Obits

While I’ve never been a huge admirer of country music, I’ve always had a soft spot for Loretta Lynn. Like...

It's impossible to wrap up the career of Jean-Luc Godard in a single obit/tribute. His life in film is the...

Of the many extraordinary filmmakers (Wenders, Herzog, Fassbinder, Shlondorff, and von Trotta, just to name a few) who made up...

I’m sure there will be any number of articles on the death of Anne Heche that will focus on her...

They say you never forget your first crush. I have to confess, when I first saw Grease on HBO back...

Special to Awards Daily courtesy of Keith A. Owens. Long before Funk Lord George Clinton imagined the character that danced,...

David Warner was the quintessential “working actor.” In a film and television career that began in 1962 with an uncredited...

Where does one even begin with Paul Sorvino? Leaning into GoodFellas is the most obvious point of entry, yet how...

During the great auteur era of the seventies that breathed new life into cinema and launched a host of filmmaking...

The career of James Caan will always be overshadowed by his signature role as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather. Of...

“I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth.” Had that been the only line...

Almost any tribute to the career of Ray Liotta is going to begin with his role in Martin Scorsese's masterpiece...

Fred Ward was one of those actors like Charles Durning or JT Walsh - the kind that may not have...

For about eleven years, William Hurt may have been the greatest actor on earth. Beginning in 1980 with Ken Russell's...

More years ago than I care to count, I rented L’Eclisse from an artsy video store called Morris Classics (since...

I don't know how to write this. I've been struggling to formulate words since I heard about Betty White's passing...

One of my favorite stories about Sidney Poitier is that he was so poor growing up in the Bahamas that...

Has any director had a greater three-film run than Peter Bogdanovich had from 1971-1973? After cutting his teeth on the...

Dean Stockwell was an actor for so long that his career dates all the way back to World War II....

Melvin Van Peebles is the multi-hyphenate who put other multi-hyphenates to shame. Over the course of a career that touched...