Oscars
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‘Ben Is Back’ Writer-Director Peter Hedges on Why the Drug Addiction Drama Hits Close to Home
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I started exploring why heroin and opioids were impacting so many many people I love,” Hedges says
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Why ‘Vice’ Director Adam McKay Doesn’t Think Dick Cheney Shouldn’t Be Compared to Donald Trump
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Dick Cheney really understands the system, and I get the feeling that the people in the White House now aren’t interested in government,” the writer-director says
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Yes, ‘On the Basis of Sex’ Screenwriter Wrote Those Love Scenes About His Aunt Ruth Bader Ginsburg
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I was not on the set that day, which was not an accident,” Daniel Stiepleman says
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Zoe Kazan on Her Wildly Productive 2018: 2 Movies and a Baby
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Zoe Kazan wrote and produced “Wildlife” and starred in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” — but that was just the start of her eventful 2018
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‘Private Life’ Star Kathryn Hahn on Her Onscreen Chemistry With Paul Giamatti: ‘A Soupy Mystery’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s hard to even talk about our process, but I didn’t have to look anywhere but into his eyeballs,” actress says of her work with her co-star
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Why ‘Leave No Trace’ Breakout Star Thomasin McKenzie Isn’t Gunning for a Marvel Movie Anytime Soon
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I was really attracted to the fact that there weren’t any villains or antagonists or bad guys,” the 18-year old New Zealand-born actress says
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‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Star Willem Dafoe on Learning to Paint to Play Vincent van Gogh
Oscar magazine: “When you see someone painting in the movie, it’s me,” says actor
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‘Buster Scruggs’ Star Tim Blake Nelson on How James Franco Taught Him the Secret to Acting
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “There was a coherence and a solidarity in the filmmaking that jarred me out of my complacency,” Nelson says of his work on a Franco-directed film
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How Natalie Portman’s Toxic Diva in ‘Vox Lux’ Hit Home
OscarWrap magazine: “It’s something I’ve been very interested in because of my personal experience of the separation between the public and the private,” Portman says of the film’s theme
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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Director Barry Jenkins on Why Showing Vulnerability Is ‘a Sign of Strength’
OscarWrap magazine: “I had to get past some of my own hang-ups about what it means to be vulnerable,” star KiKi Layne says
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Fake Teeth, Crash Diets and High Notes: How Rami Malek Nailed Freddie Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
OscarWrap magazine: Rami Malek was surprised to be asked to play Freddie Mercury, but it turns out that the guy from “Mr. Robot” makes a pretty convincing rock ‘n’ roll icon
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Will ‘The Walking Dead’ Alum Steven Yeun Help Land South Korea’s First Oscar Nod for ‘Burning’?
OscarWrap Magazine: Lee Chang-dong’s quietly menacing drama about rage may snap the Asian nation’s cold snap with the Academy
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How Alfonso Cuarón Brought His Memories to Life in ‘Roma’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “You don’t choose projects, they choose you — it becomes a need, and you go for it,” the director says
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10 Things We Learned at the Oscars’ 10th Governors Awards
The honorees were Cicely Tyson, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, Lalo Schifrin and Marvin Levy – but there was more going on than just awards
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Sorry, Oscar Documentary Voters: Your Workload Just Doubled
With 77 new films just added to the list of eligible docs, 2018’s field is edging close to last year’s record total
