‘Barbie,’ ‘Killers of The Flower Moon’ & ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead BAFTA Awards Longlist Mentions

Lily Gladstone is making Oscars history!

Kenough. Ryan Gosling is showing his support for his “Barbie” co-star Margot Robbie and the film’s director Greta Gerwig after they were both snubbed in the Best Actress and Best Director Oscar categories respectively.

Is this a match made in heaven or a fumbling attempt to capitalize on the critical success of Martin Scorsese‘s “Killers Of The Flower Moon“? Deadline reports that “Yellowstone” mastermind Taylor Sheridan won a bidding war to adapt “Empire Of The Summer Moon: Quanah Parker And The Rise And Fall Of The Comanches, The Most Powerful Indian Tribe In American History.” Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch banner outbid everyone else to option S.C.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continued its commanding awards showing this morning, clocking a leading 13 BAFTA noms. Disappearing from the season’s leading pack, however, was Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which only clocked five noms after being longlisted in 15 categories. 

Nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards will be unveiled Thursday in London via a livestream that begins at 12 pm GMT/4 AM PST.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sharon Stone has revealed that she once attempted to pitch a “Barbie” movie to a Hollywood studio during the 1990s and was laughed out of the room. What a difference a couple of decades makes, as Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” opened last year and earned a staggering $1.4 billion to become the top-grossing film of 2023 and the biggest earner in Warner Bros.’ studio history.

Martin Scorsese’s epic Killers of the Flower Moon was named Best Picture at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, which were revealed today. The pic also took Best Supporting Actor for Robert De Niro. See the full winners list below.

Caroline Brew editor “Killers of the Flower Moon” won best picture at AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards, which spotlights films and TV content that speaks to a 50-plus audience. “It’s been a good year for shows and movies by and for people over 50,” AARP TV and Film Critic Tim Appelo said in a statement.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer dominating the evening.The Cillian Murphy-starring film about the father of the atomic bomb took away eight awards on the night including Best Director and Best Picture. Murphy was expected to take home Best Actor, but lost out to Paul Giamatti, who won Best Actor for his turn in The Holdovers in one of the biggest upsets of the evening.

Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards and director Christopher Nolan and his producer wife Emma Thomas gave the final two acceptance speeches of the evening!

The stars of Killers of the Flower Moon showed up and showed out at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday (January 14) at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.

DiCaprio would play the incorruptible Texas Ranger-turned FBI agent Tom White, whose sleuthing ends the Reign Of Terror murders that decimated the murders of oil rich Osage tribe members in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Until DiCaprio, Scorsese and De Niro decided it didn’t nearly capture the complicity of law enforcement and the white community that were so indifferent to the plight of the Osage, whose leaders basically bribed J Edgar Hoover’s new division to get involved. It perpetuated the “white savior” narrative that has been a staple of Hollywood westerns forever, and did little to capture the Osage side of the story. Here, he explains why this epiphany that set back the project years and led him to switch from hero to villain, was so worth it and resulted in a movie many have called a masterpiece with staying power.

Lily Gladstone has responded to Devery Jacobs‘ criticisms of Killers of the Flower Moon.

“We did two films together and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Maybe there’s time for one more?” said Martin Scorsese, turning to Daniel Day-Lewis after the actor lovingly introduced him at the National Board of Review awards gala.

Stuart Miller When the call went out for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Cara Jade Myers first read for the part of Rita and then for her sister Mollie, the focus of the film. Finally, she auditioned for the third sister, Anna, who is the most independent and the most troubled, her mother’s favorite but also a hard-drinking partier. “She was almost larger than life in that character, with a bravery and an unpredictable quality,” says Rene Haynes, who was the film’s Indigenous casting director.

Jaden Thompson AARP The Magazine has announced the nominees for the annual Movies for Grownups (MFG) Awards. “Barbie,” “The Color Purple,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro” and “Oppenheimer” will contend for best picture/best movie for grownups.

Amid the flood of awards-season nominations comes AARP, whose Movies for Grownups Awards noms arrived today. Oppenheimer leads the way with six mentions, followed by Killers of the Flower Moon with five. Both will vie for Best Picture alongside Barbie, The Color Purple and Maestro.

It’s a Barbie reunion! Yes, Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, director Greta Gerwig, and co-star America Ferrera had a little impromptu reunion at the 2024 Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards, held on January 4 in Palm Springs, California. Sadly, handsome co-star Ryan Gosling (Ken) wasn’t in attendance.

Meryl Streep praised the team behind Barbie as she took to the podium at the Palm Springs Film Awards last night, where she presented Carey Mulligan with the International Star Award, Actress, for Maestro.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director While January is often a slower month in movie theaters, it’s usually when major Oscar contenders start hitting streaming platforms. That’s definitely the case this year as 2024 kicks off with the long-awaited arrival of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” on Apple TV+.