Although the late Chadwick Boseman was considered the frontrunner heading into the 93rd Academy Awards, the Oscar for best actor went to Anthony Hopkins in an upset victory.
Close received a supporting actress nod in the 2021 Oscars for her role as Mamaw in “Hillbilly Elegy,” bringing her career total of Academy Award nominations to eight.
The short is about a Black graphic artist who gets stuck in a “Groundhog Day"-esque time loop that always ends in his killing by a white police officer latimes.com/entertainment-…
Free explained that the disturbing story is meant to convey the “cyclical nature of the trauma we experience just living in this country on a day-to-day basis.”
The film discusses emotional exploration and escapism, themes that took on a deeper meeting after Vinterberg’s 19-year-old daughter, Ida, died in a car accident four days into shooting latimes.com/entertainment-…
Ida planned to play Mikkelsen’s daughter in the film.
Rather than completely halt the movie, Vinterberg decided to honor Ida’s love for the film by finishing the shoot. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Denmark secured its fourth Academy Award tonight, this time for a life-affirming movie about friendship and alcohol as Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” won the #Oscar for international feature latimes.com/entertainment-…
To prepare his cast for playing everything from tipsy to blackout drunk, director Thomas Vinterberg plied them with schnapps and beer, then showed them the footage latimes.com/entertainment-…
We talked to "Another Round" director Thomas Vinterberg and star Mads Mikkelsen for our #TheEnvelope podcast that aired earlier this year.
The 32-year-old surfwear production manager spent $4,000 of her own money to design, write and publish an initial run of the booklets “How to Report a Hate Crime” in English and Chinese.