Movie:love And Mercy

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    13 Long Shots We'd Like to See Get Oscar Nominations This Week

    The nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards will be announced on Thursday, and Golden Globe winners like Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) and Brie Larson (Room) are as close as you can get to sure things. But Oscar always has a few surprises up his sleeve and occasionally a long-shot contender makes the cut. Below are 13 unlikely actors and movies we’d love to see named on Thursday morning.

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    'Spotlight,' 'Love & Mercy' Win Top Gotham Awards

    The 25th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards Monday night at Cipriani Wall Street in New York yielded moving speeches and jabs at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

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    Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks and Bill Pohlad on 'Love & Mercy,' the Year's Other Great Unconventional Biopic

    Paul Dano as Brian Wilson in ‘Love & Mercy’ (Roadside Attractions) Though it’s not making much noise at the box office, Steve Jobs has been roundly praised by critics, with many kudos for the untraditional, three-part structure director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin employ in looking at the life of the late Apple CEO. It could be in line for a gaggle of awards, including for lead actor Michael Fassbender, but it might not actually be the year’s best unconventional biopic. Months befo

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    Elizabeth Banks Got the Cold Shoulder From the Bush Twins After Playing Laura in ‘W’

    Elizabeth Banks in ‘W.’ (Lionsgate) Elizabeth Banks gets along famously with Melinda Ledbetter, the wife of Beach Boys icon Brian Wilson who Banks plays in the biopic Love & Mercy. The actress raved about the model-turned-car saleswoman in an interview with us over the weekend, and on Monday night, the pair hit the dance floor arm-in-arm at a Los Angeles event celebrating the hit indie movie, an unconventional look at Wilson’s musical genius and troubled life costarring Paul Dano and John Cusack

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    Elizabeth Banks: Philip Seymour Hoffman's Performance Is 'Mockingjay — Part 2' Highlight

    Banks and Hoffman in ‘The Hunger Games’ (Lionsgate) Elizabeth Banks has already watched The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, and there’s one part of the beloved series’ final chapter that moved her the most. “The most emotional thing about seeing the movie is seeing Phil, seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman again,” Banks told us this weekend while doing a round of publicity for her acclaimed drama Love & Mercy. “And just being taken right back to that whole experience and just being reminded of that

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    It's an Amazing Summer at the Movies for Music Lovers

    It all kicked off with the riveting, “authorized” tell-all documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, which has not only been called “the most intimate rock doc ever” but which Jack Black personally told us was the best rock doc ever, and we’d trust that guy to school us in rock docs.