Jordan Moreau The countdown to the 2024 Oscars has officially started. All of the nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning.
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“Playing Bella was unbelievable,” said Emma Stone of her character Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
“Bella falls in love with life itself, rather than a person. And she accepts the good and the bad in equal measure. And that really made me look at life differently. She has stayed with me,” Stone said accepting the Golden Globe for Best Female Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Bella is a Victorian woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). She grows restless under Baxter’s protection and runs off with a slick, debauched lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) on a whirlwind European adventure.
The reanimation appeared problematic, as Baxter had given Bella the brain of an infant. Stone’s comic physicality sees Bella lurch and sway. Her childlike bluntness sets her in opposition to the restrictions and prejudices of the times. As she comes to understand herself and the world, she take a stand for equality and liberation in a tale that’s part Frankenstein, part female empowerment.
“I think this is a rom-com. I see this as a rom-com,” Stone said tonight.
The Searchlight Pictures film by Yorgos Lanthimos won the Golden Lion for best film at Venice, where it premiered, screening at Telluride and the New York Film Festival. It bowed theatrically Dec. 8 with one of the best limited openings of the fall.
“I just fell in love with Bella,” Stone said on the red carpet before the ceremony. “And I loved working with Yorgos on The Favorite, and we talked about [Poor Things] right after,” she said of the 2019 comedy-drama.
“I will forever be grateful that we met,” told Lanthimos at her acceptance speech.
Stone, who won a Golden Globe for acting for La La Land in 2017 was a favorite for the
Jordan Moreau The countdown to the 2024 Oscars has officially started. All of the nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning.
Ava DuVernay’s Origin’s theatrical debut grossed a solid $875k on 130 screens with a $7k per-theater average said to be better than Neon anticipated.
juggernaut doll movie.The roster instead included prestige favorites such as “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” “The Holdovers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall,” all of which are expected to be announced as Best Picture Oscar nominees on Jan. 23.“Oppenheimer,” which was the most-nominated film with 13 mentions, maintains its coveted spot as the movie to beat at the Oscars after big wins at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards.“Barbie” wasn’t totally given the old heave-ho, though.The film received five nods: Actress (Robbie), supporting actor (Ryan Gosling), original screenplay, costume design and production design.
Perfect magazine in a recent interview. “I’ve never done anything like [‘Poor Things’] before.” “So, like, the sex scenes,” continued Ruffalo. “Am I too old to be doing that kind of stuff? Does anyone want to see that?”In a second Instagram post, the “Spotlight” actor, who appeared nude from the waist up in the cover shoot, mused that Hollywood is currently “in this prudish time for films.” “Sexuality is so deeply connected to the psychology of a character.
Naman Ramachandran Warner Bros.’ “Wonka” continued its reign over the U.K. and Ireland box office with £2.2 million ($2.8 million), according to numbers from Comscore. After six weekends at the box office, the Timothée Chalamet starrer has a sweet total of £56.1 million.
Mark Ruffalo, Emma Stone and Ramy Youssef are celebrating!
Poor Things looks set to be one of the major films of the 2024 award season.Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, The Lobster), the sci-fi black comedy follows young woman Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) who, after dying by suicide, is resurrected by a scientist and runs off with a debauched lawyer on a journey of self-discovery.The film is based on a novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray. Alongside Stone, the cast includes Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Kathryn Hunter, Jerrod Carmichael, Hanna Schygulla and Margaret Qualley.At the wedding ceremony between Bella Baxter and Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef), Alfie Blessington (Christopher Abbott), the ex-husband of Bella’s mother, interrupts and implores Bella, who he believes is her mother Victoria Blessington, to return with him.Bella abandons Max at the altar, keen to learn of her mother’s past life with Alfie.
Natalie Portman only had eyes for Martin Short when she attended the 81st Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in LA on Sunday.The May December actress, 42, actress admitted her infatuation with the actor, 73, during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Thursday.“Who is somebody that you met recently that you never met that you were very excited about?” Kimmel, 56, asked.“At the Globes, I met Martin Short. I lost my mind,” the Oscar winner revealed.“My friend Jess and I, she was my date, we were like stalking up behind him.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Emma Stone has a dream, and not one you’d expect. The “Poor Things” star, coming off a Golden Globe win this week, tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast that she wants to be a contestant on the classic game show “Jeopardy” — and no, not the “Celebrity” edition. “I apply every June,” she says.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Poor Things, the darkly comedic genre-bender penned by Tony McNamara that marks a reunion of the Greek filmmaker with McNamara and star Emma Stone after 2018’s Oscar-nominated The Favourite.
BreAnna Bell “The Holdovers” star Paul Giamatti, Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) and “Rustin” star Colman Domingo were among the stars reacting to their Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations on Wednesday morning. Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani revealed this year’s noms via an early morning Instagram Live video. The awards cycle comes following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, giving the guild a chance to celebrate after spending much of last year on the picket line.
Emma Stone had a busy 24 hours after winning a Golden Globe!
Jennifer Lawrence and Margot Robbie were both seen exiting one of the 2024 Golden Globes after parties held on Sunday (January 7) at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
Emma Stone is jokingly calling out her longtime pal Taylor Swift!
Taylor Swift was NOT laughing when she was the butt of a joke during the Golden Globes!
It was Jo Koy‘s first time hosting the Golden Globes on Sunday night, and he used the platform to go IN on Hollywood, the now-extinct Hollywood Foreign Press Association‘s longstanding diversity issues, and more!
bad blood between them. Emma Stone jokingly called her friend Taylor Swift “an a–hole” while speaking with the press following her win for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy during the 81st Golden Globes.“What an a–hole, am I right?” the “Poor Things” actress, 35, told reporters when asked about Swift, 34, who was spotted giving the “La La Land” star a standing ovation on Sunday.
“It’s a very different film,” Yorgos Lanthimos said Sunday about his next movie with Emma Stone, titled Kinds of Kindness,which he’s currently editing. It marks the third time the pair have worked together.
Golden Globes, broadcast on CBS for the first time, the news of the night was that, save for one or two genuine shocks, everything unfolded pretty much as had been widely predicted. First-time host Jo Koy presided over the telecast, which took place, as always, at the Beverly Hilton.
Yorgos Lanthimos celebrated his Golden Globes win by giving a shoutout to Bruce Springsteen.