Tag: The Revenant
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Oscars 2020: Best Actor Predictions
In the competitive field of Best Actor contenders, Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”) contends with rising star Adam Driver as well as long overdue veterans Antonio Banderas and Joaquin Phoenix.Driver’s strong performances in “The Report” and “Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker” support his first shot at a Best Actor Oscar with Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story”…
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Quentin Tarantino Gives an Update on ‘Star Trek’: “I Don’t Think I’m Going to Direct It”
Well it turns out we may not get to see Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie after all. In December 2017, it was revealed that Tarantino had pitched an original idea for a Star Trek film to producer J.J. Abrams, and the two were officially developing that idea into a potential movie that Tarantino might direct.…
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Leonardo DiCaprio Reflects on Original Plan to Shoot ‘The Revenant’ in One Take
The making of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s 2015 survival drama “The Revenant” was an infamous nightmare, but it could have been even more challenging had the filmmaker gone through with his original plan to stage the entire movie as one take. The decision would have given Iñárritu his second consecutive one-take movie after “Birdman or (The…
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Quentin Tarantino ‘Steering Away’ From ‘Star Trek’ in Favor of Smaller Final Movie
Is Quentin Tarantino leaving “Star Trek” behind? The director has been attached to an R-rated “Star Trek” movie for well over a year now, but in a new interview with Consequence of Sound he casts some doubt on whether or not he’ll move forward as the project’s director. Tarantino is committing to his 10-film plan…
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Can Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt save Hollywood?
In an industry obsessed with franchises and superheroes, critics have suggested that Leo might be the last true film starIs Leonardo DiCaprio Hollywood’s last movie star? That was the thrust of a recent Hollywood Reporter feature, suggesting he stands alone as an actor whose name is a hallmark of a movie’s quality in itself, who…
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Top 10 Performances Ranked
With five Academy Award nominations and a win for “The Revenant,” Leonardo DiCaprio has established himself as a Hollywood icon who has stayed classy, opting for challenging roles with major auteurs including Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese — all the while chasing humanitarian issues through his prolific environmental activism. In “Once Upon a Time… in…
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Cannes Jury Says Awarding Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ the Palme d’Or Was Unanimous Decision
The 2019 Cannes Film Festival ended in historic fashion as Bong Joon-ho became the first Korean director to win the Palme d’Or. Bong took home the top prize for his dramatic thriller “Parasite.” This year’s Cannes jury sat down for a press conference after the awards ceremony and revealed the decision to award Bong the…
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Watch the 2019 Cannes Awards: Live Stream Who Won the Palme d’Or
The 2019 Cannes Film Festival comes to a close today with the official awards ceremony. This year’s Cannes jury, headed by “Birdman” and “The Revenant” Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu, will be announcing their picks for the best films and performances at the 2019 festival. Iñárritu was joined on the jury by Elle Fanning, Maimouna…
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Cannes Jury Announced: Elle Fanning, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kelly Reichardt Join Iñárritu
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu just got jury duty. The “Birdman” and “The Revenant” director has been named president of this year’s jury at Cannes, and he isn’t alone: Elle Fanning, Maimouna N’Diaye, Kelly Reichardt, Enki Bilal, Alice Rohrwacher, Robin Campillo, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Paweł Pawlikowski are all joining him.“The Cannes’ Jury is invited to see films…
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Alejandro González Iñárritu first Mexican to serve as Cannes jury president
The Birdman director will oversee prize deliberations at the film festival in May, making him the first person from his country to do soAlejandro González Iñárritu has been named president of this year’s Cannes film festival. Iñárritu, who won the best director Oscar two years running for Birdman and The Revenant, is the first Mexican…