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...Among the film’s other awards were those for best actor and best supporting actor, given respectively to Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr....
...But, those options are dwindling, warns Georgia Medley, a London-based stylist to celebrities such as Jada Pinkett Smith and Janet Jackson, as some brands are not pouring as much money into custom looks...
...sturdy and accomplished film, it has long been runaway favourite in most high-profile categories: Best Picture, Best Director for Nolan and acting prizes expected for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr...
...Gerwig outperformed Nolan at the box office, but even a modernised Oscars still leans towards the traditional prestige picture....
...Had you asked me then if he might one day win an Oscar, I would have nodded: absolutely, yes....
...Called Visages Villages (translated as Faces Places), it won Varda her first Oscar nomination. Now he is working on a film with Robert De Niro, whom he met when he set up the New York studio in 2014....
...We re-encounter well-known episodes — the pair’s meeting on Jackson Island, close calls on the Mississippi — but the reversal of perspective is powerfully revealing....
...The 1970s were a time of dazzling success for Jackson — she won two Oscars, in 1971 for Women in Love and in 1974 for A Touch of Class, though she chose not to attend either ceremony....
...Blanchard was first introduced to Lemmons through a friend when she began searching for a composer for her 1997 directorial debut Eve’s Bayou, a gothic drama starring Samuel L Jackson....
...Harvey Guillén chose a custom Christian Siriano suit with a sweeping train (a look created with “masculine/feminine play” in mind, the designer said), while Harry Shum Jr wore a bespoke white and navy Adeam...
...All of which earned Wiseman an honorary Oscar in 2016, not exactly common for a documentary filmmaker....
...With Dodi, Al Fayed helped finance a number of films, most notably Chariots of Fire, which won Best Picture at the 1982 Oscars....
...This April, The Sympathizer becomes an HBO mini-series starring Robert Downey Jr....
...And Bob Dylan, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and, once you factor in who they inspired in turn, well, yes, “everything” is pretty much the size of it....
...Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, who makes her debut as director of the highbrow Edinburgh International Festival, looks to Martin Luther King Jr for inspiration....
...Rachman review — This week, the FT’s podcast on global affairs plays host to the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, who talks about rebranding Filipino politics and navigating tense international...
...My style icon is John F Kennedy Jr. I like his flow: a bit chic, but poetic and sporty at the same time....
...Baldwin’s popularity in recent years has been spurred on partly by social media, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro....
...He changed how Oscar campaigns were waged and launched the careers of Gwyneth Paltrow and Quentin Tarantino....
...Although the port of Le Havre, in northern France, is a modern concrete grid, at the harbour it is easy to imagine the schoolboy Oscar-Claude Monet, a short, wiry, restless child who went completely off...
...JR: There are three things. The first of them, obviously, is it’s a recognition that [Weta founder and Lord of the Rings director] Peter Jackson was a genius, when you go back nearly 30 years ago....
...Jackson is right to say that the US and UK have very different histories of race and diversity....
...Yet her rise to fame and fortune — portrayed in the film for which Sissy Spacek, playing Lynn, won an Oscar in 1981 — did not appear to have altered her since those early days....
...Its track-listing opens with her tender rendition of Oscar Brown Jr’s “Brown Baby” (also memorably covered by Nina Simone in 1962, and enduringly resonant in the contemporary Black Lives Matter era); it...
...Of course, the Oscars red carpet isn’t just about self-expression....
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