star Antonio Banderas said Sony Pictures Classics' Pain and Gloryblends both the reality and the dreams of director Pedro Almodóvar into a new sort of truth.
"It's something that he calls self-fiction," Banderas said of the…
One of the highlights of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was the international unveiling of the great Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar's 21st film, Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria), which is his most personal yet — a look at a film director and his memories that represents the closest thing to Almodóvar's own 8…
There can be no doubt the new satirical take on the 2015 Panama Papers scandal, The Laundromat, offers a story well worth telling. It points out the obvious in today’s America: the little guy is screwed, while the top 1% make all the money, know how to “launder” it, and pay no taxes. The light approach by director…
It's been a wild year for Antonio Banderas, still riding high on the Cannes hit Pain and Glory, which brought him the Best Actor award at the French festival and was subsequently chosen, not altogether unsurprisingly, as Spain's submission in the Academy's foreign-language category. A strongly autobiographical work…
The Panama Papers, and what they revealed about complex financial systems designed to protect the uber-rich, organized crime and the fiscally immoral, are the subject of Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat, written by Scott Z Burns. Burns was joined in Deadline's TIFF studio by Jake Bernstein, who wrote the book, Secre…
The nominations are out for the 34rd annual Imagen Awards, which celebrate positive portrayal and creative excellence of Latinos and Latino cultures in TV and film. See the full list of noms in 18 categories below.
Among the big names up for Imagens on the film side this year are actors Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Lopez…
