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At the Golden Globes, Jessica Chastain received a nod for «A Most Violent Year,» while the SAG Awards selected Naomi Watts of «St. Vincent,» but Dern took the fifth slot for the Oscars nominations list.

The series created by David E. Kelley and based on the book by Liane Moriarty also scooped Best Limited Series, while Kidman's costars Alexander Skarsgard and Laura Dern took home Best Supporting Actor gongs.

HBO drama Big Little Lies was also a big winner with Nicole Kidman taking home best actress, while her co-stars Alexander Skarsgard and Laura Dern took home best supporting actor gongs.

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

Big Little Lies star Laura Dern took Mónica Ramírez, co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (the National Farmworker Women's Alliance).

Presenters Greta Gerwig and Laura Dern take the stage to give out the award for Best Documentary

Not exact matches

Synopsis: Nikki (Laura Dern), an actress, takes on a role in a new film, and because her husband (Peter J. Lucas) is very jealous, her co-star Devon (Justin... [MORE]

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.

There's a wistful air of time passed and chances lost as Payne tells of a quiet but irascible elderly man, Woody (Bruce Dern), a retired mechanic, taken on an interstate trip to his small, fading Nebraskan hometown by his patient son, David (Will Forte), who sells stereos in the suburbs.

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.

Benicio Del Toro has been confirmed to take part, while Laura Dern has joined alongside newcomer Kelly Marie Tran.

Filming on The Hateful Eight will take place entirely in Colorado starting December 8th, and in addition to the previously confirmed cast of Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Walton Goggins, and Samuel L. Jackson, The Wrap adds that Denis Minochet, James Remar, James Parks, Dana Gourrier, and Zoe Bell are expected to fill out the ensemble.

Mortgage repayments get missed and with a predatory swiftness, a real estate agent named Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) is evicting Dennis, his young boy and his mum (Laura Dern) and has legally taken possession (aided by an indifferent court system and local police) of what was once Dennis's security.

After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune.

Paramount Pictures has released a new teaser for Alexander Payne's upcoming sci - fi comedy drama Downsizing which stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Hing Chau, Laura Dern, Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris, and Maribeth Monroe; take a look below...

It isn't an accident that Certain Women's closest brush with genre — when attorney Laura's (Laura Dern) enraged client, Fuller (Jared Harris), takes a night watchman hostage — is both the film's only portrait of male indignation, and the only vignette that's deflated in near - comic anticlimax as quickly as it reaches its apex.

As well as the Netflix talk show host Handler, Maria Bello, Charlize Theron, John Legend, Jessica Williams, Mary McCormack, Kristen Stewart, Nashville's Connie Britton, Joshua Jackson, Benjamin Bratt, Laura Dern, Aisha Tyler, Laura Prepon, Jennifer Beals, and much of the cast of WGN America's Underground such as Jurnee Smollett and co-creator Misha Green took to the main drag of the SFF home base.

But he also takes some cues form a very different American master of narrative uncertainty, David Lynch, playing with ominous and surreal currents through the character of Joe Kennedy (Bruce Dern), the overbearing elderly patriarch and Mabuse-esque mastermind of the Kennedy clan.

ANAHEIM, CA — JULY 15: (L - R) Actors Gwendoline Christie, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Director Rian Johnson, actors Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern and Benicio del Toro of (STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI took part today in the Walt Disney Studios live action presentation at Disney's D23 EXPO 2017 in Anaheim, Calif..

Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor in a Leading Role, a category shared with Christian Bale (American Hustle), Bruce Dern (Nebraska), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), while his co-star Jared Leto took home Best Actor in a Supporting Role, beating out Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), Bradley Cooper (American Hustle), Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) and Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street).

Nicole Kidman continued her run of awards season success when she beat her co-stars Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon, along with «Feud: Bette and Joan» stars Jessice Lange and Susan Sarandon to pick up Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series, while her «Big Little Lies» on - screen husband, Alexander Skarsgard took the award in the male category.

On take 12, an exasperated Nicholson and Dern turned to their filmmaker and asked what he wanted exactly?

What I also love is that they keep an eye open for veterans like Robert Redford and Bruce Dern who continue to take risks and seek out challenging, different material.»

Poe is at odds with the acting commander Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern), who has taken over due to Leia being hospitalized from the prior First Order attack.

When the Game Stands Tall Director: Thomas Carter Starring: Jim Caviezel, Alexander Ludwig, Michael Chiklis, Laura Dern Synopsis: The journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151 - game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.

One of American cinema's finest character actors, Dern, whose career took off in the Seventies, proved too eccentric, too unconventional to work as a mainstream leading man in commercial fare, but here he's wonderfully worthy of this auspicious lineage.

Skarsgård's Big Little Lies co-star Laura Dern also took home her second big win of the season, winning Best Supporting Actress in a limited series following her victory in the same category at the Globes

«Star Wars: The Last Jedi» Release Date: Dec. 15 Director: Rian Johnson Starring: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaacs, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Domhnall Gleason, Carrie Fisher, Gwendoline Christie, Benicio Del Toro, Laura Dern, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong» o, Peter Mayhew and Anthony Daniels Synopsis: Having taken her first steps into a larger world in «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» (2015), Rey continues her epic journey with Finn, Poe and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the saga.

This economic uncertainty is translated into the quest of Bruce Dern's character Woody, a fragile elderly man who is determined to take what he believes is a winning lottery ticket all the way to Nebraska.

Laura Dern at the 75th Annual Golden Globes Awards which took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Tom Hanks got bumped from the Best Actor in a Leading Role category with Christina Bale, Bruce Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew McConaughey taking the nods while Hanks» «Saving Mr. Banks» co-star, Emma Thompson, lost the Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination to Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep.

We've finally gotten a Star Wars film with an auteur's tenor (and Johnson's use of red really resonates), and not only that but The Last Jedi hosts a bevy of badass women being smart, solving problems, kicking ass, and taking names (the aforementioned Ridley is joined by the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Laura Dern Lupita Nyong» o, Kelly Marie Tran, and a stunning final bow from Carrie Fisher each memorably offset the testosterone).

With so many big and showy performances this year Dern probably won't take home an award.

Dern is one of the few actors working today who can say things like «I began awhile ago with Mr. Kazan» and have it be taken totally seriously.

What easily could have been the grumpy old man, Dern's portrayal of Oswald shows a man who loves his grandson, wants to see him succeed and take advantage of his senior status.

A lonely octogenarian (Bruce Dern) prepares for death by taking inventory of his possessions; a distraught widow (Ellen Burstyn) salvages keepsakes from her burned - out home.

The black - and - white film focuses on a trip that David Grant (Will Forte) takes with his doddering, crusty father Woody (Bruce Dern) to Woody's childhood hometown in rural Nebraska after Woody is convinced he's won money in a junk - mail sweepstakes.

With the shuffle (injuries from his endurance - running hobby have taken their tolls) and the vocalizations of the character he plays, Dern radiated experience, as well as film history, the kind that a certain type of Oscar voter will doubtless adore.

While there are many gripping moments in the subtle black - and - white comedy, the most touching comes just before the credits roll as Dern's character takes one last joy ride through his hometown and catches the eye of a former flame that burnt out a long, long time ago.

Bruce Dern, even though he has canny - actor - in - a-calculated-putdown-role stamped all over him, gets at a lot of the despair «Big Bob» feels even as he strives to stay unaware of it, and in one long - take, traffic - noisy reminiscence in a parking lot — about a date he almost had with Liz Taylor the night she ran off to marry Nicky Hilton — he nails down that sense of Life's Big Moment Missed that Ivan Passer and Carroll O'Connor strove for so conspicuously and so unsuccessfully in Law and Disorder.

Lawyer Laura (Laura Dern) has to intervene when a disgruntled client of hers takes a hostage.

Little is known about what role Dern, the 49 - year - old Oscar nominee and David Lynch regular, might be taking.

As an actress, you can't take your eyes off her — with her tall, slender figure, long blond hair, and halting, husky voice, she recalls the young Laura Dern, but with a faint sadness that suggests she's seen the worst in people, and maybe in herself.

On television, he's recently taken on guest roles opposite Laura Dern on Enlightened and Zooey Deschanel on New Girl, and in film, he's starred with Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz in My Best Friend's Wedding and Bridget Fonda in Point of No Return.

Not only did they both outgross the likes of youth - skewing «Spring Breakers» and «The Spectacular Now,» they also outpaced the vehicles for similarly aged men Robert Redford and Bruce Dern, whose «All Is Lost» and «Nebraska» have both taken in about $ 6 million so far.

When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces: Bob (Demian Bichir), who's taking care of Minnie's while she's visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow - puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern).

As the lunch wound down, Academy governor Laura Dern began to announce all 170 nominees» names, and they filed onto risers for the taking of the class photo, Varda cutout and all.

Woody (Bruce Dern) and his son David (Will Forte) take a break from their road trip to Lincoln to stop at Mount Rushmore.