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First look at Matt Bomer playing a trans woman in latest movie made by cis men
The film made headlines last summer after another cisgender actor was cast to play a trans woman.
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‘Hunger Games’ top winner at MTV Movie Awards, Leto wins ‘best transformation’
LOS ANGELES — Conan O’Brien kicked off the 22nd annual MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night with a challenge to gain 50 celebrity cameos for his opening segment, a shtick with Will Arnett that merged two categories, best fight and best kiss, and a musical number about hating musical numbers in big awards shows.
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Big Oscar night for ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ ‘Gravity’
LOS ANGELES — Perhaps atoning for past sins, Hollywood named the brutal, unshrinking historical drama “12 Years a Slave” best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards.
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Matthew McConaughey wins Best Actor Oscar for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
LOS ANGELES — Matthew McConaughey has won the Academy Award for best actor for his performance as a desperate and determined AIDS patient in “Dallas Buyers Club.”
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Backstage: Jared Leto in generous mood after acting Oscar win
LOS ANGELES — Jared Leto wasn’t just thinking about himself after winning the best supporting actor Academy Award on Sunday night — his thoughts veered from his mother, the populations of Ukraine and Venezuela and even the reporters who were covering his Oscar glory.
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Oscar ‘favorites’ McConaughey, Leto win SAG awards for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
LOS ANGELES — David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” has won the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding cast, setting up the con-artist comedy as the film to beat at the Academy Awards.
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Liberace biopic, ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ score wins at madcap Golden Globes
Amy Poehler made out with Bono, Tina Fey mocked George Clooney’s taste in women and Matt Damon emerged, bizarrely, as the night’s recurring gag.
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McConaughey is magnificently ‘cringe worthy’ in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
LOS ANGELES — In 1986, Texan Ron Woodroof was diagnosed with HIV and given 30 days to live. When receiving the news, the rodeo-lover argued with the doctor, saying only homosexuals got such a disease-and he was as straight as they came.
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In heels and pounds lighter, Jared Leto plays transgender in new role
Jared Leto’s return to acting started, as so many things do, with a flirtation. But the possibility of playing Rayon, a transgender person dying of AIDS for the film “Dallas Buyers Club,” came to him while he was on tour in Europe.
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McConaughey earns accolades for portrayal of HIV+ homophobic rodeo cowboy
TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival greeted Matthew McConaughey with a rousing standing ovation for his performance in “Dallas Buyers Club.”