Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 17B - June 5, 2023 i The Hollywood Reporter

Sometime in 2020 — in the midst of Stacey Abrams’ voting rights advocacy work that would ultimately swing Georgia blue, saving the country from its worst political impulses; and around the time Beyoncé delivered a YouTube commencement address that gave hope and a sense of purpose to graduates struggling in a new and terrifyingly uncertain world — a phrase started to take hold in popular culture. “Believe Black Women.” By which folks meant trust Black women, listen to Black women, respect Black women’s lens on the world. It’s been a hashtag, the title of academic papers and a marketing tool. I’ve seen “Believe Black Women” on T-shirts, mouse pads, coffee mugs and tote bags in Etsy shops. There is a sense that Black women are diviners of culture. And while…

Jamie Dutton is a character who sticks with Wes Bentley. Ever since the actor was cast in Taylor Sheridan’s megahit series Yellowstone as the tortured attorney-general son of Kevin Costner’s cattle-ranch patriarch (and Montana governor) John Dutton, it’s been hard for Bentley to let go of Jamie’s sadness during the show’s five seasons. But after the last midseason finale, when Jamie’s striving to unseat his father reached potentially murderous proportions as it again pit him against his sister Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly), Bentley has been channeling Jamie’s empowerment. “He’s going to go out like a cannonball, maybe. Just blow it all up,” he says. The prediction is a guess, as Bentley has yet to see any scripts. Reported behind-the-scenes drama between star Costner and showrunner Sheridan delayed Yellowstone’s summer return,…

DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION SERIES 100 Foot Wave (HBO/Max) Chris Smith’s show about big-wave surfing is back in contention for its second season, just a year after its first was nominated in this category and won for cinematography. Surfer extraordinaire Garrett McNamara returns with other surfers and their stories, too. Dear Mama (FX/Hulu) Allen Hughes, a nominee in this category in 2018 for The Defiant Ones, profiles Tupac Shakur and his activist mom. (jeen-yuhs, which explored Kanye West’s relationship with his mom, was nominated for this award last year.) It attracted the most viewers ever for an FX unscripted show. Prehistoric Planet (Apple TV+) Season one of this David Attenborough-narrated study of dinosaurs was snubbed (its VFX is cutting-edge, but some doc purists object to re-creations). However, voters have a track record of…

Taron Egerton is one of the top young stars in Hollywood. A Britishborn Welsh actor who burst onto the scene playing a juvenile delinquent turned secret agent’s protégé in the 2015 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, he shot onto the A-list with his portrayal of Elton John in the 2019 film Rocketman, for which he won a best musical/comedy actor Golden Globe Award and was nominated for best actor SAG and BAFTA awards, as well as a Grammy. In 2022, his performance on the Apple TV+ limited series Black Bird as Jimmy Keene — a drug dealer offered a chance to be let out of prison early if he can extract from a serial killer the location of the latter’s victims — has already brought him Golden Globe and SAG…

MATTHEW RHYS PERRY MASON Perry Mason (HBO/Max) Matthew Rhys vaguely recalls Raymond Burr’s Perry Mason playing in the background as a child, but when it was time for him to portray the famous defense lawyer in a version set in 1930s Los Angeles, the actor stayed far away from all previous iterations. “I have a slight tendency, consciously or not, to mimic,” he says. “If I started watching [Raymond Burr], I don’t know how or where he would manifest himself, but I know he would.” Rhys instead focused on the character presented through the script — a scarred war veteran finding his calling against the backdrop of the Great Depression. “As soon as I read the first scene about World War I, I remember being really shocked. Where’s this going…

In Mike White’s The White Lotus, Will Sharpe and Theo James play Ethan and Cameron, friends from college who go on a lavish vacation to Sicily, Italy, with their wives, Harper (Aubrey Plaza) and Daphne (Meghann Fahy). It’s all fun and games, until jealousy, rivalry and male egos come into play — and for James and Sharpe, the underlying themes and the depth of the storyline are exactly what enticed them about the show. The two actors speak to THR about their characters’ competition and suspicions of cheating, and their final confrontation in an ocean fight scene. What interested you about each of your characters? WILL SHARPE The quality of the writing, the opportunity to work with Mike and the brilliant cast and crew. But in the case of Ethan,…

“I always saw it as a kind of ghost story, at least at the beginning,” says director Jon Watts of FX/Hulu’s The Old Man, starring Jeff Bridges as the title character, Dan Chase — a CIA dropout who lives off the grid. “He’s in this dark and spooky old house. He’s alone. He’s having nightmares. And he’s haunted by his past.” Holed up in a secluded, empty cabin — which Watts notes was a real location rather than a set — Chase is a mystery to the audience for most of the drama series’ first episode. The director says he meticulously choreographed Bridges’ movements throughout the house and used the camera throughout the pilot as “a passive witness” that follows Chase throughout his quiet and uneventful life — that is,…

EDDIE THE EAGLE (2016) Dexter Fletcher directed Egerton in this biographical sports film about Michael Edwards, a British skier who in 1988 became the first to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping since 1928. Hugh Jackman and Christopher Walken also starred. KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2014) Egerton starred in Matthew Vaughn’s spy action comedy as Eggsy alongside Colin Firth and Samuel L. Jackson. Two sequels followed, in 2017 (Kingsman: The Golden Circle) and 2021 (The King’s Man). ROCKETMAN (2019) Fletcher and Egerton reunited on this biographical musical film based on the life and career of Elton John. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and Egerton received several nominations for his performance, including for BAFTA and SAG awards. TETRIS (2023) This film, directed by Jon S. Baird, chronicles the…

We’ve been doing it for so long it feels like, ‘Of course we’ll be doing more. I’m sure we have a start date coming up where we’ll be filming again,’” Nicholas Braun tells THR just two days after the May 28 series finale of Succession. “I’m kind of adjusting to the fact that that’s it.” Braun’s character on the Emmy-winning HBO series, Roy family lackey Cousin Greg, proved himself to be nothing if not tenacious in his pursuit of power in the end. The final episode named Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) as the successor to the media empire throne of Logan Roy (Brian Cox), a move that shoved Roy siblings Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) out of the family business and kept sister Shiv (Sarah Snook) along for…

1923 (Paramount+) The hourlong pilot of Paramount+’s 1923 is less a template for a compelling ongoing series and more a very loose assemblage of things that apparently are fascinating creator Taylor Sheridan this week: Indigenous reeducation schools! The Tsavo Man-Eaters of Kenya! Grazing rights! With the star-studded cast led by Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, the familiar wide-open big sky vistas and periodic totemic recitations of the name “Dutton,” 1923 immediately offers plenty to be curious (and potentially irritated) about. Ford and Mirren play Jacob and Cara DUTTON — any and all mentions of the last name “Dutton” feel uttered in all-caps as dramatic irony shorthand for adding “You know, like in Yellowstone in 100 years” — owners of a thriving cattle ranch in Montana. Since Ford and Mirren are…