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Oscar Races Tighten Up as “Oppenheimer” Wins Critics Choice Awards, Top Acting Honors Go to Paul Giamatti, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr, Da’Vine Joy Randolph

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Oscar Races Tighten Up as “Oppenheimer” Wins Critics Choice Awards, Top Acting Honors Go to Paul Giamatti, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr, Da’Vine Joy Randolph

The Critics Choice Awards were pretty refreshing after the miserable Golden Globes last weekend.

“Oppenheimer” swept the movie side, while “Succession” took the TV department. In film, there were some surprises as Paul Giamatti and Emma Stone triumphed in lead, and Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph won in supporting.

Of the four, Stone’s win was the biggest surprise as Lily Gladstone was the expected victor. She may yet prevail. We’ll have to see how the SAG Awards play out.

Giamatti’s win over Cillian Murphy from “Oppenheimer” makes sense. In “The Holdovers,” Giamatti — long a favorite with no awards — is overdue. That isn’t to say anything about Murphy, whose work as Oppenheimer is stellar. But it’s also the latter actor’s first foray into this arena.

In TV the big winners were “Succession” and “The Bear.” More than likely these choices will echo at tonight’s Emmy Awards, making it a little bit of a letdown.

Chelsea Handler was again a humorous and sophisticated host without embarrassing or humiliating anyone. The two hour show was a lesson in how to do these things in an entertaining and energetic way. Kudos to everyone involved.

Because the show was running a little short, the surprise of the night was asking Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie to come on stage and receive Best Comedy for “Barbie.” America Ferrara of that film was presented with the See Her award and gave such a moving speech that Oscar winner Brie Larson burst into tears at her table. She told me she was overwhelmed by Ferrara, who’s really become an oracle in Hollywood these days.

BEST PICTURE
Oppenheimer

BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

BEST ACTOR
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

BEST ACTRESS
Emma Stone – Poor Things

BEST LIMITED SERIES
Beef (Netflix)

BEST DRAMA SERIES
Succession (HBO | Max)

BEST COMEDY SERIES

Succession (HBO | Max)

BEST COMEDY SERIES
The Bear (FX)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Kieran Culkin – Succession (HBO | Max)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Sarah Snook – Succession (HBO | Max)

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Oppenheimer

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear (FX)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear (FX)

BEST SONG
“I’m Just Ken” – Barbie

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Steven Yeun – Beef (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Ali Wong – Beef (Netflix)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear (FX)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Meryl Streep – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown (Netflix)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Maria Bello – Beef (Netflix)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Jonathan Bailey – Fellow Travelers (Showtime)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

BEST COMEDY (non-televised)
Barbie

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (non-televised)
Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach – Barbie

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (non-televised)
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE (non-televised)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (non-televised)
Anatomy of a Fall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (non-televised)
Oppenheimer

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Majors Loses Role in Willem Dafoe Movie Based on Walter Mosley Novel to Corey Hawkins

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EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Majors Loses Role in Willem Dafoe Movie Based on Walter Mosley Novel to Corey Hawkins

Very quietly, Jonathan Majors has lost another job.

I’m told that Majors was set to play against Willem Dafoe in a movie based on Walter Mosley’s mystery novel, “The Man in My Basement.”

But with Majors’ conviction last month on domestic abuse charges, he’s out of the film.

Coming in will be — I can tell you exclusively — Corey Hawkins. Hawkins is currently in “The Color Purple” playing Harpo to Danielle Brooks’s Sofia. He was on Broadway last year in “Top Dog/Underdog,” where he wowed crowds and won raves. He was also nominated for a Tony Award.

Up and comer Nadia Latif is directing. Filming abroad in Scotland is imminent.

Dafoe is off the charts great in “Poor Things,” currently in theaters. He just received a SAG nomination for Best Supporting Actor and is heading to the Oscars, I suspect.

Here’s the Amazon description of “The Man in the Basement”:

Charles’s summer with a man in his basement turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. Walter Mosley pierces long-hidden veins of justice and morality with startling insight into the deepest mysteries of human nature.
The man at Charles Blakey’s door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles’s basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The money would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than a basement view.

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BAFTA’s Annual Gala Tea Party: Movie and TV Stars Heat Up Annual Event on a Cold Los Angeles Afternoon

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BAFTA’s Annual Gala Tea Party: Movie and TV Stars Heat Up Annual Event on a Cold Los Angeles Afternoon

For some reason, the annual BAFTA tea party which usually takes place in the Four Seasons Beverly Hills ballroom was moved this year to an outdoor event space at the Maybourne Hotel not far away.

Luckily dozens of stars and famous faces heated up the tea because there were no heaters and a pretty stiff wind blowing in. This did not deter anyone including a knockout group that included this alphabetically arranged bunch:

Jonathan Bailey, Fantasia Barrino, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, Quinta Brunson, Neve Campbell, Tantoo Cardinal, Sam Claflin, Brian Cox, Willem Dafoe, William Stanford Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Leonardo DiCaprio, Colman Domingo, Phil Dunster, Phoebe Dynevor, Ayo Edebiri, Emerald Fennell, America Ferrera, Dominique Fishback, Greta Gerwig, Paul Giamatti, Brett Goldstein, Paul Walter Hauser, Tom Hiddleston, Derek Hough, Julianne Hough, Glenn Howerton, Janelle James, Cord Jefferson, Mark Johnson, Harry Jowsey, Joseph Lee, Eva Longoria, Archie Madekwe, Ashley Madekwe, Julianne Moore, Lamorne Morris, Carey Mulligan, Cillian Murphy, Cara Jade Myers, Chris Perfetti, Rosamund Pike, Karen Pittman, Adina Porter, Bella Ramsey, Judy Reyes, Alfonso Ribeiro, Sam Richardson, Andrea Riseborough, Seth Rogen, Mark Ruffalo, Matthias Schweighöfer, Rhea Seehorn, Dominic Sessa, J. Smith-Cameron, Celine Song, Lisa Ann Walter, Diane Warren, Jeffrey Wright.

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So what was going on? First of all, a change in leadership as Joyce Pierpoline has taken over the chairman’s job at BAFTA USA. Pierpoline has been a behind the scenes producer in the New York movie world for a couple of decades now and she’s going to up the profile of BAFTA immensely.

Most of those names above are headed to tonight’s Critics Choice Movie and TV Awards tonight on the CW network (7pm EST).

Some of them popped in and out — the cold was maybe daunting for bare shoulders — but most stuck around for some time. Particularly enjoying the crumpets and tea were “Succession” actor Brian Cox, J Smith Cameron, and Zoe Winters, plus “Holdovers” star Paul Giamatti who chatted with “Poor Things” actor Willem Dafoe. I ran into Neve Campbell, who said she’s open to coming back to the “Scream” series under the right conditions, Maria Bello told me all about living in Paris, and so on.

Bryan Cranston Among Stars Remembering “Days of Our Lives” Star, Bill Hayes, 98 Years Old

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Bryan Cranston Among Stars Remembering “Days of Our Lives” Star, Bill Hayes, 98 Years Old

I’m a little behind here but “Days of Our Lives” star Bill Hayes has died at age 98. He joined the show in 1970 and has played Doug Williams ever since then, even with some breaks. Hayes fell in love with his leading lady, Susan Seaforth, and they married in 1974. They were so popular they were featured on the cover of Time Magazine. In recent years they were heavily featured on the show. Bill Hayes’s last appearance was just last month.

As actors have come and gone on the nearly 60 year old soap, the Hayeses became its heart and soul. The character of Doug Williams arrived as a conman but became a cafe owner and song and dance man. Hayes was the first actor ever to sing on a soap, and it was a regular thing. (He used to perform on the show with the late Robert Clary, who most people remember from “Hogan’s Heroes.”)

There are a lot of tributes to Bill Hayes all over social media. But the one below was writte by Bryan Cranston and posted to Deadline’s comments page.

I’ll also say I have a soft spot for the Hayeses. They were on TC seemingly every afternoon I was in junior high and high school. Their longevity is to be applauded. Condolences to their families.

Critics Choice Awards Could Benefit from NFL Scheduling Change Due to Snow, Bad News for Emmys?

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Critics Choice Awards Could Benefit from NFL Scheduling Change Due to Snow, Bad News for Emmys?

Weather or not, awards season continues with some potential ratings issues.

The NFL game set for Sunday — the Bills vs. the Steelers — has been moved to Monday because Buffalo is under 10 feet of snow and the temperature is below minus 300. The Bills are asking fans to come with shovels to dig them out so the game can even happen on Monday.

That’s good news for Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards on the CW network at 7pm. Most football will be over by the time the show starts, and will definitely be done by 8:30pm. Ratings for the CCA should be given a little push now by the absence of real competition.

But Monday’s Emmy Awards, basically a repeat of the CCA with the same people and similar nominations, could face headwinds.

Now there will be two back to back games on Monday, potentially soaking up a huge part of the TV audience.. The much anticipated Eagles vs. Buccaneers game on Monday starts at the same time as the Emmy Awards. The Eagles are heavy favorites. So are “Succession” and “The Bear” in drama and comedy, but who knows? Also, the Emmys were voted on last summer for a season that’s already been usurped in many cases by a succeeding one — meaning they aren’t really current. In the case of “The Bear,” for example, the voting was for their first season, not the second one that’s already played.

Acts of God are not in the Nielsen playbook. so stay tuned, especially for the CCA on Sunday which has all the movie and the TV stars and the very funny and smart Chelsea Handler as host.

Jennifer Lopez’s Comeback Single “Can’t Get Enough” Fails to Launch, Stalls at Number 22 on iTunes

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Jennifer Lopez’s Comeback Single “Can’t Get Enough” Fails to Launch, Stalls at Number 22 on iTunes

Jennifer Lopez’s fans have gotten enough.

After a big premiere on Wednesday, Lopez’s “Can’t Get Enough” has stalled on the iTunes charts at number 22.

At the same time, Ariana Grande’s “Yes, and?” hit number 1 out of the box and has remained there since yesterday morning. Of course, Grande is half Lopez’s age and her fans are motivated and paying attention to releases.

Lopez was banking on a hit to help launch her new album, coming next month, called “This is Me… Now.”

The video that accompanies the new song is fun but maybe doesn’t help Lopez’s image. It centers on a wedding. She’s in the dress, etc. It’s her umpteenth video or movie involving that theme, which may be a tad too much at this point.

“Can’t Get Enough” is a hybrid single, made of musical particle board — ten songwriters are listed and is built on two samples of obscure old songs. Conversely, the Ariana Grande song is new, written by hit maker Max Martin and his team.

Exclusive: Meryl Streep Returning for Season 4 of “Only Murders” But Not Dating Martin Short — Just on the Show

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Exclusive: Meryl Streep Returning for Season 4 of “Only Murders” But Not Dating Martin Short — Just on the Show

Exclusive: Meryl Streep and all the cast of “Only Murders in the Building” are returning for Season 4 of “Only Murders in the Building.”

I already told a few weeks ago Nathan Lane was coming back. Season 4 will see all the actors — starting with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez — back for more murder investigations at the Arconia.

I also confirmed with Streep and Short that they are not dating. A rumor popped up after the Golden Globes last Sunday that their fictional relationship had turned into something more.

When I asked each of them about it at Friday’s sensational American Film Institute lunch, they assured me they are just great friends.

The annual AFI lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel ballroom honors 10 movies and 10 TV shows of the last season. AFI director Bob Gazzale runs a smooth operation that’s not televised, but a time for all the filmmakers to have fun and not compete for awards.

“There are no losers here,” Gazzale told the star studded A list crowd that included the casts of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” “Maestro” and TV shows like “Succession” and “Abbott Elementary.”

As a bonus, Gazzale always has a surprise honoree. This year was no exception, with Oscar and Tony winner Ellen Burstyn, age 91 and fit as a fiddle, flying in from New York to give her benediction on the whole show. The audience of famous actors and directors — from Bradley Cooper to Leonardo DiCaprio to Julianne Moore and Sarah Snook went wild when Burstyn — elegant, refined, and feisty– took the stage.

There were also plenty of execs and famed Hollywood leaders in the room including the magnificent George Stevens Jr,. Kathleen Kennedy, Bob Daly, Jean Firstenberg, Mike DeLuca and Pam Abdy of Warner Bros. celebrating their new deal with Tom Cruise with Warner DIscovery’s David Zaslav.

(Another party — this one celebrating movie channel TCM — followed the luncheon with the Warner’s gang reaffirming their total support for the channel. They announced that Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson had already renewed their commitment to the channel for another year.)

Gazzale made special mention of having three AFI Lifetime Achievement winners in the room: Spielberg, Streep, and Steve Martin. Streep basked in the limelight as our greatest actress, and no one disagreed. She told me after lunch that she’s getting back into film with several projects cooking, not just “Only Murders.”

More to come…including notes from Universal’s cocktail party last night for “Oppenheimer” and “The Holdovers,” with all the casts and special appearances by The Rock and Snoop Dogg — in the same room!

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UPDATE Exclusive Selena Gomez-Linda Ronstadt Movie Director Has a Silver Lining in David O. Russell

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UPDATE Exclusive Selena Gomez-Linda Ronstadt Movie Director Has a Silver Lining in David O. Russell

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I told you back in July 2023 that Selena Gomez would play Linda Ronstadt in a film written and produced by James Keach.

Then this week Rolling Stone and other outlets ignored that exclusive and just announced it themselves based on a photo Gomez posted of the cover of Ronstadt’s memoir.

That was pretty crappy, right? But now I can tell you EXCLUSIVELY that David O. Russell will direct the film. The award winning director of “Silver Linings Playbook’ and “American Hustle” is a huge Ronstadt fan. This is something he’s wanted to for a long time. It’s likely that the vocals in the film will be mostly from Ronstadt’s recordings, although Gomez has a great voice and could certainly contribute to the soundtrack.

I actually knew this was happening back in the summer, but I was asked to wait until all the t’s were crossed and i’s were dotted. Apparently this now the case. There’s no title yet, but “When Will I Be Loved” sounds like it might fit.

Ronstadt was the pre-eminent female pop star of the 70s into the 80s. She was a hot number, a smart pop tart who took control of her career and her life. She had dozens of hits while dating A listers like George Lucas and California governor Jerry Brown. The Eagles played behind her, she toured with Jackson Browne, and it’s her voice you hear on Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.”

In the 80s, Linda expanded her portfolio and even appeared to acclaim on Broadway opposite Kevin Kline in “The Pirates of Penzance.” She formed a trio with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris, and had a major hit with Aaron Neville. How all that is packed into two hours is still unclear but Russell will make a terrific film, of that I am sure.

Exclusive: Bruce Springsteen Rumored to Be Working on Feature Film About the Making of “Nebraska” Album

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Exclusive: Bruce Springsteen Rumored to Be Working on Feature Film About the Making of “Nebraska” Album

There may be a Bruce Springsteen movie coming to us one day soon.

Sources say that Springsteen has been consulting on a possible feature film about the making of his watershed 1982 album, “Nebraska.”

I’m told Bruce has been collaborating with director-writer Scott Cooper, whose six terrific films include “Crazy Heart,” about a washed up country singer. Jeff Bridges won the 2010 Oscar for starring in that one, the movie also won Best Song. Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

The “Nebraska” story is legendary among Springsteen fans. The album, originally a set of demos set to be an E Street band rock collection, turned into a group of stark solo recordings. But songs that didn’t make the cut went on to be the basis of another landmark. 1984’s “Born in the USA.”

The songs were recorded on a four track tape recorder in Springsteen’s bedroom in Colts Neck, New Jersey. Bruce was 32, and going through a bout of depression he described later as “sludge.” He’d just screened Terence Malick’s classic 1973 film, “Badlands,” which wound up inspiring many of the songs including one about serial killer Charles Starkweather. Much has been written about the very dark, “Nebraska,” but it turned out to be a signal moment. In its process, “Born in the USA” emerged, and Bruce — already a rock star — became an icon.

So who will play Bruce? That’s the $64,000 question. At the time he was young and self-tortured. Austin Butler is a possibility but after playing Elvis Presley he might not be the right choice. Friends say Cooper has someone in mind — and definitely not Timothee Chalamet, who’s about to play Bob Dylan in another film. Cooper and Springsteen have been connected before: the director’s movie, “Out of the Furnace” has often been compared to Bruce’s best work.

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Here’s the demo for “Born in the USA,” which wound up on the Tracks album

LA: Famed Director Bennett Miller’s Photo Exhibit A List Opening Brings Brad Pitt Face to Face with Jon Voight (UPDATED)

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LA: Famed Director Bennett Miller’s Photo Exhibit A List Opening Brings Brad Pitt Face to Face with Jon Voight (UPDATED)

UPDATE Sunday January 15th: I’m told — reliably — that Pitt and Voight actually hugged and spoke to each other. I didn’t see it, but Voight’s companions informed me later when I ran into them at dinner. PS to the crackpot sending me unwanted texts: this did all happen.

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No words were exchanged — maybe just a nodding glance — but the art world brought together an unlikely meeting between two movies stars last night. They were Brad Pitt and his former father-in-law Jon Voight. (Pitt, you know, has six children with Voight’s daughter, Angelina Jolie, his ex wife.)

This was all at Larry Gagosian’s star studded art gallery in Beverly Hills. The occasion was the opening of an exhibit of sensational photos by Bennett Miller, famed director of “Capote,” “Moneyball,” and “Foxcatcher.” Given the opportunity to be the first to use an AI program called “Dall-E,” Miller produced a series of black and white photos that are already the talk of the art world.

Was it all just AI, I wondered? Miller affirmed that the human element is very much alive even working with the program. But basically he types in descriptions or stories and the Dall-E comes up with a basic idea of it. Then Miller works to manipulate the medium.

Pitt — who starred so memorably in “Moneyball” — and Voight were not the only celebs who turned up. The great Catherine Keener made sure she got a look at every one of the arresting pictures. So did LucasFilms president Kathleen Kennedy. (She starred in Miller’s “Capote” as Harper Lee.) Oscar winner Adrien Brody was there with designer Georgina Chapman. Chris Rock stopped in to see the exhibit, as did director Spike Jonze, Zachary Levi, and Edward Norton. I ran into Lou Ferrigno, the original Hulk, and even Sam Ashgari, now former husband to Britney Spears. Director Andrew Dominick — currently making a film out of Bono’s “Songs of Surrender — toured the room. Top agent John Burnham took a turn, and several people told me when I arrived, “Brian Grazer was here.”

Brad Pitt? He looked like a movie star. He sort of glows as he walks through a room, especially holding the hand of his beautiful girlfriend, Ines de Ramon. Women flocked to his area in the gallery as if they’d just heard a siren song. Men tried to look cool but could not turn away.

What is he working on, I asked? “Just a Jerry Bruckheimer movie,” he replied, referring to his F1 racing film directed by Joseph Kosinski. He and Voight never came too close within reach of each other, and it was a total fluke that they were each present. Just another nod from the universe that Hollywood, like everywhere else, is really a small town.

(Another example of this was a rare picture taken of Brad Pitt with Sam Ashgari. Talk about chance encounters.)

Next up at Gagosian, for the Oscars: a still unannounced exhibit of rare Jean Michel Basquiat paintings from his time in Los Angeles. The crush at the front door should be unreal.

Just another night in Tinsel Town, followed by dinner at Craig’s — the mecca of all of this — where the delicious cuisine was almost outdone by the $100,000 Ferrari’s and Rolls Royces parked out front!

from Bennett Miller show at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
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