Steven Spielberg was thought to have played a part in preventing veteran actor Michael Douglas from adding another acting award to his shelf. But Douglas believed his possible snub pointed to another growing issue in the film industry.
Michael Douglas felt Steven Spielberg stopped him from getting a best actor award at Cannes Michael Douglas | Anne-christine Poujoulat/ Getty Images
Douglas was up for a best actor award for his 2013 HBO movie Behind the Candelabra. At the time, the feature was recognized for several accolades. It took home prizes from the Critics’ Choice Television Awards and the Golden Globes, where Douglas won Best Actor for a miniseries or television film. But one award that eluded Douglas that year was at the Cannes Film Festival.
Douglas wasn’t even nominated for a best actor award at 2013’s Cannes despite rumblings he was going to win. The Ant-Man actor theorized that Spielberg was...
Michael Douglas felt Steven Spielberg stopped him from getting a best actor award at Cannes Michael Douglas | Anne-christine Poujoulat/ Getty Images
Douglas was up for a best actor award for his 2013 HBO movie Behind the Candelabra. At the time, the feature was recognized for several accolades. It took home prizes from the Critics’ Choice Television Awards and the Golden Globes, where Douglas won Best Actor for a miniseries or television film. But one award that eluded Douglas that year was at the Cannes Film Festival.
Douglas wasn’t even nominated for a best actor award at 2013’s Cannes despite rumblings he was going to win. The Ant-Man actor theorized that Spielberg was...
- 6/7/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Beef is one of the best Netflix shows in recent memory. The show takes a very simple premise and expands on it to create a complex character study of two people from different backgrounds mired in their own existential crises. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong are the stars of Beef’s first season, but its showrunner Lee Sung Jin already has ideas for where the series could go with different people in the spotlight.
‘Beef’ is a darkly delicious dramedy about miserable people
Beef ignites when Danny Cho (Yeun) nearly gets in a car accident with Amy Lau (Wong) in the parking lot of a home improvement store. For reasons the characters spend most of the season trying to unpack, the situation escalates into an intense road rage incident that neither party can move on from.
Danny and Amy are living completely opposing lives. He is a struggling contractor attempting...
‘Beef’ is a darkly delicious dramedy about miserable people
Beef ignites when Danny Cho (Yeun) nearly gets in a car accident with Amy Lau (Wong) in the parking lot of a home improvement store. For reasons the characters spend most of the season trying to unpack, the situation escalates into an intense road rage incident that neither party can move on from.
Danny and Amy are living completely opposing lives. He is a struggling contractor attempting...
- 4/23/2023
- by Sam Hines
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Christopher Nolan first began receiving mainstream attention from Hollywood for his work in the 2000 feature Memento. Nolan was grateful for the recognition he received for the film, but felt actor Guy Pearce deserved similar attention.
Guy Pearce felt he embarrassed himself when he asked to be cast in ‘Memento’ Christopher Nolan | Anne-Christine Poujoulat / Getty Images
Memento was Christopher Nolan’s 2000 thriller about a man trying to piece his life back together after experiencing memory loss. It was both a commercial and critical success, which helped launch the filmmaker’s current Hollywood career. The movie featured Pearce in the lead role, who remembered being floored by the script.
“It was around July of ’99. I’d been sent the script to look at and immediately went, ‘Oh wow, this is just fantastic.’ The way in which it’s told is twisted, it’s unconventional, but it also feels very emotional. Even in...
Guy Pearce felt he embarrassed himself when he asked to be cast in ‘Memento’ Christopher Nolan | Anne-Christine Poujoulat / Getty Images
Memento was Christopher Nolan’s 2000 thriller about a man trying to piece his life back together after experiencing memory loss. It was both a commercial and critical success, which helped launch the filmmaker’s current Hollywood career. The movie featured Pearce in the lead role, who remembered being floored by the script.
“It was around July of ’99. I’d been sent the script to look at and immediately went, ‘Oh wow, this is just fantastic.’ The way in which it’s told is twisted, it’s unconventional, but it also feels very emotional. Even in...
- 3/26/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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