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Interview: Owen Asztalos Discusses His Breakthrough Performance in ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
If you’ve seen Hillbilly Elegy, it’s likely you ended the film thinking about Owen Asztalos. Whether the movie moved you or fell flat, Asztalos managed to walk away with it, and that’s truly no small achievement. After all, he’s acting opposite Amy Adams, Haley Bennett, and Glenn Close. Especially in the cases of Adams and […] More
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Film Review: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Draws Strong Acting but Middling Originality
Oscar catnip, at least on paper, Hillbilly Elegy has all the makings of an awards season juggernaut. It has Ron Howard in the director’s chair, himself an Academy Award winner. It’s distributed by Netflix, fast becoming the distributor most eager to tickle the Academy’s fancy. Oh, and let’s not forget that it stars Amy Adams […] More
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Amy Adams and Glenn Close Enter the Oscar Race with ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Trailer
Now that we’ve gotten Roger Deakins his Oscar (two, in fact), the consensus seems to be that it’s time the Academy righted some other wrongs, most notably in the acting categories. There are six actors in the history of the Academy Awards who have been nominated 6 or more times and never won. Four of […] More