Innholdsfortegnelse for Award Special 1A January 2018 i The Hollywood Reporter

Spare a thought for Toni Erdmann. In 2017, Maren Ade’s German comedy, about the relationship between a workaholic career woman and her prankster father, was the favorite to win the foreign-language Oscar. Then Trump happened. On Jan. 27, newly elected President Trump enacted Executive Order 13769, the first so-called Muslim ban, blocking visa-free travel to the U.S. from six Muslimmajority countries, including Iran. Asghar Farhadi, whose Tehran-set drama The Salesman was also a foreign-language contender, slammed Trump for the move and said he would boycott the Oscars. And on Feb. 26, Farhadi’s The Salesman won the Academy Award for best foreignlanguage film. For the 2018 foreign-language hopefuls, real-world events could again intervene to tilt the scales. And again, the film with the most to lose is this season’s frontrunner, another…

“I kicked the fucking door open.”TIFFANY HADDISH The Girls Trip breakout, accepting her New York Film Critics Circle award in an 18-minute speech that drew a standing ovation. “It’s the weirdest phone call you can receive.”LIZ HANNAH The Post co-writer, talking about the first time director Steven Spielberg contacted her about her script. “It’s usually just me and my dog.”HONG CHAU The Downsizing actress, joking about her newfound fame, adding, “This is the most talking I’ve done in my entire life!” “He came up to me before that award was announced and said, ‘Listen mate, if you win, mention my name.’”JAMIE BELL The Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool actor, revealing what Russell Crowe said to him before Bell was awarded a BAFTA in 2001. “Two octogenarians kicking absolute ass.”TOM…

The animated film The Breadwinner, based on the children’s book of the same name by Deborah Ellis, follows an 11-year-old Afghan girl named Parvana whose father has just been imprisoned. Under the Taliban regime in 2001, women were not permitted outside their homes without a man; Parvana disguises herself as a boy so that she can get work and feed her family. Behind GKIDS’ critically acclaimed feature (which earned a Golden Globe nomination and 10 Annie nominations) are two women — director Nora Twomey and executive producer Angelina Jolie — who hope their story about a strong female protagonist living a difficult life in Afghanistan will resonate with viewers in a way many animated films do not. “Sometimes the struggles of women are very subtle; sometimes they are very open…

It was the first and only tennis match to attract a Super Bowl-sized audience. Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs’ match on Sept. 20, 1973, drew nearly the same number of U.S. television viewers as the Miami Dolphins-Minnesota Vikings matchup four months later. Still, few remember the football game. Everybody remembers the Battle of the Sexes. More than a TV event, it was a giant cultural “happening.” Such stars as Glen Campbell, George Foreman and Jim Brown were in attendance at the Houston Astrodome, as was a live pig (King’s pre-match gift to Riggs) and a human-sized Sugar Daddy lollipop (Riggs’ gift to King). “There were handsome gladiators with no outerwear, nubile maidens with no underwear, zillions of celebs ranging from out-of-work Tarzans to out-of-work Monkees,” Sports Illustrated’s Curry Kirkpatrick…

Wonder Woman LINDY HEMMING Costume designer Hemming continued with what her peer Michael Wilkinson had created for Batman v. Superman, but her version “had to be more practical because [Gal Gadot] did a lot more fighting [in Wonder Woman],” says Hemming, who used urethane, which is “softer than plastic,” to make the combat- ready suit. A corset was crafted on the inside to anchor it to Gadot’s figure. Hemming adds that she looked at the shapes of modern sportswear for inspiration. “I was taking those style lines from sportswear and trying to put them into the new armor and making sure there was something about it that was recognizable to younger people instead of being too archaic in shape.” The Post ANN ROTH For Steven Spielberg’s 1970s-set drama, the veteran…

‘Racism Hits All of Us’ Fatih Akin’s dark revenge drama considers the many victims of hate through its story about a woman whose son and Kurdish husband are murdered by neo-Nazis GERMANY You have to look closely to see it: Tucked on the inside of Diane Kruger’s ankle is a tiny anchor tattoo. When In the Fade got accepted to the Cannes competition in 2017, director Fatih Akin made Kruger a bet: If her performance — as Katja, a German woman who vows revenge after a neo-Nazi kills her Kurdish husband and their child — won Cannes’ best actress award, she’d get ink. It did, and she did. “She’s German. She pays her debts,” says Akin, laughing. The film has marked both actress and director. Since his 1998 debut, Short…

In 1950, what’s now called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had a split-off group called the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood. (The dispute was over some of the original organization’s members not being professional journalists.) The FPAH is now mostly forgotten, save for one memorable act: It gave Marilyn Monroe her first major award in 1952 at Santa Monica’s Club Casa del Mar. (That seaside brick building is now the Hotel Casa del Mar.) The Henrietta — named after FPAH president Henry Gris — was shaped like a tall, nude woman holding a flower. The group had the prescience to choose Monroe for its International Stardom Award, given to the “best young box-office personality.” (They gave the same award that night to Tony Curtis.) Monroe, then 25, had done a…

BEST PICTURE The Big Sick Even though the Michael Showalterdirected rom-com, which Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon wrote based on their own lives, scored a Screen Actors Guild Awards ensemble nom and made it onto the AFI’s Top Ten list, it faces an uphill battle for awardsseason recognition. Its latest setbacks: Failing to secure a nomination for either the Casting Society of America’s 33rd Artios Awards or the American Cinema Editors’ 68th Eddie Awards. ANIMATED FEATURE Coco Pixar’s latest film, which under the direction of Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina ventures into the Land of the Dead, is an increasingly lively awards-season player. Since dominating the nominations for the 45th Annie Awards with 13, it’s been on a roll, earning noms for an Artios Award and an Eddie Award.…

Since the release of Jordan Peele’s racial satire Get Out, the face of Daniel Kaluuya — with fear in his eyes and tears streaming down his face — has been everywhere, from internet memes to promotional posters stretched across the busiest streets in Hollywood. The British actor, who already has picked up Golden Globe and SAG Awards nominations, stars as Chris, a young man whose white girlfriend (Allison Williams) takes him to visit her parents’ home, where he finds himself in increasingly troubling straits. Kaluuya, 28, spoke to THR about the lasting impact of Get Out and what’s next for him. You were nominated for a Golden Globe and a SAG Award over the course of a couple days. What did that feel like for you? It was a mad…

Alison Brie and Michael Stuhlbarg will be busier than most stars in the awards race this season. Both appear in Steven Spielberg’s newsroom drama The Post (Brie plays Katharine Graham’s daughter Lally and Stuhlbarg plays New York Times editor Abe Rosenthal), which earned six Globe nominations. Brie, 34, also saw her Netflix series GLOW (she plays an amateur female wrestler) get noms from both the SAG Awards and the Globes, and she stars in her brother-in-law James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, which earned a Globe comedy nom. Stuhlbarg, 49, stars as a quiet and loving father in Luca Guadagnino’s Globe- and SAG Award-nominated drama Call Me by Your Name; he also plays a Russian-speaking scientist in Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water (which earned seven Globe nominations). Both spoke…

Bright FX makeup department head Christopher Nelson says Joel Edgerton is an “extremely expressive actor,” which helped him in playing the Orc cop, who was covered in prosthetics. Darkest Hour It took more than three hours for Gary Oldman to transform into Winston Churchill with prosthetics, plus a body suit “to match his unique body shape,” says makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji. Ghost in the Shell Scarlett Johansson’s Major needed “a flawless, slightly inhuman quality,” says Jane O’Kane, makeup and hair designer, who applied reflective and luminous pigments to the star’s skin. ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Along with Drax and Gamora (pictured left and center, respectively), the sequel featured TaserFace, whose color scheme “was fun and bright,” says prosthetic makeup department head Brian Sipe. I, Tonya Margot Robbie…

CHILE A Fantastic Woman Transgender actress Daniela Vega plays a waitress and aspiring singer whose lover dies, leaving her to deal with his family, who view her identity as a perversion. ISRAEL Foxtrot Samuel Maoz’s drama centers on the grief of a soldier’s parents (Lior Ashkenazi and Sarah Adler) as they learn that their son has died while serving in the Israeli Defense Forces. LEBANON The Insult Ziad Doueiri’s politicized courtroom thriller revolves around a spat between a Palestinian construction worker and the owner of a balcony he did some work on. SWEDEN The Square The Palme d’Or winner from filmmaker Ruben Ostlund skewers the Swedish art world scene with a biting satire that co-stars Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West.…

Star Wars: The Last Jedi introduced audiences to a few new worlds and several fresh fantastical creatures living in a galaxy far, far away. The film, which was among the 10 to make the visual effects shortlist Dec. 18, brought to life these new furry friends by blending animatronics and CG. “Hopefully keeping the audience guessing,” says Neal Scanlan, creature and droid effects creative supervisor. The fan-favorite porgs, small bird-like creatures that inhabit Ahch-To (Luke Skywalker’s remote island hideaway), were designed as a cross between a seal, a puffin and a pug dog. “These little characters provided a little moment [for the audience] to take a breath,” Scanlan explains. “So we tried to tap into the traditions of theater and puppetry.” The porgs that appear on the ground are puppets…

Sometimes, even Oscar mainstays like Daniel Day-Lewis and Meryl Streep need help getting into character for an award-worthy performance, especially when a role requires transforming into an eccentric fashion designer or the first female publisher of The Washington Post. Luckily, consultants are available in every conceivable field to help actors and productions perfect moves from triple axels to tennis backhands and nail such period-revealing details as notebooks and buttonholes. THR spoke to several of the experts who helped bring verite to the screen in 2017 by tracking down a 1970s Linotype machine, teaching Emma Stone to volley and helping Day-Lewis design a dress for his wife. I, Tonya Decades ago, Sarah Kawahara was approached about working on a skating routine for Tonya Harding. “Her manager at the time had asked…

Every great tennis player has a signature gesture or move before serving. A head roll or a shoulder shrug or a racket twirl or some other idiosyncratic tick. For Billie Jean King, it was bouncing the ball twice before serving. Never less, never more. Emma Stone became an expert at it. In late winter and spring of 2016, she spent scads of time with King on a tennis court studying how the 74-year-old Grand Slam legend snapped the ball on the asphalt two times before launching it across the net. Stone wanted to get it right. “It was my first time portraying a real person,” says the 29-year-old recipient of 2017’s best actress Oscar. “Every scene was so immensely important.” Battle of the Sexes, Fox Searchlight’s dramedy about the immensely…

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET He’s received critical acclaim and a Globe nom for Call Me by Your Name; he also appears in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and the Christian Bale starrer Hostiles. LUCAS HEDGES The Manchester by the Sea star plays the son of Frances McDormand’s character in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and also is in Lady Bird. CALEB LANDRY JONES He plays the creepy younger brother in Get Out, gets beat up by Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards and appears briefly as Willem Dafoe’s son in The Florida Project.…