The 96th Academy Awards are officially in the history books. The ceremony provided great honors, amazing performances and, as usual, some incredible acceptance speeches. The 2024 winners were full of gratitude, humor, occasional humility and deep emotion. Here’s a look at the six best speeches at this year’s Oscars. Which one was your favorite? Did we not include it in this recap? Sound off in the comments section below.
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Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
Randolph started the night’s speeches on a high note by talking about how when she started as a singer her mother told her to look for an opportunity in the theater department. She then thanked Ron Van Lieu who “told me I was enough. And when I told you I don’t see myself, you said, ‘That’s fine. We’re...
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Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
Randolph started the night’s speeches on a high note by talking about how when she started as a singer her mother told her to look for an opportunity in the theater department. She then thanked Ron Van Lieu who “told me I was enough. And when I told you I don’t see myself, you said, ‘That’s fine. We’re...
- 3/11/2024
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
[This story contains spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania]
From Ulysses to Macbeth, Corey Stoll has been doing Shakespearean work for the entirety of his acting career, and despite the outlandish exterior, his MCU return as Modok in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania doesn’t fall far from the tree. In Ant-Man (2015), Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang banished Stoll’s villain, Darren Cross/Yellowjacket, to the Quantum Realm, where Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors), as of the threequel, transformed him into Modok, a Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing.
At the end of Quantumania, Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton) delivered a personal appeal to whatever was left of Darren inside Modok, which inspired him to turn on Kang in favor of the Lang, Pym and van Dyne family. As a result, Darren/Modok met their end in one of the film’s most amusing scenes, and for Stoll, the scene takes inspiration from one of Shakespeare’s most famous works.
From Ulysses to Macbeth, Corey Stoll has been doing Shakespearean work for the entirety of his acting career, and despite the outlandish exterior, his MCU return as Modok in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania doesn’t fall far from the tree. In Ant-Man (2015), Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang banished Stoll’s villain, Darren Cross/Yellowjacket, to the Quantum Realm, where Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors), as of the threequel, transformed him into Modok, a Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing.
At the end of Quantumania, Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton) delivered a personal appeal to whatever was left of Darren inside Modok, which inspired him to turn on Kang in favor of the Lang, Pym and van Dyne family. As a result, Darren/Modok met their end in one of the film’s most amusing scenes, and for Stoll, the scene takes inspiration from one of Shakespeare’s most famous works.
- 2/27/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Sopranos” star Joseph Siravo, who played Tony Soprano’s father, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 66.
Siravo’s agent confirmed the actor’s death to Variety, noting that he died on Sunday following a “long, courageous” battle with colon cancer.
Siravo is best known for work in television as well as theater. On HBO’s “Sopranos,” he played Johnny Soprano — featuring prominently in flashback episodes to the 1960s — and later portrayed Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman, in FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
Other recent credits include TV series such as “For Life,” “The Blacklist,” “Made in Jersey,” “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Law and Order.” In film, he appeared in the Adam Driver-led “The Report” and Meera Menon’s 2016 film “Equity, as well as “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Wannabe,” “Shark Tale” and “Night Falls on Manhattan.”
Born and raised in Washington D.
Siravo’s agent confirmed the actor’s death to Variety, noting that he died on Sunday following a “long, courageous” battle with colon cancer.
Siravo is best known for work in television as well as theater. On HBO’s “Sopranos,” he played Johnny Soprano — featuring prominently in flashback episodes to the 1960s — and later portrayed Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman, in FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
Other recent credits include TV series such as “For Life,” “The Blacklist,” “Made in Jersey,” “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Law and Order.” In film, he appeared in the Adam Driver-led “The Report” and Meera Menon’s 2016 film “Equity, as well as “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Wannabe,” “Shark Tale” and “Night Falls on Manhattan.”
Born and raised in Washington D.
- 4/12/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Ten years ago, Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry met while working on the Tarell Alvin McCraney play “Wig Out” at the Sundance Theater Lab.
Both actors were playing drag queens, and one day, Henry – who was sporting a thick beard at the time – asked Brown to help shave his face.
“He did it,” Henry recalled. “He went and got clippers, and we’ve been best friends ever since. Once you shave a guy’s face, man, you’re best friends after that.”
Cut to 2016, and after years paying dues on stage and in small roles, Brown and Henry both coincidentally had the breakthrough year of their careers.
Brown, of course, won an Emmy portraying Christopher Darden on FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” and now stars in the fall’s new hit NBC series “This Is Us.” (He also just landed a role in “Marvel’s Black Panther.
Both actors were playing drag queens, and one day, Henry – who was sporting a thick beard at the time – asked Brown to help shave his face.
“He did it,” Henry recalled. “He went and got clippers, and we’ve been best friends ever since. Once you shave a guy’s face, man, you’re best friends after that.”
Cut to 2016, and after years paying dues on stage and in small roles, Brown and Henry both coincidentally had the breakthrough year of their careers.
Brown, of course, won an Emmy portraying Christopher Darden on FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” and now stars in the fall’s new hit NBC series “This Is Us.” (He also just landed a role in “Marvel’s Black Panther.
- 1/16/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Before she nabbed the Best Supporting Actress award for 12 Years A Slave at the 2014 Oscars - and became one of Hollywood's rising style icons in the process - Lupita Nyong'o honed her craft at the Yale School of Drama. "She was not a trained actor when she came here," says Yale's Chair of the Acting Department Ron Van Lieu, who auditioned Nyong'o. "She was running mostly on instinct and an innate sense of truthfulness. She's incapable of lying as an actor, so she had all of that but very little technique." Mexican-born and Kenyan-raised Nyong'o, 31, was hit by the acting...
- 3/5/2014
- by Carlos Greer
- PEOPLE.com
They are a few of the most well known female stars in the filming industry these days, and now The Hollywood Reporter has hand selected Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Octavia Spencer, Octavia Spencer, Emma Thompson, and Lupita Nyong'o to front the 2013 Actress issue.
During their interview with the publication, the ladies shared their experiences in Hollywood including handling stress while on set and raising children while having an acting career.
Check out GossipCenter's recap of the ladies' Q&A session below. For more, be sure to visit The Hollywood Reporter!
Julia
On her career after becoming a mom:
"Well, it certainly decreased a great deal, but I had been working for 18 years when i had Hazel and Finn almost nine years ago. So I felt like I earned that time in my house and in my kitchen and in bed all day with these two little people. I felt that was my present to myself.
During their interview with the publication, the ladies shared their experiences in Hollywood including handling stress while on set and raising children while having an acting career.
Check out GossipCenter's recap of the ladies' Q&A session below. For more, be sure to visit The Hollywood Reporter!
Julia
On her career after becoming a mom:
"Well, it certainly decreased a great deal, but I had been working for 18 years when i had Hazel and Finn almost nine years ago. So I felt like I earned that time in my house and in my kitchen and in bed all day with these two little people. I felt that was my present to myself.
- 11/26/2013
- GossipCenter
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