The Hollywood Reporter Awards Special
‘IF YOU GET IT WRONG, PEOPLE POUNCE’
From left: John Wells, Tracey Wigfield, Paul W. Downs, Mindy Kaling, Liz Meriwether, Stephen Graham and Brett Goldstein gathered for a THR Roundtable to talk about a profession that comes with much peril.
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“To be in the company of so many performers I grew up watching and admiring … in my mind, I was like, ‘This should be illegal.’ ”
Saturday Night Live’s Ego Nwodim, on the show’s 50th anniversary season
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“GREAT NARRATION MEANS GETTING OUT OF THE WAY.”
Liev Schreiber’s Emmy nomination for narrating the NFL-focused HBO doc series Hard Knocks, on which he’s been the Voice of God for more than two decades, comes as a surprise: “I do feel like the voice should disappear into your conscience, so the idea...
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“There’s something so liberating about playing a character who literally doesn’t give a fuck about anything, at least on the surface.”
WHEN THE TRAILER FOR the Netflix limited series Sirens dropped, a viewer commented, “This is the third show I’ve seen where Meghann Fahy is losing her mind on a beach but looking great while at it.” That lavish coastal settings and excessive wealth is...
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It’s Hamm(er) Time!
Jon Hamm, best known for his iconic character Don Draper on Mad Men, reflects on the roller-coaster decade that led him to Apple TV+’s Your Friends & Neighbors and Paramount+’s Landman.
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“I’ve always been a person who does one thing: what I want to do. And I’m going to do it all the way.”
Niecy Nash-Betts was almost exclusively known for punchlines before she called a meeting at her agency, a reintroduction, as she puts it, to set her career on a different course. “All I was ever doing was comedy,” says the Grotesquerie actress. “So I...
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BRING ME THE HEAD OF EDDIE REDMAYNE
Prosthetics designer Richard Martin added a bald cap, full forehead, cheeks, neck (both front and back), nose, lips, earlobes and a full wig to turn the British actor into a disheveled janitor at the start of Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal. “If you...
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ONCE UPON A TIME THEY DRESSED SO FINE
For James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, Oscar-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips created 67 wardrobe changes for Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and gave Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo the look of a “post-beatnik New York cool girl.”
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‘EVEN IN THE DARKEST PLACES, THERE IS HOPE’
Denmark’s The Girl With the Needle, Oscar-nominated for best international feature, was inspired by a real-life serial killer in the 1910s. But at its core, the film, says writer-director Magnus von Horn, is about a woman who refuses to “accept the...
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‘I LOVE THE IDEA THAT MUSIC IS DESIGNED TO BE HEALING’
On the THR Songwriter Roundtable (from left), Andrew Watt, Andra Day, Robbie Williams, Camille, and Andrew Wyatt got together to dish about their Oscar-worthy tunes, collaborating with Quincy Jones, Miley Cyrus, Stevie Wonder and Elton John and,...
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‘I DON’T THINK I SAW HER GETTING REJECTED’
To understand whether Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anora, starring Mikey Madison, paints a realistic picture, THR asked three veteran sex workers to dissect what the audience sees: “Seventy-five percent of this world is being told no and having...
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2 CRITICS CHOICE NOMINATIONS
BEST ACTRESS ANGELINA JOLIE BEST COSTUME DESIGN MASSIMO CANTINI PARRINI
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MARIA, FULL OF CHALLENGES
Ed Lachman (seated), director of cinematography on the Maria Callas biopic from director Pablo Larraín (in orange vest), had just four hours to shoot inside one of the world’s most famous opera houses. “The most hair-raising or complicated technical...
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Behind the Screen: Earth, Water, Fire … and Ape Hair
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes visual effects supervisor Erik Winquist details the technological advances used for the third Apes film to conjure natural destruction on the screen: “A complete inferno.”
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‘ANGELINA JOLIE IS THE JEWEL. IT WAS MY JOB TO DESIGN THE JEWEL BOX’
Maria production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas required immense amounts of detail to re-create the lavish life of opera singer Maria Callas, all of it recorded in his famous script book. He says the dressing room set, pictured above, reflects her “broken...
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GETTING READY FOR THE NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME PLAYERS
For the new THR feature Ready, Set, Go, Saturday Night production designer Jess Gonchor talks about re-creating the 1975 Saturday Night Live set on a 40,000-square-foot stage in Georgia.
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Sean Baker Turns the Rom-Com on Its Head in Anora
With his fractured fairy tale about a stripper who falls for the son of a Russian oligarch, the filmmaker evokes the spirit of ’70s cinema while eliciting a star-making turn from Mikey Madison.
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A Role to ‘Really Go for the Jugular’
Jon Bernthal opens up about his second Emmy nom for The Bear and what it was like being on set with such a stacked guest cast in season two of the FX series.
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FIVE SERIES THAT TOOK IT TO THE LIMIT
From left: Baby Reindeer (starring Richard Gadd), Fargo (Juno Temple), Lessons in Chemistry (Brie Larson), Ripley (Andrew Scott) and True Detective: Night Country (Jodie Foster) are the nominees for outstanding limited or anthology series.
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THR.com Emmys Hub
The industry’s top destination for coverage of the contenders, creatives and crafts leading to the Creative Arts awards Sept. 7-8 and Emmys on Sept. 15.
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THE SUPER EIGHT
Here are your nominees for outstanding comedy series this year, clockwise from top left: Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hacks, What We Do in the Shadows, Reservation Dogs, Palm Royale and Only Murders in the Building.
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‘I Miss Being Bowed To’
Dominic West opens up about relaxing into the role of Prince Charles during the final season of The Crown and getting over the “initial urge to do an impersonation.”
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