Jennifer Lawrence and Brie Larson continued the fierce awards race contest by both taking
home lead actress prizes for Joy (Musical or Comedy) and Room (Drama), while Sly Stallone unexpectedly proved there's life in the old dog yet with a Best Supporting Actor win for Creed.
Not exact matches
The letter to the prime minister, signed by
actress Julie Christie, singer Sting, former defence secretary and
Home Office minister Bob Ainsworth and a collection of former chief constables and
leading lawyers, calls on Downing Street to implement «a swift and transparent review of the effectiveness of current drug policies».
The coming of age movie has picked up Best Film awards in New York and Canada with
lead actor Aide Spratt also taking
home a Best
Actress award in LA for her work on the film.
Taking
home not one, but five category wins with
Lead Actress Frances McDormand being named as Best
Actress and co-star Sam Rockwell snagging Best Supporting Actor honors.
Best
actress in a TV series, drama Caitriona Balfe, «Outlander» (Starz) Claire Foy, «The Crown» (Netflix) Maggie Gyllenhaal, «The Deuce» (HBO) Katherine Langford, «13 Reasons Why» (Netflix) Elisabeth Moss, «The Handmaid's Tale» (Hulu) IMMEDIATE REACTION: Katherine Langford, the star of Netflix's controversial drama about teen suicide, is the surprise name here — especially against voter favorites such as Foy and Moss, the latter of whom is the likely lock to take
home the prize as the
lead of Hulu's terrifying (and timely) «Handmaid's Tale.»
She was nominated 12 times for Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Drama for her performance as Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote but never once took
home the golden winged statue.
Chicago, the last musical to win Oscar's Best Picture, took
home three awards in 2003: Ensemble,
Actress in a
Leading Role (Renee Zellweger) and
Actress in a Supporting Role (Catherine Zeta - Jones).
As actor James Franco took the stage wearing all black and a Time's Up pin to accept his award for best
lead actor in a comedy for The Disaster Artist,
actress Ally Sheedy, watching from
home, weighed in.
Meanwhile, «Three Billboards» is likely to take
home some acting prizes with
leading actress Frances McDormand and supporting actor Sam Rockwell having cleaned up at the Globes, BAFTAs, and most significantly, SAG Awards.
Fun
Home, based on Alison Bechdel's Pulitzer - winning autobiographical novel is up for Best Musical, Book, Score, Best
Lead Actor in a Musical and Best
Lead Actress in a Musical.
The show and its
lead, Golden Globe and SAG winner Claire Foy, were bested by BBC1's cop drama «Happy Valley,» which took
home the trophies for drama series and
leading actress Sarah Lancashire.
Best
Actress in a
Leading Role: Jill Clayburgh, An Unmarried Woman; pressed closest by Jane Fonda in (in order of distinction) Comes a Horseman, Coming
Home and California Suite.
Other Awards Gala honorees were Allison Janney, who won the Spotlight Award,
Actress for her role in «I, Tonya,»; «Wonder Woman» star Gal Gadot (Rising Star Award,
Actress), who told her husband that she loved him in Hebrew during her thank you speech (Ani ohevet otcha); «Darkest Hour» star Gary Oldman (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor); «The Big Sick»
lead Holly Hunter (Career Achievement Award); Mary J. Blige, feted with the Breakthrough Performance Award for her supporting role in «Mudbound»; Sam Rockwell, honored with the Spotlight Award, Actor for his performance in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»; «Lady Bird»
lead Saoirse Ronan (Desert Palm Achievement Award,
Actress); «The Florida Project's» Willem Dafoe (Icon Award); and «Call Me By Your Name» star Timothée Chalamet, who took
home the Rising Star Award, Actor.
Margot Robbie takes
home the trophy for
lead actress in «I, Tonya,» with Gary Oldman scoring for
lead actor in «Darkest Hour»
Game of Thrones and Veep each took
home four — the former snagged Outstanding Drama Series, Drama Directing, Drama Writing, and an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award for Peter Dinklage, while the latter won Outstanding Comedy Series, Comedy Writing in a Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series award for Tony Hale, and Julia Louis - Dreyfus» fourth straight Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Many award watchers are now wondering if the Academy will make Kate like Cate B and Renee Z — deserving
lead actresses who all took
home Oscar Supporting gold first.
Six - time Academy Award ® nominee Glenn Close (Best Supporting
Actress: The World According to Garp, 1982, The Big Chill, 1983, The Natural, 1984; Best
Actress: Fatal Attraction, 1987, Dangerous Liaisons, 1988, Albert Nobbs, 2011), Academy Award nominee Terence Stamp (Best Supporting Actor, Billy Bud, 1962), Max Irons (Woman in Gold), Stefanie Martini («Doctor Thorne»), Emmy ® winner Gillian Anderson (Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Drama Series, «The X Files,» 1993) and six - time Emmy nominee Christina Hendricks («Mad Men») head the all - star cast bringing Agatha Christie's eponymous best - selling book to life when CROOKED HOUSE debuts on Blu - ray and DVD January 16 from Sony Pictures
Home Entertainment.
The big winner this year was David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, hardly an indie feature if I might say, which ended up taking
home the Best Feature, Director, Screenplay and Female
Lead /
Actress wins.
In terms of sheer numbers, the evening's big winner was the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, which took
home six statuettes: Outstanding Miniseries, Outstanding
Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Richard Jenkins), Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie (Frances McDormand), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Bill Murray), Miniseries Directing, and Miniseries Writing.
Golden Globes, «Argo» won for best dramatic film and best director Ben Affleck, while the musical «Les Miserables» took
home three Golden Globes — for best musical or comedy,
lead actor for Hugh Jackman and supporting
actress for Anne Hathaway.
Elsewhere at the ceremony - which took place at Los Angeles» Dolby Theatre and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel - «Darkest Hour» star Gary Oldman took
home the award for Performance by an Actor in a
Leading Role, while Frances McDormand caused a stir when she asked all the female nominees in the room to stand as she picked up the Performance by an
Actress in a
Leading Role honour for «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri».
«Big Little Lies,» appropriately, took
home a number of awards, including best limited TV series and for
lead actress Nicole Kidman.
«Lady Bird» took
home the prize for best picture in the comedy or musical category, while its
lead Saorise Ronan won for best
actress.
Molly Windsor took
home the 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best
Leading Actress for her role in Three Girls, a BBC drama based on the Rochdale child sex abuse ring.
Casey Affleck won
Leading Actor for his performance in Manchester by the Sea, which also won Original Screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan), while other unexpected wins include Viola Davis, taking
home Best Supporting
Actress for Fences and Dev Patel, landing Best Supporting Actor for Lion.
A visibly surprised Isabelle Huppert accepted the award for
leading actress in a drama for «Elle,» from Sony Pictures Classics, which also took
home the statue for foreign film.
The film, which also
led the Golden Globes nominations (but only took
home 1 award), took 12 nominations which include; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting
Actress.
And Hannah Britland looked right at
home on the red carpet as she
led the arrivals at the BAFTA Craft Awards at London's The Brewery on Saturday, alongside Game Of Thrones
actress Hannah Murray.
«Three Billboards» then took
home the Best Motion Picture — Drama prize, as well as
leading drama
actress Frances McDormand and supporting actor Sam Rockwell, bringing its total to four.
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Actress Meg Ryan, known for her
leading - lady roles in romantic films, has been having an on - again, off - again relationship with her Bel - Air
home since she first listed it in 2008 for $ 19.5 million.