Posts with tag "Annette Bening"

For Natalie Portman and Others, One Film Can Mean Major Success and Real-Life Love

Posted Jan 18th 2011 at 05:00 PM by John Mitchell

Listening to Oscar frontrunner Natalie Portman's best actress acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards, it became all too clear that the glowing starlet got a lot more out of the 'Black Swan' experience than just a hit film. In 'Swan,' Portman found not only the role of a lifetime, she also met the man who would become her fiance and father her child, French ballet dancer and choreographer ...

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Golden Globes Cement Best Actress Oscar Race as a Natalie Portman-Annette Bening Showdown

Posted Jan 17th 2011 at 05:45 PM by John Mitchell

In the lead-up to the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes are usually a pretty good indicator of who is on the road to Oscar glory. While the prizes are handed out by two entirely different voting bodies -- the Globes come from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a collection of foreign journalists who cover the American movie industry, and the Oscars are awarded by the Academy of Motion ...

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Film Critic Insults Award-Winning Actors, Makes Annette Bening Cry

Posted Jan 11th 2011 at 02:01 PM by John Mitchell

New York Press film critic Armond White isn't exactly beloved in Hollywood -- in fact, he's quite the opposite -- and things came to a head last night during the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, with 'Black Swan' director Darren Aronofsky chastising White from the stage and a teary-eyed Annette Bening pleading for everyone to "just get along." According to the Village Voice, things were ...

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Annette Bening: 'My Kids Are Pretty Great'

Posted May 8th 2010 at 08:00 AM by Nicki Gostin

Two-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening has been a major player in Hollywood for almost 25 years, but her greatest role is playing mom to her four children with husband Warren Beatty. In a quick chat with PopEater, the star of 'American Beauty' and the just released 'Mother and Child,' radiant at 51, talks Mother's Day, munchies and how she juggles motherhood and her career. Mothers Day ...