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The second wave of GLAAD Media Awards winners were announced in New York City tonight at a ceremony hosted by RuPaul’s Drag Race superstar Shangela (who made a splash at the Los Angeles ceremony with her Beyonce performance). The East Coast edition of the awards unveiled Pose as the winner of Outstanding Drama Series…

Nicole Kidman is barefoot in a floor-length gown, ice-blue like her eyes. When she curls into a corner of the sofa, she looks relaxed and regal, a woman whose earned the right to stretch after a frantically busy fall. At this moment, her blockbuster Aquaman is topping the box office. You might not expect to see Kidman…

Joel Edgerton is a multi-talented, multi-faceted actor, director, writer and producer who wore all of those hats in bringing to the screen Boy Erased, the adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir about the journey into and out of conversion therapy. The acclaimed film is the second feature film directorial outing for…

“It’s far more complicated than a black-and-white judgment from the outside,” director Joel Edgerton said about his latest film, Boy Erased, which explores the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy. Based on the memoir by Garrard Conley, the Focus Features film, which opened in theaters this month, follows…

With each passing year, Lucas Hedges multiplies his awards season filmography. First there was Manchester by the Sea, for which he was Oscar nominated. Then, last year, much-garlanded turns in Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. This year he's back with no fewer than three films: Joel Edgerton's Bo…

In the midst of a pivotal career moment, Troye Sivan is trying to get at the truth. A supporting player in Boy Erased—Joel Edgerton's adaptation of a memoir by Garrard Conley—the Australian singer-songwriter earnestly admits to the learning curve involved with his first prominent onscreen role. "I just haven’t done as…

When esteemed actor Joel Edgerton set out to make his second feature, Boy Erased, he understood the world he was portraying—the way it looked, and the way it felt. Starring Lucas Hedges, the film would loosely adapt Garrard Conley's memoir, drawing on his experiences at Live in Action, a church-supported gay…

This awards season — to quote Sam Cooke — a change is gonna come, courtesy of Focus Features. Today at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, the distributor presented two of its timely contenders in Boy Erased (which bowed in theaters Friday) and AFI Fest opener On the Basis of Sex, dramas that concern themselves…

November's first weekend is usually a crowded one at the Specialty box office, and this year is no different. Lucas Hedges stars with Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and director Joel Edgerton in Boy Erased from Focus Features. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman's A Private War from Aviron Pictures is the first narrative feature…

Author Garrard Conley ruminated and waited nearly a decade to write his memoir Boy Erased, which chronicled the details of his experiences in gay conversion therapy. Now, his story is the basis of a Focus Feature feature film directed and written by Joel Edgerton and starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Cr…

Ahead of its platform release Friday comes a new trailer for Focus Features’ Boy Erased, the drama written and directed by Joel Edgerton based on Garrard Conley’s memoir about coming out to his Southern Baptist parents who sent him to conversion-therapy camp. Lucas Hedges stars alongside Oscar winners Nicole Kidman…

Two years ago Garrard Conley published his memoir, Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family, which detailed events of more than a decade earlier when, as a young man grappling with questions about his sexuality, he was sent into conversion therapy in order to set himself straight, as it were. The story…