Tag: oscar

  • Annette Bening’s 5th Oscar Nomination & 1st Win?

    Annette Bening’s 5th Oscar Nomination & 1st Win?

    queerguru’s London correspondent fresh from a screening at the BF1 London Film Festival of Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is now adamant that this will be the year that Annette Bening will finally snatch up the Best Actress Oscar. In a tour-de-force performance Bening plays fading Hollywood star Gloria Grahame in this true stranger-than-fiction…

  • Dame Judi Dench : a shoo-in for another Oscar.

    Dame Judi Dench : a shoo-in for another Oscar.

    Dame Judi Dench looks certain to be one of the first shoo-in nominations for next year’s Best Actress Academy Award with this new stunning portrayal of Queen Victoria.  This highly unusual tale Victoria & Abdul is based on a real life story when the veteran Queen takes a real shine to  Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a…

  • Fifth Time lucky for Annette Bening?

    Fifth Time lucky for Annette Bening?

    She’s won 2 Golden Globe Awards plus a SAG Best Actress Award and a BAFTA, but despite being nominated 4 times for an Academy Award, an Oscar has proved elusive for the exceptional talented actress Annette Bening. However, now there is a buzz that her latest performance in 20th Century Women that will premiere as the centerpiece gala…

  • Amy : the story of the late great Amy Winehouse

    Amy : the story of the late great Amy Winehouse

    The great British soul queen Amy Winehouse burned so bright with her extraordinary voice belting out her songs fuelled with so much of her personal anguish and love in an era when most other music was blandly manufactured, and it’s still difficult to take on board that she eventually burned herself out.  In Asif Kapadia’s…