Ralph Lauren draws A-list Hollywood crowd for sumptuous show
Designer Ralph Lauren went big for his first Los Angeles fashion show, staging a sumptuous display of his well-honed ethos of casual luxury, with strong Western accents like cowboy hats and boots, against a setting sun at the grand Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, near Los Angeles.
Aronofsky, Iรฑarritu films set for Venice Film Festival
Darren Aronofskyโs โThe Whale,โ the Marilyn Monroe drama โBlonde,โ Alejandro Gonzรกlez Iรฑรกrrituโs โBardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truthsโ and Guadagninoโs โBones and All,โ with Timothรฉe Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this fall.
New this week: Arcade Fire, 'Hatching,' Three Mile Island
This weekโs new entertainment releases include a new album from Arcade Fire, a documentary about Sheryl Crow that's described as an โintimate story of song and sacrificeโ and a four-part documentary about the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.
Even more chaotic than usual, Globes still had their moments
(NBC via AP)In the opening moments of a Golden Globes night even more chaotic and confounding than usual, co-host Tina Fey raised a theoretical question: โCould this whole night have been an email?โ Only the next three hours would tell. Or Chloรฉ Zhao, making history as the first woman of Asian descent to win best director (and the first woman since 1984.) AdOf course, there were the usual confounding results and baffling snubs, compounded here by some epic Zoom fails. ZHAO MAKES HISTORYWhen Zhao won best director for her haunting and elegant โNomadland,โ she was the first woman of Asian descent to win that award. It was updated on March 3, 2021, to correct the nationality of director of โNomadland.โ Chloe Zhao is Chinese, not Asian American.
In a win for the world, โParasiteโ takes best picture Oscar
LOS ANGELES โ Subtitle this: โParasiteโ is the first non-English language film to win best picture in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards. Bong Joon Hoโs masterfully devious class satire took Hollywoodโs top prize at the Oscars on Sunday night, along with awards for best director, best international film and best screenplay. In winning best adapted screenplay for his Nazi satire โJojo Rabbit,โ the New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi became the first indigenous director ever to win an Oscar. โJokerโ composer Hildur Gudnadottir became only the third woman to ever win best original score. After a year in which women made significant gains behind the camera, no female directors were nominated for best director.
Dern wins supporting actress Oscar for 'Marriage Story'
Laura Dern accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "Marriage Story" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)LOS ANGELES, Calif. โ Laura Dernโs turn as a steely divorce attorney in โMarriage Storyโ made the case with Oscar jurors, who completed her awards season sweep by awarding her the best supporting actress trophy. Dernโs win Sunday came nearly three decades after her first Academy Award nomination, a lead actress bid in 1992 for โRambling Rose.โ She received a supporting actress nod in 2015 for โWild,โ and has earned Emmys and a wealth of criticsโ honors over the years. I say if youโre really blessed, you get them as your parents,โ an emotional Dern said in accepting the trophy. Dern comes from a pedigreed Hollywood family: father Bruce is a two-time Oscar nominee (โComing Home,โ โNebraskaโ), and Ladd played her mom in โRambling Roseโ and earned her own Oscar nomination, for supporting actress.
'Parasite' wins at SAG Awards, so do Pitt and Aniston
The 26th Annual SAG Awards will held on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020 in Los Angeles. The best ensemble win for โParasiteโ came over the starry epics โOnce Upon a Time ... in Hollywoodโ and โThe Irishman.โ It was a surprise but only to a degree. Yet until the SAG Awards, the many honors for โParasiteโ have seldom included awards for its actors, none of whom were nominated for an Oscar. Before the win for โParasite,โ the SAG Awards were most notable as a reunion for Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. After she got off stage, they warmly congratulated each other on their first individual SAG Awards.