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Oscars voting is about to begin. Who’s on track for a nomination?

LOS ANGELES — We're a week away from the beginning of Oscar nominations voting. Motion picture academy members presumably spent the holidays unwrapping tamales, spiking the eggnog and catching up on the movies they've missed. (Or, from what I'm hearing, watching the ones they love once again instead of doing…

Los Angeles Times

Viola Davis and Julius Tennon have a great love story. It led to one of the year's best films

LOS ANGELES — Get Viola Davis and Julius Tennon talking about how they found each other and the conversation instantly turns into one of those couples interviews you see in "When Harry Met Sally," with the husband and wife finishing each other's sentences while making sure that the details are…

Los Angeles Times

Why cinephiles aren't taking Oscar bait

The end of the year is when studios break out the big guns, but it seems moviegoers are pickier than ever

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Jennifer Lawrence responds to backlash over comments about female-led action movies

The Oscar-winning actress caused a stir online when she claimed that ‘nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie’ until she played Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Game in 2012

Evening Standard

‘It came out wrong’: Jennifer Lawrence clarifies remark about female-led action movies after backlash

Actor appeared to suggest that ‘nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie’ before ‘Hunger Games’

The Independent UK

Actress Octavia Spencer cries as she receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Actress Octavia Spencer was handed the honour of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Thursday and her co-stars Viola Davis, Allison Janney and Will Ferrell were in attendance

Daily Mirror

J-Law Walked Back Her Comments About Being The First Ever Female Action Star After Backlash

"It was my blunder and it came out wrong."

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Jennifer Lawrence says she was asked to lose weight to star in 'The Hunger Games'

Since her breakout role as Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games," Jennifer Lawrence has been outspoken about body image. But in a new conversation with Viola Davis, the "Causeway" actor shared that she was asked to lose weight for the lead role.

Los Angeles Times

Jennifer Lawrence recalls conversations about her body and weight loss on Hunger Games

‘How much weight are you going to lose?’ actors was asked

The Independent UK

Jennifer Lawrence opens up about guilt she feels as a mother: ‘Every day of being a mom, I feel awful’

The actor welcomed her first child with husband Cooke Maroney in February 2022

The Independent UK

Viola Davis recalls horror of accidentally locking her baby in the car during ‘sweltering’ heat

‘It was sweltering hot outside,’ actor said

The Independent UK

The 50 best films of 2022 in the UK

We made it! The No 1 film is here and it’s a stunning directorial debut, inarguably one of the finest cinematic moments of any year

The Guardian - UK

The best memoirs and biographies of 2022

Heartfelt memoirs from Richard E Grant and Viola Davis, childhood tales of religious dogma, and vivid insights into Agatha Christie and John Donne

The Guardian - UK

Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy honored at Governors Awards

LOS ANGELES — The motion picture academy’s Governors Awards returned to its November calendar date for the first time since 2019 on Saturday night, with Martinique-born filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, Australian director Peter Weir and songwriter Diane Warren receiving honorary Oscars, and actor Michael J. Fox delivering an emotional, 12-minute speech…

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The Guardian - UK

‘With my camera I don’t shoot, I heal’: director Euzhan Palcy receives honorary Oscar

A Dry White Season director takes lifetime achievement award, alongside Michael J Fox, Witness director Peter Weir, and songwriter Diane Warren

The Independent UK

Honorary Oscar awards celebrate Fox, Weir, Warren and Palcy

Four standing ovations in one night might seem a little over-the-top, even by Hollywood standards, but at the Governors Awards Saturday night, where Michael J

The Independent UK

New this week: Lizzo, 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Woman King'

This week’s new entertainment releases include an live posthumous album from Tom Petty, the criminal profile spinoff series “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” a documentary about the plucky Mars Rover Opportunity and a TV series that focuses on the backstage melodrama at the Chippendale’s male strip clubs

The Guardian - US

Grammy nominations 2023: Beyoncé leads race with nine

Singer has now received 88 Grammy nominations in her career, tying only with husband Jay Z as most nominated artist

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‘It’s been nearly a month and it’s still sold out’: The Woman King takes over Benin’s only cinema

The blockbuster retelling of Benin’s history of elite women warriors has transfixed audiences in the West African country. Our reporter joins the crowds

ABC News

The Woman King star Thuso Mbedu says the world is filled with great stories. People just need to care enough to invest in them

Thuso Mbedu is The Woman King's breakout star. She speaks to ABC News about her journey and why this particular story had to be told.

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The Woman King: Viola Davis and John Boyega play a fierce general and a young king in this 19th century West African epic

The Woman King stars Viola Davis as the fierce general leading an all-woman band of warriors into war in a 19th-century kingdom beset by European slavery and internal power struggles.

Daily Mirror

People's Choice Awards: The Kardashians, James Corden and Meghan Markle lead nominees

The Kardashians, James Corden's The Late Late Show and Meghan Markle's Archetypes podcast are amongst this year's full list of nominations for the 2022 People’s Choice Awards

Evening Standard

Leslie Jordan: Dolly Parton, Cardi B and Sean Hayes remember star following his death

The Emmy-winning actor died Monday at the age of 67 following a single-car crash.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The Woman King’ could not overcome the truth of the Agojie’s brutality, depravity, inhumanity

I applaud any portrayal of Black female power. But misinformation and the glorification of an unquestionable evil that romanticizes the Agojie as superheroes is unforgivable.

The Independent UK

The Woman King: Viola Davis says she thought about the man who sexually assaulted her while playing a warrior

Actor wrote in her memoir about the abuse she and her sisters suffered when they were young

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