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The playboy star co-wrote and produced the layered satire about a Beverly Hills hairstylist in the midst of an existential crisis, which earned Lee Grant a best supporting actress Oscar.

The Oscar-nominated doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is layered and unconventional, as sprawling in its critique as it is unusual in its delivery. The same, it turns out, can be said of its director. Johan Grimonprez’s essayistic film focuses on the colonial powers’ suppression of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo — while also telling a story of jazz, Nikita Khrushchev, Black Power and the fractious United Nations. Grimonprez is his own eclectic mix. A cultural theorist preoccupied with mass media and fear; a fast-talking professorial Belgian who never met a historical…

SAG Award: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Frontrunner: The odds-on favorite Wicked – Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang & Michelle Yeoh A big box office hit nominated in this category often wins (Oppenheimer, Black Panther, Hidden Figures). Possible spoiler: The tempting alternative Emilia Pérez – Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz & Zoe Saldaña The guild has a long history of embracing diversity in this category. But it’s certainly possible that the cast’s prospects have been damaged by the Gascón X (Twitter) scandal, as…

Fresh off his first-ever Oscar nomination for The Brutalist, Guy Pearce has already wrapped his next feature: Blurred, an erotic thriller set in New York’s fashion world. Pearce and Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) co-star in the feature, written and directed by Ben Cookson (Waiting for Anya) alongside Maria Pedraza (Netflix’s Money Heist), and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Suicide Squad, HBO’s His Dark Materials). Produced by Pettyfer and James Ireland for Dark Dreams Entertainment and Yariv Lerner (Hellboy, Rambo: Last Blood) for Film Forage, Blurred wrapped production last summer in the U.K. Cloud9 Studios is handling international sales…

Robert Downey Jr., Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy and Da’Vine Joy Randolph were named as the first group of presenters for the 2025 Oscars. All four presenters announced on Wednesday went home with an Academy Award at last year’s ceremony. Downey Jr. won the best supporting actor Oscar last year for his role as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Similarly, his costar Murphy, who played the titular character Robert Oppenheimer, won best actor. Randolph won best supporting actress for her performance in The Holdovers, while Stone took home the gold for her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. Stone, of…

Barry Keoghan has good luck with donkeys. He last shared the screen with one in 2022’s The Banshees of Inisherin, in which Jenny the Donkey stole hearts as Colin Farrell’s beloved pet. Banshees earned Keoghan his first Oscar nomination. Now he returns to rural Ireland with a new mule named Don Mosley for a Super Bowl ad touting the website service Squarespace. The pair teased their collaboration in a pre-Super Bowl ad called Barry and Mosley. And now the actual spot has dropped, embedded below. Keoghan checked in with The Hollywood Reporter via Zoom from London to talk about the…

Zac Efron will star opposite Will Ferrell in an untitled comedy Nicholas Stoller is directing for Amazon MGM. Stoller also wrote the script, which at one point was titled Judgement Day. The story follows a young convict fresh out of prison who takes a reality TV courtroom hostage, blaming the megalomaniac TV judge, played by Ferrell, for a past ruling that the convict feels ruined his life. Efron will star as the convict. Related Stories Stoller is producing via his Stoller Global Solutions banner, while Ferrell is producing under his Gloria Sanchez Productions outfit.  Gloria Sanchez’s Jessica Elbaum and Alex…

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in the headlines as of late with reports about conflict and the advances of the so-called March 23 Movement rebels. But the colonial history and ecological significance of the country in Central Africa is getting the spotlight in a new essayistic film from photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji called The Tree of Authenticity (L’arbre de l’authenticité) that world premiered in the Tiger Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Sunday. “Drawing on research from the 1930s, the film highlights the Congo Basin’s vital role in consuming carbon dioxide and shaping…

What can I say about Sundance this year that hasn’t already been said? Yes, the line-up lacked commercial offerings, and was filled with small films from first time directors. Yes, the festival felt subdued with less star power than years past. Yes, there was still inexplicably an hour-and-a-half wait for the most subpar avocado toast you have ever had in your life. And, yes, it still cost you $40, even though your boss warned you to keep expenses down. As compared to years past, this year’s Sundance felt like a turning point, with a collective acceptance that the festival’s time…

All five of this year’s best director Oscar nominees — Emilia Pérez’s Jacques Audiard, Anora’s Sean Baker, The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet, The Substance’s Coralie Fargeat and A Complete Unknown’s James Mangold — will attend and be feted at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Directors of the Year ceremony, The Hollywood Reporter can report. The gathering, which will take place at Santa Barbara’s historic Arlington Theatre at 8 p.m. PT on Monday, Feb. 10 — and will be the only time the quintet will congregate together prior to the 97th Academy Awards on March 2 — will feature interviews with the directors individually,…