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Baz Luhrmann says it would be "an amazing historical moment" if Elvis cinematographer Mandy Walker were to triumph at Sunday’s Academy Awards. To quote Lizzo, "It's been too long," the filmmaker tells me last night at the Australian Oscar nominees soirée held in the Chateau Marmont's penthouse…

The Estée Lauder Cos. is buying the Tom Ford brand in a deal that is valued at $2.8 billion. Tom Ford, the founder and CEO of Tom Ford International, is expected to remain at the company through the end of 2023. Domenico De Sole, chairman of Tom Ford International, will also remain until the end of…

Editors Note: This story originally ran on December 22, 2016. A reminder to everyone in town: Michael Shannon has graced us with his towering, square-jawed presence for quite some time. Sure, his profile has risen exponentially in the last eight years following his Oscar-nominated supporting turn as John Givings, the…

When it came to scoring the story of an unhappy, well-to-do divorced woman, who experiences her regret through her ex-husband's cathartic tome of fiction in Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, Polish-born composer Abel Korzeniowski decided to filter the music through the eyes of Amy Adams' Susan Morrow. Based on Austin…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Ford is waiting for me in the otherwise empty Cafe Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. He is the first to remark on the absurdity of how atmospheric this must look. He is as meticulously coiffed as ever, in signature dark suit, white shirt and tie. But Ford doesn’t come off staged, at all, once…

If ever there was an actors’ actor it would be Michael Shannon whose range of work this year alone in ten different film projects would impress everyone, from playing Elvis in Elvis & Nixon  to Zod in Batman v. Superman to a whole range of intriguing indie films like Frank & Lola and Complete Unknown to no less than…

Although he has a pretty good day job, fashion maven Tom Ford has been busy as well creating a pretty impressive screen career on the side. First there was A Single Man, and now seven years later the Hitchcock-style thriller Nocturnal Animals, which not only won him the Silver Lion when it premiered at the Venice Film…

A weekly column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit There was much anticipation surrounding today’s release of the American Film Institute’s Top 10 Movies Of The Year list, as it has often come close to what eventually is picked by Oscar voters — even though the Academy rarely matches AFI’s…

A weekly column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit Everywhere I to go, people ask me if I’m gearing up for the big awards season, which kind of makes me laugh. We have been in the thick of this contest since at least Labor Day, and here we are at Thanksgiving finding out that for many in the…

It has been seven years since Tom Ford added the job description of film director to his already famous fashion empire. That movie, A Single Man, was rightly acclaimed, and now with Nocturnal Animals he proves it was no fluke. Based on the 1993 novel Tony & Susan by Austin Wright, this adult thriller is a crazy mix of…

“When you love someone, you have to be careful with it. You might never get it again.”  The official trailer has arrived for Focus Features’ Nocturnal Animals from writer/director Tom Ford. Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the haunting romantic thriller bows in theaters…

The 2016 Hollywood Film Awards will honor Tom Ford, Marc Platt, and Kenneth Longergan, the organization has announced. Ford will receive the "Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award" for his Nocturnal Animals. Meanwhile, Platt will receive the "Hollywood Producer Award" for his work on several projects this year…