The 96th Oscar nominations will be announced Tuesday morning, and film lovers everywhere will be tuning in to see which movies from 2023 will be up for awards.
One such hopeful film is Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which was the highest-grossing film at the domestic box office in 2023. The film’s set decorator, Katie Spencer, and production designer Sarah Greenwood spoke to ABC Audio in October about the possibility of getting Oscar nominations for their work on the film.
“It would be wonderful if we got a Best Picture nomination,” Spencer said. “Then it sort of covers everyone. It’s always nice to be nominated, you know, it’s always exciting.”
Greenwood agreed, saying Barbie deserves to have that recognition, “whatever that means.”
“Particularly Greta and Margot [Robbie] and Ryan [Gosling] and, and you know, for making this film that they’ve made,” Greenwood said. “Let’s see, you know, you never want to tempt fate. That is for sure.”
Spencer said it means a lot for something they put so much of themselves into to have had so much success.
“In a word, it’s amazing,” Spencer said. “So often you can work on a film, you like the film, and you think it’s worthwhile to see it. And only a few people go [to see it], you know … this has just exceeded everybody’s expectations. And to know that it brings so much joy and fun, a message, and love and kindness, it’s brilliant.”
Tuesday is the day Hollywood has been waiting for all year: it’s Oscar nominations day.
Actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid will host the announcement of the 96th Oscars nominations in all 23 categories in a live presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater at 8:30 a.m. ET.
Oppenheimer was one of the highest-grossing films at the domestic box office in 2023, and it’s been cleaning up during awards season; most prognosticators think the third time will be the charm for Robert Downey Jr. in the Best Supporting Actor category.
Other big winners this year so far have been Emma Stone for Poor Things and Paul Giamatti for the comedy The Holdovers. Only time will tell if they’ll also be at the big dance.
Barbie, the highest-grossing movie of 2023, is also expected to make a strong showing Tuesday morning.
The 96th Academy Awards will air on ABC on Sunday, March 10, live from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel returning as host for the fourth time. The show can also be streamed at abc.com or on the ABC app.
This year, the Oscars have an earlier time slot and will kick off at 7 p.m. ET. Prior to the awards show, a preshow will take place at 6:30 p.m. ET.
The Bachelor kicked off its 28th season on Monday, January 22, with Joey Graziadei, a 28-year-old tennis pro from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, ready to find his soulmate from a field of 32 women — the most in Bachelor history.
Graziadei made his Bachelor Nation debut when he appeared on Charity Lawson‘s season of The Bachelorette, making it to the end as her runner-up; ultimately she became engaged to Dotun Olubeko.
One by one, Joey greeted the ladies at the entrance to the mansion, with some going out of their way to make an unforgettable first impression. Among them was Jenn, who ditched the traditional limo ride for a go-kart. Then there was Jess, who pulled up perched atop a speedboat.
Two of Joey’s suitors, Allison and Lauren, both live in Philadelphia. Oh, and there’s something else they have in common — they’re sisters.
There was also a bit of night one drama when Jess, despite insisting she didn’t want to be “that woman,” bragged to the other ladies that she and Joey shared a “smooch” during their one-on-one time. She shared in a confessional that she wanted to “scoop him up and talk to him again,” a promise she made good on later. Jess’ double-dipping didn’t sit well with the others, particularly Taylor, whose conversation was interrupted by Jess to get that extra kiss. The two had words with each other afterward.
On the other end of the spectrum there was Lea, who we first met during The Golden Bachelor‘s “After the Final Rose” special. Lea was handed an envelope with instructions not to open it until she got to the mansion. A note inside challenged her with a moral dilemma — the power to steal a one-on-one date from one of the other women at any point during the competition. Tempting as that was, Lea turned down the offer, throwing the note in the fireplace. The unselfish act impressed the other ladies, but more importantly, Joey, who offered her the first impression rose.
At the rose ceremony, Chandler, Kayla, Kyra, Lanie, Nat, Sam, Samantha, Sandra, Talyah and Zoe were sent home.
Here are the women remaining after the first rose ceremony:
Allison, 26, a realtor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Autumn, 26, an account executive from St. Louis, Missouri
Chrissa, 26, a marketing director from Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Daisy, 25, an account executive from Becker, Minnesota
Edwina, 25, an entrepreneur from Atlanta, Georgia
Erika, 25, a leasing agent from North Bergen, New Jersey
Evalin, 29, a nanny from San Antonio, Texas
Jenn, 25, a physician assistant student from Miami, Florida
Jessica “Jess,” 24, an executive assistant from San Diego, California
Katelyn, 25, a radiochemist from Santa Fe, New Mexico
Kelsey A., 25, a junior project manager from New Orleans, Louisiana
Kelsey T., 31, an actor from Los Angeles, California
Lauren, 28, a registered nurse from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Maria “Lea,” 23, an account manager from Waipahu, Hawaii
Alexandra “Lexi,” 30, a digital strategist from Atlanta, Georgia
Madina, 31, a mental health therapist from Charlotte, North Carolina
Maria, 29, an executive assistant from Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
Marlena, 26, a finance writer from West Palm Beach, Florida
Rachel, 26, an ICU nurse from Honolulu, Hawaii
Starr, 25, a mental health counselor from Delray Beach, Florida
Sydney, 28, a vintage store owner from Newport, Rhode Island
Taylor, 23, a recruiter from Chicago, Illinois
As fans are figuratively pumped to see Hugh Jackman return as Wolverine in Deadpool 3, the Australian actor is literally getting pumped.
The Logan actor took to Instagram over the weekend to once again share a video of him lifting weights in the gym, with veins showing in his arms and neck.
“No days off – except for tomorrow,” he captioned the post, adding #becomingwolverineagain.
Fans took to the comments to share GIFs of Jackman as Wolverine, as well as a few of Ryan Reynolds‘ Deadpool character.
The winning comment, however, was a play on the Aussie actor’s name: “Huge jacked man,” one fan wrote.
Deadpool 3 is currently slated for release July 26.
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The official teaser for the new limited series Ripley is here.
Actors Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning appear in the black and white teaser for the limited series, which will be released in early April.
In the heart-pounding teaser, audiences are introduced to the mysterious Tom Ripley, played by Scott.
In one clip, a voice is heard saying, “You’re a very hard man to find. No address, phone, office.”
Another voice says, “Tom. Who is Tom?”
A synopsis for the highly anticipated upcoming series states that the show will follow Tom Ripley, “a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York,” who is “hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home.”
“Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder,” the synopsis continues.
The series is based on Patricia Highsmith‘s Tom Ripley novels, the first of which is titled, The Talented Mr. Ripley. The novel, released in 1955, has been adapted several times, first as an episode in the TV series Studio One in 1956, and later in several films, including the 1999 film of the same name starring Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Ripley will be available to stream on Netflix starting April 4.
Lucasfilm has released the trailer to the third and final season of its acclaimed animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
The 15-episode season kicks off with a three-chapter premiere on Wednesday, February 21.
Created by Clone Wars Emmy winner and The Mandalorian executive producer Dave Filoni, the third season has the remaining heroes pledging themselves to a final mission against a growing Empire: to rescue Omega, their special young clone friend.
Lucasfilm teases, “[T]he Batch will have their limits tested in the fight to reunite with Omega as she faces challenges of her own inside a remote Imperial science lab.”
It continues, “With the group fractured and facing threats from all directions, they will have to seek out unexpected allies, embark on dangerous missions, and muster everything they have learned to free themselves from the Empire.”
The action-packed trailer also sees the unexpected return of some fan favorites, including the bounty hunter Cad Bane, seen in live-action in The Book of Boba Fett, and Asajj Ventress, the former Sith apprentice from The Clone Wars animated series. This season again features voice stars Wanda Sykes, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Dee Bradley Baker as all the clones.
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Saltburn may be near the top of many critics’ lists of the year’s best movies, but don’t tell that to one grandmother in the U.K.
The unidentified woman has gone viral after her grandson uploaded to TikTok her aghast reaction to the risqué movie starring Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan.
But apparently, she doesn’t have a problem with Saltburn‘s salty language, as her burn of Saltburn manages to cram some 29 F-bombs in about 2 1/2 minutes.
“Get it off! Get it off!” she implores her grandson, as he giggles, quizzing her as to watch she’s watching.
“F****** filth,” she says repeatedly.
What she is seeing at the moment isn’t clear, but the movie has frontal male nude scenes and a bathtub self-pleasure scene with Elordi that’s so thirst-inspiring, pardon pun, that people are making candles that reportedly smell like his bath water.
It’s that time of year again: A day before Hollywood celebrates its best of the year with Oscar nominations comes the salute to the worst, the nominations for the Golden Raspberry Awards.
The fourth Expendables movie, Expend4bles, led the pack with seven nominations, followed by The Exorcist: Believer with five, tied with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.
On the not-so-superhero side, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania tied Shazam: Fury of the Gods with four, and the horror film Meg 2: The Trench earned three.
The 44th annual Razzie “winners” will be unveiled on the now traditional “Oscar Eve,” Saturday, March 9.
Here are the nominations:
WORST FILM Expend4bles The Exorcist: Believer Meg 2: The Trench Shazam! Fury of the Gods Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST ACTOR
Russell Crowe – The Pope’s Exorcist
Vin Diesel – Fast X
Chris Evans – Ghosted Jason Statham – Meg 2: The Trench
Jon Voight – Mercy
WORST ACTRESS
Ana de Armas – Ghosted Megan Fox – Johnny & Clyde
Salma Hayek – Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer Lopez – The Mother
Dame Helen Mirren – Shazam! Fury of the Gods
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kim Cattrall – About My Father
Megan Fox – Expend4bles
Bai Ling – Johnny & Clyde
Lucy Liu – Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Mary Stuart Masterson – Five Nights at Freddy’s
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Douglas – Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Mel Gibson – Confidential Informant
Bill Murray – Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Franco Nero (as “The Pope”) – The Pope’s Exorcist
Sylvester Stallone – Expend4ables
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Any 2 “Merciless Mercenaries” – Expend4bles
Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist
Ana de Armas & Chris Evans – Ghosted Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum – Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers – Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania The Exorcist: Believer Expend4bles Indiana Jones and The Dial of…Still Beating a Dead Horse Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST DIRECTOR
Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
David Gordon Green – The Exorcist: Believer
Peyton Reed – Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
Scott Waugh – Expend4bles
Ben Wheatley – Meg 2: The Trench
WORST SCREENPLAY The Exorcist: Believer Expend4bles Indiana Jones and the Dial of…Can I go home now? Shazam! Fury of the Gods Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey
Rachel McAdams has been absent from the recent Mean Girls reunions and the new musical movie, but she showed her support in a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend.
McAdams introduced Renée Rapp, who portrayed Rachel’s Regina George both on Broadway and in the movie — and made her musical debut on SNL.
Rapp performed “Not My Fault,” her Mean Girls soundtrack collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion, who made a surprise appearance of her own, popping out of an oversized cake.
Megan — who declares herself “the black Regina George” in the track — drove the point home by posting a recreation of the famous “pointing Spideys” meme with Rapp, Rachel and herself.
If one follows Robert Downey Jr. on Instagram, they know he’s been talking up his new book with environmental activist and author Thomas Kostigen, Cool Foods.
The Oppenheimer actor has been rapid-firing “Fast Facts” from the book, which offers ways to “help save the planet through food.”
In an interview that ran on Good Morning America on Monday, Downey and Kostigen chatted with ABC News’ Kayna Whitworth to discuss the book, which was 10 years in the making, and which hits stores Tuesday, January 23.
“The choices you make with what your meals are can really affect the longevity of the planet,” Downey says. “I felt overwhelmed by … the climate crisis, and being a fan of Tom’s for a long time, the idea of doing something as simple as a book, where you can flip open and … [insert] this data into our meal plans.”
Kostigen calls it “empowering” for people to learn what they eat can have a positive environmental impact.
Downey adds that the book highlights swaps you can make in your meals that do good for the planet without sacrificing taste, including a switch for calamari using hearts of palm, which works for his vegan wife Susan.
Downey also chatted about his awards season run for Oppenheimer, which many prognosticators believe will earn him his first Academy Award.
He called the Oppenheimer experience “amazing,” adding, “I have been doing this a long time. I think that there’s something about this year where I’m just feeling a lot of kind of joy.”
He adds, “I’m happy all this kind of energy is around us right now because it’s synergistic.”
