With 2019 now ending, Gold Derby celebrates over 40 celebrities who died in the past 12 months. Tour our photo gallery above as we feature tributes to these actors, actresses, musicians, producers and entertainers from this past year.
Just a few of the people honored in our special photo gallery:
Iconic singer and actress Diahann Carroll died at age 84 on October 4. She was the first African-American woman to star on her own TV show. She also starred in “Dynasty” and was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame in 2011. She was an Oscar nominee for “Claudine” in 1974.
Tim Conway died on May 14 at age 85. The comedy legend won six Emmy Awards during his lengthy career, including four for “The Carol Burnett Show,” one for “Coach” and one for “30 Rock.” He was inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Legendary singer and...
Just a few of the people honored in our special photo gallery:
Iconic singer and actress Diahann Carroll died at age 84 on October 4. She was the first African-American woman to star on her own TV show. She also starred in “Dynasty” and was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame in 2011. She was an Oscar nominee for “Claudine” in 1974.
Tim Conway died on May 14 at age 85. The comedy legend won six Emmy Awards during his lengthy career, including four for “The Carol Burnett Show,” one for “Coach” and one for “30 Rock.” He was inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 2002.
SEEDoris Day movies: 20 greatest films ranked worst to best
Legendary singer and...
- 12/30/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Hollywood has made many terrific films about childhood, and many about filmmaking. Amazon’s “Honey Boy,” which opened Nov. 8, combines the two: A movie with a child’s Pov of the industry. That unique angle could be a real benefit during awards season, and the film’s backstory — with Shia Labeouf as the main attraction — will prove both its greatest asset and its challenge in an awards push.
Oscar voters in recent years have been enthusiastic about Hollywood-focused stories. For some reason, Academy voters for many decades gave the best-picture prize to films about people in theater, in music (“Amadeus”) and even in the circus (“The Greatest Show on Earth”). But films about moviemaking were generally also-rans: “Singin’ in the Rain,” “The Stunt Man,” “The Player,” “Barton Fink” and “Mulholland Drive” earned a few Oscar bids, but none was nominated as best picture.
The zeitgeist changed in the 21st century...
Oscar voters in recent years have been enthusiastic about Hollywood-focused stories. For some reason, Academy voters for many decades gave the best-picture prize to films about people in theater, in music (“Amadeus”) and even in the circus (“The Greatest Show on Earth”). But films about moviemaking were generally also-rans: “Singin’ in the Rain,” “The Stunt Man,” “The Player,” “Barton Fink” and “Mulholland Drive” earned a few Oscar bids, but none was nominated as best picture.
The zeitgeist changed in the 21st century...
- 12/12/2019
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
The first image that came to filmmaker Céline Sciamma when she began envisioning what would become her fourth feature, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” was not a happy one. While the majority of the action in the French filmmaker’s lush period romance takes place on an isolated island sometime in the 18th century, a handful of later scenes abandon the evocative location, picking up years later in a bustling city. The divide between settings (and tones) is stark, but it’s also necessary to the wild spirit of the film, one that is built around a love story that refuses convention at every turn. That’s where Sciamma started.
“The last scene came really, really early, disconnected from even the idea of a woman painter,” Sciamma said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I wanted to write a love story and I thought, ‘What do I want to tell?...
“The last scene came really, really early, disconnected from even the idea of a woman painter,” Sciamma said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I wanted to write a love story and I thought, ‘What do I want to tell?...
- 12/5/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
David Lynch finally won his first Oscar earlier this year at the Governors Awards, where the “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” icon received an honorary Academy Award. Lynch’s acceptance speech went viral because of its briefness. “To the Academy and everyone who helped me along the way, thanks,” the director said. Then Lynch addressed the statue: “You have a very nice face. Good night.” And that was that. Fortunately, Lynch muse Laura Dern has finally shed some light on the director’s reaction.
Dern attended the Governors Awards this year to give Lynch his honorary Oscar alongside her “Blue Velvet” co-stars Kyle MacLachlan and Isabella Rossellini. “The whole room goes insane,” Dern tells Vulture about Lynch’s win. “The quintessential moment I’ve had with David in all of these years was, he was holding his Oscar, and we walked back for a smoke. He needed a smoke. And as we went outside,...
Dern attended the Governors Awards this year to give Lynch his honorary Oscar alongside her “Blue Velvet” co-stars Kyle MacLachlan and Isabella Rossellini. “The whole room goes insane,” Dern tells Vulture about Lynch’s win. “The quintessential moment I’ve had with David in all of these years was, he was holding his Oscar, and we walked back for a smoke. He needed a smoke. And as we went outside,...
- 12/2/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Spoiler Alert: This podcast contains major spoilers about the A24 film Midsommar.
Too often awards season prognosticators will count the rebel filmmakers out in a given year, easily declaring “Oh, the Academy will never go for this.” Such a silly thought when you consider the amount of mavericks that AMPAS has lauded in the past, i.e. 4x nominee David Lynch for Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and The Elephant Man; 13x nominee and VFX Oscar winner Stanley Kubrick who was even nominated for directing A Clockwork Orange and Doctor Strangelove, and even cinematic absurdist Wes Anderson who counts seven Oscar noms. And how about the ones who broke through and won? Four-time Oscar winners The Coen Brothers who were once considered too out of the box before voters embraced Fargo and No Country for Old Men.
After surprising us last year with his horror pic Hereditary, a film many will...
Too often awards season prognosticators will count the rebel filmmakers out in a given year, easily declaring “Oh, the Academy will never go for this.” Such a silly thought when you consider the amount of mavericks that AMPAS has lauded in the past, i.e. 4x nominee David Lynch for Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and The Elephant Man; 13x nominee and VFX Oscar winner Stanley Kubrick who was even nominated for directing A Clockwork Orange and Doctor Strangelove, and even cinematic absurdist Wes Anderson who counts seven Oscar noms. And how about the ones who broke through and won? Four-time Oscar winners The Coen Brothers who were once considered too out of the box before voters embraced Fargo and No Country for Old Men.
After surprising us last year with his horror pic Hereditary, a film many will...
- 11/20/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
It is no surprise how many people are expressing grief at the death of Robert Forster from brain cancer at age 78. It was far too soon. He’s actually on screen now, in Vince Gilligan’s “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” which hit both theaters and Netflix this weekend.
Anyone who met Forster knows what a kindly man he was, often handing out elegant silver letter openers to set visitors and new acquaintances; he gave me my second at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where he was promoting the intimate family drama “What They Had.” He steals the movie and provides its emotional center as the tough but vulnerable patriarch doggedly hanging onto his wife (Blythe Danner) as she slips into Alzheimer’s.
Bryan Cranston described his “Alligator,” “Breaking Bad,” and “El Camino” costar Forster as a “lovely man and a consummate actor,” he tweeted. “I never...
Anyone who met Forster knows what a kindly man he was, often handing out elegant silver letter openers to set visitors and new acquaintances; he gave me my second at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where he was promoting the intimate family drama “What They Had.” He steals the movie and provides its emotional center as the tough but vulnerable patriarch doggedly hanging onto his wife (Blythe Danner) as she slips into Alzheimer’s.
Bryan Cranston described his “Alligator,” “Breaking Bad,” and “El Camino” costar Forster as a “lovely man and a consummate actor,” he tweeted. “I never...
- 10/12/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Naomi Watts has been cast in the lead role in the upcoming Quibi series “Wolves and Villagers,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The exact plot of the short-form series is being kept under wraps, but Quibi co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has previously described the show as “Fatal Attraction 2.0.” Jason Blum is executive producing the series, with Stuart Blumberg writing and executive producing.
This marks the latest TV project for Watts. She was recently cast in a major role in the “Game of Thrones” prequel pilot at HBO, and signed on to play Gretchen Carlson in the Roger Ailes limited series currently in the works at Showtime. She previously appeared in Showtime’s revival of “Twin Peaks.”
Watts is also known for her roles in films like “Mulholland Drive,” “I Heart Huckabees,” “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “St. Vincent,” “The Ring,” “King Kong, and “J. Edgar.” She earned Academy Award nominations...
The exact plot of the short-form series is being kept under wraps, but Quibi co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has previously described the show as “Fatal Attraction 2.0.” Jason Blum is executive producing the series, with Stuart Blumberg writing and executive producing.
This marks the latest TV project for Watts. She was recently cast in a major role in the “Game of Thrones” prequel pilot at HBO, and signed on to play Gretchen Carlson in the Roger Ailes limited series currently in the works at Showtime. She previously appeared in Showtime’s revival of “Twin Peaks.”
Watts is also known for her roles in films like “Mulholland Drive,” “I Heart Huckabees,” “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “St. Vincent,” “The Ring,” “King Kong, and “J. Edgar.” She earned Academy Award nominations...
- 1/18/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi has taken the U.K. rights to David Robert Mitchell’s “Under the Silver Lake,” which played in Cannes this year. The streaming service will release the film theatrically.
Starring Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough, “Under the Silver Lake” follows Sam (Garfield), a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Keough), swimming in his apartment complex’s pool. When she vanishes, he embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance. “David Robert Mitchell has made a trippy L.A. noir, at once seductive and baffling,” Variety said in its review.
The U.K. deal was struck between Mubi and MadRiver Pictures. The film will have a 2019 release.
Mubi has acquired theatrical rights to several pictures in recent months, including Luca Guadagnino’s lavish “Suspiria” remake and Gus Van Sant’s “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.” Other...
Starring Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough, “Under the Silver Lake” follows Sam (Garfield), a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Keough), swimming in his apartment complex’s pool. When she vanishes, he embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance. “David Robert Mitchell has made a trippy L.A. noir, at once seductive and baffling,” Variety said in its review.
The U.K. deal was struck between Mubi and MadRiver Pictures. The film will have a 2019 release.
Mubi has acquired theatrical rights to several pictures in recent months, including Luca Guadagnino’s lavish “Suspiria” remake and Gus Van Sant’s “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.” Other...
- 9/24/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Ambitious art-house movie streaming platform Mubi continues to make waves after the pickup of Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria with the UK acquisition of David Robert Mitchell’s Cannes head-trip mystery Under The Silver Lake.
The deal was struck between Mubi and MadRiver Pictures. As it is doing with Suspiria, the UK outfit will give Mitchell’s It Follows follow-up a theatrical release, this time in 2019.
Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough and Topher Grace star in the film about a disenchanted 33-year-old (Garfield) who discovers a mysterious woman (Keough) swimming in his apartment complex’s pool. When she vanishes, he embarks on a surreal quest across La to decode the secret behind her disappearance.
The film played in Competition at Cannes and is getting a stateside release via A24 in December.
Bobby Allen, Svp at Mubi said, “We are extremely excited to be bringing Under the Silver Lake to UK audiences later this year.
The deal was struck between Mubi and MadRiver Pictures. As it is doing with Suspiria, the UK outfit will give Mitchell’s It Follows follow-up a theatrical release, this time in 2019.
Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough and Topher Grace star in the film about a disenchanted 33-year-old (Garfield) who discovers a mysterious woman (Keough) swimming in his apartment complex’s pool. When she vanishes, he embarks on a surreal quest across La to decode the secret behind her disappearance.
The film played in Competition at Cannes and is getting a stateside release via A24 in December.
Bobby Allen, Svp at Mubi said, “We are extremely excited to be bringing Under the Silver Lake to UK audiences later this year.
- 9/24/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Twenty years on, the Coen brothers’ comic masterpiece is sleeker and sharper, with even more menace and mystery
After 20 years, the shaggy-dog stoner La noir that may be the Coens’ comic masterpiece rolls back on to the big screen, as light and insouciant as the tumbleweed from the old west that drifts incongruously up to the city in the opening sequence. In fact, after two decades, the film looks weirdly less shaggy, less dishevelled to me: sleeker, sharper, more integrated and with more menace, more mystery. (I found myself thinking of Thomas Pynchon and of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive). Sam Elliott’s basso profundo narrator, topping and tailing the action and appearing enigmatically in the middle, creates a fascinating residue of unease. But there are just as many laughs.
Our sub-Chandleresque hero is Jeffrey “the Dude” Lebowski, unforgettably played by Jeff Bridges: a younger or more lightweight actor...
After 20 years, the shaggy-dog stoner La noir that may be the Coens’ comic masterpiece rolls back on to the big screen, as light and insouciant as the tumbleweed from the old west that drifts incongruously up to the city in the opening sequence. In fact, after two decades, the film looks weirdly less shaggy, less dishevelled to me: sleeker, sharper, more integrated and with more menace, more mystery. (I found myself thinking of Thomas Pynchon and of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive). Sam Elliott’s basso profundo narrator, topping and tailing the action and appearing enigmatically in the middle, creates a fascinating residue of unease. But there are just as many laughs.
Our sub-Chandleresque hero is Jeffrey “the Dude” Lebowski, unforgettably played by Jeff Bridges: a younger or more lightweight actor...
- 9/20/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
With cymbals crashing and string basses moaning, composer Angelo Badalamenti narrates a bawdy, bizarre and horrific story on “Woodcutters From Fiery Ships,” a track off his upcoming collaborative album with filmmaker David Lynch. The pair recorded the LP, Thought Gang, in spurts throughout the early Nineties, and though Lynch has used some of the tracks in his various films, it hasn’t gotten a proper release. It will now come out digitally and on LP and CD on November 2nd.
Badalamenti and Lynch first started working together in the mid-Eighties,...
Badalamenti and Lynch first started working together in the mid-Eighties,...
- 9/18/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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