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15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kathy Bates aims to become the oldest Drama Actress winner in Emmys history, surpassing Glenn Close
Here's a case for Matlock to solve: will Kathy Bates make Emmys history this year? In 2009, then-62-year-old Glenn Close became the oldest Best Drama Actress winner to date. It was her second consecutive trophy for Damages, and when she won the year prior at age 61, she overtook the category's previous oldest champion, Sally Field, who was 60 when she prevailed for Brothers & Sisters in 2007. More from Gold Derby Christine Tremarco reacts to 'Adolescence' Emmy nomination and Owen Cooper's historic honor: 'I'm a very proud pretend mom' 'An absolute cherry on top': Ron Howard on his first-ever acting Emmy nomination for 'The Studio' Bates turned 77 on June 28, which means, should she prevail at the 2025 Emmys on Sept. 14, she'd beat Close's record by 15 years. But as we all know, age is just a number! "I am deeply grateful to the Television Academy for this honor," said the former Best Actress Oscar winner for 1980s' Misery. "My heartfelt thanks to CBS ... for believing in us every step of the way on this beautiful journey and for being such delightful people to work with. Every day on set is a gift thanks to the dedication, talent, and friendship of our incredible cast and crew. And darling Jennie [Snyder Urman, the show creator] — thank you for seeing those of us who feel unseen, for not abandoning me, and for trusting me with Matty's complex story. This nomination really belongs to you ... what a joy it has been for all of us to pour our hearts into bringing your Matlock to life." Bates is nominated for playing Madeline "Matty" Matlock on CBS' loosely inspired remake of the classic Andy Griffith mystery legal drama. However, Matty exists in a world where the original Matlock was a TV show. She is pretending to be a folksy character with that iconic name in order to uncover which lawyer at her new firm, Jacobson Moore, hid evidence that could have prevented the opioid epidemic that led to her daughter's death. The other Best Drama Actress nominees this year are Sharon Horgan for Bad Sisters as Eva Garvey, Britt Lower for Severance as Helly R., Bella Ramsey for The Last of Us as Ellie, and Keri Russell for The Diplomat as Katherine "Kate" Wyler. From this group, only Bates has won at the Emmys before, for Two and a Half Men (guest actress, 2012) and American Horror Story: Coven (supporting actress, 2014). Horgan, Ramsey, and Russell have previously been nominated, while Lower is a first-time nominee. The new Matlock is developed by Urman. Joining Bates in the main cast are Skye P. Marshall as Olympia Lawrence, Jason Ritter as Julian Markston, David Del Rio as Billy Martinez, and Leah Lewis as Sarah Franklin. The drama received no other Emmy nominations. Bates' biggest hurdle at the Emmys has nothing to do with age. She stars on a broadcast network show, and those have had trouble breaking through at awards shows in recent years, with voters instead favoring streaming services and premium channels. In fact, the last time a CBS contender competed in the Best Drama Actress race was Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) over a decade ago; she won in 2011 and 2014. If anyone can break out of the broadcast bubble, it's Bates. The well-respected, veteran actress prevailed at the Critics Choice Awards, and she also reaped noms at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Golden Globes. And, don't forget, TV Academy members love legal shows — just look at prior contenders like Boston Legal, The Practice, Ally McBeal, L.A. Law, and the aforementioned Damages and The Good Wife, which all won Emmys for actors playing lawyers. Bates herself was previously nominated in this same category for playing a quirky defense attorney on Harry's Law, but couldn't pull off the win. She's predicted to have better luck this year for Matlock, as she's the early front-runner to win the Best Drama Actress Emmy. Contender Odds 1. Kathy Bates Matlock 67.8% 2. Britt Lower Severance 25.1% 3. Bella Ramsey The Last of Us 6.0% 4. Keri Russell The Diplomat 0.4% 5. Sharon Horgan Bad Sisters 0.7% Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Cristin Milioti, Amanda Seyfried, Michelle Williams, and the best of our Emmy Limited Series/Movie Actress interviews Click here to read the full article.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Mrs. Doubtfire' Actor Shares What It Was Like to Film This Iconic Scene Alongside Robin Williams
'Mrs. Doubtfire' Actor Shares What It Was Like to Film This Iconic Scene Alongside Robin Williams originally appeared on Parade. Matthew Lawrence has nothing but fond memories from his time filming "Mrs. Doubtfire." On a recent episode of his "Brotherly Love Podcast," that the actor records with his brothers Joey and Andrew, the three got to talking about embarrassing moments on camera from throughout their career. And while Matthew said he wish he could have "deleted" 1993 through 1997, he said "Mrs. Doubtfire" is the exception. Specifically asked about the film's opening scene where he's dancing on a piano alongside his dad who was played by the iconic Robin Williams, the middle sibling, who played Chris Hillard, shut down any thoughts of it being a cringey moment. "That movie is a weird outlier," he said on the podcast. "[It was] 100% comfortable, I think that's because they gave everybody the time to rehearse, you were working with everybody, and also they were so lovely, it felt like family it was weird." The film also starred Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Lisa Jakub, and Mara Wilson. While the three brothers became known as Disney Channel staples, Matthew also went on to play Jack Hunter on "Boy Meets World." In their conversation, youngest brother Andrew admitted that an embarrassing on-camera moment for him was while filming a dance scene in Disney Channel Original Movie, "The Other Me." 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 'Mrs. Doubtfire' Actor Shares What It Was Like to Film This Iconic Scene Alongside Robin Williams first appeared on Parade on Jun 10, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 10, 2025, where it first appeared.
RTÉ News
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Robert Benton, Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Kramer Vs Kramer, dies at 92
Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of Bonnie And Clyde, and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of Kramer Vs Kramer, has died at the age of 92. His son John said he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of "natural causes". During a 40-year screen career, the Texas native received six Oscar nominations and won three times: for writing and directing Kramer Vs Kramer and for writing Places In The Heart. He was widely appreciated by actors as attentive and trusting, and directed Oscar-winning performances by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Sally Field. Although severe dyslexia left him unable to read more than a few pages at a time as a child, he wrote and directed film adaptations of novels by Philip Roth, EL Doctorow and Richard Russo, among others. Benton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies and old gangster stories inspired him and Esquire editor David Newman to draft a treatment about the lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as prototypes for 1960s rebels. The project took years to complete as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were among the directors who turned them down before Warren Beatty agreed to produce and star in the movie. Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway, overcame initial critical resistance in 1967 to the film's shocking violence and became one of the touchstones of 1960s culture and the start of a more open and creative era in Hollywood. Over the following decade, none of Benton's films approached the impact of Bonnie And Clyde, although he continued to have critical and commercial success. His writing credits included Superman and What's Up, Doc? He directed and co-wrote such well-reviewed works as Bad Company, a revisionist western featuring Jeff Bridges, and The Late Show, a melancholy comedy for which his screenplay received an Oscar nomination. His career soared in 1979 with his adaptation of the Avery Corman novel Kramer Vs Kramer, about a self-absorbed advertising executive who becomes a loving parent to his young son after his wife walks out, only to have her return and ask for custody. Starring Hoffman and Streep, the movie was praised as a perceptive, emotional portrait of changing family roles and expectations and won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hoffman, disenchanted at the time with the film business, cited the movie and Benson's direction for reviving his love for movie acting. Five years later, Benton was back in the Oscars race with a more personal film, Places In The Heart, in which he drew on family stories and childhood memories for his 1930s-set drama starring Sally Field as a mother of two in Texas who fights to hold on to her land after her husband is killed. "I think that when I saw it all strung together, I was surprised at what a romantic view I had of the past," Benton told the Associated Press in 1984, adding that the movie was in part a tribute to his mother, who had died shortly before the release of Kramer Vs Kramer. Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, outside Dallas. He owed his early love for movies to his father, telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton who, instead of asking about homework, would take his family to the picture shows. The elder Benton would also share memories of attending the funerals of outlaws Barrow and Parker, Texas natives who grew up in the Dallas area. Robert Benton studied at the University of Texas and Columbia University, then served in the US Army from 1954 until 1956. While at Esquire, he helped start the magazine's long-standing Dubious Achievement Award. He married artist Sallie Rendigs in 1964. They had one son. Between hits, Benton often endured long dry spells. His latter films included such disappointments as the thrillers Billy Bathgate, The Human Stain and Twilight. He had much more success with Nobody's Fool, a wry comedy released in 1994 and starring Paul Newman, in his last Oscar-nominated performance, as a small-town troublemaker in upstate New York. Benton, whose film was based on Russo's novel, was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
CBS News
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Robert Benton, prolific filmmaker known for "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Kramer vs. Kramer," dies at 92
Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of "Bonnie and Clyde," and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Places in the Heart," has died at age 92. Benton's son, John Benton, said that he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of "natural causes." During a 40-year screen career, the Texas native received six Oscar nominations and won three times: for writing and directing "Kramer vs. Kramer" and for writing "Places in the Heart." He was widely appreciated by actors as attentive and trusting, and directed Oscar-winning performances by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Sally Field. Although severe dyslexia left him unable to read more than a few pages at a time as a child, he wrote and directed film adaptations of novels by Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow and Richard Russo, among others. Director Robert Benton speaks onstage at the screening of "Kramer vs. Kramer" during the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 28, 2018 in Hollywood, TCM Benton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies and old gangster stories — and news that a friend got $25,000 for a Doris Day screenplay — inspired him and Esquire editor David Newman to draft a treatment about the lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as prototypes for 1960s rebels. Their project took years to complete as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were among the directors who turned them down before Warren Beatty agreed to produce and star in the movie. "Bonnie and Clyde," directed by Arthur Penn and starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway, overcame initial critical resistance in 1967 to the film's shocking violence and became one of the touchstones of 1960s culture and the start of a more open and creative era in Hollywood. The original story by Benton and Newman was even more daring: they had made Clyde Barrow bisexual and involved in a 3-way relationship with Bonnie and their male getaway driver. Beatty and Penn both resisted, and Barrow instead was portrayed as impotent, with an uncredited Robert Towne making numerous other changes to the script. "I honestly don't know who the 'auteur' of 'Bonnie and Clyde' was," Benton later told Mark Harris, author of "Pictures at a Revolution," a book about "Bonnie and Clyde" and four other movies from 1967. Over the following decade, none of Benton's films approached the impact of "Bonnie and Clyde," although he continued to have critical and commercial success. His writing credits included "Superman" and "What's Up, Doc?" He directed and co-wrote such well-reviewed works as "Bad Company," a revisionist Western featuring Jeff Bridges, and "The Late Show," a melancholy comedy for which his screenplay received an Oscar nomination. His career soared in 1979 with his adaptation of the Avery Corman novel "Kramer vs. Kramer," about a self-absorbed advertising executive who becomes a loving parent to his young son after his wife walks out, only to have her return and ask for custody. Starring Hoffman and Streep, the movie was praised as a perceptive, emotional portrait of changing family roles and expectations and received five Academy Awards, including best picture. Hoffman, disenchanted at the time with the film business, would cite "Kramer vs. Kramer" and Benson's direction for reviving his love for movie acting. Five years later, Benton was back in the Oscars race with a more personal film, "Places in the Heart," in which he drew upon family stories and childhood memories for his 1930s-set drama starring Fields as a mother of two in Texas who fights to hold on to her land after her husband is killed. "I think that when I saw it all strung together, I was surprised at what a romantic view I had of the past," Benton told The Associated Press in 1984, adding that the movie was in part a tribute to his mother, who had died shortly before the release of "Kramer vs. Kramer." Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, outside of Dallas. He owed his early love for movies to his father, telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton, who, instead of asking about homework, would take his family to the picture shows. The elder Benton would also share memories of attending the funerals of outlaws Barrow and Parker, Texas natives who grew up in the Dallas area. Robert Benton studied at the University of Texas and Columbia University, then served in the U.S. Army from 1954 until 1956. While at Esquire, Benton helped start the magazine's long-standing Dubious Achievement Award and dated Gloria Steinem, then on staff at the humor magazine Help! He married artist Sallie Rendigs in 1964. They had one son. Between hits, Benton often endured long dry spells. His latter films included such disappointments as the thrillers "Billy Bathgate," "The Human Stain" and "Twilight." He had much more success with "Nobody's Fool," a wry comedy released in 1994 and starring Paul Newman, in his last Oscar-nominated performance, as a small-town troublemaker in upstate New York. Benton, whose film was based on Russo's novel, was nominated for best adapted screenplay. "Somebody asked me once when the Academy Award nominations came out and I'd been nominated, 'What's the great thing about the Academy Awards?'" Benton told Venice magazine in 1998. "I said, 'When you go to the awards and you see people, some of whom you've had bitter fights with, some of whom you're close friends with, some people you haven't seen in ten years, some people you just saw two days before — it's your family.' It's home. And home is what I've spent my life looking for."
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13-05-2025
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- BreakingNews.ie
Robert Benton, Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Kramer Vs Kramer, dies at 92
Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of Bonnie And Clyde, and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of Kramer Vs Kramer, has died at the age age 92. His son John said he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of 'natural causes'. Advertisement During a 40-year screen career, the Texas native received six Oscar nominations and won three times: for writing and directing Kramer Vs Kramer and for writing Places In The Heart. He was widely appreciated by actors as attentive and trusting, and directed Oscar-winning performances by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Sally Field. Robert Benton with Nicole Kidman at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 (Tobin Grimshaw/Canadian Press/AP) Although severe dyslexia left him unable to read more than a few pages at a time as a child, he wrote and directed film adaptations of novels by Philip Roth, EL Doctorow and Richard Russo, among others. Benton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies and old gangster stories inspired him and Esquire editor David Newman to draft a treatment about the lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as prototypes for 1960s rebels. Advertisement The project took years to complete as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were among the directors who turned them down before Warren Beatty agreed to produce and star in the movie. Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway, overcame initial critical resistance in 1967 to the film's shocking violence and became one of the touchstones of 1960s culture and the start of a more open and creative era in Hollywood. The original story by Benton and Newman was even more daring: they had made Clyde Barrow bisexual and involved in a three-way relationship with Bonnie and their male getaway driver. Beatty and Penn resisted and Barrow was instead portrayed as impotent, with an uncredited Robert Towne making numerous other changes to the script. Advertisement Bonnie and Clyde poster (Alamy/PA) 'I honestly don't know who the 'auteur' of Bonnie And Clyde was,' Benton later told Mark Harris, author of Pictures At A Revolution, a book about Bonnie And Clyde and four other movies from 1967. Over the following decade, none of Benton's films approached the impact of Bonnie And Clyde, although he continued to have critical and commercial success. His writing credits included Superman and What's Up, Doc? He directed and co-wrote such well-reviewed works as Bad Company, a revisionist western featuring Jeff Bridges, and The Late Show, a melancholy comedy for which his screenplay received an Oscar nomination. His career soared in 1979 with his adaptation of the Avery Corman novel Kramer Vs Kramer, about a self-absorbed advertising executive who becomes a loving parent to his young son after his wife walks out, only to have her return and ask for custody. Advertisement Starring Hoffman and Streep, the movie was praised as a perceptive, emotional portrait of changing family roles and expectations and won five Academy Awards, including best picture. Hoffman, disenchanted at the time with the film business, cited the movie and Benson's direction for reviving his love for movie acting. Dustin Hoffman (Alamy/PA) Five years later, Benton was back in the Oscars race with a more personal film, Places In The Heart, in which he drew on family stories and childhood memories for his 1930s-set drama starring Field as a mother of two in Texas who fights to hold on to her land after her husband is killed. 'I think that when I saw it all strung together, I was surprised at what a romantic view I had of the past,' Benton told the Associated Press in 1984, adding that the movie was in part a tribute to his mother, who had died shortly before the release of Kramer Vs Kramer. Advertisement Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, outside Dallas. He owed his early love for movies to his father, telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton who, instead of asking about homework, would take his family to the picture shows. The elder Benton would also share memories of attending the funerals of outlaws Barrow and Parker, Texas natives who grew up in the Dallas area. Robert Benton studied at the University of Texas and Columbia University, then served in the US Army from 1954 until 1956. While at Esquire, he helped start the magazine's long-standing Dubious Achievement Award and dated Gloria Steinem, then on staff at the humour magazine Help! He married artist Sallie Rendigs in 1964. They had one son. Between hits, Benton often endured long dry spells. His latter films included such disappointments as the thrillers Billy Bathgate, The Human Stain and Twilight. He had much more success with Nobody's Fool, a wry comedy released in 1994 and starring Paul Newman, in his last Oscar-nominated performance, as a small-town troublemaker in upstate New York. Benton, whose film was based on Russo's novel, was nominated for best adapted screenplay.
