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Worst Oscar snubs

Bill Sullivan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:45:16 +0000

Kate got mixed news. Leo got no respect at all. There was little doubt that Doubt would be a Best Picture contender…until Thursday morning, at least.

Oscar nominations day is a strange affair in Hollywood. When you don’t get a phone call right after 5:30 in the morning, you end up wishing you had. (That’s the ungodly hour, West Coast time, when the nominations are revealed.)

Here at the GetListy Film Desk, we were up bright and early to see who was in, who was out, and who might be a little bent out of shape about the whole thing. With only a half cup of coffee to go on, we were awakened by a surprise or two.

The folks at Yahoo! Movies obviously felt the same way. Here’s their list of this year’s top Oscar snubs:

– Best Picture: The Dark Knight

– Best Actress in a Leading Role: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

– Best Actor in a Leading Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road

– Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Debra Winger, Rachel Getting Married

– Best Actor in a Supporting Role: James Franco, Milk

– Best Picture: Doubt

– Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

– Best Actor in a Leading Role: Benicio del Toro, Che

– Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Kristin Davis, Sex and the City

– Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Ben Kingsley, The Wackness

To read more about these Oscar omissions, and to see a slide show, visit Yahoo! Movies.

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Roles actors turned down

Bill Sullivan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:24:39 +0000

If you’re a major actor or actress in Hollywood, you are going to have to make decisions.

Scripts come your way all the time. A few are great, many are good, most are garbage.

Your job is to separate the Academy Award possibilities from the flicks doomed to go straight-to-DVD by way of Rotten Tomatoes. Figuring all that out from reading printed words on a page can be dicey business.

Everyone makes mistakes, of course. Make too many of them, though, and you’ll soon be in the “Whatever happened to…” segment of some cheesy entertainment show.

Glamorati has a list of actors who turned down what proved to be memorable roles.Here are just a few of them:

– Molly Ringwald: Vivian (Pretty Woman); Molly (Ghost)

– Alec Baldwin: Richard Kimball (The Fugitive)

– Melanie Griffith: Thelma (Thelma and Louise)

– Julia Roberts: Lead in Basic Instinct; Annie (Sleepless in Seattle)

– Leonardo DiCaprio: Dirk Diggler (Boogie Nights)

– John Travolta: Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)

To see the rest, check out Glamorati.

Golden Globe nominations

Bill Sullivan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:30:39 +0000

Here are the Hollywood Press Association’s 2008 Golden Globe Award nominations for the year ending Dec. 31, 2008:

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

– THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures)

– FROST/NIXON (Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Pictures)

– THE READER (Mirage Enterprises; The Weinstein Company)

– REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (An Evamere Entertainment BBC Films Neal Street Production; DreamWorks Pictures in Association with BBC Films and Paramount Vantage)

– SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.; Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

– ANNE HATHAWAY, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

– ANGELINA JOLIE, CHANGELING

– MERYL STREEP, DOUBT

– KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS, I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
(IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)

– KATE WINSLET, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

– LEONARDO DICAPRIO, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

– FRANK LANGELLA, FROST/NIXON

– SEAN PENN, MILK

– BRAD PITT, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

– MICKEY ROURKE, THE WRESTLER

Entertainers of the Year

Bill Sullivan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:02:57 +0000

Each year since 1990, Entertainment Weekly has selected its Entertainer(s) of the Year.It’s a diverse list, featuring everyone from Bart Simpson to J.K. Rowling, with all kinds of folks in between.

Some, you’ll remember fondly. A few, you may barely remember at all.

Ready to revisit some blasts from the past? Here goes:

2007: J.K. Rowling

2006: Cast of Grey’s Anatomy

2005: Cast of Lost

2004: Jon Stewart

2003: Cast of The Lord of the Rings

2002: Denzel Washington

2001: Nicole Kidman

2000: Russell Crowe

1999: Ricky Martin

1998: Leonardo DiCaprio

1997: Ellen DeGeneres

1996: Rosie O’Donnell

1995: Cast of Friends

1994: Tom Hanks

1993: Steven Spielberg

1992: Cast of Saturday Night Live

1991: Jodie Foster

1990: Bart Simpson

To read more about all these, and to see a slideshow, visit Entertainment Weekly.

Actors who played gay roles

Philip Wuntch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:49:47 +0000

At this point, Sean Penn ranks high among probable Best Actor Oscar nominees. The dynamic Penn stars as assassinated gay politico Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s Milk, which opened nationwide Nov. 26. There was a time, though, when such a role would have been considered risky. Among those who proved otherwise: Hugh Jackman. What’s this, People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive once played gay? Yes, and he was heaped with praise for it. Although Jackman’s buff performance in Australia, not to mention X-Man Wolverine, helped make him People’s cover boy, he won a Tony as gay entertainer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. That musical hasn’t made it to the screen yet, but if it does, you can be sure Jackman will be cast. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Probably the movie world’s most famous onscreen gay couple, they moved critics and moviegoers in Brokeback Mountain(Watch) . But when Brokeback surprisingly lost the 2005 Best Picture Oscar to Crash, Academy homophobia was blamed. Maybe Oscar voters will anoint this year’s Penn as means of erasing that label. Russell Crowe. Six years before Gladiator, Crowe played a good-natured gay in 1994’s The Sum of Us. He and his widowed father bond while searching for appropriate Significant Others. However, Crowe was reportedly offended when he and his rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts played San Francisco and gays threw their underwear onstage. Meryl Streep. In 2002’s The Hours, Madame Meryl played a plain-spoken lesbian who vainly tries to keep AIDS-ridden friend Ed Harris from suicide. And near the beginning of her movie career, when handlers discourage such role choices, she played Woody Allen’s ex-wife in Manhattan. When she writes a book explaining how her same-sex relationship had been much more nurturing than her marriage, Woody’s character was not amused. Didn’t hurt Meryl’s career at all.