Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 32E - November 27, 2023 i The Hollywood Reporter

Lily Gladstone is creating a lot of excitement these days. The 37-year-old actress of Blackfeet and Nimíipuu heritage is generating Oscar buzz with her performance as Mollie Burkhart, the Osage wife of the scheming Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Apple/Paramount’s Killers of the Flower Moon. The actress also earned a Gotham Award nom on Oct. 24 for Music Box Films’ The Unknown Country, portraying a grieving woman embarking on a road trip. But despite Killers of the Flower Moon surely bringing Gladstone wider attention, will her performance finally give Native American women their moment in Hollywood? Gladstone her-self opted to campaign as a lead actress rather than supporting, and she could make history as the first Native American Oscar nominee for best actress. Additionally, Vogue has dubbed Cara Jade Myers…

BEETLEJUICE (1988) The film starred Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara and was a commercial and critical success: It grossed $74.7 million on a $15 million budget and won the Academy Award for best makeup. BATMAN (1989) Serving as the first installment of Warner Bros.’ initial Batman series, Burton reunited with Keaton, who played the Caped Crusader. The movie was also a success, and critics lauded Burton’s work. It won the Oscar for best art direction. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) His first collaboration with Johnny Depp featured the actor as an unfinished artificial humanoid who has scissor blades instead of hands. (They have now made eight films together.) Ryder also reunited with Burton for the fantasy drama. ED WOOD (1994) Burton reteamed with Depp for the film about the cult…

Watching Raven Jackson’s audacious debut feature, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, is like participating in an intimate ritual. The film follows Mack (played by Kaylee Nicole Johnson as a child and Charleen McClure as an adult) as she comes of age in Mississippi, tracking the emotional arc of her life from girlhood to maturity. It’s a poetic and sensorial journey, one that lures us into the major and minor moments of Mack’s life, elliptically introducing us to her family, friends, her first love and a broader, close-knit community. The A24 drama is the kind of unapologetic project that feels increasingly rare in Hollywood. Jackson spoke to THR about the inspirations behind her fearless debut and how she got producers to take a leap of faith. What was your inspiration…

For Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, costume designer Jacqueline West immersed herself in researching early-1920s denizens of Osage County, Oklahoma. She visited museums commemorating plundering oil tycoons and watched rare black-and-white home movies commissioned by Osage families, wealthy from retaining mineral rights to their oil-rich reservation. Osage costume consultant Julie O’Keefe ensured the authenticity and nuanced storytelling of traditional clothing and materials, which endure long after the tribe’s forced relocation from Missouri to Oklahoma in 1872. “I had these 10-foot boards of townspeople, on every level, all the way around my warehouse,” says West about designing the introductory sequence in which World War I veteran Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) arrives in bustling Fairfax and encounters the two worlds he soon infiltrates. Suited white merchants and disheveled fieldworkers seek…

BEST PICTURE The Iron Claw This A24 entry from writer-director Sean Durkin finally screened Nov. 12 in L.A. and Nov. 13 in New York. The dark true story of the Von Erich family of professional wrestlers is highly engaging and features strong performances (not least from Zac Efron and Lily James) but seems a bit removed from what the Academy usually goes for. Napoleon Sony’s portrait of the French military mastermind, a collaboration of Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix (with Vanessa Kirby co-starring), also was unveiled Nov. 14. It features epic battle sequences but struck many as too long (at a run time of 158 minutes) and a bit all over the place. It’s at just 68 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. BEST DIRECTOR Todd Haynes May December The admired auteur…

The Buccaneers The Apple TV+ drama opens with a wedding that almost doesn’t happen. As Conchita (Alisha Boe) frets in her family’s New York mansion, Lord Richard (Josh Dylan) pulls up late with a breakup letter in hand, worried his free-spirited fiancée won’t “fit” with his uptight English family. It’s only when Nan (Kristine Froseth), Conchita’s maid of honor, reminds Richard that nothing matters but their love that he rips up the note and goes ahead with what looks to be the most lavish nuptials of the century. But what might on another show play as a testament to the power of love will ultimately prove on this one to be a warning of its limitations. With its poppy soundtrack, headstrong heroines and endless galas, the comparisons to Bridgerton are…

Tim Burton is a filmmaker unlike any other. His big-screen directing credits, dating back some 40 years, include Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman in the 1980s; 1990’s Edward Scissorhands; the aughts’ Big Fish, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd; and 2014’s Big Eyes. In 2022, he turned to the small screen, directing half of the eight episodes that comprised the first season of Netflix’s hit series Wednesday, for which he is nominated for two Emmys: best directing for a comedy series and, as one of the show’s executive producers, best comedy series. The New York Times has called him “a visionary artist,” while one of his most frequent collaborator, Johnny Depp, whom he has directed in nine films, once said that he “is a filmmaker I admire … an auteur,…

In her 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir, Princess Diana famously quipped that her marriage to Prince Charles was “a bit crowded” due to his extramarital relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles. And in The Crown’s retelling of her brief romance with Dodi Fayed, the creators paint a picture of yet another of Diana’s relationships that was never given the opportunity to simply exist between two individuals. “One of the big things I did for season six is I gathered as many of the photos with the research team as I could of Dodi and Diana and I put them in chronological order,” explains Khalid Abdalla, who portrays Fayed in the Netflix historical drama. “When you put them in chronological order, it tells a story, and you’re kind of like, ‘Ah,…

Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti’s latest film, The Holdovers, is in the awards conversation for its tale of holiday mischief and misfits at a remote New England boarding school. In it, Giamatti plays a cranky history teacher tasked with looking after students who aren’t going home for winter break. Almost 20 years ago, Payne and Giamatti earned awards acclaim for their first collaboration: 2004’s Sideways. For Giamatti, who had built a career as a character actor, the film marked his second as a lead (after American Splendor the year before). He plays Miles, a depressed middle-aged English teacher, unpublished writer and wine snob on a vineyard-hopping road trip through California’s Santa Ynez Valley with his friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church), a down-on-his-luck actor about to get married. Payne and co-writer…