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54th NAACP Image Awards Red Carpet Post 5

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Candy Cane Lane Trailer

Chris is desperate to win the neighborhood Christmas decorating contest. He signs a contract with an elf for the best Christmas ever. The elf's spell brings to life the 12 Days of Christmas, wreaking havoc, and Chris and his family have to break the spell to save Christmas for everyone as well as save Chris' life.

Candy Cane Lane stars Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, Madison Thomas, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, Robin Thede, Chris Redd, Genneya Walton, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Lombardo Boyar, D.C. Young Fly, Danielle Pinnock, Timothy Simons, Riki Lindhome, and Stephen Tobolowsky. Reginald Hudlin directs the film.

Candy Cane Lane hits Prime on December 1, 2023.

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American Fiction

Director Cord Jefferson Stars Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K Brown, Leslie Uggams, Tracee Ellis Ross USA 2023 Language English 1hr 57mins Colour

Affectionate portrait of a bourgeois family? Gleeful satire of people desperate to endorse diversity? How about both at once, successfully?

There’s a mixed blessing for the smart film with an attention-grabbing pitch. It simplifies selling the movie, both to distributors and the audience: ‘It’s the one in which…’ ‘Oh, yeah, I’ve heard about that one…’  But it can reduce the movie to something it isn’t really – in this case, you might be surprised to find that American Fiction spends more time on two brothers and a sister dealing with an aged parent than satirising white people’s stupid ideas of what authentic black stories are. I’d say that this movie is closer to The Savages, an excellent but under-seen film with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney as middle-aged siblings trying to cope with their difficult father than, say, Spike Lee’s raging satire Bamboozled.

Yet the catchy ‘about’ sticks, and I’m not in a position to criticise that. Watching the film, I was wondering if the family stuff had been added by writer-director Cord Jefferson because I didn’t remember it from Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, from which American Fiction is adapted. But no, the blurb on the back of the book describes it ‘as a profoundly moving story of family turmoil’ – so it’s clearly there, but my mind had only held on to pointedly satirical part of the plot.

Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison (played in the movie by Jeffrey Wright) is a curmudgeonly academic and writer whose attitude towards his students is becoming unacceptable to the university in California where he works (for those who like to check on fiction’s relationship to life, Everett teaches at USC.) Meanwhile, his agent (John Ortiz) is struggling to find a publisher for Monk’s latest highbrow novel. And over in Boston, his widowed mother (Leslie Uggams) is acting erratically, and his sister and brother are both feeling the financial and other impacts of divorce. 

American Fiction is, then, effectively two films in one – a comedy-drama about a troubled (but not unloving) upper-middle-class family and a satire about a snobbish novelist who writes a spoof tale from the hood that (of course) is taken for the real thing. That’s an incredibly tricky mix to get right and at least a few people have been wrong-footed by the movie – ‘what’s all this family-reckoning-with-trauma stuff? Where’s the skewering of the white literary scene I was promised?’

I mean, that’s certainly there, it’s just sharing story space with eg, a tour of a care home the mother might move to. But that’s not just OK, it’s a positive, because the family stuff is great, particularly Sterling K Brown as Monk’s brother Clifford, voraciously making up for lost time after coming out in his forties. 

Which is to say, the family scenes are not just ‘funny too’, the biggest laughs we had watching the film came from the interaction between the Clifford and Monk and Monk and Lisa (Tracee Ellis Ross). The writing here is so sharp, so precise, so spot-on. Yes, there are also a few moments of emotional realisation, but as with The Holdovers, I’m working on being less prickly about this kind of stuff – it’s good to feel, too. 

This is Cord Jefferson’s debut as a director, but it doesn’t feel like a first film at all. It’s very assured, walks that tonal tightrope perfectly, marshals the cast well. Maybe that Jefferson doesn’t feel like a first-timer is not surprising seeing as he’s not young (he’s 42) and has a ton of experience writing for TV. But he’s not even got any screenplay credits for a movie. So this is extremely impressive. 

Along with Wright, Brown and Ross, there’s good work from Erika Alexander* as the Ellisons’ attractive neighbour plus Adam Brody as a slimy movie director – with this and Fleishman Is In Trouble, he’s finding a groove as a glib sleazeball. 

I was expecting to quite like American Fiction – as it turned out, I loved it.   *I spent too much time watching the movie trying to figure out what I recognised her from – which was playing Rza's mom in Wu-Tang: An American Saga.

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'23 SKIDOO

Before rattling off a list of my top ten movies for the year, I should offer a disclaimer. As with most years, it's based on incomplete information. There are still quite a few significant movies I haven't yet seen. But here, based on what I've seen and how I'm feeling at this writing, is my Top Ten List for 2023.

Killers of the Flower Moon--Martin Scorsese's epic yet intimate nightmare about the Osage murders in Oklahoma in the 1920s is a masterpiece; one of his best works and probably the best movie of the year.

Oppenheimer--Half of the midyear smash duo, this chronicle of the atom smasher of White Sands is a dazzling directorial performance by Christopher Nolan, fracturing his narrative yet keeping us focused. Possibly a hair overlong and anticlimactic, it's riveting at its best.

Barbie--The other half of "Barbenheimer." Greta Gerwig's brightly-colored take on the Mattel icon is crazy, imaginative and deeply goofy, yet in its own way no less serious in its ambitions. Margot Robbie is improbably touching in the title role.

American Fiction--Jeffrey Wright is quietly marvelous as an African-American novelist who so resents being expected to pander to white ideas about the black experience that he does so with a vengeance and becomes a smash. Cord Jefferson's adaptation of the Percival Everett novel Erasure is both rueful and hilarious, often at the same time, and beautifully acted by Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross, Leslie Uggams, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Issa Rae, Miriam Shor and the criminally underutilized Erika Alexander.

Maestro--It's not so much a biopic in the usual sense as a portrait of the marriage of Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre. Bradley Cooper is luminous as Bernstein, and his reserved directorial style balances Bernstein's grand self-dramatizing manner beautifully. Yet it's Carey Mulligan's Felicia who emerges as the movie's guiding spirit.

Godzilla Minus One--The Lizard King stands in for postwar despondency in this one-off, one-of-a-kind monster spectacle that's also a surprisingly moving portrait of a nation coming to terms with utter defeat, and gradually starting to rise from its own ruins.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret--Judy Blume's classic for adolescent girls was a long time coming to the screen, but under the direction of Kathleen Fremon Craig it struck just the right note; sweet and lighthearted.

Air--Sneakers have become such a cultural touchstone that it's probably inevitable that we'd get an origin story for athletic footwear. Ben Affleck's account of the development of the Air Jordan line and the issues around it is absorbing and amusing.

The Holdovers--Alexander Payne's '70s-period comedy, set at a private school in Massachusetts, is essentially a vehicle for the performances of Paul Giamatti as a splenetic ancient history teacher, Da'Vine Joy Randolph as a bereaved cafeteria manager and Dominic Sessa as the kid they're stuck with for the holidays. But what performances they are.

Saltburn--After her stunning debut with Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennel's second feature, a neo-gothic take on class, is by comparison a little overwrought and sour. But it's no less brilliant, and it comes together joltingly at the end.

A few others that I found to be worth my time: The Blackening, A Haunting in Venice, Dumb Money, Jules, Theater Camp, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Thanksgiving, Somewhere in Queens, Cocaine Bear, Renfield, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Napoleon and The Boys in the Boat.

A superb 2024 to us all!

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Candy Cane Lane

Candy Cane Lane (2023) #ReginaldHudlin #EddieMurphy #TraceeEllisRoss #RobinThede #NickOfferman #JillianBell Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (Dezember) Genre: Comedy / Fantasy Regie: Reginald Hudlin Hauptrollen: Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Robin Thede, Nick Offerman, Jillian Bell, Chris Redd, Ken Marino, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, D.C. Young Fly … Filmbeschreibung: Chris (Eddie Murphy) will unbedingt den Weihnachtsaußendekorations-Wettbewerb gewinnen, der jedes Jahr in seiner Straße unter den Nachbarn veranstaltet…

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Texas last experienced a total solar eclipse in 1878.

Flashback:

People worried that the morning's clouds would obstruct views of the afternoon eclipse.

"But at 3 o'clock the heavens were clear in the vicinity of the sun, and joy was manifest with all the anxious watchers," the Fort Worth Daily Democrat wrote.

The stars became visible around 4pm.

The temperature cooled roughly 13 degrees as the eclipse moved through Texas, per the Ellis County Museum.

The Galveston Daily News said the sight was "indescribable."

What's next: April 8 will be our only chance to witness a total solar eclipse — the next one in our region won't be until 2317.

1878

Smoked glass, sextants — and a new planet

1878 totality left Dallas in awe, eager for discoveries

Clouds hung low in the sky the night before, and by sunrise they still hadn’t cleared.

“All the morning people were seen carrying their pieces of smoked glass,” a predecessor to modern eclipse glasses, wrote a Ross Avenue woman.

The woman, N.L. Belsterling, had made her pieces of glass herself, but newsboys were selling them across the country.

“I, too, smoked my piece manfully — no, womanfully — at the risk of cut and burnt fingers, and succeeded in getting a piece well blackened,” she recalled in a letter decades later. “Several scientific gentlemen,” she added, were on hand.

Dallas was 36 years old and about to see its first total solar eclipse — if the weather would cooperate.

Ahead of Monday’s total solar eclipse, The Dallas Morning News conducted archival research on the 1878 eclipse, shedding light on its legacy in the region.

The event, like today, was a sensation.

For decades, observers recalled the moon’s shadow and the preparations that heralded the eclipse’s arrival.

No total solar eclipse had crossed the state since the arrival of Europeans centuries earlier, this paper wrote. And for the country, the stakes were even higher.

“It was a really important day for America and for American science because this was a time when the United States was still a young country,” David Baron, author of American Eclipse , said in an interview with The News .

Just two years earlier, America had celebrated its centennial and was becoming a global industrial power.

“But when it came to intellectual pursuits,” he said, “the Europeans looked down their noses at us,” confident the U.S. would never catch up. The date of July 29, 1878, was America’s chance to prove its intellectual might matched its economic muscle — and the public, galvanized by science they could see — was on board.

Eclipse expeditions

Knowing bad weather could spoil any one viewer’s observations, the U.S. Naval Observatory had launched about a half dozen eclipse expeditions across the country.

The zone of total darkness cut a path east from Russia to Alaska, crossed through British Columbia and traced large parts of the Rockies before entering Texas, where it curved out into the Gulf of Mexico and eventually passed over Cuba.

The chances of clear skies were better in Colorado and Wyoming, said Baron, so more resources were allotted to those expeditions. (Thomas Edison was among the scientists in Wyoming, though he was on a private trip.) In Dallas, things were a bit more DIY.

David Todd arrived by himself in Denison on July 12 after a four-day trip from Washington, D.C., according to the report he later submitted to the Navy.

A 23-year-old astronomer, Todd brought with him a $500 budget; a sextant; a chronometer; and a comet seeker, a type of small telescope.

“Todd was a one-man expedition,” Baron said. “The other expeditions were much more elaborate — more people, more equipment.”

In Wyoming, Edison brought along a device he called along the tasimeter, which he claimed could register changes in temperature as tiny as a millionth of a degree Fahrenheit, according to Baron. Billed as “bigger than the phonograph,” it turned out not to be very reliable.

The sun’s corona

Todd got situated, setting up communication with Washington and with people across Texas drafted to make their own observations of the eclipse and the sun’s corona, a mysterious phenomenon to scientists at the time.

“It was recommended that drawings of the corona be made at the three stations nearest the center of the shadow-path, namely Decatur, Jacksborough, and Henrietta,” he wrote in his report.

After a detour to Houston to pick up extra equipment, he returned to Dallas on Saturday night, two days before the eclipse, and checked in on his headquarters, the house of J.M. Oram, a local jeweler.

The house was about a quarter-mile from the telegraph office, and Todd later boasted of having someone on horseback standing by at the facility to grab any message that might come in from Wyoming during the eclipse and rush it to him “with all possible despatch.”

Like the other scientists around the country, Todd saw in the eclipse a rare chance to bring clarity to two big scientific mysteries.

The first was the corona, which becomes visible when the moon obscures the sun in what’s known as totality.

Scientists today know the corona is the sun’s outer atmosphere, but 19th-century theories ran the gamut.

Was it even a part of the sun? Maybe it was an effect of the Earth’s own atmosphere on the sun’s light, said Baron.

One theory, he added, even posited it was meteors burning up as they fell into our star.

By 1878, scientists had ruled out the most outlandish hypotheses, settling on a consensus that the corona was in fact part of the sun, but that was about as far as they’d gotten.

The other question the eclipse could answer was perhaps even bigger by today’s standards.

Scientists hoped in the span of mere minutes to catch a glimpse of an entirely new planet they believed existed — without having been definitively observed.

The planet Vulcan

“There was good reason to believe that there was at least one other planet between Mercury and the sun,” Baron said. “The belief was so great that in fact astronomers gave it a name.” They called it the planet Vulcan.

Vulcan, astronomers thought, had to exist to explain a quirk in Mercury’s orbit.

“Mercury behaved as if there was some mass between it and the sun, tugging it along,” Baron said. The problem was that “No one had ever reliably seen Vulcan.”

But that didn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t there.

Astronomers theorized if the planet was close enough to the sun, it would set with the sun at dusk, never to be seen in the night sky.

Daytime observation would be impossible, owing to the sun’s glare. “So, about the only time you might catch a glimpse of this supposed planet Vulcan would be during those few minutes of midday

darkness when the moon covers the bright surface of the sun and you could actually look at what is right around the sun,” Baron said.

Todd’s position in Dallas meant he wouldn’t be the first to spot Vulcan in 1878, but he might get a tip by telegram about where to point his telescope if another observer saw it before him.

As the big day wore on, the weather improved.

Only high clouds floated when the phenomenon was due.

Todd stood by his instruments at Oram’s house and his volunteers took their places, too.

Smoked glass in hand, the city looked up at about 3:14 p.m.

About an hour later, totality began.

“I almost held my breath in awe,” wrote Belsterling, the Dallas woman who saw it with her own eyes.

“The birds, overhead, blew hither and thither in alarm.

Chickens went to roost and began their pecking and crowding, preparatory to their night’s rest.

The frogs on the banks of the Trinity set up their sad, musical refrains.

As totality passed and the first rays of the sun fell upon us the scene was one of rare brilliancy.

I watched it as it slowly passed over, and felt sorry it was over.”

The next one wouldn’t be until 2024.

Belsterling’s account, captured in a letter, appeared in The News 50 years later.

She’s one of several Texans whose memories of the eclipse stayed with them for decades and resurfaced in newspaper coverage that looked back on the event.

‘Wonder and awe’

Ola Comer Haley, a young girl in Pittsburg, Texas, northeast of Tyler, watched the eclipse with her family in 1878 and told the Dallas Times Herald 45 years later, “I shall never forget the look upon mother’s face as I looked into it and saw an expression of wonder and awe, which as a little child, I mistook for sadness.”

Todd’s observations were less sentimental.

Tables and measurements make up his detailed report on what he saw during his stargazing.

But he did look back on his time in the city half a century later, calling himself a young scientist whom “a kindly cloudless sky favored so that Dallas has ever since held unchallenged a grateful nook in his heart.”

In the days and weeks after the eclipse, headlines shouted news of scientific breakthroughs. But as often happens in hindsight, little of the science held up.

“I mean, you know, this was the most important eclipse ever observed,” said Baron, miming the refrain of the time. “And Vulcan was found!” But of course, there was no Vulcan, he said. Studies of the corona turned out not to have revealed much either.

Still for Todd, it was the beginning of a long career.

After packing up his comet chaser, he went on to become a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts and an eclipse chaser whose expeditions took him around the world.

The Dallas expedition was his first. He died in 1939.

Baron said despite it being largely a scientific dud, the eclipse remained a turning point in the country’s intellectual history because it whet the public’s appetite for more discovery.

“Here was the scientific event that got America jazzed about showing the world that we could compete in this realm,” he said. “And it wasn’t long after this, that we really did lead the world in astronomy and many sciences.”

Signature moment

In Dallas, the events of 1878 became the stuff of legend, revived in the papers when a partial solar eclipse was visible here.

“You Can’t Find Eclipses Anymore Like One In ’78,” said a cheeky headline in 1963.

“When Dallas Watched The Sun Go Out,” read the front page of The News on the 50th anniversary.

That story took a more solemn tone, however, tributing the eclipse as a signature moment in the city’s history.

“It was an event anticipated with immense interest and caused the greatest possible excitement,” the writer, Geoffrey E. Govier, declared.

At the end, Govier’s tone softened into something more contemplative as he pondered whether eclipses would mean as much in the future.

He told readers the next total eclipse in Texas wouldn’t be for nearly a century and, in the last sentence, made an admission: “enthusiasm for these far-away darkenings of the Sun is naturally feeble,” he wrote, “and by that remote epoch further mysteries of space and time may have been penetrated.”

They certainly have, but we’ll still be watching.

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Award Season is among us. Our reviewer Actor, Producer and Journalist Alex von Roon can't wait to check out the contenders starting off with HBO' s "Succession". How do you like Alexander as "Ken" in the Hit Movie "Barbie"? Von Roon did work with the director before and enjoyed her performance in "Greenberg"

For "Bild am Sonntag" Alex also met SAG Award nominee Tony Shalhoub on set in his trailer. Some comments were very interesting. We wonder how Mr. Monk would deal with a pandemic such as Corona.

Below please find the complete list of nominations courtesy of SAGAFTRA. Which are your favorites? Comment below.

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SAG AWARDS NOMINATIONS 2024

The Motion Picture Nominees are: 

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role  BRADLEY COOPER / Leonard Bernstein - "MAESTRO"  COLMAN DOMINGO / Bayard Rustin - "RUSTIN"  PAUL GIAMATTI / Paul Hunham - "THE HOLDOVERS"  CILLIAN MURPHY / J. Robert Oppenheimer - "OPPENHEIMER"  JEFFREY WRIGHT / Thelonious "Monk" Ellison - "AMERICAN FICTION"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role  ANNETTE BENING / Diana Nyad - "NYAD"  LILY GLADSTONE / Mollie Burkhart - "KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON"  CAREY MULLIGAN / Felicia Montealegre - "MAESTRO"  MARGOT ROBBIE / Barbie - "BARBIE"  EMMA STONE / Bella Baxter - "POOR THINGS"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role  STERLING K. BROWN / Clifford Ellison - "AMERICAN FICTION"  WILLEM DAFOE / Godwin Baxter - "POOR THINGS"  ROBERT DE NIRO / William Hale - "KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON"  ROBERT DOWNEY JR. / Lewis Strauss - "OPPENHEIMER"  RYAN GOSLING / Ken - "BARBIE"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role  EMILY BLUNT / Kitty Oppenheimer - "OPPENHEIMER"  DANIELLE BROOKS / Sofia - "THE COLOR PURPLE"  PENÉLOPE CRUZ / Laura Ferrari - "FERRARI"  JODIE FOSTER / Bonnie Stoll - "NYAD"  DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH / Mary Lamb - "THE HOLDOVERS"

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture  AMERICAN FICTION  ERIKA ALEXANDER / Coraline ADAM BRODY / Wiley Valdespino STERLING K. BROWN / Clifford Ellison KEITH DAVID / Willy the Wonker JOHN ORTIZ / Arthur ISSA RAE / Sintara Golden TRACEE ELLIS ROSS / Lisa Ellison LESLIE UGGAMS / Agnes Ellison JEFFREY WRIGHT / Thelonious "Monk" Ellison

BARBIE  MICHAEL CERA / Allan WILL FERRELL / Mattel CEO AMERICA FERRERA / Gloria RYAN GOSLING / Ken ARIANA GREENBLATT / Sasha KATE MCKINNON / Barbie HELEN MIRREN / Narrator RHEA PERLMAN / Ruth ISSA RAE / Barbie MARGOT ROBBIE / Barbie

THE COLOR PURPLE  HALLE BAILEY / Young Nettie FANTASIA BARRINO / Celie JON BATISTE / Grady DANIELLE BROOKS / Sofia CIARA / Nettie COLMAN DOMINGO / Mister AUNJANUE ELLIS-TAYLOR / Mama LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. / Ol' Mister COREY HAWKINS / Harpo TARAJI P. HENSON / Shug Avery PHYLICIA PEARL MPASI / Young Celie GABRIELLA WILSON "H.E.R." / Squeak

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON  TANTOO CARDINAL / Lizzie Q ROBERT DE NIRO / William Hale LEONARDO DICAPRIO / Ernest Burkhart BRENDAN FRASER / W.S. Hamilton LILY GLADSTONE / Mollie Burkhart JOHN LITHGOW / Prosecutor Peter Leaward JESSE PLEMONS / Tom White

OPPENHEIMER  CASEY AFFLECK / Boris Pash EMILY BLUNT / Kitty Oppenheimer KENNETH BRANAGH / Niels Bohr MATT DAMON / Leslie Groves ROBERT DOWNEY JR. / Lewis Strauss JOSH HARTNETT / Ernest Lawrence RAMI MALEK / David Hill CILLIAN MURPHY / J. Robert Oppenheimer FLORENCE PUGH / Jean Tatlock

The Television Program Nominees are: 

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series  MATT BOMER / Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller - "FELLOW TRAVELERS"  JON HAMM / Roy Tillman - "FARGO"  DAVID OYELOWO / Bass Reeves - "LAWMEN: BASS REEVES"  TONY SHALHOUB / Adrian Monk - "MR. MONK'S LAST CASE: A MONK MOVIE"  STEVEN YEUN / Danny Cho - "BEEF"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series  UZO ADUBA / Edie Flowers - "PAINKILLER"  KATHRYN HAHN / Clare Pierce - "TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS"  BRIE LARSON / Elizabeth Zott - "LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY"  BEL POWLEY / Miep Gies - "A SMALL LIGHT"  ALI WONG / Amy Lau - "BEEF"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series  BRIAN COX / Logan Roy - "SUCCESSION"  BILLY CRUDUP / Cory Ellison - "THE MORNING SHOW"  KIERAN CULKIN / Roman Roy - "SUCCESSION"  MATTHEW MACFADYEN / Tom Wambsgans - "SUCCESSION"  PEDRO PASCAL / Joel - "THE LAST OF US"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series  JENNIFER ANISTON / Alex Levy - "THE MORNING SHOW"  ELIZABETH DEBICKI / Princess Diana - "THE CROWN"  BELLA RAMSEY / Ellie - "THE LAST OF US"  KERI RUSSELL / Kate Wyler - "THE DIPLOMAT"  SARAH SNOOK / Shiv Roy - "SUCCESSION"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series  BRETT GOLDSTEIN / Roy Kent - "TED LASSO"  BILL HADER / Barry - "BARRY"  EBON MOSS-BACHRACH / Richard "Richie" Jerimovich - "THE BEAR"  JASON SUDEIKIS / Ted Lasso - "TED LASSO"  JEREMY ALLEN WHITE / Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto - "THE BEAR"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series  ALEX BORSTEIN / Susie Myerson - "THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL"  RACHEL BROSNAHAN / Miriam "Midge" Maisel - "THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL"  QUINTA BRUNSON / Janine Teagues - "ABBOTT ELEMENTARY"  AYO EDEBIRI / Sydney Adamu - "THE BEAR"  HANNAH WADDINGHAM / Rebecca Welton - "TED LASSO"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series 

THE CROWN  KHALID ABDALLA / Dodi Fayed SEBASTIAN BLUNT / Prince Edward BERTIE CARVEL / Tony Blair SALIM DAW / Mohamed Al Fayed ELIZABETH DEBICKI / Princess Diana LUTHER FORD / Prince Harry CLAUDIA HARRISON / Princess Anne LESLEY MANVILLE / Princess Margaret ED MCVEY / Prince William JAMES MURRAY / Prince Andrew JONATHAN PRYCE / Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh IMELDA STAUNTON / Queen Elizabeth II MARCIA WARREN / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother DOMINIC WEST / Prince Charles OLIVIA WILLIAMS / Camilla Parker Bowles

THE GILDED AGE  BEN AHLERS / Jack ASHLIE ATKINSON / Mamie Fish CHRISTINE BARANSKI / Agnes van Rhijn DENÉE BENTON / Peggy Scott NICOLE BRYDON BLOOM / Maud Beaton MICHAEL CERVERIS / Watson CARRIE COON / Bertha Russell KELLEY CURRAN / Mrs. Winterton TAISSA FARMIGA / Gladys Russell DAVID FURR / Dashiell Montgomery JACK GILPIN / Church WARD HORTON / Charles Fane LOUISA JACOBSON / Marian Brook SIMON JONES / Bannister SULLIVAN JONES / T. Thomas Fortune CELIA KEENAN-BOLGER / Mrs. Bruce NATHAN LANE / Ward McAllister MATILDA LAWLER / Frances Montgomery ROBERT SEAN LEONARD / Luke Forte AUDRA MCDONALD / Dorothy Scott DEBRA MONK / Armstrong DONNA MURPHY / Mrs. Astor KRISTINE NIELSEN / Mrs. Bauer CYNTHIA NIXON / Ada Brook KELLI O'HARA / Aurora Fane PATRICK PAGE / Richard Clay HARRY RICHARDSON / Larry Russell TAYLOR RICHARDSON / Bridget BLAKE RITSON / Oscar van Rhijn JEREMY SHAMOS / Mr. Gilbert DOUGLAS SILLS / Borden MORGAN SPECTOR / George Russell JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON / Arthur Scott ERIN WILHELMI / Adelheid

THE LAST OF US  PEDRO PASCAL / Joel BELLA RAMSEY / Ellie

THE MORNING SHOW  JENNIFER ANISTON / Alex Levy NICOLE BEHARIE / Christina Hunter SHARI BELAFONTE / Julia NESTOR CARBONELL / Yanko Flores BILLY CRUDUP / Cory Ellison  MARK DUPLASS / Chip Black  JON HAMM / Paul Marks  THEO IYER / Kyle HANNAH LEDER / Isabella  GRETA LEE / Stella Bak  JULIANNA MARGULIES / Laura Peterson TIG NOTARO / Amanda Robinson KAREN PITTMAN / Mia Jordan REESE WITHERSPOON / Bradley Jackson

SUCCESSION  NICHOLAS BRAUN / Greg Hirsch JULIANA CANFIELD / Jess Jordan BRIAN COX / Logan Roy KIERAN CULKIN / Roman Roy DAGMARA DOMINCZYK / Karolina Novotney PETER FRIEDMAN / Frank Vernon JUSTINE LUPE / Willa MATTHEW MACFADYEN / Tom Wambsgans ARIAN MOAYED / Stewy Hosseini SCOTT NICHOLSON / Colin Stiles DAVID RASCHE / Karl Muller ALAN RUCK / Connor Roy ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD / Lukas Matsson J. SMITH-CAMERON / Gerri Kellman SARAH SNOOK / Shiv Roy FISHER STEVENS / Hugo Baker JEREMY STRONG / Kendall Roy ZOË WINTERS / Kerry Castellabate

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series  ABBOTT ELEMENTARY  QUINTA BRUNSON / Janine Teagues WILLIAM STANFORD DAVIS / Mr. Johnson JANELLE JAMES / Ava Coleman CHRIS PERFETTI / Jacob Hill SHERYL LEE RALPH / Barbara Howard LISA ANN WALTER / Melissa Schemmenti TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS / Gregory Eddie

BARRY  ANTHONY CARRIGAN / NoHo Hank SARAH GOLDBERG / Sally Reed ZACHARY GOLINGER / John BILL HADER / Barry ANDRE HYLAND / Jason ANDREW LEEDS /  Leo Cousineau FRED MELAMED / Tom Posorro CHARLES PARNELL / DA Buckner STEPHEN ROOT / Monroe Fuches TOBIE WINDHAM / Damian HENRY WINKLER / Gene Cousineau ROBERT WISDOM / Jim Moss

THE BEAR  LIONEL BOYCE / Marcus JOSE CERVANTES JR. / Angel LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS / Tina AYO EDEBIRI / Sydney Adamu ABBY ELLIOTT / Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto RICHARD ESTERAS / Manny EDWIN LEE GIBSON / Ebraheim MOLLY GORDON / Claire COREY HENDRIX / Sweeps MATTY MATHESON / Neil Fak EBON MOSS-BACHRACH / Richard "Richie" Jerimovich OLIVER PLATT / Jimmy "Cicero" Kalinowski JEREMY ALLEN WHITE / Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING  GERALD CAESAR / Ty MICHAEL CYRIL CREIGHTON / Howard Morris LINDA EMOND / Donna SELENA GOMEZ / Mabel Mora ALLISON GUINN / K.T. STEVE MARTIN / Charles-Haden Savage ASHLEY PARK / Kimber DON DARRYL RIVERA / Bobo PAUL RUDD / Ben Glenroy JEREMY SHAMOS / Dickie Glenroy MARTIN SHORT / Oliver Putnam MERYL STREEP / Loretta Durkin WESLEY TAYLOR / Cliff JASON VEASEY / Jonathan JESSE WILLIAMS / Tobert

TED LASSO  ANNETTE BADLAND / Mae Green KOLA BOKINNI / Isaac McAdoo EDYTA BUDNIK / Jade ADAM COLBORNE / Baz Primrose PHIL DUNSTER / Jamie Tartt CRISTO FERNÁNDEZ / Dani Rojas KEVIN "KG" GARRY / Paul La Fleur BRETT GOLDSTEIN / Roy Kent BILLY HARRIS / Colin Hughes ANTHONY HEAD / Rupert Mannion BRENDAN HUNT / Coach Beard TOHEEB JIMOH / Sam Obisanya JAMES LANCE / Trent Crimm NICK MOHAMMED / Nathan Shelley JASON SUDEIKIS / Ted Lasso JEREMY SWIFT / Leslie Higgins JUNO TEMPLE / Keeley Jones HANNAH WADDINGHAM / Rebecca Welton BRONSON WEBB / Jeremy Blumenthal KATY WIX / Barbara

The Stunt Ensemble Honors Nominees are:  Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture BARBIE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series  AHSOKA BARRY BEEF THE LAST OF US THE MANDALORIAN

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Nominations Announced for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®

Courtesy: sagaftra Nominations Unveiled for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Exclusive Global Streaming of SAG Awards® Gala on Netflix, Feb. 24 Today, the contenders for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, recognizing exceptional individual, ensemble, and cast performances from the past year, were disclosed by Issa Rae (Barbie, American Fiction, Insecure) and Kumail Nanjiani (Welcome to Chippendales, The Big Sick) via Instagram Live. The announcement of outstanding stunt ensemble performances in films and TV was presented by SAG Awards Committee Members Jason George and Woody Schultz, featuring an introduction by SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher. Produced by Silent House Productions in collaboration with SAG-AFTRA, the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be globally live-streamed on Netflix, on Feb. 24, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall. To revisit today's revelation, follow the SAG Awards® on Instagram @sagawards. For a comprehensive list of nominations and quick facts, please explore the SAG Awards® Press Kit page: https://sagawards.org/media/newsinfo/press-kit. As previously disclosed, the iconic actor, singer, producer, writer, and director Barbra Streisand will be bestowed with the SAG Life Achievement Award for her career milestones and philanthropic contributions during the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony. A pinnacle of the awards season, the SAG Awards annually applaud exceptional cinematic and television performances from the preceding calendar year (SAG Awards Eligibility Period: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023). Among the foremost accolades presented to actors, only the SAG Awards are determined entirely by the votes of performers' peers in SAG-AFTRA, boasting 119,515 eligible voters. The final voting phase commences on Wednesday, Jan. 17, concluding at Noon PT on Friday, Feb. 23. The Film Nominees are: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role BRADLEY COOPER / Leonard Bernstein - "MAESTRO" COLMAN DOMINGO / Bayard Rustin - "RUSTIN" PAUL GIAMATTI / Paul Hunham - "THE HOLDOVERS" CILLIAN MURPHY / J. Robert Oppenheimer - "OPPENHEIMER" JEFFREY WRIGHT / Thelonious "Monk" Ellison - "AMERICAN FICTION" Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role ANNETTE BENING / Diana Nyad - "NYAD" LILY GLADSTONE / Mollie Burkhart - "KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON" CAREY MULLIGAN / Felicia Montealegre - "MAESTRO" MARGOT ROBBIE / Barbie - "BARBIE" MMA STONE / Bella Baxter - "POOR THINGS" Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role STERLING K. BROWN / Clifford Ellison - "AMERICAN FICTION" WILLEM DAFOE / Godwin Baxter - "POOR THINGS" ROBERT DE NIRO / William Hale - "KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON" ROBERT DOWNEY JR. / Lewis Strauss - "OPPENHEIMER" RYAN GOSLING / Ken - "BARBIE" Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role EMILY BLUNT / Kitty Oppenheimer - "OPPENHEIMER" DANIELLE BROOKS / Sofia - "THE COLOR PURPLE" PENÉLOPE CRUZ / Laura Ferrari - "FERRARI" JODIE FOSTER / Bonnie Stoll - "NYAD" DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH / Mary Lamb - "THE HOLDOVERS" Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture AMERICAN FICTION ERIKA ALEXANDER / Coraline ADAM BRODY / Wiley Valdespino TERLING K. BROWN / Clifford Ellison KEITH DAVID / Willy the Wonker JOHN ORTIZ / Arthur ISSA RAE / Sintara Golden TRACEE ELLIS ROSS / Lisa Ellison LESLIE UGGAMS / Agnes Ellison JEFFREY WRIGHT / Thelonious "Monk" Ellison BARBIE MICHAEL CERA / Allan WILL FERRELL / Mattel CEO AMERICA FERRERA / Gloria RYAN GOSLING / Ken ARIANA GREENBLATT / Sasha KATE MCKINNON / Barbie HELEN MIRREN / Narrator RHEA PERLMAN / Ruth ISSA RAE/ Barbie MARGOT ROBBIE / Barbie THE COLOR PURPLE HALLE BAILEY / Young Nettie FANTASIA BARRINO / Celie JON BATISTE / Grady DANIELLE BROOKS / Sofia CIARA / Nettie COLMAN DOMINGO / Mister AUNJANUE ELLIS-TAYLOR / Mama LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. / Ol' Mister COREY HAWKINS / Harpo TARAJI P. HENSON / Shug Avery PHYLICIA PEARL MPASI / Young Celie GABRIELLA WILSON "H.E.R." / Squeak KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON TANTOO CARDINAL / Lizzie Q ROBERT DE NIRO / William Hale LEONARDO DICAPRIO / Ernest Burkhart BRENDAN FRASER / W.S. Hamilton LILY GLADSTONE / Mollie Burkhart JOHN LITHGOW / Prosecutor Peter Leaward JESSE PLEMONS / Tom White OPPENHEIMER CASEY AFFLECK / Boris Pash EMILY BLUNT / Kitty Oppenheimer KENNETH BRANAGH / Niels Bohr MATT DAMON / Leslie Groves ROBERT DOWNEY JR. / Lewis Strauss JOSH HARTNETT / Ernest Lawrence RAMI MALEK / David Hill CILLIAN MURPHY / J. Robert Oppenheimer FLORENCE PUGH / Jean Tatlock The Television Program Nominees are: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series MATT BOMER / Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller - "FELLOW TRAVELERS" JON HAMM / Roy Tillman - "FARGO" DAVID OYELOWO / Bass Reeves - "LAWMEN: BASS REEVES" TONY SHALHOUB / Adrian Monk - "MR. MONK'S LAST CASE: A MONK MOVIE" STEVEN YEUN / Danny Cho - "BEEF" Read the full article

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Friday Releases for December 1

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for December 1 include Godzilla Minus One, Silent Night, SteamWorld Build, and more.

Godzilla Minus One

Godzilla Minus One, the new movie from Takashi Yamazaki, is out today.

In postwar Japan, a new terror rises; Godzilla. Will the devastated people be able to survive… let alone fight back?

Silent Night

Silent Night, the new movie from John Woo, is out today.

From legendary director John Woo and the producer of John Wick comes this gritty revenge tale of a tormented father (Joel Kinnaman) who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son’s death.

Candy Cane Lane

Candy Cane Lane, the new movie from Reginald Hudlin, is out today.

Eddie Murphy stars in this holiday comedy adventure about a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest. After Chris (Eddie Murphy) inadvertently makes a deal with a mischievous elf named Pepper (Jillian Bell) to better his chances of winning, she casts a magic spell that brings the 12 Days of Christmas to life and wreaks havoc on the whole town. At the risk of ruining the holidays for his family, Chris, his wife Carol (Tracee Ellis Ross), and their three children must race against the clock to break Pepper’s spell, battle deviously magical characters and save Christmas for everyone.

How I Learned To Fly

How I Learned To Fly, the new movie from Simon Steuri, is out today.

Two African-American teenage boys are suddenly and mysteriously abandoned by their parents. The two have to learn how to survive on their own. From this desertion, comes an experience of beauty, meaning and enduring love.

How The Gringo Stole Christmas

How The Gringo Stole Christmas, the new movie from Angel Gracia, is out today.

George Lopez stars as Bennie, eagerly anticipating the arrival of his daughter Claudia (Emily Tosta) at his Mexican-Hispanic-American-Chicano Christmas party in East L.A. But Bennie gets a heart attack of a surprise when Claudia appears from New York with her new boyfriend, Leif (Jack Kilmer) — an uninvited gringo. As cultures clash, Bennie’s holiday party becomes a dysfunctional family Christmas to remember!

La Syndicaliste

La Syndicaliste, the new movie from Jean-Paul Salomé, is out today.

An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the influential head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. A deft navigator of elite political and financial circles, Maureen becomes a whistleblower when she discovers international backroom dealings, exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector. Fighting against government ministers and industry leaders, Maureen worked tirelessly to bring the scandal to light and defend thousands of jobs until she was violently sexually assaulted in her own home, seemingly targeted for her attempts to reveal the truth. As her attack is investigated, new elements create doubt in the minds of detectives and lawyers, and they begin to see Maureen not as a victim, but as a suspect. Surrounded by powerful enemies and unable to trust anyone, Maureen must fight to clear her name.

May December

May December, the new movie from Todd Haynes, is out today.

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

The Sweet East

The Sweet East, the new movie from Sean Price Williams, is out today.

THE SWEET EAST is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured road trip in search of America. Along the way, she falls in with a variety of strange factions, each living out their own alternative realities in our present day.

Sweet Home S2

The second season of Sweet Home, the TV series from Eung-bok Lee, is out today.

The stakes are higher than ever as the line between monster and human begins to blur. Can Hyun-su and the other survivors fight to stay alive?

SteamWorld Build

SteamWorld Build, the new game from The Station and Thunderful Publishing, is out today.

Break ground on a new frontier as the planet dies around you! Dig deep and build wide to excavate long-lost spacefaring technology, while ensuring everyone has the vital water, fuel and creature comforts they need! Do you have what it takes to reach the final frontier?

Rogue Masters

Rogue Masters, the new game from Advance Garde and Main Leaf, is out today.

Rogue Masters is a 6 player co-op horde survival game with souls-like combat and extensive character customization where you fight Entropy in long-lost civilizations.

Conductor Machine

Conductor Machine, the new album from Conway the Machine and Conductor Williams, is out today.

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Eddie Murphy seeks to restore the Christmas spirit in this amusing trailer for Candy Cane Lane.

For the first time since their 1992 blockbuster, Boomerang, director Reginald Hudlin, Murphy, and producer Brian Grazer return for the film. This festive comic adventure stars Eddie Murphy as a man on a mission to win his neighborhood's annual Christmas home decorating contest. Candy Cane Lane's trailer was released on Wednesday.

Chris (Eddie Murphy) unwittingly makes a bargain with a mischievous elf named Pepper (Jillian Bell) to improve his chances of winning, and she performs a magical spell that brings the 12 Days of Christmas to life, wreaking havoc on the entire town. Chris, his wife Carol (Tracee Ellis Ross), and their three children must race against the time to break Pepper's influence, battle deviously magical figures, and save Christmas for everyone. The picture is produced by Brian Grazer, p.g.a., Eddie Murphy, Karen Lunder, p.g.a., Charisse Hewitt-Webster, and Doug Merrifield, and directed by Reginald Hudlin and written by Kelly Younger. The film will be available on Prime Video on December 1, 2023, and will star Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, Robin Thede, Chris Redd, Genneya Walton, Madison Thomas, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Lombardo Boyar, D.C. Young Fly, Danielle Pinnock, Timothy Simons, Riki Lindhome, and Stephen Tobolowsky.

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Candy Cane Lane Teaser Trailer

Chris wants to win his neighborhood's Christmas home decoration contest. Naturally, he makes a deal with a mischievous elf named Pepper to better his chances as winning. Pepper "casts a magic spell that brings the 12 Days of Christmas to life and wreaks havoc on the whole town. At the risk of ruining the holidays for his family, Chris, his wife Carol, and their three children must race against the clock to break Pepper’s spell, battle deviously magical characters and save Christmas for everyone." (Prime Video)

Candy Cane Lane stars Eddie Murphy, Jillian Bell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Genneya Walton, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, Robin Thede, Chris Redd, Madison Thomas, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Lombardo Boyar, D.C. Young Fly, Danielle Pinnock, Timothy Simons, Riki Lindhome, and Stephen Tobolowsky. Reginald Hudlin directs from a screenplay by Kelly Younger

Candy Cane Lane hits Prime Video on December 1, 2023.

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I think i understand the rubi rose hype now that she’s older. I’m only a few years older but she always looked mad young to me. Age really suits certain people. Like Tracee Ellis Ross. She was aight until she got a lot older

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Jacob Tremblay Stars Alongside Bel Powley and Tracee Ellis Ross in Cold Copy

Jacob Tremblay Stars Alongside Bel Powley and Tracee Ellis Ross in Cold Copy

Jacob Tremblay has just wrapped filming on a new movie. The actor has joined Bel Powley and Tracee Ellis Ross in the new thriller, Cold Copy. The film tells the story of a young broadcast journalism student trying to win the approval of her influential mentor who pushes her to reconsider the meaning of truth if it means success. Are you guys excited for Tremblay’s new role?

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