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The film opens with Laura Dern as Laura, a lawyer whose client (Jared Harris, Mad Men) is upset that his personal injury lawsuit has fallen apart.

For, Nenette exhibits the same dogged determination as Bruce Dern in the former film, as well the endearing naivete which enabled Audrey Tautou's title character's ability to touch the hearts of everyone she encountered in the latter.

The first story features Laura Dern as Laura, a lawyer troubled by a client (Jared Harris) that won't accept the fact he doesn't have a case.

But very few have done it with the gusto and honesty of Bruce Dern in «Nebraska,» the black - and - white Alexander Payne dramedy that is shaping up as one of the breakouts of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Again, an indication that a surprise fifth slot nominee was waiting in the wings as proved by the nomination for Laura Dern for her work in «Wild.»

Director Alexander Payne and screenwriter Bob Nelson's best picture nominee starts out as a dry, quirky indie comedy, with Bruce Dern playing a senile old coot named Woody who demands that his son David (Will Forte) drive him to Lincoln to pick up the sweepstakes prize he's convinced he's won.

«I just believed him,» Payne said of Dern.

«You can see Laura Dern say «pew» when she fires the gun, which she could never not do every time she shot it.»

Jaya Harper (L) and actor Laura Dern attend the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

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.

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

My predictions for awards: Palme d'Or: Le passé Grand Prize of the Jury: La grande bellezza Jury Prize: Inside Llewyn Davis Best Actor: Bruce Dern Best Actress: Adèle Exarchopoulos & Léa Seydoux Best Director: Amat Escalante Best Screenplay: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen

Tilda Swinton got into the Best Supporting Actress category for «Snowpiercer,» while Laura Dern didn't for «Wild.»

Even recent Oscar nominee Laura Dern makes the most out of her thankless «concerned mom» archetype, mixing meek gratitude with welcome fits of resolve.

I really hope that Bruce Dern wins for «Nebraska» because I thought he was just amazing.

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 on Sunday.

Next Bruce Dern Slideshow: W's Golden Globes Party 2014 - Los Angeles California United States - Thursday 9th January 2014

It stars Bruce Dern who won Best Actor for his performance at the Cannes International Film Festival and Saturday Night Live alum Will Forte.

Rated PG - 13 Opens: June 6, 2014 Studio: 20th Century Fox Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Willem Dafoe, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern Directed by: Josh Boone

Previously, Laura Dern told The L.A. Times that Finn - Poe would «be the most beautiful couple ever» and that there is plenty of room for more LGBTQ community representation in the franchise.

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.

Actress Laura Dern arrives at the 28th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards Gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center on January 2, 2017 in Palm Springs, California.

Laura Dern looked like a goddess as she stepped out wearing a Calvin Klein By Appointment.

How social media turn teens into «friends without benefits»; A.O. Scott suggests some reasons why the centuries - old «conversation about race» keeps surprising everyone and not really leading where it should; Bruce Dern gets the best part of his 77 - year life.

Given her take on acting careers, 2017 is shaping up to be quite the tsunami, with Dern appearing in sitcoms, critically acclaimed prestige dramas, Sundance indies, a highly anticipated TV revival, and one of the biggest blockbuster franchises in Hollywood history.

The grizzled Woody, his long white hair as messy as every other part of his life, is played by Bruce Dern without any sops to the audience.

Laura Dern presented Breakout Performance by an Actress to her on - screen daughter from The Fault In Our Stars, Shaleine Woodley, who told the audience about the lessons she learned from her character, Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager with terminal cancer.

Dern worked with Roger Corman and Elia Kazan, a set ofaccomplishments that help describe the breadth of his career.

HBO also nabbed distribution for her latest drama, «The Tale,» where Dern plays a woman forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship.

The quick turnaround is not what Dern needs though.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: PG Director: Joe Johnston Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern Plot: Based on true events, in the 1950's a coal miner's son is obsessed with the launching of Sputnik 1.

He's repped by WME, Abrams Entertainment and attorney Warren Dern.

Using her character to describe a past culture in which people were afraid to speak out, Dern urged Hollywood to support and employ survivors brave enough to come forward.

The two women spent at least 10 minutes backstage together chatting and preparing for their moment onstage, during which Dern gave Gerwig a bit of a pep - talk.

«Big Little Lies» co-star Laura Dern shares her experience working with Jonathan Demme on HBO's cult hit comedy «Enlightened.»

Bruce Dern always has a good Elia Kazan anecdote to share.

** / **** Image A Sound A Extras C - starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern written and directed by Quentin Tarantino

Actors Don Cheadle, Anna Kendrick and Laura Dern called out the nominees at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel on Monday afternoon.

bruce dern By Beverly Walker A cherished character actor explains how he got from there to here and what he did in Nebraska

Bruce Dern tries hard as a tourist guide who wants to turn director, flogging surefire scripts about a white shark terrorizing a New England resort town, a little girl possessed by the Devil, and so forth, but manages at best to look like an innocent victim of the screenplay and direction.

Musician Ben Harper has filed for divorce from actress Laura Dern after five years of marriage, acco...

Photographs of actress Laura Dern holding hands and kissing retired NBA star Baron Davis have sent the Twittersphere into a meltdown.

Wonderful performances from every single member of the cast with Bruce Dern just outstanding.