New Movies to Watch This Week: Nomadland, I Care a Lot, Test Pattern
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The treasures of an extended Oscar season just keep on giving, as Venice Film Festival winner and award season favorite “Nomadland” finds its way to theaters and Hulu subscribers. It’s a special film, about a woman (played by two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand) who pulls up stakes and travels the country by van, hitting theaters at a time when many people have been reexamining their own lives. So if there’s a safe way to see it, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better option out there.
In The Mauritanian, Tahar Rahim plays Mohamedou Ould Salahi, the man who was unlawfully detained at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years. Rahim tells The A.V. Club what it was like meeting and working with Salahi in preparation for the role.
Jodie Foster claims that starring alongside Shailene Woodley was not just a way to meet Aaron Rodgers
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For someone whose been raking in major acting awards since she was 14, you’d think Jodie Foster could just pick up the phone and meet any old football player she wants. After all, she’s Jodie damned Foster, and they’re just some big dudes playing a kids’ game. Still, noted Green Bay Packers fan Foster had to fend off Jimmy Kimmel’s suggestion on his Thursday show that she’d used her considerable clout to cast Shailene Woodley as her co-star in the Kevin Macdonald-directed real-life injustice legal drama
Stephanie Quayle has performed for presidents, she's sang on National TV, and she's stood front and center at the Grand Ol' Opry, so it's only natural that she would take the next big step in her already successful music career: the Movies.
Only Three Actors Have Won the Oscar Without Nods From Golden Globes and SAG
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All awards seasons lead to the Oscars, but for an actor or actress to stand on the Dolby Theatre stage (or as is most likely the case this year, accept the statuette virtually), the Golden Globes and SAG awards are the two most influential precursors.
The SAG Awards have existed since 1995 and quickly established themselves as a place where an actor or actress would be recognized by their peers, due to its large crossover with AMPAS voters. In the past 20 years, only three people have won an Academy Award for acting without garnering, at minimum, a nomination from both the Globes and the SAGs: Marcia Gay Harden for 2000’s “Pollock” in supporting actress (missed Globes and SAG), Christoph Waltz for 2012’s “Django Unchained” in supporting actor (missed SAG) and Regina King for 2018’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” in supporting actress (misse