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The 78th annual DGA Awards are underway in Los Angeles, honoring the year’s most outstanding directorial achievements in film and television. The ceremony is hosted by Oscar and Emmy-nominated comedian Kumail Nanjiani. Quipped Nanjiani (who, unlike previous DGA Awards host Judd Apatow, allowed his monologue to be viewed by reporters in the press room): “Welcome to the DGA Awards. It’s like if a movie was just the credits!” And later: “I’d ask you to keep your speeches short, but I’ve seen your movies, I know it’s not going to happen!” Throughout the night, the five DGA nominees in the top…
Kumail Nanjiani gently skewered a room full of Hollywood heavyweights during his opening monologue at the Directors Guild Awards ceremony, taking aim at the Epstein file, runaway productions, extended running times for many films, and the fact that the union’s top award was named in honor of director D.W. Griffith until 1999. He quipped that the DGA’s accolades, which are part of a series of industry-leading awards events leading up to the March 15 Academy Awards ceremony, represent “Hollywood’s biggest night, excuse me, Vancouver, Budapest and sometimes Atlanta.” “It’s almost like the credits of a movie are just credits,” Nanjiani…
Savannah Guthrie took to social media again Saturday to express an emotional appeal to those who allegedly arrested her mother, Nancy Guthrie. “We received your message and we understand it,” the “Today” anchor said, along with his brother Camron and sister Annie. “Please give us back our mother now so we can celebrate with her,” she added. “This is the only way we can achieve peace. This is something that is very valuable to us and we will pay the price for it.” Savannah Guthrie and her siblings are speaking out again on social media. Instagram/Savannah Guthrie “We received your…
On the red carpet at the DGA Awards on Saturday night, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos addressed the proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. and President Donald Trump’s role in the deal. Asked by Variety’s Marc Malkin whether he would be nervous if the president said he was keeping an eye on the deal, Sarandos said, “Look, I think he has a strong interest in the entertainment industry.” “He knows a lot about the entertainment industry and really cares about the health of the industry, the American industry as a whole, and I think specifically of the entertainment industry,” Sarandos…
Gayle King is speaking out again about the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie. “Somebody knows something,” the CBS Morning host exclusively told Page Six’s Desiree Murphy at Michael Rubin’s Fanatics Super Bowl Party in San Francisco on Saturday. She added: “Now is the time for someone to speak up.” King, 71, spoke out about the crisis Thursday, calling the situation “unimaginable.” Gayle King speaks again about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance in exclusive comments to Page Six. Page 6 “Somebody knows something,” said a CBS Morning journalist. Facebook/Savanah Guthrie “We’re starting things off a little differently this morning because, like…
Savannah Guthrie shared another message with her mother’s abductor on Instagram Saturday afternoon, this time saying she and her family would pay for Nancy Guthrie’s return. “We received your message and we understand it,” Guthrie said in the video, flanked by his brothers Annie and Camron. “We now ask you to return our mother to us and celebrate with us. This is the only way we can have peace. This is very precious to us and we will pay.” Nancy Guthrie went missing from her Arizona home on January 31, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday that her…
Savannah Guthrie’s latest plea to her missing mother Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers raises chilling questions, experts say. On Saturday, in the second Instagram video since Nancy, 84, was taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona, over the weekend, Savannah, 54, publicly told her kidnappers, “We got your message and we understand.” The Today show host, who was joined by her sister Annie Guthrie, 56, and brother Camron Guthrie, 61, added: “We now ask that you give our mother back to us so we can celebrate together. This is the only way we can have peace. This is very precious to us…
“One Battle After Another” cinematographer Michael Bauman won the British Cinematographers Guild Award for Best Cinematography in a Feature Film. This is Bauman’s first time winning or being nominated for a BSC award. He beat out “Die My Love” (Seamus McGarvey), “Marty Supreme” (Darius Khondji), “Sinners” (Autumn Arkapaw Arkapaw) and “Frankenstein” (Dan Rostin). When Mr. Bauman joined Variety for “Inside the Frame,” Mr. Anderson said he wanted something in the “70s movie vein,” citing films such as “The French Connection” and “The Last Detail.” “There was a stylistic roughness to a lot of films at the time, and he really…
The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics opened with an opening ceremony Friday that averaged 21.4 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen and digital data from Adobe Analytics. Official viewing information for the Nielsen Big Data+ panel will be posted on Tuesday. But for now, NBCUniversal reports that this year’s Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony saw a 34% increase in attendance over the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (using a similar methodology, it drew 15.9 million viewers). Coverage of the ceremony was broadcast live from Italy and aired in the afternoon (“Milan Prime”), followed by a prime-time…
Team USA alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin told reporters at a press conference on Saturday (via USA Today) that despite the current political turmoil in the United States, she wants to increase “inclusivity…diversity and kindness” at the 2026 Winter Olympics. When asked about representing the United States in a time of deep social and political division, she said, “I think there’s a lot of hardship, a lot of heartbreak, a lot of violence around the world. It can be hard to reconcile that when you’re competing for medals in an Olympic sport. I actually have some thoughts. I can read what…