The decades-long history of the Oscars is filled with numerous records. And the acclaimed Hollywood star Cate Blanchett has also earned a place in the history of the prestigious awards with her remarkable performance in the 2004 crime drama The Aviator. Starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, she took on the role of Katharine Hepburn, a four-time Best Actress Oscar winner, who graced the silver screen for over six decades.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett in The Aviator
Based on Charles Higham’s 1993 Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, the film follows Howard Hughes, a pioneering aviator, and film producer, showcasing his rise to success, struggles with mental health, and passionate pursuits in aviation and filmmaking during the golden age of Hollywood.
Cate Blanchett’s Singular Achievement at the Oscars
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett, Martin Scorsese’s 2004 film The Aviator received critical acclaim and numerous accolades. It received 11 nominations at the 77th Academy Awards,...
Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett in The Aviator
Based on Charles Higham’s 1993 Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, the film follows Howard Hughes, a pioneering aviator, and film producer, showcasing his rise to success, struggles with mental health, and passionate pursuits in aviation and filmmaking during the golden age of Hollywood.
Cate Blanchett’s Singular Achievement at the Oscars
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett, Martin Scorsese’s 2004 film The Aviator received critical acclaim and numerous accolades. It received 11 nominations at the 77th Academy Awards,...
- 3/10/2024
- by Laxmi Rajput
- FandomWire
"Dune" brought us the pale and terrifying villains of House Harkonnen. The enormous, pale, floating Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) leads the house that stands in stark opposition to House Atreides, putting him in direct conflict with the surviving Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), who is seeking to strike back in the wake of his father's death and the fall of his family's power. Standing alongside the Baron is the savage Glossu "The Beast" Rabban (Dave Bautista), the Baron's nephew who has something to prove in "Dune: Part Two" after failing House Harkonnen in quite a humiliating fashion. That's why the Baron calls upon Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Austin Butler), another nephew who may have the ferocious, sadistic warrior's instinct required to keep Paul Atreides from becoming the revolutionary leader who threatens their stronghold in the "Dune" universe.
The role of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is on the complete other end of the spectrum from...
The role of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is on the complete other end of the spectrum from...
- 3/1/2024
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
Bradley Cooper is struggling to remember the name of the film for which he unsuccessfully auditioned in the early aughts, and Spike Lee, the director who rejected him, isn’t much help. The two men are discussing “Maestro,” Cooper’s penetrating look at the marriage of musical genius Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre (played by a note-perfect Carey Mulligan) when the conversation shifts to this first meeting. “You were so kind to me,” Cooper says. “I was losing my mind because, as a young boy growing up in Philadelphia, ‘Do the Right Thing’ messed me up in the best way.”
And though Lee didn’t hire Cooper that day, he’s become a fan of his work as well as a friend — the two bonded on the Oscar circuit when Lee was up for “BlacKkKlansman” and Cooper was promoting “A Star Is Born.” Lee thinks Cooper has outdone himself with “Maestro,...
And though Lee didn’t hire Cooper that day, he’s become a fan of his work as well as a friend — the two bonded on the Oscar circuit when Lee was up for “BlacKkKlansman” and Cooper was promoting “A Star Is Born.” Lee thinks Cooper has outdone himself with “Maestro,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Carey Mulligan, who plays composer Leonard Bernstein’s late wife Felicia Montelegre in the upcoming Netflix drama Maestro, praised Bradley Cooper’s makeup as “spectacular,” saying the 48-year-old researched and prepared extensively for the picture in all aspects, including writing, directing, and… producing.
Mulligan revealed that Cooper and his co-stars spent a week working on the characters of Lenny and Felicia in order to better understand their relationship.
Maestro marks Cooper’s second feature film as a screenwriter and director, alongside his impressive acting career. Cooper also changed his voice for the 2018 film A Star Is Born, aiming to lower his speaking voice an octave to play fictional rock star Jackson Maine.
Mulligan described Cooper’s preparation for Lenny as “astonishing.” Cooper called her in the full dialect a year before filming Maestro, a film on Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein’s lifelong romance.
Cooper used a nasal...
Mulligan revealed that Cooper and his co-stars spent a week working on the characters of Lenny and Felicia in order to better understand their relationship.
Maestro marks Cooper’s second feature film as a screenwriter and director, alongside his impressive acting career. Cooper also changed his voice for the 2018 film A Star Is Born, aiming to lower his speaking voice an octave to play fictional rock star Jackson Maine.
Mulligan described Cooper’s preparation for Lenny as “astonishing.” Cooper called her in the full dialect a year before filming Maestro, a film on Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein’s lifelong romance.
Cooper used a nasal...
- 11/18/2023
- by Purva Mudiraj
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
Timothee Chalamet is set to play Bob Dylan in the forthcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, and he took inspiration from another star who delivered an Oscar-nominated performance in a musical biopic – Austin Butler.
The 32-year-old actor brought Elvis Presley to life in Elvis before joining Timothee in Dune: Part Two.
During a recent interview, Timothee opened up what he learned from Austin‘s performance. That included hiring the same team that Austin worked with while preparing for the movie.
Read more about Timothee Chalamet’s Bob Dylan prep…
“You asked me what I’ve been doing in LA this year,” Timothee asked during an interview with GQ. “I’ve basically been working with his entire Elvis team for my Dylan prep. There’s a wonderful dialect coach named Tim Monich. Vocal coach named Eric Vetro. Movement coach named Polly Bennett.”
That was all because of Austin: “I just saw the...
The 32-year-old actor brought Elvis Presley to life in Elvis before joining Timothee in Dune: Part Two.
During a recent interview, Timothee opened up what he learned from Austin‘s performance. That included hiring the same team that Austin worked with while preparing for the movie.
Read more about Timothee Chalamet’s Bob Dylan prep…
“You asked me what I’ve been doing in LA this year,” Timothee asked during an interview with GQ. “I’ve basically been working with his entire Elvis team for my Dylan prep. There’s a wonderful dialect coach named Tim Monich. Vocal coach named Eric Vetro. Movement coach named Polly Bennett.”
That was all because of Austin: “I just saw the...
- 10/20/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Timothée Chalamet described a rallying email he received from Tom Cruise after the two star actors met.
The email came up in an interview with GQ after Chalamet revealed he was also inspired by Austin Butler’s commitment to “Dune Part Two.” Cruise also encouraged Chalament to hone his skills.
“After I met Tom Cruise, right after finishing the first ‘Dune,’ he sent me the most wonderfully inspiring email,” Chalamet said. It included a Rolodex of sorts of all the experts he might need for stunt training. A motorcycle coach. A helicopter coach. “He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you. The email was really like a war cry.”
Chalamet revealed that he saw “Top Gun: Maverick” eight times while filming “Part Two” in the summer...
The email came up in an interview with GQ after Chalamet revealed he was also inspired by Austin Butler’s commitment to “Dune Part Two.” Cruise also encouraged Chalament to hone his skills.
“After I met Tom Cruise, right after finishing the first ‘Dune,’ he sent me the most wonderfully inspiring email,” Chalamet said. It included a Rolodex of sorts of all the experts he might need for stunt training. A motorcycle coach. A helicopter coach. “He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you. The email was really like a war cry.”
Chalamet revealed that he saw “Top Gun: Maverick” eight times while filming “Part Two” in the summer...
- 10/17/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Spoiler Alert: This story discusses several major plot developments in the feature film “Red, White & Royal Blue,” currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, as well as the novel it’s based on.
Over this past weekend, certain corners of the internet were hyperventilating with excitement over the release of “Red, White & Royal Blue,” the romantic comedy about how Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), third in line to the British throne, transform from enemies to friends to lovers. As the film shot to the top of Prime Video’s Top 10 movie list, fans flooded TikTok, Twitter and Instagram with memes and reactions to the production and how it measures up to its source material, the best-selling 2019 novel by Casey McQuiston.
For director Matthew López — the Tony award-winning playwright (for “The Inheritance”), who also adapted McQuiston’s novel...
Over this past weekend, certain corners of the internet were hyperventilating with excitement over the release of “Red, White & Royal Blue,” the romantic comedy about how Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), third in line to the British throne, transform from enemies to friends to lovers. As the film shot to the top of Prime Video’s Top 10 movie list, fans flooded TikTok, Twitter and Instagram with memes and reactions to the production and how it measures up to its source material, the best-selling 2019 novel by Casey McQuiston.
For director Matthew López — the Tony award-winning playwright (for “The Inheritance”), who also adapted McQuiston’s novel...
- 8/15/2023
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Austin Butler never planned to play Elvis Presley in a movie. The "Elvis" star hadn't even been told he resembled the late Rock 'n' Roll singer until a month before he learned about director Baz Luhrmann's ambitious film - a dramatic never-before-told Presley story (which premiered on June 24) starring an ensemble cast comprised of Tom Hanks, Olivia Dejonge, Kelvin Harrison Jr. Alton Mason, and Yola. However, as fate would have it, a series of chance events eventually helped Butler land the role of a lifetime - one that landed him his first-ever Golden Globe win.
"The bizarre thing was I never had anybody say, 'You look like Elvis, you should play Elvis,' or any of that."
"It was fate," Butler previously told Popsugar. "The bizarre thing was I never had anybody say, 'You look like Elvis, you should play Elvis,' or any of that. Then [there were] two moments...
"The bizarre thing was I never had anybody say, 'You look like Elvis, you should play Elvis,' or any of that."
"It was fate," Butler previously told Popsugar. "The bizarre thing was I never had anybody say, 'You look like Elvis, you should play Elvis,' or any of that. Then [there were] two moments...
- 1/11/2023
- by Njera Perkins
- Popsugar.com
One trade secret that actors often use to prepare for biography pictures is to spend time with the person they are portraying. Leonardo DiCaprio secretly spent several days with Frank Abagnale to prepare for "Catch Me If You Can," and Tony Mendez took Ben Affleck to some old CIA hangout spots during his preparation for "Argo."
But what if the character you're playing died 140 years ago in the Wild West? That was a question Val Kilmer had to answer when he played Doc Holliday in the 1993 Western "Tombstone." In the beloved Western that helped immortalize the line "I'm your Huckleberry," Kilmer plays an ornery but well-meaning gunfighter. We called it the best performance of Val Kilmer's career.
There was plenty of literature about Doc Holliday at Kilmer's disposal but bringing a long-dead Western folk hero to life on the big screen was still a challenge. Thankfully, Kilmer had a secret...
But what if the character you're playing died 140 years ago in the Wild West? That was a question Val Kilmer had to answer when he played Doc Holliday in the 1993 Western "Tombstone." In the beloved Western that helped immortalize the line "I'm your Huckleberry," Kilmer plays an ornery but well-meaning gunfighter. We called it the best performance of Val Kilmer's career.
There was plenty of literature about Doc Holliday at Kilmer's disposal but bringing a long-dead Western folk hero to life on the big screen was still a challenge. Thankfully, Kilmer had a secret...
- 12/6/2022
- by Travis Yates
- Slash Film
When audiences think about actorly transformations, their first thoughts are often of weight lost or gained, hair grown or sheared, and mannerisms shed or adopted. But even if their silhouette doesn’t quite match a level of physical deterioration commensurate with their character’s malady, or their demeanor isn’t quite befitting of, say, an 18th century courtesan, an actor’s voice can be tremendously persuasive in convincing viewers that they are believably inhabiting a specific time or place.
“It all starts with the voice,” says Bradley Cooper, whose gruff delivery as Jackson Maine in “A Star Is Born” has earned him multiple lead actor nominations from critics groups across the globe. “That’s your way in because you can hear yourself as you’re talking, and it’s the best way to believe an imaginary circumstance.”
Actors often prepare exhaustively to learn and approximate the speaking rhythms of a specific time period,...
“It all starts with the voice,” says Bradley Cooper, whose gruff delivery as Jackson Maine in “A Star Is Born” has earned him multiple lead actor nominations from critics groups across the globe. “That’s your way in because you can hear yourself as you’re talking, and it’s the best way to believe an imaginary circumstance.”
Actors often prepare exhaustively to learn and approximate the speaking rhythms of a specific time period,...
- 1/5/2019
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
Bradley Cooper had a shot some years ago to play the tortured country rock singer, Jack, in A Star Is Born. Clint Eastwood was then attached to direct.
But being a young actor, Cooper said, “I knew, deep down, I hadn’t lived enough and wouldn’t play that character.” But then he did – he played hardened Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle in Eastwood’s American Sniper. Both Eastwood and Cooper were watching Annie Lennox perform I Put a Spell on You on TV, and Cooper was blown away by how fierce her performance was, singing with her veins throbbing in her neck.
He suggested to Eastwood that they consider A Star Is Born again. He wasn’t into it, so Cooper, who already had the beginning of the film and how it would look in his head, pitched to then-Warner Bros. production boss Greg Silverman.
But being a young actor, Cooper said, “I knew, deep down, I hadn’t lived enough and wouldn’t play that character.” But then he did – he played hardened Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle in Eastwood’s American Sniper. Both Eastwood and Cooper were watching Annie Lennox perform I Put a Spell on You on TV, and Cooper was blown away by how fierce her performance was, singing with her veins throbbing in her neck.
He suggested to Eastwood that they consider A Star Is Born again. He wasn’t into it, so Cooper, who already had the beginning of the film and how it would look in his head, pitched to then-Warner Bros. production boss Greg Silverman.
- 12/1/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
In his lengthy and varied career, Val Kilmer has played everyone from Jim Morrison to Doc Holliday to Mark Twain – in multiple projects. He’s played Moses in the lavish musical “The Ten Commandments” and voiced Kitt the car in the “Knight Rider” reboot. Along the way, he’s worked with filmmakers from Oliver Stone to Ron Howard and actors from Tom Cruise to Marlon Brando. In short, there’s no pigeonholing the actor who launched his career with broad comedies like “Top Secret!” and “Real Genius” before becoming a household name thanks to “Top Gun” – a role he’ll reprise in the upcoming sequel.
So it’s surprising to hear there’s something Kilmer hasn’t done, but that’s the case with “The Super,” which he says is his first straight-up genre thriller. Based on an idea from and produced by “Law & Order” mastermind Dick Wolf, “The Super...
So it’s surprising to hear there’s something Kilmer hasn’t done, but that’s the case with “The Super,” which he says is his first straight-up genre thriller. Based on an idea from and produced by “Law & Order” mastermind Dick Wolf, “The Super...
- 10/3/2018
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
Playing Donatella Versace in FX’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” has landed Penélope Cruz an Emmy nomination for her first-time TV role, and the experience has her ready for more time on the small screen. The Oscar winner spoke with Backstage about the challenges and thrills working on the Ryan Murphy anthology series, nailing the perfect accent, how to relinquish control as an actor, and why it’s important to never betray yourself for a role. What was the biggest challenge to playing Donatella Versace?My biggest challenge was finding her voice. I wanted to find a way of speaking that was not me and that made you think of her and her energy. I think she has a very rock and roll rhythm in the way she talks and moves. My coach, Tim Monich, helped me so much. We worked for many, many months. First...
- 8/21/2018
- backstage.com
Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut “A Star Is Born” finds the actor stepping into the lead role of Jackson Maine, a country music superstar who falls in love with the young aspiring musician (Lady Gaga) he takes under his wing. The director was adamant about fully transforming into his character, so he spent four hours each weekday with a vocal coach nailing down the perfect accent for Maine.
“I knew that I couldn’t play me as this guy — I had to change everything,” Cooper told Entertainment Weekly. “I knew I wanted to lower my speaking voice an octave. So I hired [dialect coach] Tim Monich early on — I mean, like, a year before we shot the movie. He moved to L.A. and we worked five days a week, four hours a day on exercises and lowering my voice.”
Cooper called the vocal work “brutal,” and it came at the same...
“I knew that I couldn’t play me as this guy — I had to change everything,” Cooper told Entertainment Weekly. “I knew I wanted to lower my speaking voice an octave. So I hired [dialect coach] Tim Monich early on — I mean, like, a year before we shot the movie. He moved to L.A. and we worked five days a week, four hours a day on exercises and lowering my voice.”
Cooper called the vocal work “brutal,” and it came at the same...
- 8/13/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
When Jason Clarke was tapped to play Ted Kennedy in the new drama Chappaquiddick — about the 1969 car crash that left Kennedy’s young passenger Mary Jo Kopechne dead at the bottom of a pond — the Australian actor’s first order of business was to perfect the late senator’s distinct Massachusetts drawl.
“The blessing of being an Australian is that you have to do an accent for every [role] so that actually makes you work,” he revealed to People in this week’s issue. “I picked up the phone and I called Tim Monich, who is one of the great dialect coaches of the world.
“The blessing of being an Australian is that you have to do an accent for every [role] so that actually makes you work,” he revealed to People in this week’s issue. “I picked up the phone and I called Tim Monich, who is one of the great dialect coaches of the world.
- 4/9/2018
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
Meet Patricia Dumbrowski, a.k.a. Killa P. a.k.a. White Trish, a.k.a. Marilyn Mansion. Maybe you know the plus-size young woman from suburban New Jersey by the nickname the local knuckleheads have christened her with: Dumbo. Or maybe you know her by the wannabe white-girl rapper by her stage name, Patti Cake$. In between working works dead-end jobs and tending bar in a seedy dive, the aspiring Mc writing rhymes, spits battle raps in gas station parking lots and freestyles at her own determined reflection in the bathroom mirror.
- 8/16/2017
- Rollingstone.com
In 1962, two-time Oscar winner Bette Davis was appearing on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. Though she'd hoped 1950's All About Eve would reignite her career, she hadn't been offered many great film roles since, and instead was largely relegated to television guest appearances and the theater. But one night after a performance, Joan Crawford – another Oscar-winning former leading lady considered past her prime – visited backstage to offer Davis a revolutionary part in a brand-new picture. Crawford had been in Hollywood since her teens, but now well into her fifties,...
- 3/3/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Issey Ogata‘s name is not at the top of the poster or in much of any marketing for Silence, but his role as Inoue Masashige, so very ominously nicknamed “The Inquisitor,” is among the most essential and memorable in Martin Scorsese‘s religious epic. While primarily a veteran of Asian television, Ogata still eanrs a special place among cinephiles — one that will only grow wider and stronger once this film opens — for his work in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi and Alexander Sokurov’s The Sun, the latter of which features him as Japan’s Emperor Hirohito in the final days of World War II.
Much of Silence comes to comprise the opposition between Masashige and Andrew Garfield‘s Sebastião Rodrigues, but Ogata’s performance excels largely because it’s far more difficult to parse than the character it represents — alternately comic (a major part of his acting background) and menacing,...
Much of Silence comes to comprise the opposition between Masashige and Andrew Garfield‘s Sebastião Rodrigues, but Ogata’s performance excels largely because it’s far more difficult to parse than the character it represents — alternately comic (a major part of his acting background) and menacing,...
- 12/21/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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