A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
Ballots were delivered to eligible Television Academy members as of yesterday (due back June 24th by 10 pm pt), and that means all the months of campaigning for nominations is now in…
EXCLUSIVE: Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves) has been set to lead a new, untitled Universal feature project from director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and producer Pharrell Williams (Hidden Figures), according to multiple sources, who also tell us that 2024 Academy Award winner Da’Vine…
Following her whirlwind award season where she won every award she was up for, Da’Vine Joy Randolph completed the sweep as she took home Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in The Holdovers. The historic night was capped off by her being presented the Oscar by past winners Mary Steenburgen…
The 2024 Film IndependentSpirit Awards on Sunday awarded A24’s Past Lives its Best Feature and the film’s Celine Song the Best Director in a ceremony on the beach in Santa Monica, giving the indie romantic drama a boost as it heads toward the Oscars where it is up for Best Picture.
Past Lives topped…
The Holdovers collaborators, director Alexander Payne and screenwriter David Hemingson, are working on another film together—a Western, in fact—and during a Q&A following a screening of The Holdovers at Soho House in West Hollywood on Friday, Hemingson revealed there’s a part earmarked for Paul…
"It genuinely feels like things are happening in real time."
That's Da'Vine Joy Randolph's take on how her wise-beyond-years private school cafeteria lady Mary was able to forge a solid chemistry with Paul Giamatti’s curmudgeon ancient civilizations instructor Paul Hunham in Focus Features' The Holdov…
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is her name, and she has been barreling through this awards season on a tear. Randolph has won a Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, National Board of Review Award and just about every critics group Supporting Actress honor there is…
Following the announcement of his Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination Tuesday morning, The Holdovers screenwriter David Hemingson revealed to Deadline that some dialogue and scenes were taken verbatim from his own life.
Hemingson had originally written a pilot based on his own boarding school…
Seven out of the 20 acting Oscar nominees across Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor were represented this year by people of color. For all of them — Lily Gladstone, Danielle Brooks, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, America Ferrera, Colman Domingo, Sterling K. Brown and…
It all started with dim sum, said Da'Vine Joy Randolph. It ended with knives pulled, screaming, and a near-death feeling.
Speaking on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, the Holdovers film star talked about the time when she and her best friend were enjoying a dim sum meal. Suddenly, strange noises…
UPDATED with latest: The Palm Springs Film Festival said today that Paul Giamatti will receive its 2024 Icon Award for The Holdovers. He will be feted January 4 at the festival’s Film Awards gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
"In The Holdovers…