Five years after earning an Oscar nomination at age 19 for her debut performance in “Gaslight,” Angela Lansbury made her first small screen appearance on a 1950 episode of “Robert Montgomery Presents.” After three decades of building her TV resume, she received her first Emmy bid for the limited series “Little Gloria… Happy at Last” and, one year later, landed her most well-known role as Jessica Fletcher on “Murder, She Wrote,” which ultimately brought her a dozen nominations for Best Drama Actress.
In 2004, eight years after “Murder, She Wrote” ended, Lansbury picked up her 17th career bid and first in the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress category for her work in the CBS film “The Blackwater Lightship.” At 78, she was initially the seventh oldest woman to ever contend for the award, and has since moved to 10th place nearly two decades later. Of the nine older women who rank higher on the list,...
In 2004, eight years after “Murder, She Wrote” ended, Lansbury picked up her 17th career bid and first in the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress category for her work in the CBS film “The Blackwater Lightship.” At 78, she was initially the seventh oldest woman to ever contend for the award, and has since moved to 10th place nearly two decades later. Of the nine older women who rank higher on the list,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Five years after earning an Oscar nomination at age 19 for her debut performance in “Gaslight,” Angela Lansbury made her first small screen appearance on a 1950 episode of “Robert Montgomery Presents.” After three decades of building her TV resume, she received her first Emmy bid for the limited series “Little Gloria… Happy at Last” and, one year later, landed her most well-known role as Jessica Fletcher on “Murder, She Wrote,” which ultimately brought her a dozen nominations for Best Drama Actress.
In 2004, eight years after “Murder, She Wrote” ended, Lansbury picked up her 17th career bid and first in the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress category for her work in the CBS film “The Blackwater Lightship.” At 78, she was initially the seventh oldest woman to ever contend for the award, and has since moved to 10th place nearly two decades later. Of the nine older women who rank higher on the list,...
In 2004, eight years after “Murder, She Wrote” ended, Lansbury picked up her 17th career bid and first in the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress category for her work in the CBS film “The Blackwater Lightship.” At 78, she was initially the seventh oldest woman to ever contend for the award, and has since moved to 10th place nearly two decades later. Of the nine older women who rank higher on the list,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Last night, Don DeLillo gave a reading of his new novel, Point Omega, at Cobble Hill’s BookCourt, in Brooklyn. Point Omega, DeLillo’s 15th book, is about a New York filmmaker who heads to the desert to document the aging scholar who, at the behest of American military officials, spent two years poring classified documents in order to find meaning in the Iraq war. This is the central narrative, bookended by a proglogue and epilogue that contemplate Douglas Gordon’s 1993 video installment 24 Hour Psycho—which consists of Hitchcock’s Psycho screened over 24 hours in silence, slowed down to 2 frames/second. “This is a novel about time and loss,” DeLillo explained later during the Q&A that followed. The Bronx-born DeLillo won’t be giving any more New York readings of Point Omega, which Irish writer Colm Tóibín (The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, Brooklyn) spotlights in this month’s issue of V.
- 2/12/2010
- Vanity Fair
MONTE CARLO -- Asian television films picked up two of the biggest awards at the 44th Monte Carlo Television Festival. South Korea's Munhwa Broadcasting Corp. (MBC) picked up the best television film award for The Swamp, about a plastic surgeon's revenge on her unfaithful husband. Japan's NHK took best miniseries film for the first episode of Bunshiro and Fuku, an 18th-century samurai love story. American helmer John Erman, who also headed one of the numerous juries judging almost 30 prizes, won best director for The Blackwater Lightship, produced by Ireland's World 2000 Entertainment. Hallmark Entertainment's The Lion in Winter, based on James Goldman's original screenplay, won Andrei Konchalovsky best director in the miniseries category.
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