In the Best Supporting Actress Oscar category, voters went in the same direction as the Screen Actors Guild, giving Alicia Vikander the trophy for her performance in Focus Features’ The Danish Girl. In recent years, the contenders in the supporting categories remain consistent from awards show to awards show, but…

Mad Max: Fury Road, The Danish Girl and Beasts of No Nation took the film prizes at the 18th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton. Mad Max, which won for Excellence in Fantasy Film, and Danish Girl (Period Film) are among the Costume Design Oscar nominees this…

UK and Irish films and talent was recognised in a big way at the Academy Awards with a host of nominations in front of and behind the camera. Todd Haynes’ Carol, produced by UK indie stalwarts Liz Karlsen and Stephen Woolley’s Number9 Films, led the way with six Oscar noms, including best actress (Cate Blanchett)…

The government of Qatar has banned Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, pulling it from cinemas on Monday after its scheduled release at the weekend. The film, which stars Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery, caused an online uproar over what one Twitter user deemed…

Alicia Vikander is dominating movie theaters, billboards and award nominations lately, with a stratospheric rise to fame she calls "completely surreal." It's been a fast ride indeed. Since she entered public consciousness with 2012's A Royal Affair, Vikander has now become one of the most talked-about actresses in…

In adapting David Ebershoff's novel The Danish Girl for the big screen, writer Lucinda Coxon (The Heart of Me, Wild Target) had to wrestle with some significant changes in order to make the story of Lille Elbe–one of the first known recipients of gender reassignment surgery–work visually. For example, "Gerda remarried…

Danny Cohen is one of two cinematographers to have two major films in the Oscar conversation this year (the other being Black Mass and Spotlight D.P. Masanobu Takayanagi). For Cohen—a frequent collaborator of director Tom Hooper’s, who shot The Danish Girl as well as Lenny Abrahamson's Room—having two prominent films…

Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon and producers Gail Mutrux and Anne Harrison came to The Contenders Presented By Deadline last month to tell the tale of the long creative gestation of their film, The Danish Girl, which took 15 years to get to the screen. Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander…

Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt profited bigtime with the year’s second-best showing in a limited debut this weekend. Directed by Adam McKay, The Big Short grossed $720K in just eight theaters for a stellar $90K average. That’s behind only Steve Jobs, which had a per-theater-average of a…

A crowded weekend for new specialty releases saw Sunday morning numbers that suggest the newcomers spread audiences thin. Fox Searchlight’s Youth leads the pack of newbies with an estimated gross of $80K in 4 theaters. Amazon Studios went out with their first film, Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, via Roadside Attractions for a…

Talk about hitting the zeitgeist. The Danish Girl, which details the story of the first known transgender in the 1920s, opened over the weekend to very good box office numbers in its limited platform release in New York and Los Angeles. Some of that might be attributable to its hot-button topic, which has made…

Focus Features' The Danish Girl had a robust beginning to its theatrical run during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, but it was The Weinstein Company's Carol that held the reins as the top per theater average champ. Open Road's Spotlight and Fox Searchlight's Brooklyn continued to show muscle as both added theaters…