Stacey Wilson Hunt

As Hollywood bid a nostalgic goodbye to Park City, Utah, during the state’s hosting final stint of the Sundance Film Festival, it makes sense that a lot of conversations that took place centered on what lay ahead for filmmakers.
And many of those exchanges, including a gathering hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and Autodesk, held in partnership with Berggruen Institute featured the industry’s leading and most outspoken advocates for ethical and human-based technologies and how AI can actually...

Remember when politics was just a thing you avoided bringing up to your crazy uncle over the holidays?
Such a world is a faded memory in director Jan Komasa’s Anniversary, which centers on a progressive-leaning American family whose lives are upended when a member of a radical political movement marries into the tight-knit brood.
Anniversary star Diane Lane — who leads the film’s stellar ensemble alongside Emmy winner Kyle Chandler — spoke to Gold Derby about the delicacy and urgency of portr...

Sixteen years after James Cameron first stunned Hollywood with the power of performance-capture technology with 2009’s Avatar, the Oscar-winning director is primed to make history again with the third chapter in his groundbreaking franchise – Avatar: Fire and Ash, opening December 19.
But industry insiders and fans won’t have to wait until then for a front-row seat to never-before-heard secrets of Pandora: Starting December 10, The Hollywood Reporter’s “Behind the Screen” podcast — which show...

Stacey Wilson Hunt is on the case to find the best Tinseltown tales.
The veteran journalist, host and media insider has teamed with NeueHouse to launch My Hollywood Story, a filmed podcast series set to begin production this spring with episodes dropping weekly on YouTube and major podcast platforms.
Described as “equal parts personal history, master class and wild revelations,” each episode promises to put Wilson Hunt opposite actors, directors, producers, writers and other industry professi...

Stacey Wilson Hunt has written a second chapter for My Hollywood Story.
After launching the podcast earlier this year at NeueHouse Hollywood, which shuttered its doors in September, Wilson Hunt found a new venue partner at Soho House West Hollywood, where she’s posted up for a new season inside the newly redesigned Luckman Club.
For the new batch of episodes, which started filming in late October, Wilson Hunt hosts in front of live audiences made up of Soho House members and industry guests. ...

As the industry grapples with immense fracture, loss and uncertainty, Uzo Aduba had nothing but words of hope and promise when she took the stage to receive The Hollywood Reporter’s Trailblazer Award on Feb. 6 at SCADTVfest.
“We are told that our differences divide us, creating a separation based on idealistic standards,” Aduba said to a packed house of students and local fans inside the 600-plus seat SCADshow Theater in Atlanta. “But I’m here to tell you our differences are not weaknesses bu...

In front of a very enthusiastic audience of more than 600 fans, students and SAG-AFTRA members, actor Matt Bomer shared an unvarnished take on the heartache, hurdles and proudest moments he’s experienced in his 20-year film and television career.

Bomer appeared at the annual TV festival in Atlanta to accept The Hollywood Reporter’s Trailblazer Award – presented to him by current SCAD acting student Eric Ackerman – for his contributions to storytelling. Bomer was specifically honored for his a...

A decade after his breakthrough role as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, David Oyelowo says he is heartened by the long-overdue shift toward a more culturally diverse marketplace for onscreen storytelling.

As part of NATPE 2024’s official programming, Oyelowo appeared onstage in front of a lively crowd of 150 guests at the InterContinental Miami to discuss his wide-ranging career as an actor, director and producer before receiving The Hollywood Reporter’s “Trailblazer Award...

It’s hard to fathom, but there’s at least one more layer of meaningfulness to Barbie’s success worth noting as 2023 draws to a close.

While it cemented the global economic influence of female consumers, Greta Gerwig’s juggernaut fantasy-adventure-satire (co-written with her real-life partner, Noah Baumbach) also served as a fever-pitch moment for female auteurship.

What’s even cooler, Gerwig has a lot of impressive company: This year has seen the largest group of female writer-directors to se...

In her documentary To Kill a Tiger, which won the prize for best Canadian film at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, filmmaker Nisha Pahuja tackles the most harrowing subject of her career: the fight of an Indian farmer to demand justice for his 13-year-old daughter, Kiran, after she was gang-raped by three men in 2017. Pahuja — who was born in New Delhi and raised in Toronto — reveals how it felt to capture Ranjit’s unprecedented journey and what his fight means for women sufferin...

To understand just how long the TV Academy has struggled to define “comedy series,” look no further than the first decade or so of the category’s life: Between 1952, when Red Skelton’s titular variety show claimed Emmy’s first-ever comedy prize, and 1964, when The Dick Van Dyke Show scored its second win, the category had no fewer than six name changes, ranging from the terse “best comedy show” to the rather unwieldy “outstanding program achievement in the field of comedy.”

And it only grew m...

It’s almost impossible to imagine now, but the internet used to be a fun place where people could gather to enjoy themselves and unite over a singular piece of comedic content. That’s exactly what happened on April 12, 2007, when longtime collaborators Adam McKay and Will Ferrell (Anchorman, Step Brothers) and writer-producer Chris Henchy (Entourage, The Other Guys) uploaded a video called “The Landlord” to their experimental comedy website Funny Or Die. The 144-second clip, featuring Ferrell...

Press notes for writer/director Sam Levinson's series "The Idol" co-created by and starring Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye and Lily-Rose Depp.

Roughly 20 years after breaking out on Comedy Central’s Reno 911! and ABC’s soapy drama Desperate Housewives, respectively, Niecy Nash-Betts and Eva Longoria are deep into second acts that, for them, were inevitable.

For Nash-Betts, it’s been a slow burn to be seen as a dramatic actor because, as she says of her God-given talent, “The Most High put being funny in my DNA.” But the biz has caught up: The three-time Emmy nominee for acting is a leading contender this year for playing Glenda Clev...

Press materials for HBO's true-crime limited series written by David E. Kelley and starring Elizabeth Olsen.