Laura
Dern at the world premiere of Disney «A Wrinkle in Time» held at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
Laura
Dern at the 75th Annual Golden Globes Awards which took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The 25 - year - old actress — a judge alongside Last Jedi co-star Laura
Dern at the third Moet Moment Film Festival, opening Jan. 5 in West Hollywood — also twice paid tribute to Fisher on the red carpet this year.
But where Harris's novel understood its place in the bittersweet, paranoid zeitgeist, Black Sunday, with its all - star cast (Robert Shaw two years after Jaws, Bruce
Dern at his peak, Marthe Keller a year removed from Marathon Man), megalomaniacal producer Robert Evans, and blockbuster aspirations, proves to be another Star Wars - style harbinger of the impending end of what was possibly the most amazing period in film in history.
And the absence of potential category fraud will also help Laura
Dern at the end of a year in which everybody finally kind of figured out that Laura Dern rocks.
Not exact matches
Their mission was simple: make some
dern good sheets for people to burrito themselves in
at night.
Laura
Dern was also
at her personal best, loved the train.
As Dennis pack up with his son Connor (Noah Lomax) and his mom, Lynn (Laura
Dern), the Nashes find themselves stranded
at a motel, a pseudo-refugee camp for the homeless as dozens of people like them have nowhere else to go.
Writer - director Mark Pellington meditates on these questions
at length in the somber indie «Nostalgia,» a cinematic mosaic with the thematic heft to get, say, Bruce
Dern to drop by for a scene.
And in the «oh - by - the - way» category, Bruce
Dern turns in two cameos as the caretaker
at the beginning and end of the film.
Andrea Beckett, Bruce
Dern and Laura
Dern - 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held
at Sunset Tower in West Hollywood - Arrivals - Los Angeles, California, United States - Sunday 2nd March 2014 (5 Pictures)
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.
• 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.
Another underdog, but Bruce
Dern's role in Nebraska was widely - acclaimed and may see him earn
at least an Oscar nod if not a win
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).
The other six include Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a former Union officer who lives in the Wyoming mountains; Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), a cow - puncher; Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), a Brit and Red Rock's new hangman; Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a Southern renegade claiming to be the town's new Sheriff; General Sanford Smithers (Bruce
Dern), a former Confederate general; and Bob (Demian Bichir), a Mexican who's taken over innkeeper duties
at Minnie's while the eponymous owner is visiting her mother.
While pithy, the term isn't quite right: In the 45 years since her first uncredited on - screen appearance,
at age 6 in her mother's film White Lightning,
Dern has amassed one of the most consistently interesting bodies of work in Hollywood.
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.
Dern stars as a loosely fictionalized version of documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox, who must come to terms with the fact that she was abused
at age 13 by her beloved track coach and horse - riding instructor — a relationship she had convinced herself for decades was consensual and romantic.
Goggins» wonderfully - played Chris Mannix, son of a famous Southern rebel, picks away
at Warren's calm nature by reminding him of the horrible conditions he faced as a black man; later, Warren does the same with
Dern's Gen. Smithers by describing the sexual brutality he inflicted upon Smithers» son after the war.
Three - time Golden Globe ® winner and two - time Academy Award ® nominee Laura
Dern's film credits include Jurassic Park, The Master, Blue Velvet, Wild
at Heart, The Fault in Our Stars, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
OTHER CONTENDERS Shohreh Aghdashloo — The Promise Jennifer Aniston — The Yellow Birds Annette Bening — Rules Don't Apply Lily Collins — Rules Don't Apply Olivia Colman — The Lobster Judi Dench — Tulip Fever Laura
Dern — The Founder Aunjanue Ellis — The Birth of a Nation Allison Janney — Tallulah Nicole Kidman — How to Talk to Girls
at Parties Jennifer Jason Leigh — LBJ Laura Linney — Sully Rooney Mara — Lion Janelle Monáe — Hidden Figures Janelle Monáe — Moonlight Octavia Spencer — Hidden Figures Kristen Stewart — Certain Women Meg Tilly — War Machine
Bruce
Dern and Andrea Beckett attend the Oscars held
at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California.
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.
At his father's house not too long after, Teddy is confronted not just by Dad (Bruce
Dern) but a roomful of the country's top fixers and politicos, including onetime J.F.K. speechwriter Ted Sorenson (Taylor Nichols) and Robert McNamara (Clancy Brown), then president of the World Bank.
They also pick up Red Rock's cocky sheriff, Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), but when the blizzard begins to brew, the group stops halfway
at Minnie's Haberdashery, a lodge temporarily run by Bob «Marco the Mexican» (Demián Bichir) and already occupied by racist Confederate General Sandy Smithers (Bruce
Dern), genteel hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), and quiet, mysterious cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen).
Lynch soon realised that this was something he wanted to direct so Montgomery became a producer, Lynch cast Laura
Dern whom he knew from Blue Velvet and Nicholas Cage who he considers fearless in the lead roles of a wildly in love couple on the run and the result was Wild
at Heart.
Frankenheimer presents both sides of an issue — not only engendering extreme sympathy for Bruce
Dern's psychologically unstable Vietnam War veteran who, in collusion with fellow Black September member Dahlia, is planning to wipe out an entire stadium full of people
at the Super Bowl — but also critiquing American bottom - line values of the dollar: how no one would ever dream of canceling the Super Bowl even if it meant the potential death of tens of thousands.
In the case of Nebraska, while it's no journey to Mt. Doom or Battle Royale, Woody Grant (Bruce
Dern)'s mission to get to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim his prize money of one million dollars in any way possible is very much a moving story that uses actors who don't necessarily jump off the screen but are perfect fits for the narrative
at hand.
Laura
Dern stuns on the red carpet as she arrives
at the 2018 Academy Awards held
at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday (March 4) in Hollywood.
«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).
Bruce
Dern will be the recipient of the Career Achievement Award
at the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.
The eight who get stuck in a blizzard
at Minnie's Haberdashery are: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce
Dern and Demian Bichir.
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).
Bruce
Dern, currently starring in «Nebraska,» will receive the Career Achievement Award
at the 25th Palm Springs International Film Festival gala.
Shohreh Aghdashloo — The Promise * Jennifer Aniston — The Yellow Birds * Annette Bening — Rules Don't Apply * Lily Collins — Rules Don't Apply * Olivia Colman — The Lobster Laura
Dern — The Founder Aunjanue Ellis — The Birth of a Nation Elle Fanning — 20th Century Women Greta Gerwig — 20th Century Women Allison Janney — Tallulah * Nicole Kidman — How to Talk to Girls
at Parties * Jennifer Jason Leigh — LBJ Laura Linney — Sully Rooney Mara — Lion * Helen Mirren — Eye in the Sky Janelle Monáe — Hidden Figures Janelle Monáe — Moonlight Katey Sagal — Bleed For This * Octavia Spencer — Hidden Figures * Kristen Stewart — Certain Women Meg Tilly — War Machine
Bruce
Dern and June Squibb hit the carpet
at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards held
at the beach on Saturday (March 1) in Santa Monica, Calif..
Yet even Wright didn't completely know what was in store for his screening of «Wild
at Heart,» David Lynch's trippy love story with Nicolas Cage and Laura
Dern as lovers on the lam.
It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce
Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises
at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's best previous work.
Peter
Derns (Timothy Hutton) is a marketing executive
at Mrs. Appleby's cookie company who, after his assistant starts a family (and gets his hand mangled in a paper - shredder), receives a remarkably competent temp in the form of feral Kris (Lara Flynn Boyle).
Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a lonely, neurotic, and hilariously honest middle - aged, misanthropic dog lover who reunites with his estranged wife (Laura
Dern) and gets a shot
at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter he's never met.
But while the wild and wooly tales from
Dern's life are the most entertaining part of his story,
at the core of what he has to talk about is a quiet kind of redemption, a chronicle of the way he rose to an opportunity that came along decades after opportunities had become scarce.
Big Little Lies stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Kravitz, Shailene Woodley, and Laura
Dern step out in style for the Elle Women in TV celebration held
at Chateau Marmont on Saturday (January 14) in West Hollywood, Calif..
They include an infamous bounty hunter who always brings his quarry in alive (Kurt Russell); his current «client,» a foul - mouthed lady gangster (Jennifer Jason Leigh); a proud and decrepit ex-Confederate general (Bruce
Dern) searching for his lost son; a black Union officer who's also turned to the bounty hunting game (Samuel L. Jackson); a former rebel raider who claims to be the new sheriff
at the closest town (Walton Goggins); a prissy British hangman (Tim Roth); a near - silent cow puncher (Michael Madsen); and Bob (Demián Bichir), a mysterious Mexican almost completely hidden by his coat, hat and beard.
Already
at the Haberdashery are Bob the Mexican (Demian Bichir), Christoph Waltz (Tim Roth), broken - down journalling cowpoke Joe (Michael Madsen), and dotty Reb General Smithers (Bruce
Dern).
Joined by Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a squawking onetime Southern bushwhacker who claims to be Red Rock's incoming sheriff, they arrive
at Minnie's, which is occupied not by the Mexican - hating proprietress, but, suspiciously, by a bandito - type called Bob (Demián Bichir); Red Rock's English hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth, initially as suave as Christophe Waltz); soft - spoken cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), who's apparently travelling home to mom; and former Confederate general Sandy Smithers (Bruce
Dern, pictured below), who oversaw the mass execution of black Union recruits
at the 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge.
Benicio del Toro, Laura
Dern and newcomer Kelly Marie Tran have joined the cast of «Star Wars: Episode VIII,» which began principal photography this morning
at Pinewood Studios in London.
Bruce
Dern - BAFTA 2014 Awards Season Tea Party held
at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California 11-1-2014 - Los Angeles, California, United States - Sunday 12th January 2014 (3 Pictures)
Sam Rockwell, watching the awards show on a monitor as the engravers worked, cheered
at Laura
Dern's win for Big Little Lies.