Bening

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmma Stone, Lily Gladstone, and Annette Bening were seen embracing at the 2024 Oscars.The trio, who were all nominated for Best Actress, shared an emotional group hug during a commercial break at the 96th Academy Awards. At one point, they were reportedly joined by Margot Robbie, who many felt had been snubbed by the awards ceremony for her leading performance in last year’s summer…

Annette Bening has been a household name for the majority of her decades-long career in film and television. During that time, she’s earned recognition and nominations from major awards bodies like the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes, the Emmys, the SAG Awards and the Tony Awards, becoming one of the most decorated performers in the process.  Bening added to her collection of nominations just this year, when she received an Academy Award nod for Best Actress for her role as journalist and long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in…

A lot has changed in Hollywood since Annette Bening was nominated for her first Academy Award, for The Grifters in 1990.  “I went to the Academy Awards with Ed Begley in his electric car. At the time, no one knew what an electric car was, basically. Ed was so far ahead of the curve,” Bening says with a smile. We’re talking in a quiet, dark corner of a hotel bar in the Langham Pasadena, and the 65-year-old actress is the epitome of cool in a black leather jacket and a gold snake ring wrapped around her finger.…

In portraying the long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix biopic Nyad, Annette Bening makes a believable, detailed portrait out of an unbelievable, frankly bananas story. In 1978, when she was 28, Nyad attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida, a 54-hour-plus journey through waters riddled with jellyfish, the sting of which was so strong it was like being electrocuted. She was forced to abort, having completed 76 miles, only some of them in a straight line.Thirty-two years later, Nyad started training for a second…

If Gavin Newsom does one day run for president, he might have trouble getting support from Annette Bening and her husband Warren Beatty, even though the “Bonnie and Clyde” star is one of Hollywood’s most famous Democrats. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Bening thought that the California governor did something “reprehensible” during the recent, months-long actors and writers strikes. Members of SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America backed legislation that would give unemployment benefits to workers on strike.…

There’s a whiff of the plane movie emanating from ho-hum Paramount+ comedy Jerry and Marge Go Large, an acceptable half-awake diversion when one has run out of other, better options in the sky but something that’s a little harder to justify on the ground. This week’s bounty of major streaming premieres – a charming remake of Father of the Bride, Joseph Kosinski’s stylish, if insubstantial, sci-fi thriller Spiderhead, Jennifer Lopez’s enjoyable if overly airbrushed pop star doc Halftime, Emma Thompson’s juiciest role for…