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Less than 24 hours after standing in front of the world to accept the best actress Oscar for her performance in Anora, Mikey Madison is getting glammed up at a friend’s guest house in Beverly Hills to shoot her morning-after cover for The Hollywood Reporter, when she receives a congratulatory text from an unknown number. “Who is this?!” she asks no one in particular, speculating aloud that it might be a producer of a past project … or perhaps a stranger who had tracked her down? As her two little dogs rest on the laps of friends, her proud twin…

Demi Moore may have lost the best actress Oscar many pundits expected her to win, but she’s still a winner to her daughters: Tallulah, Scout and Rumer Willis. Tallulah posted a post-2025 Oscars photo of her mom looking happy in a bathrobe, cradling her dog Pilaf, in front of two large plates of french fries. She captioned it, “MY winner.” Scout reposted the image with the caption “Queen of my heart” And she added of her mom on her Instagram Story, “So beyond proud, this woman is nothing but integrity, bright beaming light and love! What grace. I’ve never been…

1. “They Got the Wrong Envelope!” (2017) Standing in the wings, Los Angeles Times photographer Al Seib captured the astonished expressions of the front rows of Oscar attendees — among them Meryl Streep, Dwayne Johnson and Matt Damon — as well as Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and a slew of other luminaries when it became apparent that La La Land had not, in fact, won best picture (it was Moonlight!), despite Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway’s announcement. It later was dicovered that the mistake was not the presenters’ but that of a distracted and starstruck PwC accountant, Brian Cullinan.…

Eighty years before Isabella Rossellini landed her first Academy Award nomination, her mother won her first Oscar. Ingrid Bergman was named best actress for her turn in Gaslight, George Cukor’s 1944 feature centering on a woman whose husband suggests that she is losing her sanity after they move into the London home where her aunt was murdered a decade earlier. The film also starred Angela Lansbury in her Oscar-nominated feature debut. THR noted in June 1943 that Bergman, who had appeared in Casablanca the year prior, had been cast in Gaslight, Cukor’s first project since his World War II stint…

Black Box Diaries In her debut documentary feature, which premiered at Sundance, the journalist Shiori Ito chronicles her journey for legal recourse in a case against the high-profile reporter she accused of rape. Read THR‘s full review here. Oscar nominations: Best documentary feature film (Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin) Watch Black Box Diaries online: Stream on Paramount+, Hulu plus Paramount+ with Showtime; buy or rent on Apple TV, Prime Video No Other Land A collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers helm a project about the Israeli government’s attempts to expel Palestinians in Masafer Yatta. Read THR‘s full review…

The richest independent film financier in the world is a man you’ve probably never heard of. He prefers to keep it that way. Steven Rales, net worth $11 billion, has two Oscar-nominated movies this year. Conclave, released via his Indian Paintbrush banner, received eight nods, including best picture, and Flow, from his recently acquired Janus imprint, is up for animated and international honors. Steven Rales JC Olivera/Getty Images For the past two decades, the 73-year-old Rales also has been the Medici-like backer of Wes Anderson, beginning with The Darjeeling Limited and then The Fantastic Mr. Fox, for which he even…

When half-siblings Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson inherited the Bond franchise in the mid-1990s, they received a piece of advice from their dying father, legendary producer Cubby Broccoli, that would end up guiding their creative decisions for decades. “Don’t let anybody else screw it up,” he warned them. “You can screw it up if you want to, but don’t let other people screw it up.” Alas, it is finally somebody else’s turn. Last week, Broccoli, 64, announced that she and Wilson (who at 83 has been edging into retirement the past few years) were selling their interest in their…

Nicole Kidman sees her life as a perfect teacher and homemaker in Holland, Michigan, unravel in the official trailer for Holland, which dropped on Tuesday. The Amazon MGM Studios thriller sees the prolific actor and producer in the role of Nancy Vandergroot, a Stepford wife-like character in a tulip and windmill-filled town who has a community pillar husband, played by Matthew Macfadyen, and Jude Hill (Belfast) as her son. But the Hitchcock-like tale has Nancy and her friendly colleague, played by Gael García Bernal, begin to suspect the Michigan town has a secret, only to discover nothing in their lives is…

Wicked’s Oscar-nominated stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo will perform on Sunday’s Oscars, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. In addition, Doja Cat, Lisa of Blackpink, Queen Latifah and Raye are also set to take part in “showstopping performances celebrating the filmmaking community and some of its legends” during the Oscar telecast, according to the Academy. While it’s not yet known which song or songs Grande and Erivo will perform — options include, of course, “Popular,” “Defying Gravity,” “What Is This Feeling?” or some medley thereof — the word is that they will kick off the show. Earlier this month, Puck…

Tommy Dix, who starred as a young military school cadet opposite Lucille Ball in the 1943 MGM musical comedy Best Foot Forward after appearing in the Broadway original, has died. He was 101. Dix, of Williamsburg, Virginia, died Jan. 15, his family announced. “He was, for those who knew him well, a living link with some of the great American personalities of the 20th century. He will be missed,” they said. Dix was a popular baritone on network radio and had just made his Broadway debut in The Corn Is Green, starring Ethel Barrymore, when he was hired to play…