Critics Choice Awards: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ takes home 5 awards
As the award season inches closer to the Academy Awards, the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards were handed out Sunday night. >> Read more trending news“Everything Everywhere All at Once” was once again the big winner Sunday, taking home five awards, including the Critic’s Choice awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing. The awards were chosen by the Critics Choice Association, which is made up of 500 broadcast, radio and online critics, as well as journalists, mostly based in the U.S., according to The Hollywood Reporter. He beat “Elvis” star Austin Butler, who won the Best Actor Award at the Golden Globes last week, USA Today reported. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association) (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Critics Choice )©2022 Cox Media Group
wftv.comCritics Choice Awards: ‘Everything Everything All at Once’ takes home 5 awards
As the award season inches closer to the Academy Awards, the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards were handed out Sunday night. >> Read more trending news“Everything Everything All at Once” was once again the big winner Sunday, taking home five awards, including the Critic’s Choice awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing. The awards were chosen by the Critics Choice Association, which is made up of 500 broadcast, radio and online critics, as well as journalists, mostly based in the U.S., according to The Hollywood Reporter. He beat “Elvis” star Austin Butler, who won the Best Actor Award at the Golden Globes last week, USA Today reported. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association) (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Critics Choice )©2022 Cox Media Group
wftv.comJeff Bridges to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Critics' Choice Awards two years after cancer diagnosis
Jeff Bridges to be honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from Critics' Choice Association. The actor is receiving award two years after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
foxnews.comJeff Bridges on surviving cancer and COVID
The Oscar-winning actor, who's led a seemingly charmed life as the star of "Crazy Heart" and "The Big Lebowski," talks about his terrifying health crises – from his diagnosis for lymphoma (now in remission), to overcoming a five-week hospital stay with COVID-19.
cbsnews.comJeff Bridges says he feels ‘terrific’ following lymphoma remission
Jeff Bridges says he feels 'terrific' following lymphoma remission This Sept. 22, 2018, file photo shows cast member Jeff Bridges arriving at the Los Angeles premiere of "Bad Times at the El Royale" at TCL Chinese Theatre. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)Six months after announcing that his cancer had gone into remission, all is well for actor Jeff Bridges. The following September, he announced that he was in remission, according to the entertainment outlets. >> ‘The prognosis is good’: Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges reveals cancer diagnosisJohn Lithgow, who also stars in the series, called Bridges “the most big-hearted person,” the outlets reported. Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 35 1970 Jeff Bridges (front) as Doug and James A Watson Jr (behind) as JT Watson in the film 'Halls of Anger', 1970.
wftv.comJeff Bridges says tumor shrank, COVID 'in rear view mirror'
Jeff Bridges Susan Geston, left, and Jeff Bridges arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Bridges announced on his website Monday, Sept. 13, 2021 that his cancer was in remission and that he and his wife Susan Geston also recovered from COVID-19. But in an update he said he is sharing only now, Bridges said he and his wife, Susan Geston, were infected with COVID-19 while he was undergoing chemotherapy. “Covid kicked my a(asterisk)(asterisk) pretty good, but I'm double vaccinated & feeling much better now,” he wrote. The FX series had been scheduled to premiere this year, before cancer and COVID-19 got in the way.
wftv.comJeff Bridges says his cancer is in remission as he recovers from COVID-19
Acclaimed actor Jeff Bridges said Monday that his cancer is in remission, although he continues to recover after testing positive earlier this year for COVID-19. “(T)he ‘9 x 12’ mass has shrunk down to the size of a marble,” Bridges wrote in an update posted Monday on his website. >> Related: ‘The prognosis is good’: Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges reveals cancer diagnosisThe “Crazy Heart” and “Big Lebowski” actor also shared thoughts he wrote in March, after he and his wife tested positive for COVID-19 following a possible exposure to the virus during chemotherapy. Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 35 1970 Jeff Bridges (front) as Doug and James A Watson Jr (behind) as JT Watson in the film 'Halls of Anger', 1970. The entertainment news site reported that the show was originally slated to debut in 2021, though plans were pushed back following Bridges’ cancer diagnosis.
wftv.comFonda says Hollywood needs more diversity after Globes honor
In this video grab issued Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, by NBC, Jane Fonda accepts the Cecil B. deMille Award at the Golden Globe Awards. (NBC via AP)LOS ANGELES – Just like in her career, Jane Fonda used the Golden Globes’ platform to speak on deeper issues calling for greater diversity in Hollywood while praising the “community of storytellers” as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award. While wearing an all-white suit, Fonda raised the Globes’ highest honor above her head Sunday before commending storytellers for their vital role in troubled times. She is the daughter of Oscar winner Henry Fonda, who died in 1982, and sister of Peter Fonda, who died in 2019. She launched IndieCollect’s Jane Fonda Fund for Women Directors, an organization aimed to support the restoration of films helmed by women from around the world.
Pioneering Hollywood casting director Lynn Stalmaster dies
FILE - In this April 10, 2014, file photo, Lynn Stalmaster arrives at the TCM Classic Film Festival's Opening Night Gala in Los Angeles. Lynn Stalmaster, the Oscar-winning casting director whose eye for talent helped launch the careers of John Travolta, Christopher Reeve, Richard Dreyfuss and many other actors, has died. Bang /Invision/AP, File)Lynn Stalmaster, the Oscar-winning casting director whose eye for talent helped launch the careers of John Travolta, Christopher Reeve, Richard Dreyfuss and many other actors, has died. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had long resisted giving special recognition to casting directors and Stalmaster was brought to tears. He was an apprentice to a pair of TV producers who made him their casting director.
Jane Fonda to receive Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award
FILE - Actress Jane Fonda appears at the 71st international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 12, 2018. The Golden Globes will bestow the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Fonda during the 78th annual awards show next month. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES – Jane Fonda cemented herself into Hollywood allure as a chameleonlike actor and social activist, and now the Golden Globes will honor her illustrious career with its highest honor. Fonda will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 78th annual awards ceremony on Feb. 28, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Tuesday. She launched IndieCollect’s Jane Fonda Fund for Women Directors, an organization aimed to support the restoration of films helmed by women from around the world.
Jeff Bridges says he has lymphoma, cites good prognosis
LOS ANGELES – Jeff Bridges says he is being treated for lymphoma and his prognosis is good. The 70-year-old actor channeled his The Dude character from “The Big Lebowski” in a statement on social media about the diagnosis Monday evening. He expressed gratitude to his family, friends and medical team and promised to keep fans posted on his recovery. Bridges is a seven-time Oscar nominee known for his roles in “Starman,” “True Grit,” “The Last Picture Show” and many other films. He won an Academy Award in 2010 for “Crazy Heart” and was most recently nominated for playing a grizzled lawman in “Hell or High Water.”The affable Bridges is considered Hollywood royalty, the son of actors Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges, who both died in 1998.