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Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Jessica Alba, Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Catherine O’Hara, and S.S. Rajamouli, director of “RRR,” are among the 487 artists and executives invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
With all expected acceptances, AMPAS membership will rise to 10,910 from 10,817 last year, with 9,934 members eligible to vote in the upcoming 97th Oscars in 2025—an increase from last year’s 9,375. This year’s invitees include 44% women, a 4% increase from 2023, and 41% from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities, marking a significant 7% rise.
The actors, casting directors, costume designers, documentary, executives, makeup artists and hairstylists branches have invited more women than men. The actors, directors, documentary, and writers branches mainly comprised artists from underrepresented communities.
The directors branch features the most impressive array of filmmakers from both international and domestic spheres, such as Lila Avilés (“Totem”), Jayro Bustamante (“La Llorona”), JD Dillard (“Devotion”), Alice Diop (“Saint Omer”), Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You”), A.V. Rockwell (“A Thousand and One”), Emma Seligman (“Bottoms”) and Angel Manuel Soto (“Blue Beetle”).
Among the invitees are 19 Oscar winners, including Da’Vine Joy Randolph (supporting actress for “The Holdovers”) and Holly Waddington (costume design for “Poor Things”), and 71 nominees such as Samy Burch (original screenplay for “May December”) and Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”). Eight filmmakers have been invited to multiple branches, including Bahrām Beyzaie (“When We Are All Asleep”), İlker Çatak (“The Teachers’ Lounge”), Cord Jefferson (“American Fiction”), Celine Song (“Past Lives”), Justine Triet
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charged with a DWI in the Hamptons on June 18 — shared videos of the couple and some of his tour crew members trying Swedish gummy candies from BonBon in New York City.In the first clip, Biel, 42, tried a red gummy — and she was not a fan. “Holy sh-t,” she said, struggling with the taste.“It’s so good, it’s just super sour,” the actress added.Biel gave the candy an 8 or 9 review out of 10.
Fans who have viewed Jessica Alba’s latest movie Trigger Warning are not being kind about the action thriller that was released on Netflix on Friday 21 June. Viewers have taken to social media to describe it as “a terrible terrible film.Think cheap made for TV drama that has no plot and doesn’t go anywhere.” Other comments included: “Trigger Warning is predictable garbage,” and “Jessica Alba I love you but my goodness that Trigger Warning movie was horrible.
Jessica Alba's comeback film has shot to the top of the Netflix charts, despite being slammed by fans.
after his DWI arrest. The actress, 42, was spotted at the show in a clip on “The Real Housewives of New York City” star Jessel Taank’s Instagram.A post shared by Jessel Taank (@jesseltaank)Taank, 44, went to the concert with co-star Ubah Hassan and included a video of Biel supporting Timberlake, 43, in her Instagram post.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended invitations to hundreds of actors, musicians, directors and more to join the organization!
Jack Dunn Apple TV+ has revealed the lineup of “Super Music Friends” who will perform throughout the first 10-episode season of “Yo Gabba GabbaLand!,” which premiers Aug. 9. The lineup includes Anderson .Paak, Portugal.
If it’s the end of June that means a new membership class for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences is ready to meet the world. This morning AMPAS revealed the 2024 class which featured a number of 2024 Oscar winners including Lily Gladstone, Justine Triet, Cord Jefferson, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, among others.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday that it is extending invitations to 487 to join the membership ranks of the Oscar organizer. If all accept, it will bring the Academy’s total membership to 10,910, of which 9,934 would be voting members.
Jessica Alba reigned over Netflix last week with her latest film Trigger Warning, which debuted with 25.7M views, making it the streamer’s most-watched title of the week and No. 1 for English-language films.
Dennis Harvey Film Critic Jessica Alba unleashes her inner Rambo in “Trigger Warning,” wherein her active U.S. military officer gets pulled homeward by tragedy, only to uncover corruption she’ll have to clean up before leaving again. Indonesian director Mouly Surya’s well-crafted first English-language feature is too formulaically contrived to qualify as “elevated genre” or to boast the personal stamp of her prior work.
Justin Timberlake following his DUI arrest.Timberlake was arrested earlier this week (June 18) in Long Island, New York for “driving while intoxicated”. According to a complaint obtained by the New York Post, the 10-time Grammy Award-winner claimed to have consumed just “one martini” before following his friends home in his car.He also allegedly refused a breathalyser, as per his lawyer: “The charge was a single count because he refused the breath test.
Lily Gladstone is stepping out for the premiere of her new Apple TV+ movie!
Jessica Alba has a sharp memory. The actress and entrepreneur will soon be premiering her Netflix movie “Trigger Warning,” a film that marks her comeback to the big screen and to the action genre. To promote the project, Alba appeared on a video where she read some of her most famous lines and guessed the film or TV show they belonged to.
Singer Justin Timberlake has been arrested for driving while intoxicated in the affluent Hamptons area village of Sag Harbor, Long Island.
The stars are stepping out during Milan Fashion Week!
Jessica Alba opened up about her Hollywood career and the pressure of being presented as a sex symbol at the start of it.
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren had a different kind of date night. The couple made an appearance in Los Angeles at a screening of “Trigger Warning,” Alba’s new film where she’s back to her action roots. The pair were accompanied by their eldest daughters, Honor and Haven.
Slipknot‘s mystery new member ‘Samples’ has spoken for the first time in a new interview.‘Samples’, who replaced long-time keyboardist Craig Jones after his departure in June last year, has yet to have his identity confirmed by the band. ‘Samples’ can currently be identified by the black cracks over his mask and his mouth that is literally zipped shut.Now, fans can hear his voice for the first time in a new promotional interview the band did with video game Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.
Tomris Laffly While there was much Oscar buzz around “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor Lily Gladstone (one of the most exciting cinematic names of the past decade), there was another Gladstone-starrer out in the world last year, quietly captivating a smaller audience in limited release. That picture was Morrisa Maltz’s hypnotic road movie “The Unknown Country,” an original narrative touched by a documentarian’s perceptive sensibility that followed Gladstone’s Tana on a journey through the American Midwest and, ultimately, her grief.