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Golden Globes nominee profile: Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’) could finally win after 8 losses

Golden Globes nominee profile: Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’) could finally win after 8 losses
The “overdue” narrative isn’t discussed as much for the Golden Globes compared to the Oscars, but Helena Bonham Carter has certainly reached that point with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Bonham Carter is Golden Globe-nominated for the second consecutive year for playing Princess Margaret on “The Crown,” which marks her ninth nomination overall. Numerous prognosticators were predicting she would win her first Golden Globe last year, considering the sizable impression she left on “The Crown’s” third season, but she lost yet again. Globes voters might make it up to her by finally rewarding her with a trophy in Best TV Supporting Actress.

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Bonham Carter’s competition this year includes her “Crown” co-star Gillian Anderson, “Ratched” standout Cynthia Nixon and recent Emmy winners Julia Garner (“Ozark”) and Annie Murphy (“Schitt’s Creek”). Of this group, only Anderson is a previous Globes champ,
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Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’): Golden Globes win after Emmy loss?

Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’): Golden Globes win after Emmy loss?
Helena Bonham Carter was the presumed favorite to win Best Drama Supporting Actress at the Emmys this year for her performance as Princess Margaret in “The Crown.” She ultimately lost to Julia Garner, winning for the second consecutive year for “Ozark.” Both have a chance of being nominated at the upcoming Golden Globes where Bonham Carter might just be able to pick up some gold for her scene-stealing role.

For Season 3 of “The Crown,” Bonham Carter contended at every televised award show including the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Emmys. Despite favorable buzz throughout the season, she only shared in a SAG Award for Best Drama Ensemble alongside the rest of her “Crown” cast. While the ensemble award is undoubtedly a great honor, “The Crown” fans were disappointed to not see her pick up any individual victories along the way. Voters will have one
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Drama Supporting Actress: Analyzing Emmy pros and cons for all 8 nominees

Drama Supporting Actress: Analyzing Emmy pros and cons for all 8 nominees
The Emmy race for Drama Supporting Actress features four women in roles they previously won for, a first time nominee, and acting legends. We have sifted through every actress’ submission to analyze the pros and cons of their episodes. Who has the episode that will help them take home the Emmy on Sunday, September 20? Follow the links below to each episode analysis as you consider your final Emmy predictions.

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Helena Bonham Carter, “The Crown”

This is Helena Bonham Carter’s fourth Emmy nomination. She was previously nominated for “Merlin,” “Live From Baghdad,” and “Burton and Taylor.” The actress has submitted the episode “Cri de Coeur” for consideration: Princess Margaret consoles her sister Queen Elizabeth II that she shouldn’t have self-doubt or blame over the current state of England. The eventual divorce of Margaret and Tony will set a royal precedent.
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Emmy episode analysis: Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’) plays a princess hitting rock bottom in a cry of the heart

Emmy episode analysis: Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’) plays a princess hitting rock bottom in a cry of the heart
In the third season of Netflix’s acclaimed revolving-cast drama series “The Crown,” Helena Bonham Carter plays the middle-aged version of Princess Margaret, taking over for previous Emmy nominee Vanessa Kirby from the first two seasons. For her performance, Bonham Carter has received her fourth career Emmy nomination after bids for “Merlin,” “Live from Baghdad” and “Burton and Taylor.” Her Emmy episode submission for Best Drama Supporting Actress is the season three finale, “Cri de Coeur.”

For this 2020 contest, she is up against reigning champ Julia Garner (“Ozark”), past winners Laura Dern (“Big Little Lies”), Thandie Newton (“Westworld”), Meryl Streep (“Big Little Lies”) and Samira Wiley (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), previous nominee Fiona Shaw (“Killing Eve”) and rookie contender Sarah Snook (“Succession”).

Bonham Carter is yet to win an Emmy, or an Oscar for that matter, having been nominated twice, for “The Wings of the Dove” and “The King’s Speech”. This year,
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Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’): Emmys 2020 episode submission revealed

Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’): Emmys 2020 episode submission revealed
Gold Derby can exclusively reveal that Helena Bonham Carter is entering “The Crown” episode “Cri de Coeur” as her 2020 Emmy Awards submission for Best Drama Supporting Actress. This program streamed November 17 and was the 10th episode of the third season for the Netflix show.

In this installment, Princess Margaret (Bonham Carter) consoles her sister Queen Elizabeth II that she shouldn’t have self-doubt or blame over the current state of England. The eventual divorce of Margaret and Tony will set a royal precedent. She almost overdoses on anxiety pills and is supported by her sister and chastised by the Queen Mother.

See 2020 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 72nd Emmy Awards

Bonham Carter now has her fourth career Emmy nomination after bids for “Merlin,” “Live from Baghdad” and “Burton and Taylor.” For this 2020 contest, she is up against reigning champ Julia Garner (“Ozark”), past winners Laura Dern
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Early Emmy odds: Helena Bonham Carter will avenge Vanessa Kirby’s loss by winning for ‘The Crown’

Early Emmy odds: Helena Bonham Carter will avenge Vanessa Kirby’s loss by winning for ‘The Crown’
Nominations for the 2020 Emmy Awards were just announced on July 28, but already we have ourselves a front-runner in Best Drama Supporting Actress: Helena Bonham Carter for “The Crown.” Shockingly, the esteemed English actress has never won an Oscar, a Golden Globe or an Emmy, but that could change this year as she leads Gold Derby’s early odds. On Netflix’s revolving-cast regal drama she’s taken over the role of Princess Margaret from Vanessa Kirby, who earned a nom in 2018 but lost to Thandie Newton (“Westworld”). Can Carter now avenge Kirby’s Emmy loss?

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Previously Carter earned three Emmy bids in the movie/miniseries categories: “Merlin”, “Live from Baghdad” and “Burton and Taylor”. She’s also a two-time Oscar nominee for “The Wings of the Dove” and “The King’s Speech”. Carter has been recognized eight times
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Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’) deserves to win the Golden Globe despite her incredible rivals

Helena Bonham Carter (‘The Crown’) deserves to win the Golden Globe despite her incredible rivals
Helena Bonham Carter is primarily known for her big-screen roles ranging from her 1985 debut, “A Room With a View,” to being villainous Bellatrix Lestrange in the “Harry Potter” franchise. She was Oscar-nominated as a lead in 1997’s “The Wings of the Dove” and for her supporting role as King George VI’s wife and mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret in 2010’s “The King’s Speech.”

But Bonham Carter has also been lauded for a fair number of her TV efforts as well. In fact, she has received more recognition for her small-screen work at the Golden Globes, with four previous nominations for a miniseries or a TV film: 1993’s “Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald,” 1998’s “Merlin,” 2002’s “Live From Baghdad” and 2013’s “Burton and Taylor.” As for Emmys, her lone win was an International Emmy for her performance in 2009’s “Enid” as British children’s author Enid Blyton.
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First Look: Oscar Winner Helen Mirren And Ian McKellen On The Big Screen For The First Time In Director Bill Condon’s The Good Liar

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The New Line Cinema drama The Good Liar pairs Oscar winner Helen Mirren (“The Queen”) and two-time Oscar nominee Ian McKellen on the big screen for the first time.

Bill Condon, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Gods and Monsters” directed and produced from a screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher (“Mr. Holmes”), based on the widely acclaimed book The Good Liar, by Nicholas Searle.

© 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Photo Credit: Chiabella James

Career con artist Roy Courtnay (McKellen) can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish (Mirren) online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.

The Good Liar also stars Russell Tovey (TV’s “Quantico”) and Jim Carter (TV’s “Downton Abbey”). Greg Yolen also served as producer,
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‘Burton to This Taylor’: Inside the Epic Hollywood Love Story Taylor Swift References in 'Ready For It?'

‘Burton to This Taylor’: Inside the Epic Hollywood Love Story Taylor Swift References in 'Ready For It?'
In her latest single, Taylor Swift harkens back to one of Hollywood’s most epic love stories — for good reason.

The Grammy winning singer recently released her new song “…Ready For It?” — an upbeat track driven by a dominating baseline and seemingly filled with adoring references to her new love, Joe Alwyn.

But the one line that stands out the most comes at the top of the second verse when Swift compares their relationship to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor‘s legendary love.

“He can be my jailor/Burton to this Taylor/Every love I’ve known in comparison is a failure,
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A Break From Divorce Drama: How Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Could Wind Up Like These Reconciled Celebrity Couples

A Break From Divorce Drama: How Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Could Wind Up Like These Reconciled Celebrity Couples
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton may not be the template, however romantic, that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt want to go by, but they're at least storied proof that, even once those divorce papers are signed...you can still swing a U-turn and get another marriage license. Or perhaps all is not yet lost for Brangelina in the first place. Eleven months after their surprisingly contentious breakup, Jolie and Pitt are now opting to wait a beat before continuing with their divorce proceedings. How long that beat lasts, be it another year (like Burton and Taylor's second marriage) or forever, is anyone's guess, as stranger things have happened than a couple deciding that divorce (from...
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Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip

Will Allied be remembered as a war classic – or for the feverish speculation about the relationship between Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard? From Burton and Taylor to Titanic, here’s what happens when Hollywood loses control

The film world approaches its awards season, and is experiencing a recurrent phenomenon concerning the way press promotional comment becomes dangerously unhelpful and unmanaged. The errant publicity takes up as much cultural space as the film, a distracting alternative narrative. It is cognitive hype dissonance.

Robert Zemeckis’s forthcoming Allied is set fair to be a great big blockbuster, a swooning second world war romantic drama. Brad Pitt is Max Vatan, a handsome Allied intelligence agent who has a steamy affair with French resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour, played by Marion Cotillard. But then he is told that she is a Nazi spy and he must kill her. It sounds like a gripping tale, full of passion,
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BBC Worldwide Inks Deal With India’s Tata Sky To Launch VOD Platform

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the public broadcaster, has signed a deal with Indian’s Dth platform Tata Sky that will allow it to launch VOD services for the first time in India. A BBC-branded area on the Tata Sky platform will offer both Svod and Tvod services in eight Indian cities for BBC fare such as Luther, The Honourable Woman and Burton and Taylor. "In a study commissioned by BBC Worldwide earlier this year, we found that quality of content, British humour…
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‘Effie Gray’ Review: Dakota Fanning and Emma Thompson Star in a Sumptuous Brocaded Gothic

‘Effie Gray’ Review: Dakota Fanning and Emma Thompson Star in a Sumptuous Brocaded Gothic
Pubic hair ended the marriage between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray, according to popular lore. Their union was never consummated, so the story goes, because the influential intellectual was too repulsed by the sight of his wife’s loins, which were rather dissimilar in appearance from what Ruskin was used to seeing on women in paintings and sculptures. Director Richard Laxton (“Burton and Taylor”) and screenwriter Emma Thompson retell the saga of Effie Gray’s suffering under and eventual escape from her eccentric husband, this time as a more conventional story of female subjugation.
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Exclusive: Dakota Fanning Must Endure In Clip From Drama 'Effie Gray'

Finding love these days is just an app away, but the stricter social mores of the mid-1800s had a much more rigid context for passion, and it's against this backdrop that "Effie Gray" unfolds. Today we have an exclusive clip from the period drama. Directed by Richard Laxton ("Burton And Taylor," "An Englishman In New York"), the movie tells the story of the scandalous affair between Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning) and Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge), one that develops when the young woman finds herself locked in a sexless marriage with an art critic (Greg Wise). And in this clip, the emotional toll that comes to bear on John is too much, while Effie has accepted what she must endure. Emma Thompson (who also wrote the script), David Suchet, Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters co-star in the movie which opens on April 3rd. Watch below.
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13 Reasons Why Elizabeth Taylor Is Still the Queen of Hollywood

It's time to raise your glass and rattle your jewelry for a birthday toast to Elizabeth Taylor, who'd have turned 83 on Feb. 27. Though memories of her begin to fade, the legacy of the woman who was perhaps the most beautiful, most popular, most everything movie star of all time remains as vivid as ever.

Younger moviegoers may wonder what all the fuss was about. Here, then, are 13 reasons why Taylor remains, decades after her prime and four years after her death, the queen of Hollywood.

1. In a way, she never left.

Even though she died in 2011, they're still showing her in commercials for her perfume, White Diamonds.

2. She's the original diva.

Long before Beyonce, the Kardashians, Jennifer Lopez, and other current divas, Taylor pretty much invented the concept that a celebrity's offscreen life was just as much a performance as onscreen, and just as much part of the job description.
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Breaking News! Director Mike Nichols Dead At Age 83

  • 20 November 2014
  • by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
  • CinemaRetro
Director Mike Nichols, one of the most influential artists of his generation, has passed away at age 83. Nichols is one of the few people who could claim to be the winner of the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards. Nichols rose to fame with his comedy act in which he teamed with Elaine May. He made a successful transition into feature film with his 1966 screen adaptation of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", a triumphant film debut that starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The following year he won the Oscar for his 1967 classic "The Graduate". Other films over the decades included "The Birdcage", "Working Girl", "Charlie Wilson's War" and "Silkwood". His plays include "Barefoot in the Park", "Death of a Salesman" and "The Odd Couple". 

Burton and Taylor on the set of Nichols' 1966 triumph "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

 

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Delegation unveiled for Two Cities

  • 03 November 2014
  • by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
  • ScreenDaily
Event aimed at increasing co-production between London and Paris was masterminded by Film London and Ile de France Film Commission.

Television drama producers from London and Paris will take part in A Tale Of Two Cities.

Masterminded by Film London and Ile de France Film Commission, the event is aimed at making new creative and financing connections to increase co-production and collaboration between the two cities.

The producers taking part are:

London

Kate Sinclair, Feet Films / Company Pictures (Shameless, The White Queen)

Lachlan MacKinnon, Intrepido (Burton And Taylor, Spooks)

Stewart Mackinnon, Headline Pictures (Quartet, The Invisible Woman)

Ben Grass, Pure Grass Films (Twist, The Drake Equation)

David Tanner, Rainmark Films (The Other Man, The Special Relationship)

Dominic Barlow, Barlow Pallis Films (Garrow’s Law, The Revolution Will Be Televised)

Paris

Christine de Bourbon Busset of Lincoln TV (Pigalle la Nuit, Tony’s Revenge)

Marie Dours of Marilou Films (Guts and Glory)

Aurélie Meimon of Mademoiselle Films (The Odissey
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7 movie marriages from hell: Inception, The Shining, more

7 movie marriages from hell: Inception, The Shining, more
David Fincher's pitch-black new thriller Gone Girl is, among many other things, a compelling two-and-a-half-hour argument for staying single.

As was the case in Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel, the central soured marriage between Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy (Rosamund Pike) only grows more unsettling the more you discover about both parties, the seemingly perfect veneer peeling back inch by inch to reveal festering dysfunction.

We can never get enough festering dysfunction over at Digital Spy, so here are seven more of the big screen's most shining examples of marital strife.

1. George and Martha (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

The crumbling couple that arguably inspired every other on this list. Edward Albee created the archetypal marriage in spectacular meltdown in his blistering 1962 play, and real-life sparring lovers Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor bring George and Martha vividly to life on the big screen.

Watching the central pair inventively tear
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Effie Gray Trailer: Emma Thompson Returns to British Period Dramas in Grim Fashion

The first Effie Gray trailer for director Richard Laxton’s (Burton and Taylor) significantly delayed period drama has arrived. Written by Emma Thompson, the film is a biopic of Effie Gray (played by Dakota Fanning) that centers on her doomed marriage to art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise) in 1840s London. Despite her beauty, Ruskin didn’t consummate the marriage and the devastate Gray eventually fell in love with Ruskin’s protégé, painter John Everett Milias (Tom Sturridge). Thompson won an Oscar for starring in 1992’s Howards End and another for writing 1995’s Sense and Sensibility, and she returns to the “British Period Drama” genre with Effie Gray. The film looks to be considerably grim and feels slightly reminiscent of the drab and dull Therese, but there is certainly a strong pedigree behind it, so here’s hoping it’s worth the wait. Watch the Effie Gray trailer after the jump.
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Watch: First Trailer For ‘Effie Gray’ Starring Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Tom Sturridge & Greg Wise

Yes, it was delayed, but don’t say damaged goods quite yet. The period drama “Effie Gray” was completed 18 months ago, but the movie got bogged down in legal disputes, with two separate writers (Eve Pomerance and Gregory Murphy, who both wrote plays and existing screenplays on the subject) claiming the film leans too liberally on their existing works. With those disputes resolved in the late summer, “Effie Gray” is finally moving forward. The movie centers on love triangle and Victorian-age scandal between an art critic (Greg Wise), his wife (Dakota Fanning) and Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge). The cast also includes Emma Thompson, David Suchet, Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters. Directed by Richard Laxton (who helmed the "Burton and Taylor" TV movie, but fortunately not the one starring Lindsay Lohan), no exact U.S. date has been set yet (though ScreenDaily recently said November), but "Effie Gray” opens in U.
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