Joachim Trier’s Oscar winner “Sentimental Value” became this year’s biggest Amanda Awards winner, taking home eight statuettes, including the top prize for best Norwegian film. Trier was also awarded for directing, as well as his screenplay written with longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt. “There’s a lot of stuff going on when you make and release films,
Jason Bateman is this year’s Emmy overachiever, nominated for lead limited series actor and limited series directing on Netflix’s “Black Rabbit,” and as both supporting actor and executive producer on another limited series, HBO Max’s “DTF St. Louis.” So where does the multi-hyphenate’s brain reside more in these days, as an actor or director? “They
Chris Hansen didn’t get to take a seat for the new A24 movie “Primetime.” The 66-year-old veteran journalist went to the offices of indie distributor A24 to watch the Lance Oppenheim film, in which he is played by Robert Pattinson, before it bows at the Venice Film Festival. But he left without seeing it. The
Last month’s news that the two rival TV academies are looking to reunite was welcome and overdue — but it won’t be as easy as flipping a switch. The Los Angeles-based Television Academy and the New York located National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are run very differently, each having had 50 years to
A few years back, Dale Dickey walked into a department store looking for a dress. She was wearing what she usually wears — T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, no makeup — and a salesperson gave her the once-over and redirected her. “I sort of was treated like Julia Roberts in ‘Pretty Woman,’” Dickey tells Variety. “It’s like,
Lee Sung Jin learned about “Beef’s” latest Emmy haul all at once. The second season of Netflix’s genre-bending anthology earned 16 nominations, the most of any limited or anthology series this year. The major recognition also made Lee the first Asian television creator to receive multiple nominations in writing, directing and producing for the same
