Sentences with phrase «dern best»

The L.A. Film Critics Assn. named Bruce Dern best actor for his performance as an elderly man who believes he's won a magazine sweepstakes in Alexander Payne's «Nebraska.»

Their mission was simple: make some dern good sheets for people to burrito themselves in at night.

Too dern good.

I know that chocolate and peanut butter is like the ultimate BFF combo, but the mix of chocolate and tahini is pretty dern good too.

Not exact matches

The film will debut with its original cast, including the late Carrie Fisher, as well as introduce some new characters played by Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro and Kelly Marie Tran.

This is the key to the best dern turtle pie you have ever had in your life.

A prolific film and TV actress, Dern has been nominated for dozens of awards — including winning a Emmy in 2017 for «best supporting actress» for her role in Big Little Lies.

I was a «good little NCB» who endured 30 hours of labor, 4-1/2 hours of pushing, severe tearing (had to go in to get stitched up), a broken tailbone, AND an injured baby and still sung the praises of my midwife... I should have gotten the gold star sticker, dern it all!

Laura Dern was also at her personal best, loved the train.

These two looked so killer in neutrals - Naomi Watts never, ever ages (Andrew said «Hey Sienna Miller looks good» - ummm) and that dress with the chain neckline and back detail is so chic while Laura Dern suprised me in this drop dead (and perfectly fitting) gown.

As said, the acting is superb, especially Ruffalo and Dern, but Krause's character gets left behind big time, and the kids that are treasured so much by the characters as well as the story in general get next to no development, which isn't good when you consider the film's emotionally heavy climax.

«Enlightened» will be remembered for several reasons — for Laura Dern's funny and brave portrayal of the spiritually searching Amy, for the fact that HBO canceled it after only two (very well - reviewed) seasons — but it was also a revelation in terms of showing what Wilson can do.

NEBRASKA also loses out on a Best Ensemble nod, and, though Bruce Dern and June Squibb find themselves nominated again, it's Will Forte who loses out.

Squibb is nominated for her role as Kate Grant, wife of Best Actor nominee Bruce Dern's character in Alexander Payne's Nebraska.

Though Stiller lacks Dern's dynamic range at conveying frustration and wonder in a single sentence, he's still a fine avatar for his creator, whose appearances here are amusingly limited to aspirational magazine photos of a film director who took off and became his best self as Brad went into neutral.

As she walks, she begins to sort out the various demons she has been wrestling with, including living with an abusive alcoholic father, losing her mother (Dern, When the Game Stands Tall) to a fatal illness, as well as the details of her own personal tailspin in her relationships.

• LA Times New AMPAS president John Bailey «not as boring as you think» (FYI the media has become obsessed with Laura Dern running for this position but she actually declined the nomination) • EW First look at Jessica Chastain in Molly's Game • Awards Daily Sasha looks at the Best Actress race, wonders if it's finally Annette Bening's year.

The leading television nominee is HBO's «Big Little Lies,» with actresses Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon all competing in the best actress in a miniseries or movie.

Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern have already won well - deserved Emmys for their phenomenal performances — two that rank high on the list of the best of their remarkable careers — but this is one of those rare projects in which every actor and actress seems to be on the same page.

Laura Dern: All of Dern's pre-release buzz died when her name failed to show up anywhere in the precursors, but the Hollywood scion is beloved within the community — lest we forget, she was all over the circuit stumping for her pops Bruce Dern last year — and managed to snag the final Best Supporting Actress spot for her lovely, if brief, work in Wild.

Best Actor Christian Bale — «American Hustle» Bruce Dern — «Nebraska» Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» Chiwetel Ejiofor — «12 Years a Slave» - WINNER Tom Hanks — «Captain Phillips»

Ejiofor will be vying for Best Actor at this year's awards ceremony, facing competition from Christian Bale (American Hustle), Matthew McConaughay (Dallas Buyers Club), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf Of Wall Street) and Bruce Dern (Nebraska).

Dern has a shot for Best Supporting Actress depending on the field, and Hornby could find himself with his second Best Adapted Screenplay nomination.

Meanwhile, Feud's several nominations will pit Alfred Molina against Stanley Tucci in the supporting actor, TV movie or limited series category, while Judy Davis and Jackie Hoffman will compete against each other — as well as Laura Dern, Regina King, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead — in the corresponding supporting actress race.

The actress, 50, won Best Actress in a Limited Series for Big Little Lies; Big Little Lies — which also starred Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley and Zoe Kravitz — was one of the big winners at the Globes, also picking up awards for Best Limited Series and Best Supporting Actress for Laura Dern.

Acclaim: The series, which co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern, also won the Critics» Choice Award for Best Limited Series.

Each supporting character from Hazel's parents (Laura Dern & Sam Trammell) to Gus's best friend, Issac (Nat Wolff) all have moments to shine, but the story never loses its core focus of Hazel and Gus.

He and actress Laura Dern have two kids together as well — son Ellery and daughter Jaya.

The Nominations: Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette in «Boyhood» Laura Dern in «Wild» Keira Knightley in...

Best Picture: (tie) «Gravity» and «Her» Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, «Gravity» Runner up: Spike Jonze, «Her» Best Actor: Bruce Dern, «Nebraska» Runner up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, «12 Years a Slave» Best Actress: (tie) Cate Blanchett, «Blue Jasmine» and Adele Exarchopoulos, «Blue is the Warmest Color» Best Supporting Actor: (tie) Jared Leto, «Dallas Buyers Club,» James Franco, «Spring Breakers» Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong» o, «12 Years a Slave» Runner up: June Squibb, «Nebraska» Best Foreign Language Film: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» Runner up: «The Great Beauty» Best Animation: «Ernest & Celestine» Runner up: «The Wind Rises» Best Documentary: «Stories We Tell» Runner up: «The Act of Killing» Best Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, «Before Midnight» Runner up: Spike Jonze, «Her» Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, «Gravity» Runner up: Bruno Delbonnel, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Best Editing: Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger, «Gravity» Runner up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, «Upstream Color» Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, «Her» Runner up: Jess Gonchor, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Best Music Score: T Bone Burnett, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Runner up: Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, «Her» Douglas Edwards Independent / Experimental Film / Video Award: «Cabinets of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce»

On Tuesday, Tarantino told Deadline that Waltz never received the script (neither did Tarantino favorite Samuel L. Jackson), which he personally handed to Dern and Reservoir Dogs stars Michael Madsen and Tim Roth, as well as Django Unchained producer Reginald Hudlin and two other people.»

Adapted from Joseph C. Lincoln's best - selling novel Can»n Eri, this gentle tale of three retired sea captains living together and looking to get their house in order features an all - star cast including David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, and Mariel Hemingway.

Dern gives the performance of her career as the self - involved but variously sympathetic Amy Jellicoe, while White, Jason Mantzoukas, Sarah Burns, Dern's mother Diane Ladd (as Amy's forbearing mom), and a never - better Luke Wilson feelingly embody the cast of characters supporting the starring role Amy has fashioned for herself.

The movie's shambling, episodic structure ensures that certain sequences fare much better than others, and it's ultimately clear that Nebraska is at its best when focused on the father / son dynamic between Dern and Forte's respective characters - with the heartfelt authenticity of such moments generally compensating for the movie's various deficiencies.

White most recently co-created, wrote and directed the HBO series «Enlightened,» starring Laura Dern, and wrote the comedies «Year of the Dog,» starring Molly Shannon and John C. Reilly; «The Good Girl,» starring Jennifer Aniston; and «Nacho Libre,» starring Jack Black.

«Star Wars: The Last Jedi» is finally upon us, and with it comes a returning cast of Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and others, as well as new additions to the cast such as Kelly Marie Tran and Laura Dern.

i didn't even know this one was out there but, following a group of nothing but silver - haired types into the local multiplex (as opposed to a group of squealin skateboardin cellphonin pimplepoppers headin for «hannah montana»), i found this relic warped from the days of abc's movie - of - the - week as the old new wave (carradine, torn, and dern, their wild, capricious, potsmokin, f - ck - the - man, «we do it our way» days of the» 70's long behind them) dust off their best eastcoaster accents and entertain entertainin ms. hemingway's competent though lonely spinster.

Frank Murphy (voiced by Bill Burr) and Sue Murphy (voiced by Laura Dern) evoke the not - so - good times in the Netflix original series «F Is for Family.»

The first half of the film sets the stage (coach), with Ruth feeling out his wagonmates as well as Brit and professional executioner Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), one - time Confederate general Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern), cowpoke Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and a Mexican watching over the joint in Minnie's absence named Bob (Demian Bichir).

Gravity and Her Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity; runner - up: Spike Jonze, Her Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Nebraska; runner - up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Best...

«Nebraska» has already gained acclaim on the festival circuit, particularly for Dern's lead performance (which won Best Actor at Cannes earlier this year), but there's nothing really special about any of the acting here.

And from scene to scene, Johnson gives veteran characters (Chewbacca and R2 - D2 especially) and those who debuted in «The Force Awakens» enough screen time to showcase them at their best while also introducing compelling new faces (including a heroic maintenance worker, Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico; a serene and tough vice admiral in the Resistance, played by Laura Dern; a sort of «safecracker» character played by Benicio Del Toro).

Earlier in the night, Laura Dern took home the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Emmy.

Forte is just coming off a more dramatic role in the Best Picture nominee Nebraska, in which he more than holds his own opposite acting legend Bruce Dern.

Inbetween flashes of well earned self - pity and sarcasm, she worries about her parents (the well cast Sam Trammell and Laura Dern, who is reliably excellent) and how they'll survive her death.

Payne's film, written by fellow Nebraskan Bob Nelson, also offers a biography of its central character delivered by unusual means, in this case a mosaic compiled one piece at a time from former friends, enemies, and lovers of Woody (Best Actor winner Bruce Dern), on the road from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska with his son David (SNL alum Will Forte).

Its stars did not go home empty - handed, either: Elisabeth Moss won best actress for Handmaid's Tale, while Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, and Alexander Skarsgard were all honored in their respective categories for their work on the HBO adaptation of Liane Moriarty's best - selling novel.

Subsequent career: Well, aside from the Laura Dern - starring «Enlightened,» and leaving the perenially empty director's chair on «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» White has recently signed on to adapt «The Good Luck of Right Now» the forthcoming book from «Silver Linings Playbook» novelist Matthew Quick.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION Nominees: Laura Dern, «Big Little Lies» Ann Dowd, «The Handmaid's Tale» Chrissy Metz, «This Is Us» Michelle Pfeiffer, «The Wizard of Lies» Shailene Woodley, «Big Little Lies»

The rest of the main cast from Laura Dern's steely performance as Renata Klein to Shailene Woodley's mysterious Jane Chapman and Zoe Kravitz's ethereal Bonnie Carlson seemed so well cast and well acted in a way that depicts both that the actresses were well - cast in their roles and that they seemed really enjoy the material that they were given.