Film editor Kevin Tent takes pride in the fact that he and Alexander Payne grew up in the film business together. The two men have collaborated on all eight of the features Payne has directed going back to “Citizen Ruth” in 1996 and subsequently teamed up on “Election,” “About Schmidt,” “Sideways,” “Nebraska,” “The Descendants” (for […]
It still hasn’t settled in for “Oppenheimer’s” production designer Ruth De Jong and set decorator Claire Kaufman that they are both nominated in the Best Production Design category at the 2024 Academy Awards. “I think it’s still surreal,” De Jong tells me, to which Kaufman chimes in, “There’s still some days I can hardly believe […]
The 2024 Grammys aired on February 4, and as usual, I have some thoughts. For passionate awards pundits, the Grammys are often best enjoyed afterwards, when you can analyze the results properly and theorize about what they might be telling us about the voting process, the Recording Academy and the music industry as a whole. […]
It was another slow week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, but it was a big week for Morgan Wallen, whose “One Thing at a Time” hopped back up one spot to number-one. That gave the album 18 nonconsecutive weeks at the peak, tying Garth Brooks‘s “Ropin’ the Wind” as the country album with the […]
“Oppenheimer” has been the Oscar Best Picture frontrunner since the dawn of this awards season and that has not changed in the last few weeks when Christopher Nolan‘s film reaped 13 Oscar bids and the same number of BAFTA bids, too. But while the film is set for a big night at the Academy Awards, […]
Now that the 18 new castaways for “Survivor 46” have been announced, it’s the perfect time to jump into Gold Derby’s predictions center and make your picks. Who will win Season 46? Who will be voted out first during the Wednesday, February 28, 2024 season premiere? Give us your first predictions right now to prove […]
With all the outrage over the “Barbie” Oscar snubs of Greta Gerwig for Best Director and Margot Robbie for Best Actress, there’s an even more egregious omission that is largely being overlooked. In other words, there’s someone who was robbed even worse than Robbie. I’m referring to Willem Dafoe in “Poor Things.” I foolishly thought that his spot in the Best Supporting […]
Upon securing a spot in the 2024 Best Supporting Actress Oscar lineup, Jodie Foster (“Nyad”) officially shattered the Academy Awards record for longest span between fourth and fifth acting nominations. Following her two Best Actress wins for “The Accused” (1989) and “The Silence of the Lambs” (1992), she had last been recognized in that category […]
Everything Jurassic-aged is new again. While the sequel trilogy to the original Steven Spielberg dino-adventure “Jurassic Park,” based on Michael Crichton’s beloved speed-read novel, concluded with Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World Dominion” in 2022, Universal Pictures has eyes on July 4 weekend in 2025 for another effects-heavy action-thriller. And according to The Hollywood Reporter, “John Wick” […]
