Gina Wilhelm Actress – SAG Award Winners Announced The Screen Actors Guild awards were announced January 25th, and some very familiar faces were again recognized for their outstanding work. Meryl Streep received an Actor award for her leading performance in “Doubt.” Followers of this blog will remember that Streep has already achieved an Oscar milestone, having received a record 15 nominations. Her SAG win could portend well for an Oscar. However, the same could hold
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Sundance Winners React The Sundance Film Festival is over now, and one of its big winners is “Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire.” The movie got both the Audience and Grand Jury awards for a U.S. drama, and actress Mo’Nique received a Special Jury Prize for her performance. One of the film’s stars, first-time actress Gabourey Sidibe, described her experience at the festival as “insanely awesome,” and as if it
Gina Wilhelm – Meryl Streep Achieves Oscar Milestone Meryl Streep sat down with Cynthia McFadden of Nightline to talk about her latest achievement. With her latest nomination for leading actress in “Doubt,” Streep has received 15 Oscar nominations, a record. Streep talked to McFadden about the meaninglessness of being called “the world’s greatest living actress.” She discussed how much she enjoys “difficult” women, whether Sister Aloysius from “Doubt” is the nun equivalent of Miranda Priestly
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Actresses React to Their First Oscar Nominations Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson both received their first nominations for Academy Awards this year for “Doubt” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” respectively. Both actresses, nominated in the supporting actress category, reflected on the new honors. Henson screamed silently so as not to wake her baby. She also says costar Brad Pitt (also nominated for an award) was more excited for
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Michelle Williams Gets Into Character Michelle Williams plays a forlorn woman in a Pacific Northwest town who’s lost her dog in “Wendy and Lucy,” imbuing her with sorrow. She worked with Kelly Reichardt, the film’s writer and director, and hopes and plans to work with her again. To find the character, she started by reading the source material for the movie, “Train Choir,” by Jon Raymond. Reichardt, the director told her
