The Hollywood Reporter

The all-new Hollywood Reporter offers unprecedented access to the people, studios, networks and agencies that create the magic in Hollywood. Published weekly, the oversized format includes exceptional photography and rich features.

What Makes a Motion Picture Cast Truly Outstanding? • With films like Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7 boasting impressive lineups of acting talent, SAG-AFTRA’s voters will have to sort through the competing ensembles to decide who deserves their big award

Actors Auditioning for Acting Laurels • As the Gotham Awards and the Critics Choice Super Awards weighed in, nominating committees began voting to determine SAG-AFTRA nominees

Irish History and Folklore Join Hands in a Tale for Our Times • Completing a trilogy that includes the Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, Cartoon Saloon’s latest feature is set in 1650 Ireland, where a young English girl meets a tribe that transforms into wolves

‘I Felt a Little Rusty. It’s Not Like Riding a Bike’ • Three-time Oscar nominee Michelle Pfeiffer looks back at a career spanning four decades, her occasional breaks from acting and her latest starring role in the dark comedy French Exit

‘The Most That’s Been Asked of Me as an Actor’ • Riz Ahmed, the Emmy-winning star of The Night Of, reflects on a career marked by obstacles and sudden success — all of which led to his latest film, Sound of Metal

THE MAKING OF Minari • With a predominantly Korean American cast and crew, writer-director Lee Isaac Chung set out to tell a uniquely American story rarely seen onscreen

COMPLETING AN ENSEMBLE • Finding a lead actor is the easy part. For these casting directors, the bigger challenge was filling the supporting roles in these cinematic worlds

HOW TO CAST A SPIKE LEE JOINT • The director’s longtime casting director Kim Coleman talks about working with the auteur to cast a generation of iconic films

DECADES OF CASTING FOR DAVID FINCHER • Casting director Laray Mayfield worked with the two-time Oscar-nominated director on his biggest features and has developed a great relationship as well as a shorthand with the auteur

‘An Opportunity to Witness Black Excellence’ • A film critic, academic and novelist notes the acute joy and pain of viewing awards contenders that explore African American genius, including One Night in Miami, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Borat’s Anti-Lockdown Rally: ‘What Is Happening?’ • For his return as the fictional Kazakhstani journalist in Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Sacha Baron Cohen brought along his character’s 15-year-old daughter, Tutar. In a conversation with THR, Cohen and breakout star Maria Bakalova reveal how they prepared for the comedy’s wildest (and most dangerous) moments

Broadway Belting and ‘Zazz’ Hands: Honing Movie Stars as Triple Threats • Netflix’s musical comedy The Prom — about a group of self-centered actors who descend upon small-town Indiana to support a teenager banned from bringing her girlfriend to the dance — required its A-list stars to step out of their comfort zones

Singing for Their Supper • These four actors also showed off their vocal talents, performing songs in their otherwise non-musical films

‘This Is a Man Who Lived and Spoke the Truth’ • Judas and the Black Messiah’s Daniel Kaluuya reveals the process of embodying Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton, a revolutionary and civil rights leader ahead of his time

Checking Their Likability at the Door • This season’s crop of blunt, commanding and steely female protagonists — seen in Ammonite, The Forty-Year-Old Version, Nomadland, Pieces of a Woman and Promising Young Woman —provide strength in numbers

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