One notable filmmaker speaking out is Steve McQueen (not the macho icon who himself was nominated for an Oscar), the British writer/director of Shame, who has a theory why his film’s lead actor, Michael Fassbender, was not nominated for Best Actor.
While he’ll always be best known as Hawkeye from the eleven-season run of TV’s M*A*S*H, Alan Alda has been appearing in films since the 1960s, and next appears in Wanderlust, starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a couple who moves to a free-love commune.
As anyone working in television can tell you, for every ultra-successful television series like Seinfeld, Friends, CSI, or NYPD Blue there are dozens of shows that don’t make it past their first seasons — and dozens more that never make it past their first pilot episode.
Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman has surprised many people by starring in the HBO series Luck. Many assume that Hoffman — star of such classic films as The Graduate and Rain Man — is somehow “above” weekly episodic television, or that he’s far too busy with his award-winning film roles to do a television series.
We’re all aware that our favorite actors don’t usually do their own stunts — not always because of a lack of desire, but because of insurance purposes. Still, I doubt many A-list Hollywood actors would be willing to be actually waterboarded to prove their macho cred. Nonetheless, New York Magazine
The number of Asian-American actors in Broadway shows has actually declined since five years ago, the only minority group that has seen a decline.
In the off-Broadway show Tribes, a young deaf man, Billy, struggles with his relationship with his hearing parents who have difficulty accepting Billy’s disability.
Paul Dano has a lot of expectations tied to his latest big movie role, Being Flynn, the adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.
In Rampart, his second film with director Oren Moverman, Woody Harrelson again appears as an authority figure, something that Harrelson is never completely comfortable with.
Caine has one reason for his constant appearances in movies: he loves to act.
While the musical itself cost a reported record $75 million, Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark has been a massive hit on Broadway, taking home on average $1.3 million per week, there was one key member of the production who hasn’t been reaping any of those rewards: original director Julie Taymor.
Playing Denise, a nurse who works at the shelter, is Juno star Olivia Thirlby, who talks about how she prepared for the role and praises both her co-star, Paul Dano, and the film’s director, Paul Weitz.
Hey American actors: notice a significant reduction in your residuals? You might be able to blame Canada.
It’s important to remember that Jean Dujardin isn’t the only “silent” actor nominated for an Oscar this year — the iconic Max von Sydow is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his non-speaking role of “The Renter” in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Word of advice: before you fire your agent, be sure that you’re paid up on your commissions. Also, try to avoid doing the firing via e-mail.
After winning the Golden Globe and BAFTA Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, Meryl Streep is heading to the Academy Awards in what most see as a neck-and-neck race between her and SAG Best Actress winner Viola Davis for the Best Actress Oscar.
Langella speaks about not only how he typically chooses and prepares for roles, but how he rose to the challenge of acting against a robotic character in Robot and Frank.
You could say Viola Davis isn’t letting all the praise and awards from her acclaimed role in The Help get to her. After all, she has a 19-month old daughter.
It’s probably unlikely Tim Blake Nelson will ever play a character in a movie that will remain as associated with him as the dim-witted, though good-hearted fugitive Delmar O’Donell in the Coen brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou?
I’m not sure which is more inconceivable: that Gary Oldman has never been nominated for an Oscar before 2012, or that Oldman finally has been nominated for his first Oscar.
