Hollywood Flashback: Sam Mendes' First Screen Effort, 'American Beauty,' Won 5 Oscars in 2000

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.

Sam Smith has praised Billie Eilish’s “classic” and “beautiful” James Bond theme song.

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Officials behind Sam Mendes’ upcoming Broadway play were left red-faced on Sunday after accidentally releasing an advertisement prematurely listing the director as a double winner at the 2020 Oscars.

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

Sir Sam Mendes, Sir Elton John and Florence Pugh are among the British contenders hoping to take home an Oscar on Sunday – amid criticism of a lack of diversity among nominees.

The film that gave Al Pacino — an Oscar nominee in this year's best supporting actor race for The Irishman — his first starring role was 1971's The Panic in Needle Park.He wasn't the only participant in the film who went on to big things.Park was produced by Dominick Dunne, who decades later would become famous for his writing in Vanity Fair.

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.

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Sam Mendes took home the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize for his war epic 1917 at the 2020 Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards.

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.

Sam Mendes took home the top prize at the 72nd Annual DGA Awards on Saturday. The filmmaker won for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for .