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  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    Oscar Nominee Spotlight: 'Room' Star Brie Larson's Busy Awards Season

    Just a taste of the 'Room' stars long awards-season press tour

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    'Room' Was Nominated for Best Picture Despite Making Historically Little Money

    Today was a big day for Room, which received four nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Lenny Abrahamson), Best Actress (Brie Larson), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Emma Donoghue). It was an even bigger day for A24, the rising distributor and production company, which just nabbed its first Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Released on October 16, 2015, Room reached a peak of 198 theaters the weekend of December 11–13, and has been gradually dropping its theater count since then.

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    'Carol' Leads Independent Spirit Award Nominations

    Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation scored five nominations, with Spotlight taking four and the Robert Altman Award for its ensemble cast. By Hilary Lewis The nominations for the 31st Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced on Tuesday morning, with Todd Haynes’ 1950s-set lesbian love story Carol scoring a leading six nominations. Netflix’s first original feature film, Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, landed five nominations. Spotlight, about the Boston Globe’s investigation into years of chi

  • NewsMeriah Doty

    Get to Know Jacob Tremblay, This Year's Littlest Awards-Season Contender and Wookiee Wannabe

    In many ways, Jacob Tremblay is exceptional, earning early Oscar buzz for his performance as boy born in captivity in the acclaimed indie drama Room, which expands in select theaters this weekend. In other ways, he’s just like any other 9-year-old — buzzing over the latest Star Wars trailer and eager to discuss the time he flipped his entire body performing a stunt in the acclaimed film, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Brie Larson as his kidnapped mother. The brown-haired kid, a Cana

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    'Room' Star Brie Larson Got Her Karaoke on to Escape the Movie's Emotional Turmoil

    In the devastating new drama Room, Brie Larson plays a young woman held captive in a tiny backyard shack with her son. “So the typical things that you do in a day like, ‘Oh I’ll just zone out and watch [the Food Network reality show] Chopped for 30 minutes’ isn’t enough with something like this.” (Watch the full interview above.) Related: The Movie ‘Room’ Really Made a Super-Small, Prison-Like Room. She found that easy with her 9-year-old co-star Jacob Tremblay, who she bonded with over Star W

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    'Diary of a Teenage Girl' Leads Gotham Awards Nominations

    The nominations for the 2015 Gotham Independent Film Awards were unveiled Thursday morning, with Diary of a Teenage Girl receiving four noms, including one for best feature. Other films receiving multiple nominations included Carol, Heaven Knows What, James White, Love & Mercy, Spotlight and Tangerine. A full list of the 2015 IFP Gotham Independent Film Award nominations follows. Best Feature Carol Todd Haynes, director; Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley, producers

  • NewsJordan Zakarin

    The Movie ‘Room’ Really Made a Super-Small, Prison-Like Room. Here’s How They Did It

    Creating a small, simple room turned out to be the biggest challenge of production designer Ethan Tobman’s career. The 36-year-old Montreal native, whose credits include the recent Jack Black comedy The D Train, faced a daunting task when he joined the new drama Room, about a young mother, Ma (played by Brie Larson), who’s kidnapped by an abductor known only as “Old Nick” and then trapped in a tiny bedroom with her 5-year-old son, Jack (Jacob “Jake” Tremblay).