Nominee Profiles

When someone watches The Theory of Everything for the first time, it seems that the story revolves around the complicated life of Stephen Hawking, the famous scientist and writer who changed the way the masses understand physics while fighting ALS, the neurodegenerative disease that slowly paralyzes the bodies of those affected. But if you take a closer look, without taking anything away from the amazing performance by Eddie Redmayne as Hawking, it is easy to realize that the film works as a whole due to another astonishing acting lesson.

We almost lost Benedict Cumberbatch to law. The talented and acclaimed British actor, who was born Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch to thespians Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, revealed to us that acting was not really his first choice.

When director David Fincher had to decide which actress to cast for the role of Amy Dunne, the apparently perfect wife of Nick (Ben Affleck) in Gone Girl, the task was not easy. Every movie star in town was dying to play the complex character created by Gillian Flynn in her amazing novel, but Fincher was looking for someone who can mislead the audience in a very special way.

It’s in his eyes. Whether he’s playing baddies like the Nazi commandant in his first major Hollywood movie, Schindler’s List, the depraved psychopath in Red Dragon or the fearsome Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies; or romantic leading men like the burn victim swathed in bandages in The English Patient, or the star-crossed lover in The End of the Affair, the weight of that magnetic grey-green gaze has caused his on-screen adversaries to cower, his on-screen lovers to swoon, and audiences everywhere to realize that Ralph Fiennes dominates the screen and can do anything.

It’s in his eyes. Whether he’s playing baddies like the Nazi commandant in his first major Hollywood movie, Schindler’s List, the depraved psychopath in Red Dragon or the fearsome Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies; or romantic leading men like the burn victim swathed in bandages in The English Patient, or the star-crossed lover in The End of the Affair, the weight of that magnetic grey-green gaze has caused his on-screen adversaries to cower, his on-screen lovers to swoon, and audiences everywhere to realize that Ralph Fiennes dominates the screen and can do anything.

Some call it the biggest comeback of the decade. He just calls it having a long career.

Some call it the biggest comeback of the decade. He just calls it having a long career.

This is the second Golden Globe nomination for 26 year old Emma Stone, and the girl from Scottsdale, Arizona could not be happier. She is a born comedienne, a talent that is not only visible in many of her films from Superbad to Easy A (which landed her her first Globe nom) to Crazy, Stupid, Love, but also when she improvs on talk shows.

This is the second Golden Globe nomination for 26 year old Emma Stone, and the girl from Scottsdale, Arizona could not be happier. She is a born comedienne, a talent that is not only visible in many of her films from Superbad to Easy A (which landed her her first Globe nom) to Crazy, Stupid, Love, but also when she improvs on talk shows.

He is british of Nigerian descent, his last name is pronounced "oh-yellow-oh" and he not only plays Dr. Martin Luther King as if he were born in Atlanta, Georgia – he becomes King in the critically acclaimed Selma.