Oops! Naomi Watts completely forgot about the first time she was nominated for an Oscar!
03.04.2022 - 17:03 / msn.com
egendary pirates to witches and wizards, Kent has no shortage of stars to its name. It’s certainly safe to say that this year’s Oscars were absolutely one to remember and buzz around the event is yet to die down. It may come as a surprise that several Kent-born actors and actresses have made their way to the prestigious ceremony over the years, with multiple nominations and even one winner.
A name that is sure to be recognised that fits neatly into this category is Naomi Watts. With an impressive multi decade spanning career, the 53 year-old has been recognised for a number of her incredible performances and even landed not one but two Oscar nominations. Read more: Nicki Chapman and her 'idyllic' childhood in KentNaomi Ellen Watts was born in Shoreham, a civil parish in the Sevenoaks district, on September 28 1968.
She is the daughter of Myfanwy Edwards, an antiques dealer and costume and set designer, and Peter Watts who worked as a road manager and sound engineer who worked with Pink Floyd. Her parents would divorce when Naomi was just four years-old, following which she and her older brother Ben would move several times around the southeast with their mother. Tragedy struck in 1976 when their father died at the age of 30, having left his work with Pink Floyd two years prior, dying of an apparent heroin overdose.
Following this, she and her family would move around some more, spending time in Wales, then Suffolk before moving all the way to Sydney, Australia when she was 14. Though she has called many places home, Watts has said she is ‘proud’ of her Kent roots. Talking to Great British Life she said: “I have been back more than once and I am proud to have been born in Kent and being a village makes Shoreham all the
.Oops! Naomi Watts completely forgot about the first time she was nominated for an Oscar!
Walter Coblenz, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated producer behind All the President’s Men and nearly two dozen other titles, died on March 16, aged 93. A cause of death has not been disclosed.
Naomi Watts has just joined the next season of Feud!
Ryan Murphy’s anthology series,, is reportedly returning to FX with an all-new installment starring Naomi Watts, ET has confirmed. The second season, which follows 2017’s , will be called and focus on the falling out between author Truman Capote and several of his female friends. The eight-part season will be adapted from Laurence Leamer’s by showrunner Joan Robin Baitz and directed by Gus Van Sant. Watts, who most recently portrayed Gretchen Carlson in Showtime’s, will star as Babe Paley, a New York City socialite who kept a circle of high-society friends that included Slim Keith.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterNaomi Watts has signed on to star in the long-gestating second season of “Feud” at FX, Variety has confirmed with sources.The second season of the Ryan Murphy anthology series will be based on the book “Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era” by Laurence Leamer. Watts will play famed socialite Barbara “Babe” Paley.
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Murphy and Plan B have set a second installment of their FX anthology series Feud. Titled Capote’s Women, the project will star two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts as Babe Paley who ruled the glamorous world of New York society in the 1960s and 70s. Two-time Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant is set to direct all eight episodes, with Tony and Pulitzer-nominated Jon Robin Baitz, who put together the high-profile package, writing all episodes and serving as showrunner.
Last month, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences asked fans to vote for their favorite movies of the year and the organization said the winner would be announced during the 2022 Oscars.
Oscar-nominated flick you should screen.Hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes, this year’s Academy Awards ceremony recognizes outstanding contributions in film and will hopefully help the show rebound from last year’s record low ratings.With 10 contenders (with some staggeringly long run times among them) for Best Picture, there’s a lot of cinema to sort through. Fear not.
The beloved Encanto song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” will be performed at the Oscars this weekend, but it has no chance at winning the award for Best Original Song.
While they’re perennial favorites that arguably never go away, snowy survival dramas are having a moment right now. In the past month, we’ve been offered five of them from various distributors, including Hulu‘s “No Exit,” Netflix’s “Against the Ice,” and now, the nearly-silent thriller “Infinite Storm” from Bleecker Street.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticChances are, you landed on this review because you’re trying to game your Oscar pool, looking for a clue as to what will win the always-underseen shorts categories — in a year when they were unceremoniously booted from the telecast, no less. Well, if it’s predictions you’re looking for, there’s little contest among this year’s cartoon contenders: Academy favorite Aardman Animations has delivered a delightful frontrunner in “Robin Robin.” But don’t stop reading there! In an unusually adult-leaning year, the traditionally kid-friendly category is well worth watching in its entirety, whether in theaters or on demand, thanks to stalwart distributor ShortsTV.The program opens with “Robin Robin,” which seems poised to earn Aardman its fifth Oscar (the other four were all won by Nick Park, creator of the Wallace and Gromit characters).
Naomi Watts is stepping out for the premiere of her new movie!
Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman are ready to make a new movie together.
There’s hopefully going to be a Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts movie at some point in the near future.
Dennis Harvey Film CriticNaomi Watts has had a penchant for highly physical roles unusual among female stars not particularly associated with action movies. It made her acrobatics the most special effect amidst so many CG wonders in Peter Jackson’s “King Kong,” and a vividly plausible victim of grueling crises in films like “Funny Games” and “The Impossible.” Of course, one can always get too much of a good thing, as when recent, regrettable “The Desperate Hour” seemed to reduce the hot-button topic of school shootings to a gimmicky “Watch this fearless actress run the gamut of emotions while JOGGING!”Fortunately, there is nothing gratuitous about the physicality demanded of Watts by “Infinite Storm,” which is based on a real-life incident that took place in New Hampshire’s White Mountains a dozen years ago.