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Annette Bening’s first major TV series role has won the five-time Oscar nominee the Best Actress prize at this year’s Series Mania. Bening was awarded in the past few minutes at the prestigious Lille event for her leading role in Peacock series Apples Never Fall, an adaptation of a novel by Big Little…

EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Marnich is a huge fan of Big Little Lies scribe Liane Moriarty’s work, but when showrunning an adaptation of Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall, Marnich blocked the HBO hit from her consciousness almost entirely. Peacock’s Apples Never Fall, which stars 2024 Oscar-nominee Annette Bening…

It could be fifth time lucky for Annette Bening as she heads to this year's Oscars with yet another nomination – this time for Best Actress for her role in Nyad. Bening has on four previous occasions left the ceremony empty-handed, but she remembers fondly her first Oscars in 1991, when she was…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. “Happy first day of voting,” a publicist told me over the phone late Thursday afternoon while still pitching last-minute interviews before final Oscar ballots are due back on Tuesday. I didn’t realize the first day of voting was…

Annette Bening still likes to swim, despite the brutal eight hours a day she spent in the water for her Netflix film Nyad. Bening stars as Diana Nyad, who, at 64, became the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Bening trained for a year to perfect her stroke, and got to…

Peacock has released the full trailer of Apples Never Fall, the limited series starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill, based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel. “You can spend a lifetime with someone as a wife or as a mother, but you can never really know who they are,” Bening’s Joy says in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Annette Bening, who just received her fifth Oscar nomination last week for her portrayal of champion swimmer Diana Nyad in Nyad, has been named as the inaugural recipient of the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Arlington Award. The Arlington…

The Make-up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards will honor Nyad star Annette Bening with the Distinguished Artisan Award at its 11th annual MUAHS Awards. The event is set for Sunday, February 18, at The Beverly Hilton. Related Stories …

Peacock’s limited series Apples Never Fall, starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill, has set a March 14 premiere date and unveiled a first-look teaser (watch it above). “You’re a devoted wife and mom and know everything about those closest to you. But the truth is, everyone has a secret, even you.” So…

EXCLUSIVE: Annette Bening is joining Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein lore feature at Warner Bros; the studio making it official that this is a go-project. Cameras roll in Q1. This package with its attachments has been out there since it was at Netflix, and the deals have finally closed with everyone…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Nyad, Julia Cox’s adaptation of Diana Nyad’s memoir that was the diving-off point for directors Elizabeth Chai Vásárhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Netflix movie. The plot follows the true story of Nyad's…

Annette Bening is no stranger to an acting challenge, and in playing champion swimmer Diana Nyad in Nyad as she attempts to swim the strait between the Florida Keys and Cuba in her 60s, it certainly did provide a new challenge for this veteran star, who…