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A clear frontrunner throughout the awards season, Laura Dern capped off her hot streak tonight by winning the Oscar for best supporting actress for her trenchant performance in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story.
While she adds to her Golden Globe, SAG, Critics' Choice, and BAFTA trophies, this win was extra special for…
With the Oscars and the Golden Globes overlooking female directors this year, it was the Independent Spirit Awards who outdid them by handing its Best Feature award to Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, Best First Feature to Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart and Best Documentary to Julia Reichert’s American Factory.
“We’re so much…
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said Tuesday that the streamer's army of nominations and awards — flowing freely this season — is a magnet for top talent and an insurance policy of sorts to attract A-listers in a cycle of prestige content to keep and attract viewers.
Every nod and statuette furthers the…
Oscar nominations continue to make a difference at the box office, and the box office continues to be important to Oscar contenders.
At a time when prestigious, financially risky award bets are often destined to Netflix, nothing beats having that extra exhilaration from great ticket sales, as studios vie to raise the…
Netflix continues to pull out all the stops on behalf of its bumper crop of Oscar-bait films. It has teamed with Dolby on an immersive exhibit in New York that will showcase Dolemite Is My Name, The Irishman, Marriage Story and The Two Popes. The exhibit will be held at Dolby Soho in Manhattan.
The intention is to…
It’s that time again, the end of the year when it seems everyone has a list. It is no different in my case and so once again I present — in two parts, today and Thursday — my ranking of 2019’s 10 best films. Actually make that 11 best films, since I couldn’t resist a tie as you will see when you watch today’s…
Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, a Netflix original feature, has secured theatrical release in China after the streamer cut a deal with Road Pictures.
Starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, the pic chronicles a marriage breaking down. It premiered at Venice and Netflix gave the film an awards-qualifying release…
As Netflix viewers discover Marriage Story, one of the standout scenes is Laura Dern's monologue. She plays Scarlett Johansson's cutthroat divorce lawyer in the Noah Baumbach film, which recently received the most nominations at the Golden Globes.
Near the end of the divorce, Dern's character unleashes her true…
Noah Baumbach has made a number of films inspired by his own life, or others’ lives he has known. But don’t necessarily categorize his movies as strictly autobiographical, as I learned when we sat down in our Deadline studios for this week’s edition of my video series Behind the Lens.
Baumbach’s latest, Marriage Story…
EXCLUSIVE: Laura Dern has been having a very good year, appearing on screen in two big movies, Marriage Story as an out-for-the-jugular divorce lawyer, and Little Women as the warm and wise Marmee, and on television in the hit limited series Big Little Lies, which won her an Emmy in its first season and a SAG Cast…
Nominations for the 40th edition of the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards were announced today, with Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir out in front on seven nominations including Film, Screenwriter, Actor (Tom Burke), Supporting Actress (Tilda Swinton) and Young Performer (Honor Swinton Byrne).
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman…