M. Emmet Walsh, the wily character actor who became an audience favorite for his deliciously despicable performances in such films as Blood Simple, Blade Runner, Brubaker and The Jerk, has died. He was 88. Walsh died Tuesday in St. Albans, Vermont, his longtime manager, Sandy Joseph, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause was cardiac …

More than 500 additional Hollywood figures signed the letter overnight condemning Jonathan Glazer‘s Oscars 2024 speech for his best international film win for The Zone of Interest. The letter, which was published yesterday with 450 signees already attached, denounced the director’s speech, mimicking his own phrasing at the awards show …

The Oscars 2024 returned to the Dolby Theatre on Sunday for Hollywood’s biggest night of the year. The awards ceremony began with an emotional win for Da’Vine Joy Randolph and ended with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer taking home the top prize, as well as six other awards. But there was plenty …

One day Timothée Chalamet had small-ish roles in projects like Homeland and Interstellar, and the next, he was the Oscar-nominated up-and-comer that seemingly every director wanted to work with, thanks to his emotional turn as Elio in Call Me by Your Name. His role in Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 coming-of-age drama …

It’s hard to imagine a world before Daddy Pascal Pedro Pascal was a household name. But, before landing his breakthrough role on Game of Thrones as Oberyn Martell, the actor had several one-off roles in TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and CSI. …

Austin Butler is clearing the air about the time he referred to his former longtime girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens as a “friend,” which many people felt minimized their nine-year-long relationship. During The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2023 actor roundtable — which featured last year’s award season’s leading men including Butler, Colin Farrell, Brendan …

Margot Robbie is expanding on her thoughts and feelings about the fact that she and Greta Gerwig did not receive Oscar nominations for best actress and director, respectively. In a conversation with the Los Angeles Times, Robbie explained that she and Gerwig set out to make a film that would …

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named The Zone of Interest as its choice for the best picture of the year. Oppenheimer is the runner-up in the voting, which took place Sunday. The critics association named Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest star Sandra Hüller and …

The cast and crew of Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Poor Things made their way onto one final red carpet ahead of the film’s theatrical release. Stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Margaret Qualley and Kathryn Hunter, among others, joined Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara for the New York City …

“It’s great to see even more of you since the strikes are over,” former president Barack Obama told a full house during his and former first lady Michelle Obama’s surprise appearance at a special screening of their Netflix biopic Rustin. Held in the Oprah Winfrey Theater at the National Museum …

Disney’s 2003 version of Freaky Friday almost looked very different. Annette Bening and Michelle Trachtenberg were first cast as mother and daughter in the remake of the 1977 film that saw Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster switching bodies on Friday the 13th. But Trachtenberg couldn’t get out of her commitment …

When college friends Courtney L. Branch and Noel Braham launched the Micheaux Film Festival five years ago, the event, designed to put a spotlight on diverse and underrepresented creators, was limited to just a one-day affair. “Really, [we] just wanted to do it as a proof of concept to see …