Kidman, Nicole

Who Will Be Nominated for the Oscars? Here Are Our Projections.

Ask me about the best-actress race in an hour, and I might have an entirely different lineup for you. I feel fairly bullish on Kidman, Colman and Gaga, but there are so many feasible contenders vying for those last two spots that I keep tearing up my projections and starting anew. Hudson and Jessica Chastain […]

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SAG Award Nominations 2022: The Complete List, Snubs and Surprises

Will Smith, “King Richard” Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Cumberbatch, Garfield, Smith and Washington are all widely expected to repeat at the Oscars, setting up a real clash of the titans for the win. But it’s a big shocker to see Javier Bardem here for his spirited performance as Desi Arnaz in “Being the […]

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Golden Globes 2022: Complete List of Winners

What do the Golden Globes do after a year of scandals so severe that NBC dropped the broadcast? They tweet through it. On Sunday night, members of the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the winners of this year’s Golden Globes, but they read those names to a ballroom at the Beverly Hilton devoid of […]

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How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball

There are valuable lessons Nicole Kidman has learned each time she plays a real-life figure: How that person was misapprehended by society at the time. How that era of history is more like the present day than she realized. And, crucially, how to maintain her balance while traipsing barefoot through a vat of grapes. Recounting […]

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‘Being the Ricardos’ Review: Kiss, Fight, Rinse, Repeat

“I’m not funny,” Lucille Ball once said (LOL). “What I am is brave.” It was performative modesty of the kind that celebrities excel at. And it was true. You get the tiniest peek at how brave she could be in “Being the Ricardos,” Aaron Sorkin’s very soft look at a very bad week that Ball […]

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