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Hilary Swank is reflecting on her Boys Don’t Cry role again and voicing her hope that a trans actor would get her role if they movie were made today.

Manchester City have reached the FA Cup final for a second consecutive season and for the third time in six years.

Jimmy Kimmel is getting candid about his Oscars future!

Hilary Swank has reflected on her role in Boys Don’t Cry two decades ago, saying changing awareness means she wouldn’t take the part today.

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Pep Guardiola will have to make the most of all his managerial brilliance as Manchester City prepare to take on Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-finals.

BAFTA has confirmed that the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards will be held on Sunday 16 February, 2025.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer End of an era, end of a business model, end of a gravy train, end of the world. There were plenty of mixed emotions this week in response to the closure of Oscar-winning production company Participant, and at the very least the industry has agreed something has come to an end.

So many stars watched Louis Vuitton‘s latest designs walk the runway on Thursday (April 18) in Shanghai, China.

prepare to embody Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and to keep her project alive, Oscar winners and look poised to play two other silver screen icons in their very own sweeping biopic: crooner and his second wife, Hollywood bombshell Ava Gardner, in a new drama from Martin Scorsese, no less.Lawrence and DiCaprio—who previously costarred in a very different awards contender, playing cranky astronomers in Adam McKay’s 2021 satire Don’t Look Up—are attached to the new film, per , though its future is still uncertain. (Sinatra’s daughter Tina, who controls her father’s estate, has reportedly yet to give her blessing to the forthcoming release.)It should, however, get greenlit, as there’s no shortage of material that’s ripe for retelling: Gardner, known for being impossibly glamorous, free-spirited, brash, and outspoken, had previously been married to Mickey Rooney and then Artie Shaw, before tying the knot with her third husband.

The Directors Guild of America said Thursday that it will hold its 77th annual DGA Awards on February 8, 2025 at the Beverly Hilton.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Stephen Colbert stood up for Jimmy Kimmel following Donald Trump‘s latest social media outburst over the Oscars, where host Kimmel dissed Trump live on stage by reading the former president’s criticism of the ceremony and saying: “Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still — isn’t it past your jail time?” In an April 17 post on Truth Social, Trump slammed “stupid Jimmy Kimmel” and called him a “horrendous” host. Trump also blamed Kimmel for the show’s “big ratings drop.” “You keep my friend Jimmy Kimmel’s name out of your weird little wet mouth, OK?” Colbert fired back during “The Late Show.” “I’m mad.

Donald Trump has been mocked for confusing presenter Jimmy Kimmel with Al Pacino.Earlier this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the chat show host took a brand-new jab at the former president by jokingly describing the alleged hush money paid to adult star Stormy Daniels as a “legal expense”.Trump quickly took to social media to fire back at Kimmel, but in the process of doing so, managed to confuse the Oscars host with acting legend Al Pacino in an error-filled rant.“Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, ‘Picture of the Year’,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.He continued: “It was a CLASSIC CHOKE, one of the biggest ever in show business, and to top it off, he forgot to say the famous and mandatory line, ‘AND THE WINNER IS’. Instead he stammered around as he opened the envelope.

Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t planning to host the Oscars next year. But now he might.

Stephen Colbert is standing up to Donald Trump and defending Jimmy Kimmel after the former POTUS attacked this year’s Oscars host.

Selome Hailu “Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden” reached 5.7 million viewers on Sunday night. Calculated from Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on CBS and live streaming via Paramount+, this makes the Joel concert the fourth-most-watched special of 2024, ranking only behind the Oscars (19.5 million viewers on ABC), the Grammys (16.9 million viewers on CBS) and the Golden Globes (9.4 million viewers on CBS).

The Oscars took place more than a month ago, but former President Donald Trump continues to grouse about its host, Jimmy Kimmel.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Donald Trump is keeping his Oscars feud with Jimmy Kimmel alive with a new post on Truth Social in which the former president once again slammed Kimmel for being a “horrendous” Academy Awards host. Trump then mixed up Kimmel with this year’s best picture presenter, Al Pacino.

Alex Ritman Jessie Buckley has lent her voice to “Three Hares,” the hand-drawn animated short film from BAFTA-winning filmmaker Paloma Baez (“The House,” “Poles Apart”). The ecologically-focused film — which has now completed production — was directed and adapted by Baeza from an original story by Hanya Yanagihara, the author of “The People in the Trees,” “A Little Life,” “To Paradise,” and editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Two fans of Ana de Armas finally settled their lawsuit over the Yesterday debacle.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Participant, the 20-year-old film and television production company whose mission was to inspire social justice and humanitarian action, is shutting down. Founder Jeff Skoll broke the news to a staff of roughly 100 on Tuesday.

at the 2012 Oscars. Now, Olivia Wilde is showing us how to do a thigh-high slit the 2024 way: a little less flashy, a little more backless.Walking the red carpet to the 10th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, wore a gown from London-based brand Galvan that seemingly tied together on her left hip. The long-sleeved black crepe dress had a turtleneck and long sleeves, smartly covering much of the writer-actor-director's body, so that the empty space on the side was contrasted.

Will Smith is back as Agent J!

Refresh for latest… The elongated 2023-24 awards season wraps tonight as the WGA presents its strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards in simultaneous ceremonies on both coasts. Deadline is posting the winners live as they are revealed; see the running list below.

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt reignited the Barbenheimer battle during Gosling’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue with an epic rendition of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well,” complete with real-life Barbies and dancing Oppenheimers. Gosling kicked off his third SNL monologue with a callback to Ken, the role that nabbed him an Academy Award nomination and wild live performance at the Oscar ceremony. In a startling reveal, Gosling said he wasn’t going to make any jokes about Ken because they had to sever their relationship.

Ryan Gosling’s daughters are just as obsessed with I’m Just Ken as the rest of the world!

It’s hard to think about anyone other than Mark Harmon playing the role of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS.

Ryan Gosling is opening up about his performance of “I’m Just Ken” at the 2024 Oscars!

Ryan Gosling claims he was hesitant to take on the task of singing as his “Ken” character at the Oscars, initially giving show producers a “100% no” when asked.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Saoirse Ronan is here to stay. Surprisingly born in the Bronx before making Ireland her home, Ronan has proven to be a powerhouse of talent and one of the most influential actors of her generation. Since her screen debut at the age of 9 in the 2003 medical drama “The Clinic,” Ronan has displayed remarkable versatility and depth.