In an exciting bit of TV and movie news , the nominations for the 2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards, airing January 27 on TNT, were unveiled this morning. Oscar bait Lincoln and Silver Linings Playboook , starring Bradley Cooper and Most Desirable Woman of 2012 Jennifer Lawrence , led the way in the movie space. Both films earned four nods; Les Miserables earned three. Modern Family, Downton Abbey and Homeland were the most celebrated TV shows, along with other critical favorites. Who else was nominated and snubbed? Check out the full list of SAG Awards nominees below … Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture “Argo” “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” “Les Miserables” “Lincoln” “Silver Linings Playbook” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper — “Silver Linings Playbook” Daniel Day-Lewis — “Lincoln” John Hawkes — “The Sessions” Hugh Jackman — “Les Miserables” Denzel Washington — “Flight” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain — “Zero Dark Thirty” Marion Cotillard — “Rust and Bone” Jennifer Lawrence — “Silver Linings Playbook” Helen Mirren — “Hitchcock” Naomi Watts — “The Impossible” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Alan Arkin — “Argo” Javier Bardem — “Skyfall” Robert DeNiro — “Silver Linings Playbook” Philip Seymour Hoffman — “The Master” Tommy Lee Jones — “Lincoln” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Sally Field — “Lincoln” Anne Hathaway — “Les Miserables” Helen Hunt — “The Sessions” Nicole Kidman — “The Paperboy” Maggie Smith — “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series “Boardwalk Empire” “Breaking Bad” “Downton Abbey” “Homeland” “Mad Men” Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series “30 Rock” “The Big Bang Theory” “Glee” “Modern Family” “Nurse Jackie” “The Office” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Steve Buscemi — “Boardwalk Empire” Bryan Cranston — “Breaking Bad” Jeff Daniels — “The Newsroom” Jon Hamm — “Mad Men” Damian Lewis — “Homeland” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Claire Danes — “Homeland” Michelle Dockery — “Downton Abbey” Jessica Lange — “American Horror Story: Asylum” Julianna Marguiles — “The Good Wife” Maggie Smith — “Downton Abbey” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Alec Baldwin — “30 Rock” Ty Burrell — “Modern Family” Louis C.K. — “Louie” Jim Parsons — “The Big Bang Theory” Eric Stonestreet — “Modern Family” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Edie Falco — “Nurse Jackie” Tina Fey — “30 Rock” Amy Poehler — “Parks and Recreation” Sofia Vergara — “Modern Family” Betty White — “Hot in Cleveland” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Kevin Costner — “Hatfields & McCoys” Woody Harrelson — “Game Change” Ed Harris — “Game Change” Clive Owen — “Hemingway and Gellhorn” Bill Pullman — “Hatfields & McCoys” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Nicole Kidman — “Hemingway and Gellhorn” Julianne Moore — “Game Change” Charlotte Rampling — “Restless” Sigourney Weaver — “Political Animals” Alfre Woodard — “Steel Magnolias”
Taking a momentary hiatus from posting topless photos on Instagram, Rihanna modeled and performed at the 2012 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show last night. Just before the final curtain call, when all the scantily-clad models rush the stage, Rih unleashed her inner fashion model, strutting her stuff a pink lace camisole. While singing her aptly-titled “Phresh Out the Runway,” no less. Synergy, people. Watch Rihanna’s closing performance at the VS Fashion Show below! Rihanna Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Performance
Selena Gomez, have no fear. No models were impregnated during Justin Bieber’s performance of “As Long as You Love Me” from his third studio album Believe, at the 2012 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Justin Bieber Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Performance A lot has happened since the Canadian pop superstar serenaded the audience in all his sleeveless glory during the VS Fashion Show’s taping last month. At the time of the taping, rumors swirled that Justin had become romantically involved with model Barbara Palvin . Shortly thereafter, he split with Selena. Reports that Bieber’s wandering eye was to blame for the breakup – and that he was toying with the idea of sleeping with Victoria’s Secret models (plural) – followed. Despite all of that, and one turbulent dinner date that ended in epic fashion, he and Selena appear to be back together and on good terms a month later. At least until she sees the VS Fashion Show on TV and gets insecure again. Biebs wasn’t the only pop star to take the stage at the event. Follow the link to check out Rihanna’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show performance as well!
Ben Mendelsohn has played a lot of memorable criminals over the last two years, but it’s sign of his chops that the performances have virtually nothing in common. The son of a neuroscientist and a self-described “autodidact,” Mendelsohn, 43, began as a TV actor in his native Australia in 1980s and encountered film stardom there in 1987 as the ill-fated juvenile delinquent Trevor in The Year My Voice Broke . In 2010, Mendelsohn gave another breakthrough performance as Andrew “Pope” Cody, the oldest son of a notorious Melbourne crime family, in David Michod’s chilling Animal Kingdom , and in the two years since has given three more riveting performances in key character roles. He played the oily and corrupt billionaire Daggett in the final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises . Early next year, he’ll be seen as Ryan Gosling’s cohort in crime in The Place Beyond The Pines , and this week he’s in theaters as the small-time heroin-addicted criminal Russell in Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly . Mendelsohn, who probably could have been a neuroscientist himself judging from the clinical, amused way that he looks at his craft, talked to Movieline about his friendship with Dominik , his work in The Place Beyond The Pines and Gosling’s upcoming directorial debut, How to Catch A Monster , and how his performance in Killing Them Softly compares to a classic-but-underrated AC/DC song. Movieline: I’ll get to Killing Them Softly in a minute, but I’ve got to ask you about your character in The Dark Knight Rises . Where did you learn to play a Wall Street scumbag so well? Mendelsohn: I think there’s a lot of mythos about what’s required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it’s a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it’s almost never true. You know, if you want to encounter these [Wall Street] types, it’s very easy now to get a feel for them. You’ve got the Internet, and if you’ve got a few years on the clock, you will have met a few people like that. But script and context takes care of so much. Unless you’re no good at this at all, you should do fine. You and Andrew Dominik are both Australian. How did you come to work together? Andrew and I have known each other for an incredibly long time. I’m godfather to Andrew’s child. So we’ve been talking about working together, or rather, he has been dangling potential roles in front of my face forever. Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia. By the time the late ’80s happened, I’m something of a young semi- Tom Cruise — you know, leading man-child around there. Andrew and I knew each other from the mid-’80s but we weren’t friends. We come from Melbourne, but we both ended up shifting to Sydney, and by the mid-’90s, we were thick as thieves. We used to spend like every day together. There was a gang of about five of us guys and we would hang out all the time. You know, I was the big swinging dick on campus and Andrew was this ad guy aspiring filmmaker. At one point, we were even talking about doing Chopper. And then Andrew suddenly became the dude, and he would talk to me about this role or that role, but he never gave me any of them. He talked about this one, too. I was in Australia and I got a very frantic call, “Can you put down a test?” And I’m like, “Okay, I’ll put down a test.” I put down a test, and I didn’t hear anything. Like two months went by, and I was about to take another job, and I got a very frantic emergency call from him pleading and imploring me to take the role. And I’m like, “You fucking idiot. Of course, I want to do it.” I was impressed by how different your performances are in Killing Them Softly , The Dark Knight Rises and The Place Beyond The Pines. You play a sort of criminal in each one but the characters are totally distinct. You’ve seen The Place Beyond the Pines ? Yes, I love the ambition of that movie — the way that the story keeps passing the baton to a different set of characters. Yeah, I’m very proud of it. I haven’t watched the films I’ve been in for 10 years prior to this but I’ve seen Killing Them Softly and The Place Beyond the Pines because both were in festivals where it would have been a big deal to walk out. I’m not a jerk-off about this stuff, but I’ve kept away from watching my stuff. Dark Knigh t — I haven’t seen. Why not? I actually think that it helps me to get better when I keep the mental slate clean of the result. I find that when I do watch the result, the stuff that I end up being concerned about is not stuff that I can actually do much about. And by that, I mean the way your face moves, the way — anyway, real actor bullshit. In Killing Them Softly , you play Russell, a low-level heroin-addicted criminal who provides some dark comic relief. It’s quite an intense, sweaty performance. Yeah, he feels disgusting. It’s filthy, filthy stuff. Patty Norris — God bless her, who’s on the short list of best production designers out there — put me in this horrendous acrylic sweatshirt and, it was very muggy in New Orleans. So you put it on and off you go. But the most important thing to figure out when you’re playing someone who’s really stoned or out of it is, you basically want to let yourself go. You bend and sway and sort of get to be goofy, and that’s pretty relaxing. Watching you onscreen, I have to say, I felt like I was watching newsreels of Keith Richards from back in the 70s. Oh, that’s great. That’s highly praise, indeed. Look, there’s some brilliant footage of Sir Keith but he’s got a regalness to him, you know what I mean? Even during his post- Exile on Main Street period, there’s a regal royalty to his stoned-ness, whereas for me, Russell would be more like Lemmy [from Motorhead] if Lemmy was stoned — because Russell’s a bit rough. I can see that. Andrew and I plug into music a lot. We both happen to be very big, old AC/DC fans. So we use a lot of those templates too. We’ve got a bunch of good shorthand. So what AC/DC song best describes your performance in Killing Them Softly ? It is probably “The Jack,” or “Ain’t No Fun Waitin’ Around To Be A Millionaire.” It’s definitely high period Bon Scott — probably “Ain’t No Fun Waitin’ Around To Be A Millionaire,” which is a great, a profoundly underappreciated AC/DC song and one of my personal favorites. You and Scoot McNairy, who plays your partner in crime, have quite a realistic chemistry onscreen. Did you have to work at that? We were there first before anyone else, and we ended up staying the longest. We ended up living together and, I think that was the most important thing. Instead of standing there and pretending to be really angry with each other, we genuinely got to know each other. Once you find the things about each other that piss you off, that’s love. That’s love. You’re going to be in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, How to Catch A Monster . Did that happen because of your work together in The Place Beyond the Pines ? I’m pretty sure that The Place Beyond the Pines happened because of Ryan as well. I think Ryan had said to Derek, “What about him?” The [ Pines ] role, as it was on paper, at the time, was a lot different than what we ended up doing. I was originally going to play a very domineering, down-and-dirty, almost neo-Nazi puppeteer kind of dude who had gotten this guy [Gosling] who was vulnerable and was sending him out to do this stuff. That changed radically. We went a lot deeper in a very different direction, and it lent a very interesting twist to that relationship, which I think is quite beautiful. Can you tell me anything about your role in How to Catch A Monster? I think it’s probably too early. I’m not trying to be miserly about it, but you know, the part is still molten. It hasn’t set yet. We are very early in the figuring out phase of Ryan’s piece, but yeah I’m thrilled. I’m really thrilled about that one. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Carrie Underwood may be a talented, Grammy-winning (heck, everything-winning) country music superstar and the perky, blonde success story that justifies American Idol ‘s iron grip on pop culture — but can she make the hills come alive as Maria von Trapp in NBC’s Sound of Music ? That’s what Chicago & Hairspray producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron must believe, because the pair (who are also producing the upcoming Oscars telecast ) aren’t just tapping the reigning Queen of Country to fill Julie Andrews’ iconic clogs, they’re also taking the ballsy step of doing it in a live broadcast. A live broadcast: That rare beast so prevalent in the early days of television when performers didn’t need auto-tune and could pull off the highwire act of beaming their performance into millions of homes as it happened, flubs and all. “Speaking for everyone at NBC, we couldn’t be happier to have the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt (via THR ). “She was an iconic woman who will now be played by an iconic artist.” Maybe it’s the shock of hearing that anyone would dare remake one of the greatest musicals of all time — or that Underwood, who’s certainly built an empire for herself cobbled together from platinum-selling albums and songs about keying her boyfriend’s car and guest appearances on How I Met Your Mother , has the hubris to say, Yes, I can be the Julie freaking Andrews of a new generation — but Underwood as the wide-eyed nun fleeing Nazis in the Swiss Alps doesn’t quite compute. Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp sounds about as right as Nick Jonas as Marius in Les Miserables . (Then again, Zadan and Meron cast Jonas as a Broadway superstar on NBC’s Smash , so… yeah.) [Watch Underwood perform “The Sound of Music” on CBS, h/t @gerradhall.] What do you think of Underwood as Maria, and NBC’s holiday live-broadcast remake of The Sound of Music ? Sound off below, my little lonely goatherds? [ THR ] Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
All this Lindsay Lohan getting arrested, getting in fights, causing trouble…cuz she’s a broken, spoiled rich kid, who had her youth robbed of her, as her parents prostituted her and sold her out for the benefit of their own egos and bank accounts, leaving her a pile of lost and souless freckled good times… Then there’s the whole Liz & Dick, double chin thanks to plastic surgery, botox and fake lips….reviews where the world hated her performance…while she thought it was her big comeback…thanks to people giving her too much positive reinforcement instead of just telling her to retire… When what really matters is the wet spot on her fucking panties…. Seriously people…get your priorities straight..
All this Lindsay Lohan getting arrested, getting in fights, causing trouble…cuz she’s a broken, spoiled rich kid, who had her youth robbed of her, as her parents prostituted her and sold her out for the benefit of their own egos and bank accounts, leaving her a pile of lost and souless freckled good times… Then there’s the whole Liz & Dick, double chin thanks to plastic surgery, botox and fake lips….reviews where the world hated her performance…while she thought it was her big comeback…thanks to people giving her too much positive reinforcement instead of just telling her to retire… When what really matters is the wet spot on her fucking panties…. Seriously people…get your priorities straight..
If you don’t know who Stuart is… you better ask somebody. Stuart Weitzman Receives Footwear News’ Lifetime Achievement Award with a Special Video Tribute by Beyoncé. Stuart Weitzman was awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award for his many successful years as a luxury shoe designer by Footwear news tonightin a ceremony held at The MOMA in New York City. Among his many fans/clients around the world is Beyoncé Knowles, who taped a special video ‘Shout Out Tribute’ for the occasion. Weitzman and Beyoncé have collaborated together for years on her performance shoes, so it made the celebratory evening quite special for the designer. youtube
News producer turned comedy writer Jenny Johnson makes fun of Chris Brown on Twitter a lot … and earned a vulgar, sexist response from the singer. Johnson has had a field day with Brown for years, but it wasn’t until she tweeted a response to one of his musings Sunday that she got his attention. Chris wrote, “I look old as fuck! I’m only 23…” Johnson re-tweeted that with the comment: “I know! Being a worthless piece of sh!t can really age a person.” Brown responded in typical fashion … hurling sexual, graphic insults at Johnson. See below: Lovely. Just lovely. Rihanna is such a lucky girl to see Chris Brown shirtless in bed . Johnson, like many others, has been going off on Brown ever since he beat the crap out of Rihanna in 2009, largely due to his apparent lack of remorse. Sure, she probably goes overboard at times bashing Brown (she’s not alone in that regard) but it’s just Twitter, and he’s doing quite well for himself career-wise. If you want to move on, why even respond if you’re Chris? Why not take the high road? Chris, instead, gives his “haters” more ammunition with each passing day with stuff like this, not to mention the occasional chair thrown through a window. He clearly wishes people would just get over it as Rihanna has and accept him for who he is. The problem? Who he is is becoming less and less appealing. The mercurial, volatile R&B singer has gotten into it with Johnson (as well as a few other folks) on Twitter in the past, but never to such a disgusting degree. Even card-carrying members of Team Breezy may find it hard to defend this. Expressing a desire to empty one’s bowels on a girl’s face? Wow, dude. Wow. After his performance at the Grammys earlier this year, Brown fired off some unnecessarily aggressive tweets directed at his critics before deleting them. Perhaps not surprisingly, his Twitter account is offline now. Good riddance. What do you think? Whose side are you on this online beef? Team Chris! Team JJ! View Poll »
Mother Monster enlists Versace for a new batch of tour looks, and her performance-artist friends will throw a pre-concert parking-lot party. By Jocelyn Vena Lady Gaga Photo: ChinaFotoPress/ Getty Images
