Benedict Cumberbatch Eyes Oscar Race as ‘Power of the Dog’ Gets Four-Minute Standing Ovation at Venice

Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical, black-and-white drama Belfast claimed the TIFF People’s Choice Award on Saturday night, affirming its status as a major player to contend with in the 2022 Oscars race.

Sébastien Raybaud’s production and financing company Anton has taken a minority stake in SunnyMarch, the UK production outfit co-founded by Benedict Cumberbatch.

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So many stars stopped by the Variety Studio at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival!

It certainly doesn’t suck to be Benedict Cumberbatch. Not only are you a star of stage and screen with countless award-winning projects to your name, you also happen to be the lynchpin of the most expensive movie franchise in history.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee step out in sharp suits for the premiere of their new movie, The Power of the Dog, during the 2021 Toronto Film Festival in Canada on Friday (September 10).

Clayton Davis Benedict Cumberbatch has embarked on a year most stars can only dream about. The Oscar-nominated actor will appear in four films in 2021.

Benedict Cumberbatch has opened up about playing a gay character in new Netflix film The Power of the Dog, admitting it “wasn’t done without thought”.The Jane Campion movie, which has just premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, sees the Doctor Strange actor take on the role of “sadistic” cattle rancher Phil Burbank, who forms a relationship with Peter Gordon (Kodi Smit-McPhee).The conversation about whether straight actors should take on LGBTQ+ roles has gained increasing

Benedict Cumberbatch’s “The Power Of The Dog” has had great reception after its premiere during the Venice Film Festival with a four-minute standing ovation, but has also once again raised the question about straight actors playing LGBTQ roles.

Benedict Cumberbatch is opening up about his new movie The Power of the Dog.

TELLURIDE – If you’re a cat lover, as I admittedly am, it almost goes without saying that a feline-themed film should pique your interest. And when it comes to a prestige biopic about influential artist Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, and Toby Jones? Well, in theory, those elements should combine into a delectable portion of cinephile catnip.

Dune” at the 78th annual Venice Film Festival, with a star-studded movie premiere that brought to mind how Hollywood used to throw a party in the days before the pandemic.But given the current realities of the world, the stars of “Dune” — including Javier Bardem, Zendaya, Stellan Skarsgaard, Oscar Isaac, Chen Chang, Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Josh Brolin — all donned masks inside the theater for the entirety of the film’s sprawling 155-minute runtime.The “Timothée” that practically all of Italy

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune had its official world premiere here at the Venice Film Festival on Friday evening and had the Sala Grande reverberating like a thropter as it gave the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic a seven-minute standing ovation. Deadline was present and timed the applause, which ended only after the director humbly indicated that it was time to go.

Benedict Cumberbatch may have been on the red carpet at the Venice International Film Festival to promote his new film but he only had eyes for one person on the night, his wife Sophie Hunter.

The problem with making a successful documentary – commercial success, critical raves, Academy Award – is eventually, you have to make another one. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Free Solo” is one of the great non-fiction films of recent years, a nail-biting extreme sports chronicle with an intimate personality profile nestled firmly inside, Russian doll-style.

Tiffany Haddish and Oscar Issac are looking incredible at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

Kirsten Dunst and Benedict Cumberbatch are generating a lot of awards buzz with their new movie The Power of the Dog!

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Benedict Cumberbatch on the red carpet with his wife Sophie Hunter!

It’s going to be a busy year for Benedict Cumberbatch. The actor has three big movies coming out this fall and winter: Jane Campion‘s “The Power Of The Dog,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and set to make its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this week, “The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain.” READ MORE: Telluride 2021 Preview: 10 Must-See Films To Watch Cumberbatch stars as Wain, the London-based artist famous for his propensity for drawing large-eyed, anthropomorphic cats.