Hollywood’s glitziest night is under way as Academy Awards nominees in their finest gowns and tuxes hit the red carpet for Sunday’s show, with nominees Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams and Charlize Theron among the more statuesque arrivals.
Perhaps it is no surprise, given that 2012 was a US election year, but this year’s Oscars crop includes a heavy dose of politics—which has arguably influenced Hollywood’s top awards race.
The CIA thrillers “Argo” and “Zero Dark Thirty” have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.
No actress can “disappear” into a role as proficiently as Meryl Streep does—after all, the prodigious 63-year-old icon isn’t Tinseltown’s greatest living actress for nothing. Jessica Chastain is also a thespic crackerjack, but this year’s Best Actress Oscar frontrunner (for “Zero Dark Thirty”) has been staking a claim to the Screen Queen crown for a couple of years now.
The man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, ex-CIA director Leon Panetta, vouched Friday for “Zero Dark Thirty,” calling it a “good movie” even though the tale of the biggest manhunt in history had to be simplified for the big screen.
Newly released horror film “Mama” pushed the Oscar-tipped bin Laden manhunt movie “Zero Dark Thirty” out of the top slot at the North American weekend box office, industry estimates showed Sunday.
Jessica Chastain won best drama actress Golden Globe on Sunday for her role as a relentless CIA agent tracking down Osama bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Osama Bin Laden didn’t use conventional methods to initiate his jihadist mission against the United States of America and its allies: On Sept. 11, 2001, 13 years after he founded al-Qaeda, almost 3,000 people perished in a series of coordinated terrorist bombings in New York, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-bound “Zero Dark Thirty” reveals the operation that captured the man with the $25-million bounty—and the relentless woman behind the decade-long manhunt!
Will it be a night of two Js—Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain—at the Golden Globe Awards this Sunday, Jan. 13 at the Beverly Hilton?
Jessica Chastain almost did not get to do the role in “Zero Dark Thirty,” for which many critics consider her as the Best Actress frontrunner in this awards season.
The Civil War saga “Lincoln,” the musical “Les Miserables” and the Osama bin Laden thriller “Zero Dark Thirty” were among the nominees announced Wednesday for the top honor from the Producers Guild of America.
How does Kathryn Bigelow feel about Time magazine’s Richard Corliss proclaiming her as “Hollywood’s ballsiest director”?
