Jacob Elordi Earns First Two Golden Globes Nominations of His Career

Posted on December 8, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Jacon Elordi is celebrating his first-ever Golden Globes nominations…

Nominees for the 2026 Golden Globe Awards have been announced, with the 28-year-old Spanish-Australian actor earning two nods.

In the film section, Elordi is nominated in the best performance by a male actor in a supporting role for his performance in Frankenstein.

In the television section, Elordi is up for best performance by a male actor in a limited series, anthology series or movie made for television for his performance in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Oscar Isaac, who won a Golden Globe in 2016, has earned his fourth career nod.

The 46-year-old Cuban-Guatemalan picked up a nod in the best performance by a male actor in a motion picture, drama for his role in Frankenstein.

Tessa Thompson has earned the first Golden Globes nomination of her career.

The 42-year-old half-Mexican, part Panamanian American actress is up for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture, drama for her role in Hedda.

Wagner Moura has earned the second Golden Globes nomination of his career.

The 49-year-old Brazilian actor and filmmaker is nominated in the best performance by a male actor in a motion picture, drama for his role in the Brazilian Portuguese historical political thriller The Secret Agent.

Guillermo del Toro, a two-time Golden Globe winner, is up for two awards this year.

The 61-year-old Mexican Oscar-winning filmmaker is up for best motion picture, drama and best director for Frankenstein.

Benicio del Toro is nominated in the best performance by a male actor in a supporting role category for his role in One Battle After Another, which is this year’s leading nominee.

Diego Luna is back in the running for a Golden Globe.

The Mexican actor, director and producer has picked up his second consecutive nod in the Bbest performance by a male actor, drama category for his portrayal of Cassian Andor in Rogue One.Selena Gomez and Jenna Ortega will once again face off in the best performance by a female actor TV series, musical or comedy.

Gomez is nominated for for the fourth consecutive time for her role in Only Murders in the Building, as well as for the fifth consecutive time for best television series – musical or comedy for serving as a producer on the series.

Ortega, meantime, earned her second nod for her work on Wednesday.

Here’s the list of nominees for this year’s awards, which will be held on January 11 at the Beverly Hilton. Nikki Glaser will host the ceremony.

Movies

Best motion picture, drama
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“It Was Just An Accident”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”

Best motion picture, musical or comedy
“Blue Moon”
“Bugonia”
“Marty Supreme”
“No Other Choice”
“Nouvelle Vague”
“One Battle After Another”

Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture, drama
Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Die My Love”
Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”
Julia Roberts, “After the Hunt”
Tessa Thompson, “Hedda”
Eva Victor, “Sorry Baby.”

Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture, drama
Joel Edgerton, “Train Dreams”
Oscar Isaac, “Frankenstein”
Dwayne Johnson, “The Smashing Machine”
Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”
Jeremy Allen White, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere”

Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked: For Good”
Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”
Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another”
Amanda Seyfried, “The Testament of Ann Lee”
Emma Stone, “Bugonia.”

Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
George Clooney, “Jay Kelly”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
Lee Byung-hun, “No Other Choice”
Jesse Plemons, “Bugonia.”

Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role
Emily Blunt, “The Smashing Machine”
Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”
Ariana Grande, “Wicked: For Good”
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”
Amy Madigan, “Weapons”
Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”

Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role
Benicio Del Toro, “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
Paul Mescal, “Hamnet”
Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
Adam Sandler, “Jay Kelly”
Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”

Cinematic and box office achievement
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“F1”
“KPop Demon Hunters”
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”
“Sinners”
“Weapons”
“Wicked: For Good”
“Zootopia 2.”

Best motion picture, non-English
“It Was Just an Accident,” France
“No Other Choice,” South Korea
“The Secret Agent,” Brazil
“Sentimental Value,” Norway
“Sirāt,” Spain
“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Tunisia

Best motion picture, animated
“Arco”
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle”
“Elio”
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
“Zootopia 2”

Best director
Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”
Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”
Jafar Panahi, “It Was Just an Accident”
Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”

Best screenplay
“One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson
“Marty Supreme,” Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
“Sinners,” Ryan Coogler
“It Was Just an Accident,” Jafar Panahi
“Sentimental Value,” Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
“Hamnet,” Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell

Best original score
“Frankenstein,” Alexandre Desplat
“Sinners,” Ludwig Göransson
“One Battle After Another,” Jonny Greenwood
“Sirāt,” Kangding Ray
“Hamnet,” Max Richter
“F1,” Hans Zimmer

Best original song
“Dream as One,” from “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“Golden,” from “KPop Demon Hunters”
“I Lied to You,” from “Sinners”
“No Place Like Home,” from “Wicked: For Good”
“The Girl in the Bubble,” from “Wicked: For Good”
“Train Dreams,” from “Train Dreams”

Television

Best television series, drama
“The Diplomat”
“The Pitt”
“Pluribus”
“Severance”
“Slow Horses”
“The White Lotus”

Best television series, comedy or musical
“Abbott Elementary”
“The Bear”
“Hacks”
“Nobody Wants This”
“Only Murders in the Building”
“The Studio”

Best performance by a female actor, drama
Kathy Bates, “Matlock”
Britt Lower, “Severance”
Helen Mirren, “Mobland”
Bella Ramsey, “The Last of Us”
Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”
Rhea Seehorn, “Pluribus”

Best performance by a male actor, drama
Sterling K. Brown, “Paradise”
Diego Luna, “Andor”
Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
Mark Ruffalo, “Task”
Adam Scott, “Severance”
Noah Wyle, “The Pitt.”

Best performance by a female actor TV series, musical or comedy
Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants This”
Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”
Natasha Lyonne, “Poker Face”
Jenna Ortega, “Wednesday”
Jean Smart, “Hacks”

Best performance by a male actor, TV series, musical or comedy
Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”
Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”
Glen Powell, “Chad Powers”
Seth Rogen, “The Studio”
Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”
Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”

Best limited series, anthology series or movie made for television
“Adolescence”
“All Her Fault”
“The Beast in Me”
“Black Mirror”
“The Girlfriend”
“Dying for Sex”

Best performance by a male actor in a limited series, anthology series or movie made for television
Jacob Elordi, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”
Paul Giamatti, “Black Mirror”
Stephen Graham, “Adolescence”
Charlie Hunnam, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”
Jude Law, “Black Rabbit”
Matthew Rhys, “The Beast in Me”

Best performance by a female actor in a limited series, anthology series or movie made for television
Claire Danes, “The Beast in Me”
Rashida Jones, “Black Mirror”
Amanda Seyfried, “Long Bright River”
Sarah Snook, “All Her Fault”
Michelle Williams, “Dying for Sex”
Robin Wright, “The Girlfriend”

Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role
Carrie Coon, “The White Lotus”
Erin Doherty, “Adolescence”
Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”
Catherine O’Hara, “The Studio”
Parker Posey, “The White Lotus”
Aimee Lou Wood, “The White Lotus”

Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role
Owen Cooper, “Adolescence”
Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”
Walton Goggins, “The White Lotus”
Jason Isaacs, “The White Lotus”
Tramell Tillman, “Severance”
Ashley Walters, “Adolescence”

Best performance in stand-up comedy on TV
Bill Maher, “Is Anyone Else Seeing This?”
Brett Goldstein, “The Second Best Night of Your Life”
Kevin Hart, “Acting My Age”
Kumail Nanjiani, “Night Thoughts”
Ricky Gervais, “Mortality”
Sarah Silverman, “PostMortem”

Best podcast
“Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard”
Call Her Daddy”
“Good Hang with Amy Poehler”
“The Mel Robbins Podcast”
“SmartLess”
“Up First from NPR”

Apple TV+ Releases Trailer for Wagner Moura’s New Series “Dope Thief”

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Wagner Moura’s latest role is the real steal…

Apple TV+ has released a new trailer for Dope Thief, starring the 48-year-old Golden Globe-nominated Brazilian actor and Brian Tyree Henry as two long-time friends who pose as feds to “rip off drug dealers”.

The duo end up robbing the wrong country house, unearthing the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard.

“These guys are going to come after us, man,” a distraught Manny Cespedes (Moura) tells Henry’s Ray Driscoll in the trailer. “These people are gonna hurt anybody that we care about,” says Henry’s Ray.

Based on Dennis Tafoya’s book of the same name, Dope Thief hails from Peter Craig and Ridley Scott.

In addition to Henry and Moura, the cast includes Marin Ireland, Kate Mulgrew, Nesta Cooper, Amir Arison and Ving Rhames.

Dope Thief hails from Apple Studios and is being produced by Scott Free Production.

Craig wrote all eight episodes, and will helm one, in his directorial debut.

It will premiere with the first two episodes on Friday, March 14, 2025 followed by new episodes every Friday through April 25 on Apple TV+.

Wagner Moura to Star in High-Concept Sci-Fi Thriller “11817”

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Wagner Moura has locked in his next project…

The 48-year-old Brazilian actor, director and filmmaker will star opposite Greta Lee in the high-concept sci-fi thriller 11817 from director Louis Leterrier, with Netflix also recently boarding the project.

The film follows a family of four who are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, and they must work to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped.

Leterrier will direct from a script by Matthew Robinson.

Leterrier will also produce with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Kori Adelson, who will produce through Chernin Entertainment, as well as Oly Obst for 3 Arts Entertainment.

Thomas Benski, Cecile Gaget, Lars Sylvest and Thorsten Schumacher will executive produce.

Moura earned raves for his A24 film Civil War. He can next be seen in the TV series Dope Thief and the film Last Night at the Lobster.

A24 Releases Trailer for Henrique Zaga’s New Film “Warfare”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Henrique (Henry) Zaga is preparing for war(fare)…

A24 has released the first trailer for Warfare, starring the 31-year-old Brazilian actor and Noah Centineo.

The film is described as an immersive step into the reality of the Iraq War from the Navy SEAL’s perspective, which hits theaters in 2025.

Written and directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of U.S. Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of U.S. forces through insurgent territory.

A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.

The ensemble film’s cast includes D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henrique Zaga, Joseph Quinn and Charles Melton.

An Iraq War veteran, Mendoza came to partner with Garland on Warfare after serving as his military supervisor on Civil War, his dystopian drama, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny, which released this spring., grossing over $126 million worldwide.

Adria Arjona to Star in Ed Brubaker’s Graphic Novel Series “Criminal”

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Adria Arjona is getting criminal…

The 32-year-old Puerto Rican actress has joined the cast of Ed Brubaker’s graphic novel series Criminal in a series regular role.

Arjona joins previously announced cast member Richard Jenkins.

Criminal is an interlocking universe of crime stories based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

Arjona will bring to life Greta, a sharp-tongued top-level car thief and driver and the widowed mother of Angie. Ever since her husband died in a bank job gone bad, Greta has been battling with herself about how to escape the only life she’s ever known – and the only place she’s ever thrived. The problem is, she’s good at this. She’s looking for a big score, a lump of money she can use like a gun to shoot her and Angie out of this life and into another one.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the first four episodes.

The series is executive produced by Brubaker and Jordan Harper, alongside Phillips, Sarah Carbiener and Phillip Barnett.

Legendary Television will also serve as an executive producer. The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.

Arjona can currently be seen in Richard Linklater’s Netflix movie Hit Man starring alongside Glen Powell. Before that, she starred as “Bix Caleen” in the Disney+ hit series, Andor, a prequel to Star Wars’ Rogue One film.

Arjona played a recurring role in HBO’s True Detective Season 2, Netflix’s Narcos and HBO’s Irma Vep, a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film.

Up next, she’ll be seen in Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut film Blink Twice as well as Los Frikis, a film she stars in and executive produces.

Additionally, she will star alongside Wagner Moura in the feature film adaptation of Francisco Goldman’s bestselling book Say Her Name and Jayro Bustamante’s dystopian thriller El Sombreron opposite Edgar Ramirez.

Prior film credits include Father Of The Bride, Sony’s Marvel franchise Morbius, Netflix’s Sweet Girl, Michael Bay’s Six Underground, Marco Perego Saldana’s feature The Absence Of Eden, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Life of the Party and Triple Frontier.

Wagner Moura’s “Civil War” Remains No. 1 Movie in America for Second Weekend

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Wagner Moura is stilling winning the war at the U.S. box office…

The 47-year-old’s Brazilian actor, director and filmmaker’s latest film, Civil War, is No. 1 at the box office for a second week in a row, fending off three new releases to retain the top spot on North American charts.

Alex Garland’s film, starring Moura and Kirsten Dunst as a journalist and photojournalist who traverse a violently divided United States, added $11.12 million in its second weekend of release.

It has earned $44.8 million in its two weeks on the big screen and already stands as one of A24’s top five highest-grossing movies of all time. With a $50 million price tag, it’s also the indie distributor’s most expensive film to date.

Though it was a close race, Civil War charged ahead of a trio of newcomers — Universal’s vampire horror film Abigail, director Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Sony and Crunchyroll’s anime adventure Spy x Family Code: White.

A24 Releases New Trailer for Wagner Moura’s “Civil War”

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

There’s more war in Wagner Moura’s life…

A24 has released a new trailer for Civil War, starring the 47-year-old Brazilian actor, director and filmmaker, giving viewers a new gl;impseat the domestic carnage in store in the original action film.

The footage kicks off with an address from the President, played by Nick Offerman, who calls citizens to arms against “the Florida alliance and the Western forces of Texas and California” for their secession from the United States.

The trailer also teases new battle sequences taking place in New York City and Washington, D.C. — including a rocket launch obliterating the Lincoln Memorial.

Civil War is written and directed by Alex Garland, who previously teamed with A24 for the sci-fi thrillers Ex Machina and Men. He also helmed Annihilation and has notched screenplay credits for“28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd. He created, executive produced and wrote the FX limited series Devs.

“Civil War” stars Kirsten Dunst as a war photographer. The ensemble also includes Offerman, Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jesse Plemons and Sonoya Mizuno. A24 produces, alongside Gregory Goodman and DNA’s Andrew Macdonald and

Unlike the limited rollout of some A24 movies, “Civil War” will hit theaters nationwide with a wide release on April 12. The film is also getting premium large-format play with bookings in Imax auditoriums.

A24 Releases First Trailer for Wagner Moura’s Action Epic “Civil War”

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

It’s War time for Wagner Moura.

A24 has released the first trailer for he action epic Civil War, starring the 47-year-old Brazilian actor, director and filmmaker.

Hailing from Alex Garland, the film will be released in theaters (including on IMAX screens) on April 26, 2024.

While the film’s plot has been kept under wraps, it’s now described as chronicling a race to the White House in a near-future America balanced on the razor’s edge.

Moura, Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny appear to play journalists at a time when the United States has become a literal battleground, with 19 states seceding from the Union.

While not previously announced as part of the cast, Nick Offerman is introduced in the trailer as playing a fascist U.S. President, who’s at war with the so-called “Western Forces” of Texas and California. Also making an appearance as a threatening figure along our central trio’s path to D.C. is Dunst’s husband, Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons. Rounding out the cast are Stephen McKinley Henderson and Sonoya Mizuno.

Garland directed Civil War from his own script. In addition to serving as distributor, A24 produced the film alongside Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich of DNA and Gregory Goodman.

Moura’s previous credits include the films The Gray Man, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,and Wasp Network, as well as the television series Narcos.

Wagner Moura to Star as Paulo Freire in Upcoming Biopic “Angicos”

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Wagner Moura has landed a new role…

The 46-year-old Brazilian actor, director and filmmaker will star in the upcoming biopic Angicos about Brazilian educator and author Paulo Freire.

Felipe Hirsch will write and direct the film.

Angicos begins in the town of the same name in Rio Grande do Norte in 1963, with the mission of educator Freire (Moura) to fight against illiteracy by teaching the entire village of blue-collar, domestic, and cotton farm workers how to read and write in only 40 hours – a seemingly impossible feat.

Funded by President John F. Kennedy to solidify the South American nation as an ally in the Cold War amidst worldwide social and economic tensions, the success of the endeavor resulted in the planned implementation of Freire’s literary system on a nationwide level. However, before long, political uprisings, a military coup and authoritarian local politicians resisted Freire’s education initiative, destroying texts, deeming the curriculum “subversive,” and eventually sending Freire into exile. These events demonstrated the power of literacy and education against autocratic rule – a testament to the significance of Freire’s methods.

“The enchantment amongst the people of Angicos by the battery-powered slide projectors Freire used in his classes is undeniable, especially as they associated the projections with cinema – something rare in their city at this time, as home television sets had not yet arrived,” said Hirsch. “To that end, Angicos doubles as a film about the power of cinema and the power of knowledge.”

Casting is underway for the film’s ensemble, with principal photography beginning in November of this year.

Moura’s previous credits include television appearances in Narcos, Narcos: Mexico and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, as well as film appearances in Wasp Network, The Gray Man and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

Hirsch is a Brazilian film and theater director and one of the founders of Ultralíricos, a company where he develops award-winning and critically-acclaimed experiential art. He has been named by O Globo newspaper as one of the most influential thinkers in the country. In 2008, he won the Grammy for his work as the director of the show Homage to Tom Jobim.

In 2009, he directed his first feature film, Sunstroke, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. In 2016, he directed Severina, his second feature film, which made its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. Most recently, Hirsch developed the stage project Língua Brasileira with singer/songwriter Tom Zé, and also directed the concert special 2022 for HBO Max, featuring Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso and many other Brazilian musicians.

Wagner Moura to Star in Apple TV+’s Crime Drama Series “Sinking Spring”

Posted on February 24, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Wagner Moura is springing forward with a new television project…

The 46-year-old Brazilian actor and Narcos star will star opposite Brian Tyree Henry in Apple TV+’s crime drama series Sinking Spring, from Top Gun: Maverick writer Peter Craig, in a recasting.

Better Call Saul alum Michael Mando was originally tapped for the role but has been let go after an on-set physical altercation with another cast member.

The recasting is being done during filming on the series, directed and executive produced by Ridley Scott via his Scott Free Productions.

Based on Dennis Tafoya’s book Dope Thief, Sinking Spring follows long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard.

Moura will play Manny Cespedes, a good-hearted friend of Ray’s (Henry), who he first met when they did time together in the Youth Authority.

Craig created the eight-episode series, executive produces and directs one episode. Scott executive produces for Scott Free Productions.

The series hails from Apple Studios and will be produced by Scott Free Productions.

Moura recently starred opposite Elisabeth Moss in the Apple TV+ series Shining Girls.

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