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Warning: this article contains mild spoilers for "Star Trek: Section 31."

At the very end of Olatunde Osunsanmi's new TV movie "Star Trek: Section 31," the film's scrappy, ragtag group of criminals and ethics-optional mercenaries have gone through their central adventure, and have reconnoitered at a spacebound bar/casino to drink to their success. They barely escaped their mission, but are happy to have bonded over their mutual peril. It's established that the adventure's survivors, led by Empress Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh), will now become a permanent installation inside of Section 31, Starfleet's black-ops organization. "Section 31" is not a pilot episode, but it ends as if it might be, establishing a new cast of characters, their home base, and what a potential TV series would look like. At the very least, the filmmakers are teasing a sequel.

While sipping on strong spirits and joking around with each other, the film's...

This post contains spoilers for "Star Trek: Section 31."

The Jamie Lee Curtis Renaissance continues. After winning an Oscar for her role in "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and wrapping up the new "Halloween" trilogy, Curtis has used her renewed status in surprising and largely delightful ways. She's back in the spotlight for her work in "The Last Showgirl" in 2024, but Curtis has also become a certifiable cameo queen. Her surprise appearance in "The Bear" season 2, where she played unstable Berzatto matriarch Donna, won her an Emmy, and she also lent her voice to a Cardi B and Offset music video in 2023. Now, she's back in an unannounced role again -- and this time, she's making her "Star Trek" debut.

To catch Curtis in full exasperated space boss mode, you'll need to tune into "Star Trek: Section 31," the first feature film of the Paramount+ era of Gene Roddenberry's optimistic,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Star Trek: Section 31.] You can thank Michelle Yeoh for that major cameo in Star Trek: Section 31. As first heard, then finally seen at the end of the movie, Yeoh’s friend and Everything Everywhere All at Once costar Jamie Lee Curtis makes a cameo as Control. “When they said, ‘We need someone who’s going to come right at the end, and she’s the admiral,’ has to be someone that we all go, ‘Oh, wow, right away, Jamie Lee Curtis,'” Yeoh tells TV Insider in the video interview above. “Yeah, no-brainer.” She admits she didn’t want to feel like she was taking advantage of her “darling friend,” but Curtis’ manager encouraged her to reach out. “Bless Jamie. If she doesn’t believe in something, she won’t do it. But she loves Star Trek and she loves me.” Executive producer Alex Kurtzman adds that Curtis was “so gracious. She...

Here’s A Look At The Snubs & Surprises From Oscar 2025 Nominations (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The 2025 Oscar nominations have finally been declared, but the list might have raised a few eyebrows as it revealed a series of unexpected high-profile omissions, sparking conversations across the industry.

Angelina Jolie & Nicole Kidman Fell Short In The Oscar Race

Angelina Jolie, already reeling from a legal battle against her ex, Brad Pitt, came across another heartbreak after being snubbed without getting a single nomination despite her highly acclaimed performance in Maria. Nicole Kidman, who triumphed at the Venice Film Festival and the National Board of Review for her role in Babygirl, was also absent from the Best Actress category.

Angelina Jolie Was Snubbed.

She Deserved an #Oscar Nomination. pic.twitter.com/JAkzMbPerC

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Trending Ariana Grande’s Dream Comes True With First-Ever Oscar Nomination For ‘Wicked’ Role: ‘I Cannot Stop Crying!’

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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power (Ladwp) this week, blaming the city for the damage that destroyed their home during the Palisades wildfire.

The couple were two of nearly two dozen plaintiffs in the suit, filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday and obtained by Rolling Stone. They claimed that the city and the Dwp mismanaged the community’s water supply, pointing to press reports on the empty Santa Ynez Reservoir and empty fire hydrants.

“Ladwp and City of Los Angeles...

Actress Scarlett Johansson finally escaped our long-running photo gallery of the greatest living actresses to never receive an Oscar nomination. And she did it in grand style by picking up two for her 2019 films “Marriage Story” and “Jojo Rabbit.” Just recently, Kirsten Dunst had been in our gallery for years and then earned her first Academy Award bid for “The Power of the Dog.” Jamie Lee Curtis was fortunately removed from the gallery with not only a nomination but win for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Emily Blunt was finally nominated for “Oppenheimer” years after winning her first SAG Award for “A Quiet Place.” And in 2025, both Demi Moore (“The Substance”) and Zoe Saldana (“Emilia Perez”) finally got their first ever nominations.

In 2014, “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston looked like a lock to receive her first Academy Award nomination for “Cake,” following citations at the Golden Globes, SAG, and Broadcast Film Critics.

I’m Still Here in Best Picture! Edward Berger snubbed again! Awards Magnet hosts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng went live following Thursday’s Oscar nominations to discuss all the snubs and surprises, and who has the edge now to win.

The day’s biggest shocker came right at the very end when I’m Still Here was revealed to be one of the 10 Best Picture nominees. It was in 13th place in the odds, two spots below the next slightly surprising nominee Nickel Boys. Even with all the debate over the final Best Actress spot between star Fernanda Torres and Hard Truths‘ Marianne Jean-Baptiste, very few seriously considered I’m Still Here as a Best Picture threat. So how did it get in? Torres’ Golden Globe win certainly helped, as does having master campaigner Sony Pictures Classics as your studio. I’m Still Here getting nominated alongside Emilia Pérez, which leads with 13 bids,...

The international trend begun by “Parasite” in 2020 continues. On Oscar nominations morning, Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) was expected to lead the nominations, and did not disappoint, with a record 13 chances to win an Oscar on March 2.

Almost 10,000 Academy voters are invited to cast their ballots from February 11 – 18, and some twenty per cent of those voters live overseas. Both France’s Spanish-language “Emilia Pérez” and Brazil’s Portuguese “I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics) landed in Best Picture and scored at least one acting nod, along with the expected Best International Feature Film.

“Emilia Pérez,” about a Mexican drug cartel boss who transitions to being a woman, is now positioned to win multiple Oscars. Spanish actress Karla Sofia Gascón and New Jersey-born Zoe Saldaña scored acting nominations, and Saldaña is expected to win Supporting Actress. But will dominant streamer Netflix break its Best Picture losing streak? Many Academy voters...

The 2025 Oscar nominations saw a number of big names and Oscar favorites (Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Selena Gomez, Zendaya, Luca Guadagnino and the rest of the Challengers team) miss out on recognition this year.

Indeed, Challengers — despite being in the awards conversation all season, with Golden Globe nominations for the film and star Zendaya and a Globe win for best score for Oscar faves Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — failed to receive a single Oscar nomination on Thursday morning.

Challengers director Luca Guadagnino also saw his other awards hopeful film, the Daniel Craig starrer Queer, fail to receive any nominations, including for Craig, who was seen as a possible best actor nominee though he was notably snubbed by the BAFTAs.

Also snubbed by the BAFTAs but still was a possible nominee was two-time Oscar winner Washington, who was left out of the best supporting actor category for his work in Gladiator II,...

Several underperforming films at the Oscars had one thing in common: A blunt willingness to deal with sex.

To wit: “Babygirl” star Nicole Kidman, playing a woman who comes closer to understanding her carnal side after an affair with her intern, campaigned harder than she ever had before; so did “Queer” lead actor Daniel Craig, as a lovelorn gay man who expresses through physicality what he cannot with words. Neither actor got a nomination. “Challengers,” a spring sensation led by Zendaya that seemed set to compete for its pulsating score and boundary-pushing screenplay, got in nowhere, while “Nosferatu,” a ravishing Gothic depiction of lust at the edge of death, didn’t get the best picture nod that some speculated it might.

None of these come as true shocks, exactly; Kidman’s and Craig’s campaigns seemed to lose steam as precursor nominations eluded their grasps, while “Challengers” may just have...

Updated with more details, scorecards: Nominations for the 97th Oscars were revealed Thursday morning and the major takeaway is this heralds the most wide-open awards race we have witnessed in years.

A far cry from last year when Oppenheimer expectedly dominated the proceedings, this time the race for Best Picture features a class of wildly different, audaciously ambitious films. Emilia Pérez, the musical about a Mexican cartel leader who fakes his death and undergoes a gender transition but cannot avoid the people in her former life, leads all nominees with 13 including Best Picture, the most by a non-English-language film in Oscar history.

Also up for the top prize are Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, I’m Still Here, Nickel Boys, The Substance and Wicked.

Related: Where To Watch The Oscar Nominees, From ‘Emilia Pérez’ To ‘Conclave’

Wicked got 10 nominations – including for its stars Cynthia Erivo and...

Chris Pratt has revealed his house has survived the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires.

“I’m going to check out my house. Miraculously, it’s still standing. By the grace of God, we have four walls and a roof,” the Guardians of the Galaxy star said late Wednesday on his Instagram page.

Pratt, reporting via a video from his car as he returned to his fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades neighborhood, said his son’s school burned down, as had many of his friends’ own homes. “I haven’t been back since the Palisades fires. It’s truly devastating, as you know, and yeah, the silver lining is my house was saved. But at the same time, so many people’s houses were burned around us, and the community is gone,” he added.

“It’s just, it’s just wild, and we’re resilient and we trust in God and consider it all a blessing.

Sundance is kicking off today in Park City, and fires are once again raging in LA County, but this morning the twice delayed nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were finally announced.

With a distinctly wide awake Wicked’s Bowen Yang and Bottoms Rachel Sennott unveiling the final contenders in all 23 categories early Thursday in a livestream from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, it was a glorious Oscars morning for Emilia Pérez, Conclave, Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, and The Brutalist.

“Rachel and I have been through extensive pronunciation training for all the names today,” SNL cast member Yang joked at the top with a swipe at mishaps of past nomination mornings.

On the other hand, for some whose names were not mentioned correctly or incorrectly this morning, they might now almost find themselves agreeing with Stephen King call last week for the Oscars to be cancelled.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree — especially at the Oscars.

I’m Still Here‘s Fernanda Torres and Conclave‘s Isabella Rossellini joined their mothers, Fernanda Montenegro and Ingrid Bergman, respectively, as Oscar nominees on Thursday, becoming the fifth and sixth pairs of mother-daughter duos to be nominated for acting Oscars.

Torres, who cracked the top five in the Best Actress odds after her Golden Globe victory, is up for the award alongside Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora), and Demi Moore (The Substance). The nomination comes 26 years after Montenegro was shortlisted in the same category for Central Station and lost to Shakespeare in Love‘s Gwyneth Paltrow.

Rossellini, 72, received her long-awaited maiden Oscar bid in Best Supporting Actress, where she was third in the odds, in Edward Berger‘s papal thriller. She faces Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown), Ariana Grande (Wicked...

After a four-decade career in films, Isabella Rossellini scored her first Oscar nomination on Thursday for her supporting role as a Vatican nun in “Conclave.”

The nomination places Rossellini in the Academy history books. She is the daughter of three-time Oscar-winning actress Ingrid Bergman. Her father, the Italian neorealist filmmaking legend Roberto Rossellini was also nominated once, in 1950 for his screenplay for “Paisan.”

Swedish acting legend Bergman is often cited as one of the greatest screen icons of all time, famed for her roles in “Casablanca,” “The Bells of St. Marys” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious.” She was a seven-time nominee who won three Oscars: two for Best Actress (“Gaslight” and “Anastasia”) and one for Best Supporting Actress (“Murder on the Orient Express”).

Rossellini’s nomination this year, in fact, comes on the 50th anniversary of her mother’s win for “Orient Express,” an all-star mystery film in which Bergman...

One of Hollywood’s biggest cheerleaders has been sidelined at this year’s Oscars. Jamie Lee Curtis was snubbed for her performance in The Last Showgirl despite recent Best Supporting Actress nominations at both the SAG Awards and BAFTAs. In 2023, she won this category for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Gia Coppola‘s The Last Showgirl stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly Gardner, a 57-year-old Las Vegas showgirl who has performed for three decades in Le Razzle Dazzle. Curtis plays Shelly’s older best friend, Annette, a cocktail waitress who was ousted from the show years prior. Her brief, but impactful performance had launched Curtis into fifth place in our Best Supporting Actress Oscar odds heading into nominations morning.

Curtis, 66, has been vocal about her career resurgence in recent years. In addition to her Oscar win in 2023, the actress took home her first Emmy last year for playing...

As the wildfires in California continue to rage and spread, tens of thousands of acres have been burned, nearly three dozen lives have been lost and countless have been displaced. And while some can get a bellyache that this or that awards ceremony is postponed, the real problems are far more important. And so far we’ve seen quite a few celebrities doing their part to help aid in relief of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. The latest is the former governor of California himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Arnold Schwarzenegger took to social media to confirm that he was contributing $1 million and launching a fundraiser that is designed to aid those being affecting by the California wildfires. “A lot of my fans have asked me how they can help LA. I’m going to lead the way. I’m sending a million dollars of my own money, split between @lafdfoundation,...

The Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday after being twice-delayed due to the Los Angeles wildfires. Almost 10,000 registered Gold Derby users have placed their bets in all categories, and we’ve crunched the numbers to generate our official odds.

Emilia Pérez is expected to dominate the list with 11 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Jacques Audiard), Best Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña), and Best Adapted Screenplay, with three expected wins for Saldaña, Best Original Song (“El Mal”), and Best International Feature. But the film expected to collect the top prizes is The Brutalist. Both of those movies won Golden Globes for Best Picture — Emilia as a comedy/musical, Brutalist as a drama — but it’s the latter that has jumped the top of our Oscars Best Picture rankings. Of its 10 anticipated noms, The Brutalist is also ahead to win Best Director (Brady Corbet), Best Actor (Adrien Brody), Best Cinematography,...

Nominations voting is from January 8-17, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 23, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

Whoever is 100 percent certain about their Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination predictions is lying. The precursors have been way too all over the place to provide any certainty. Sometimes “Emilia Pérez” star Selena Gomez makes the cut, sometimes she doesn’t. Just when things finally look up for Monica Barbaro, earning a SAG Award nomination for her performance as Joan Baez in “A Complete Unknown,” she does not make the cut at BAFTA Awards, even though that group has six nomination slots.

Currently, it feels almost...

After Jean Smart posted on Instagram that Hollywood needs to scrap awards shows and figure out how to generate revenue for fire victims instead, former lead stage manager Debbie Williams had a few choice words for the Hacks star via Facebook.

“Dearest Jean Smart,” began Williams, a veteran of such shows as American Idol, the Oscars and the Grammys. “You are a wonderful actress and I’m sure your heart is in the right place … wanting to cancel all awards shows and taking the revenue and donating it to Fire Relief …. However there is no revenue if there is no show and frankly, the workers who do the shows…the below the line production workers … truly need the work in an industry that has been suffering. These are normal crew and staff that rely on these jobs to feed their families. So be like Jamie Lee Curtis, who just donated 1 million dollars to the cause…...

Hot Bench is saying goodbye to its longest-serving judge, Michael Corriero, as he hangs up his gavel and robe at the end of Season 11.

“At the beginning of this past year, after almost nine years on Hot Bench, I made it clear to everyone that this would be my final season,” Corriero said in a statement to Deadline. “It was time to pass the torch or, should I say, the gavel. I will miss the challenge, my beloved colleagues and the entire Hot Bench team.”

More from TVLineHoda Kotb’s <em>Today</em> Farewell Features Reunion With Kathie Lee Gifford, Tributes by...

President Donald Trump wasted no time in outlining his new policies in his inauguration speech.

On Monday, Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States (he previously served as the 45th president as well, with Joe Biden succeeding him as 46th).

Among the plans he addressed in his speech: “This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is color-blind and merit-based. As of today, It will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”

The following day, early on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union responded with a statement.

“Our advocates have been preparing for this moment and overnight have already begun to fight the administration’s extreme agenda,” the ACLU told The Hollywood Reporter.

With the 2025 Oscar nominations days away, no other category is more difficult to predict than Best Actress. This race has been consistently fluid as new contenders pick up steam, and the expected lineup today looks vastly different from July, when Gold Derby opened our Oscars predictions. So who are the current locks, on-the-bubble contenders, and long shots to hear their names called on Thursday? Read on for our Best Actress Oscar nomination breakdown.

Locks

Mikey Madison (Anora) — 37/10 odds

For playing the titular Brooklyn sex worker who marries into the wrong family, this 25-year-old has led the Best Actress race since early September. That’s when she officially took the No. 1 spot from Amy Adams (Nightbitch), who has tumbled to 20th place in our rankings. Madison has accrued all of the relevant precursor nominations a frontrunner would expect to have, plus she prevailed with dozens of critics’ groups either as a lead or a breakthrough,...

Two comedies. Two difficult productions. One flat-out classic. The stories of The Producers and Fierce Creatures are explored in this episode.

When it comes to making your feature directorial debut, The Producers isn’t a bad way to get off the mark! But Mel Brooks’ now much-loved comedy faced a bumpy path to the screen, not least the struggle to write it in the first place. That, and the kind of subject matter that Hollywood studios didn’t have much desire to go near.

Plus, it turned out that the fate of the film owed a bit of a debt to Peter Sellers.

After the success of A Fish Called Wanda meanwhile, the question was asked: would John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Palin and Kevin Kline come back for a sequel? Well, not quite: and despite Fierce Creatures being billed as an ‘equal not a sequel’, the comedy had a very,...

The Bear makes better use of its celebrity cameos and guest stars than most other TV shows — but there’s one glaring exception that sticks out like a sore thumb. A-list guest stars can be an exciting addition to a TV episode, but not if it draws too much attention to their star power, or they don’t fit in with the rest of the cast. The Simpsons used to have hilarious cameos from guest stars, but the show has since devolved into celebrity worship, with entire episodes dedicated to praising guest stars like Lady Gaga and Elon Musk.

A poorly placed celebrity cameo can actually break the audience’s immersion. Game of Thrones viewers were reminded they were watching a TV show when a smirking Ed Sheeran appeared around the campfire. Paris Hilton’s stunt casting ruined an early episode of Veronica Mars. For the most part, The Bear...

Mark your calendars, Oscars fans, because the 97th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 2, 2025 on ABC. The annual star-studded ceremony will honor movies released in theaters within the 2024 calendar year of eligibility. AMPAS members will vote on the Oscar winners in 23 categories, including Best Supporting Actress. But who will win? Here at Gold Derby, thousands of users have been making and updating their 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Supporting Actress, so let’s take a look at all of the top contenders in our photo gallery below.

These 25 Best Supporting Actress hopefuls are listed in order of their racetrack odds, which are derived from the combined forecasts of four unique groups: experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, editors who cover awards year-round for this website, top 24 users who had the best accuracy scores last year, and the mass of users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

The...

Singer-Actresses Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez might compete for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Both Grande and Gomez have leveled up their acting careers with two notable roles this year. These two are included in our predictions for the category, alongside some of the other best performances of the year.

Ariana Grande as Galinda Upland in Wicked | Credits: Universal Pictures

FandomWire’s other nominees include an Oscar winner in the category, a rising star in dramatic roles, and a Star Wars actress. Fans will also see a surprising snub in here and we have the right reason to believe that Academy voters aren’t too keen to nominate her.

FandomWire’s predicted nominees for Best Supporting Actress Selena Gomez in a still from Emilia Pérez | Credits: Netflix

At the 82nd Golden Globes Awards, the Best Supporting Actress award went to Zoe Saldaña. However, we predict that the actress will be absent from the nominees,...

The Best Film Ensemble category at the Screen Actors Guild Awards can occasionally be a tough one to predict. Gold Derby’s pundits erroneously thought that 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would prevail over Parasite, while 2016’s Hidden Figures was correctly chosen by only one of the editors, experts, or top 24 users — combined. Well, this year’s top race looks to be less of a head-scratcher and more of a coronation, as Gold Derby’s 2025 SAG Awards predictions overwhelmingly favor Wicked to win with 17/10 odds. Talk about popular!

The SAG nominations were announced on Jan. 8, with Wicked leading all other films with five bids: Best Ensemble, Best Actress (Cynthia Erivo), Best Supporting Actress (Ariana Grande), Best Supporting Actor (Jonathan Bailey), and Best Stunt Ensemble. Universal Pictures’ big-budget adaptation of the beloved Broadway stage musical is not expected to win any other trophies with the acting guild, though that’s par for the course,...

Just as we were about to record this week’s “Screen Talk,” we found out that one of our favorite auteurs, David Lynch, had succumbed to emphysema at age 78. In this episode, we explore his legacy, catch up with awards news from the PGA and BAFTAs to the WGA, and report on a new development in the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni case.

Plus, we each picked five must-see films at Sundance, which launches January 23, the same day as the Oscar nominations are announced, after some postponements. Co-host Ryan Lattanzio interviewed Robert Schwartzman, who runs Utopia distribution with Cole Harper. The company partnered with Lionsgate on “Megalopolis,” from Schwartzman’s uncle Francis Ford Coppola, and hawked sales for Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl” back at Cannes. That movie is out now from Roadside Attractions. But Utopia has also released indies from rising directors we know now, including Jane Schoenbrun...

The Weeknd is opening his wallet for wildfire relief.

The global superstar has committed $1 million for efforts, funds that will be spread across the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation, GoFundMe’s Wildfire Relief Fund and the L.A. Regional Food Bank in partnership with World Food Program USA and The Weeknd’s Xo Humanitarian Fund. The donations are meant to support firefighters and efforts to help displaced residents in the wake of catastrophic blazes across the city, the most devastating of which were the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire.

The news comes on the heels of The Weeknd postponing a planned album release on Jan. 24 for “Hurry Up Tomorrow” and subsequent concert at the famed Rose Bowl stadium. The stadium concert, which was set for Jan. 25 in Pasadena, Calif., had been billed as a unique experience with a stage that took over the entire floor of the stadium. The...

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Back in Action is an action comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Brendan O’Brien. The Netflix film follows Emily and Matt, two former CIA spies who give up their life of danger to raise a family, but when their secret identities are revealed, they must go on a dangerous road trip to get their idyllic lives back. Back in Action stars Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx, Glenn Close, Kyle Chandler, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, McKenna Roberts, and Rylan Jackson. So, if you loved the fun action, charming leads, and espionage thrills in Back in Action, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

The Family Plan (Apple TV+ & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Apple TV+

The Family Plan is an action comedy film directed by Simon Cellan Jones from a screenplay by David Coggeshall.

A Different Man, The Substance, Wolf Man… Body horror films have seen a sudden surge in Hollywood. We take a look at why that might be.

The human body has long been violated, penetrated and torn apart on the silver screen. Horror has always thrived on gore and the multiple ways you can make people suffer, especially physically. The early 2000s even saw the rise of ‘torture porn’, a genre which focuses primarily on extensive, almost silly gore.

2024 was a particularly strong year for body horror with both The Substance and A Different Man making their ways into UK cinemas. The Substance, which we awarded the full five stars in our review, is a strong contender at this year’s Oscars, especially after Demi Moore took home one of the Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes. A Different Man’s Sebastian Stan also took home Best Actor in Musical Or Comedy,...

Taylor Swift is once again trying to make the world a better place.

In this latest instance, the artist is trying to make the world around her a better place.

Taylor Swift looks on prior to a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos at Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium on November 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

In a post shared to her Instagram story on Thursday afternoon, Swift wrote the following:

“The fires in California have devastated so many families, and it’s been heartbreaking to see these stories unfold. So much suffering, loss, and destruction.”

Added the beloved artist:

“As so many people embark on some of the most challenging times of their lives, there are also many amazing organizations and groups banding together to help these communities rebuild.

“These are the organizations I’ve donated to. If you feel compelled or able to donate,...

The glut of movies released in time to be in the running for award season means one thing: Every small theater in every studio, guild, hotel, and club around Los Angeles and New York (and sometimes London) is likely to be booked solid with screenings for potential voters (or members of the press). But with so many screenings every week, how does any strategist get their clients’ films to stand out?

Send in the celebrities!

In an increasingly common move, A-listers are turning out to host, moderate, and otherwise sponsor key award season screenings. Whether it’s Christopher Nolan stepping up to help out Ridley Scott with Gladiator II, Jane Fonda backing Kate Winslet with Lee, or Guillermo del Toro backing … well, it seems like everyone else, celebs who have no stake in a film’s current award success are routinely turning up on invitations to these events.

Additionally, some...

Conclave Leads Nominations (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Hollywood’s award season has already warmed up the new year; the Golden Globes successfully separated favorites from potential surprises, and nominations for SAG and Critics Choice Awards have already been unveiled. Now, the British Academy Film Awards have followed suit.

While Hollywood is fighting the cataclysmic California wildfires, postponing forthcoming ceremonies and extending Academy Awards submission dates, fortunately, all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, the British Isles face no such threat. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced nominees across 26 categories, recognizing outstanding contributions to cinema.

Doctor Who actor David Tennant, last year’s host, will return to lead the ceremony. This year marks one of the most competitive lineups, with no clear frontrunners and several close races. Conclave leads with 12 nominations, followed closely by Emilia Pérez with 11. Anora director Sean Baker achieved a historic six individual nods,...

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Ya se conocen los nominados a los Premios BAFTA 2025. Los ganadores se anunciarán el 16 de febrero. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:

Mejor PELÍCULA

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Emilia Pérez

Cónclave

Mejor PELÍCULA BRITÁNICA

Bird

Blitz

Cónclave

Gladiator II

Hard Truths

Knecap

Lee

Love Lies Bleeding

The Outrun

Wallace y Gromit: La venganzase sirve con plumas

Mejor debut de un escritor, director o productor británico

Hoard

Kneecap

Monkey Man

Santosh

Sister Midnight

Mejor PELÍCULA Familiar

Flow

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Wallace y Gromit: La venganzase sirve con plumas

The Wild Robot

Mejor PELÍCULA De Habla No Inglesa

All We Imagine as Light

Emilia Pérez

I’m Still Here

Kneecap

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mejor PELÍCULA Documental

Black Box Diaries

Daughters

No Other Land

Super/Man: The...

Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger’s ‘Conclave’ (Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024)

Conclave emerged the favorite among the 2025 Ee BAFTA Film Awards voters, scoring 12 nominations including Best Film, Director, Leading Actor, and Supporting Actress. Emilia Pérez was close behind with 11 nominations, followed by The Brutalist with nine and Anora, Dune: Part Two, and Wicked with seven.

Overall, 42 films earned BAFTA Film Awards nominations, and 14 of the 24 performance nominees are BAFTA Awards first-timers.

Winners will be announced on February 16th.

“From a total of 235 films entered, we are delighted to announce 42 extraordinary and creatively ambitious films that have been nominated. The skills on display from creative and technical practitioners across the board are phenomenal. I look forward to celebrating the many talented people in front of and behind the camera at the Ee BAFTA Film Awards 2025 ceremony on 16 February,” stated Sara Putt, Chair of BAFTA.

BAFTA...

Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged $1 million to foundations and organizations dealing with the Los Angeles fires.

“The Los Angeles wildfires are devastating our city,” the actor wrote Wednesday on his Instagram Stories. The donation, made in partnership with Re:wild’s Rapid Response Program, will “support both urgent needs and post-fire recovery efforts.”

Among those receiving aid from the donation include the L.A. Fire Department Foundation, California Fire Foundation, World Central Kitchen, California Community Foundation, Pasadena Humane Society, and SoCal Fire Fund.

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How did Daniel Craig miss at BAFTA? Is A Complete Unknown coming on like a freight train? Gold Derby experts and editors Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng break down the 2025 BAFTA Awards nominations on Awards Magnet.

A week after scoring a surprise Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actor for Queer, Craig was even more surprisingly Awol from BAFTA’s nominations list that has an extra sixth spot. Hugh Grant (Heretic) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) made it in alongside the predicted Oscar top four of Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave). How could the erstwhile Bond be excluded on home turf? That was always a possibility since Heretic is a greater box office success, and said home turf enormously liked The Apprentice, which converted three of its longlist mentions into nominations. Queer? Craig was its sole longlist showing.

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the UK equivalent of the Oscars, released their nominations earlier today. Although the 78th British Academy Film Award Ceremony is to be held on February 16, 2025 fans and critics alike are already taken aback.

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The BAFTA 2025 nominations have sparked outrage and debate in the entertainment industry. Despite delivering standout performances that captivated audiences, some stars were shockingly overlooked. Here’s a closer look at the actors who were snubbed.

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The BAFTA 2025 nominations have left fans and critics baffled as several amazing performances were snubbed. Nicole Kidman, praised for her mesmerizing role in Babygirl, wasn’t on the list for the Best Actress category. Although she wasn’t able to win at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards,...

The 2025 BAFTA nominations had its share of snubs and surprises, some less so than others (Denzel Washington missing again is just par for the course now). The final televised precursor — and an industry one to boot — made the acting categories even messier while ostensibly taking other contenders out of the running. Here’s where we’re at with all four races post-bafta nominations.

Best Actor

Golden Globe, Critics Choice, SAG and BAFTA nominations: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)

Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and SAG nominations: Daniel Craig (Queer)

Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and BAFTA nominations: Hugh Grant (Heretic)

Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations: Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)

Assuming the top four are in — as many have all season, and the quartet has not missed a beat — that leaves one spot up for grabs. Craig has occupied that spot in the odds all season long,...

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Bafta has announced the nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards in 2025, celebrating the very best in film of the past year. Bafta winner Will Sharpe and former Ee Rising Star winner Mia McKenna-Bruce hosted the announcement via global livestream from the arts charity’s headquarters at 195 Piccadilly, London. The Ee Bafta Film Awards, hosted by David Tennant, will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer from London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 16 February. In addition, the Ee Bafta Film Awards will be available across BritBox in North America, the Nordics and Australia, as well as a host of further international broadcasters to be announced. Viewers at home will also have front row seats to the red-carpet arrivals, which will be streamed live on Bafta’s YouTube, featuring interviews with nominees and other special guests. Voting for the Ee Rising Star Award is now open at ee.co.

This afternoon, Will Sharpe and Mia McKenna-Bruce announced the list of lucky nominees for 2025’s Ee BAFTA Awards.

This year nominations see 12 nominations for ‘Conclave,’ 11 nominations for ‘Emilia Pérez,’ While ‘The Brutalist’ received 9 nominations. 7 nominations for ‘Anora,’ ‘Dune: Part Two’ and ‘Wicked.’

14 out of 24 nominees in the performance categories have received their first BAFTA Film nomination, including Yura Borisov (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice).

The Ee BAFTA Film Awards ceremony will once again be held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in central London, and broadcast on Sunday 16 February 2025 on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK.

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Roll up, awards buffs: shiny trophy season is hotting up, with BAFTA having announced its nominees for this year’s ceremony. And fittingly, it seems BAFTA members might have gathered in robes to submit their votes on little white slips of paper: papal thriller Conclave is the most-nominated film this year, receiving 12 nods including Best Film, Director for Edward Berger, Leading Actor for Ralph Fiennes, Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini, Adapted Screenplay and more. Send up the white smoke, people.

Hot on Conclave’s heels is Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying crime-thriller-musical-character-drama, in which a cartel boss undergoes gender-reassignment surgery to begin her new life. The film is nominated in 11 categories. Audiard is nominated for Director, while the film itself is up for Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Film Not In The English Language. Emilia herself, Karla Sofía Gascón, is up for Leading Actress, with Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña...

The nominations for the 2025 BAFTAs are here!

This year, Conclave scored the most nominations with 12 total. Emilia Pérez is in second with 11 nominations this year.

This year’s ceremony is set to take place on Sunday (February 16) live from London, England with Doctor Who‘s David Tennant returning to host.

Just Jared will be live updating throughout the event, so stay tuned!

Keep reading to find out more…

Scroll down for the full list of nominees…

Best Film

“Anora” — Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker

“The Brutalist”

“A Complete Unknown”

“Conclave”

“Emilia Pérez”

Outstanding British Film

“Bird” — Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Lee Groombridge

“Blitz” — Steve McQueen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anita Overland

“Conclave” — Edward Berger, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman, Peter Straughan

“Gladiator II” — Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Michael Pruss, David Scarpa, Peter Craig

“Hard Truths” — Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe

“Kneecap” — Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney,...

Wicked, Kneecap, Gladiator II star Denzel Washington, Sing Sing breakout Clarence Maclin, Queer lead Daniel Craig, and The Substance star Margaret Qualley were among the biggest snubs and surprises after the 78th annual BAFTA Awards nominations were announced on Wednesday.

Conclave and Emilia Pérez led all films with 12 and 11 nominations, respectively. Most of the expected Oscar contenders also landed predicted bids with British Academy of Film and Television Arts voters (the complete list of nominees is here). However, the BAFTA Awards snubs and surprises were slightly scooped by the BAFTA Awards themselves. Earlier this month, the BAFTA Awards revealed this year’s longlists in each category, with Netflix’s Emilia Pérez and Focus Features’ Conclave pacing the field with, respectively, 15 and 14 longlist mentions. Other contenders that performed well on the longlists included The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, and The Substance. Films and performers excluded from the longlists in key categories included Angelina Jolie,...

The nominees for the 78th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) are here, setting up even more showdowns in the 2025 awards season.

Check out this year’s nominees for the 2025 Baftas below:

Best Film:

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Outstanding British Film:

Bird

Blitz

Conclave

Gladiator II

Hard Truths

Kneecap

Lee

Love Lies Bleeding

The Outrun

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best Director:

Anora Sean Baker

The Brutalist Brady Corbet

Conclave Edward Berger

Dune: Part Two Denis Villeneuve

Emilia Pérez Jacques Audiard

The Substance Coralie Fargeat

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Cynthia Erivo Wicked

Karla Sofia Gascon Emilia Pérez

Marianne Jean-Baptiste Hard Truths

Mikey Madison Anora

Demi Moore The Substance

Saoirse Ronan The Outrun

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Adrien Brody The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes Conclave

Hugh Grant Heretic

Sebastian Stan The Apprentice...

The 2025 Ee BAFTA Film Awards nominations are in, with 42 films receiving nods on Wednesday morning. Leading the crop of nominees are “Conclave” with 12, “Emilia Pérez” with 11, and “The Brutalist” with nine. “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two,” and “Wicked” all received seven nominations, even though “Wicked” was shut out from the Best Film category. Ireland’s Oscar entry “Kneecap,” which is on the Academy shortlist, made a strong showing with six nominations. Same with “A Complete Unknown.” “Nosferatu” and “The Substance,” meanwhile, both earned five nominations.

Shut-outs and also-rans included “Challengers,” which received zero nominations; Denzel Washington from the Best Supporting Actor category for his work in “Gladiator II”; Nicole Kidman, out for her work in “Babygirl”; and Daniel Craig, the English actor snubbed for his work in “Queer.” “Sing Sing” did well with three nominations including for Best Actor Colman Domingo and Best Supporting Actor Clarence Maclin. Selena Gomez is in for “Emilia Pérez,...