So hard to keep up each December! But we get by with a little help from our links...
Variety we hadn't noticed this but it's true - Major studios were nearly entirely shut out of the Best Picture lineups.
TFE in case you missed it our SAG Ensemble predictions... they announce tomorrow morning
AV Club talks to 80s funny lady Terri Garr of Tootsie and Mr Mom fame
Screencrush forever undervalued Patrick Wilson just got a possibly big deal role. He'll play the villain of sorts Orm in Aquaman
Lots more after the jump including the NAACP Image Award nominations, Madonna, men's tuxes on the red carpet, and The Accused...
MTV this is cool - a What If "Best" list if you only choose from movies directed by women in 2016
Vulture wow, Ruth Negga really doesn't like doing TV interviews
Interview teenage breakthrough actor Lucas Hedges thinks he was "born to be a clown"
Variety Sebastian Stan to costar with Margot Robbie in the forthcoming Tonya Harding picture
THR Kelly Mantle of RuPaul's Drag Race fame is eligible for the Oscar under both Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress category for the same performance?!
MNPP which is hotter: Ryan or Ryan?
Go Fug Yourself That's correct. It is time for men in suits at awards show
NonFics did you know that the Golden Globes used to honor Documentary Films? What would they have nominated this year, given their celebrity-love, if they still had the category?
THR an oral history of The Accused (1988) with Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster and Sherry Lansing
EW 50 Cent is pissed that his show Power on Starz went unrecognized at the Globes
List-Mania
Billboard the NACCP announced their annual Image Award nominations. As per usual they are extremely mainstream, so even if you have a black cast in a brilliant movie with a low profile you won't make it: The Fits didn't show up this year even though the NAACP actually has an independent film category. Instead they just doubled up with more 60% of thier Best Pic category also being nominated for Indie Film, like so:
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
• "Lion" (See-Saw Films)
• "Loving" (Focus Features/Big Beach)
• "Miles Ahead" (Sony Pictures Classics)
• "Moonlight" (A24)
• "The Birth of a Nation" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Outstanding Motion Picture
• "Fences" (Paramount Pictures)
• "Hidden Figures" (20th Century Fox)
• "Loving" (Focus Features/Big Beach)
• "Moonlight" (A24)
• "The Birth of a Nation" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Such a shame. The Fits is awesome.
NYT Their annual "Great Performances" special is up with incredible photographs of Best Actress probables like Huppert, Negga, and Portman, as well as the three Chirons from Moonlight, and less expected choices like Royalty Hightower from The Fits (yay!) and Kristen Stewart (in general)
AAFCA The African American Film Critics Association split their prizes up amongst Moonlight, Hidden Figures, and Fences. Loving nabbed best actress for Ruth Negga
DFW the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association handed Moonlight Film and Director prizes today and went with all the Critics Choice favorites for acting. It's that time of year when everyone wants to start celebrating the exact same four people. It's an impulse we've never begun to understand in all our years doing this.
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MADONNA IS THE QUEEN. Madonna's "Woman of the Year" speech is an absolute must-see even if you don't like her as she speaks truth to the status quo about her extraordinary career, general sexism and the music industry's ageism. (People who think the radio will still play Beyoncé in ten years time when she's 45 or so haven't been paying attention to what always happens with female singers.) And for something lighter, Madonna on Carpool Karaoke talking about Michael Jackson, being silly, and singing