Thelma: Director Margolis Got Blessing of Tom Cruise (and His Own Grandma) for Oscar Nominee June Squibb Action-Comedy

I always wanted it to be June Squibb, she always felt like the only person for the part. It was pretty hard to imagine anybody else.

We Were the Lucky Ones: Director Thomas Kail (Fosse/Verdon) on his Series–Family Reunion in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Before Hunter even thought about putting the Kurc family’s Holocaust survival story on paper, Kail had already heard many of the real-life accounts.

Star Wars: George Lucas Rejects Critics Who Think the First Six Films Are ‘All White Men’: ‘Most of the People Are Aliens!’

Lucas Rejects Critics Who Think the First Six Films Are ‘All White Men’: ‘Most of the People Are Aliens!’

Oscar Actors: Kidman, Nicole–Honoree of AFI Lifetime Achievement Award

Four decades after her feature debut in 1983’s BMX Bandits, Oscar and two-time Emmy winner Nicole Kidman receives a history-making honor: the AFI Life Achievement Award.

Zone of Interest, The: Cinematographer Lukasz Zal on “Forgetting Everything I Learned” to Make Harrowing Holocaust Drama

To film The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s harrowing Holocaust drama–and major Oscar contender–about the domestic life of an Auschwitz commandant and his family, Polish cinematographer Lukasz Zal had to “forget everything I was taught” about making “beautiful images.”