Hollywood Flashback: Al Pacino's Big Debut Was 1971's 'Panic in Needle Park'

Johnny Depp is no stranger to complicated souls. In 1993, the actor was just emerging from the matinee idol phase of his career and was rapidly cultivating a reputation as a fearless actor unwilling to trade on good looks alone.

Willem Dafoe has to date had a long and diverse acting career that’s seen him work with some of the world’s most renowned filmmakers, among them Martin Scorsese, Zhang Yimou, William Friedkin, Oliver Stone and Dee Rees. Dafoe has a fondness for playing misunderstood oddballs and men who march to their own beat, which somewhat explains why his turn as a kind, generous motel manager in Sean Baker’s The Florida Project was greeted with surprise.

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Todd Phillips' Joker, Peter Farrelly's Green Book, Bong Joon Ho's Parasite and Roman Polanski's J'accuseare the nominees in the best foreign film category of Italy's David di Donatello Awards.The nominees in the best Italian film category are Matteo Garrone for Pinocchio, Pietro Marcello for Martin Eden, Claudio Giovannesi for La Paranza dei Bambini(Piranhas), Marco Bellocchio for Il Traditore(The Traitor) and Matteo Rovere for Il Primo Re (The

Nick Hornby's 1995 novel High Fidelity has had quite the post-publication life.In 2000, it was adapted into a Disney film when Joe Roth headed the studio. It starred John Cusack and brought him a Golden Globe nomination.

Joaquin Phoenix won best actor at the 2020 Oscars on Sunday for his role as Arthur Fleck in Joker.In claiming the top prize, Phoenixbeat out fellow nominated actors Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory), Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Adam Driver (Marriage Story), and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes).This marks Phoenix's first Oscar win, having been nominated three times before for The Master (2013), Walk the Line (2006), and Gladiator (2001).Phoenix continued a trend seen in

Sixteen months before THR was launched — and 91 years before 1917 entered the Oscar race — the World War I film Wings won the first Academy Award for "outstanding picture." And in May 1929, besides not being called best picture, the award presented in the Hollywood Roosevelt ballroom wasn't even called Oscar; that didn't happen until the mid-1930s, after the Academy's Margaret Herrick reportedly said that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar.But Wings was not an unexpected choice.Though it

Joaquin Phoenix is no stranger to the spotlight! The Joker star, 45, got his start in television alongside his late brother, River Phoenix, and sister Summer Phoenix, and quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the most recognized names in Hollywood.

Just like a lot of other actors, Mark Ruffalo and David Schwimmer also started their careers with a low-key job that had nothing to do with their acting profession. During their recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Ruffalo and Schwimmer realised that they both worked at the exact same Restaurant and the experience was bizarre, to say the least.

There’s no stopping Joaquin Phoenix, who won Best Actor in a Leading Role at the the 73rd Annual British Academy Film Awards on Sunday.

Exactly 100 years ago, animation took a huge leap forward: Walt Disney scored his first job as a cartoonist.On Jan. 29, 1920, Disney, then 18, saw an ad for a $40-a-week ($500 in today's dollars) position at the Kansas City Film Ad Co.

While awards season has The Two Popes and HBO has The New Pope (it premiered Jan. 13), Hollywood had one old pope visiting Sept.

When American Beauty bowed in September 1999 at the Toronto Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter wasn't quite sure what the public would make of the pitch-black dramedy.While THR's review acknowledged the "charismatic power" of the performances by its actors — singling out not just stars Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening but also Thora Birch, Wes Bentley and Mena Suvari — it wondered whether audiences might not "tire of [director Sam] Mendes' arch and often condescending style.

Awkwafina’s incredible run of success continues, as the numbers for the debut of her new Comedy Central show make for more than pleasant reading.

Fifty-two years ago, The Hollywood Reporter described Patrick Stewart — who stars in Star Trek: Picard, launching on CBS All Access on Jan. 23 — as "dashing" in the role of Duke Senior in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre.

It's been more than 50 years since Mel Brooks' The Producers wrestled with the challenge of courting Oscar for a film offering a comic version of Adolf Hitler, something Jojo Rabbit is facing this year."There are many to whom this brand of humor is more an opening of wounds that can never heal," THR said in its Dec. 28, 1967, review.