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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Thursday 13 February 2020
Dern wins supporting actress Oscar

for 'Marriage Story'

By LYNN ELBER Monday, called the Oscar mother, Shelley Winters,
Associatecd Press the “best birthday pres- were massive influences
Television Writer ent ever.” In a reflection on my life as an actor and
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lau- of Dern’s across-the-board activist,” she replied. As for
ra Dern’s turn as a steely respect, her awards for the advice she would give
divorce attorney in “Mar- “Marriage Story” ranged women aspiring to work in
riage Story” made the case from the mainstream Os- Hollywood, Dern said: “Be
with Oscar jurors, who com- cars and British Academy loud, be proud, stand by
Laura Dern, winner of the award for best performance by an pleted her awards season awards to critics’ laurels, incredible sisters.” Winters,
actress in a supporting role for "Marriage Story", poses in the sweep by awarding her and prompted an Inde- who died in 2006 at age
press room at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby the best supporting actress pendent Spirit awards mu- 85, was a two-time Oscar
Theatre in Los Angeles.
(Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) trophy. Dern’s win Sunday sical tribute Saturday. The winner “A Patch of Blue”
came nearly three de- versatile actress also was and “The Diary of Anne
cades after her first Acad- on screen last year in “Little Frank.” “I am really lucky at
emy Award nomination, Women,” anchoring fam- moments like this to have
a lead actress bid in 1992 ily life as Marmee for the been raised by actors and
for “Rambling Rose.” She film that garnered six Oscar to have been acting since
received a supporting ac- bids, and has proved her I was 11,” and to know how
tress nod in 2015 for “Wild,” commercial chops with the uncertain the industry can
and has earned Emmys “Jurassic” franchise. Dern be, she said. “You stay de-
and a wealth of critics’ comes from a pedigreed tached, and you enjoy the
honors over the years. Hollywood family: father gift of working with people
“Some say, never meet Bruce is a two-time Oscar you love and ... remember-
your heroes. I say if you’re nominee (“Coming Home,” ing what it’s really about.”
really blessed, you get “Nebraska”), and Ladd But there’s something to
them as your parents,” an played her mom in “Ram- be said for the “other fun
emotional Dern said in ac- bling Rose” and earned stuff that’s dreamy and
cepting the trophy. “I share her own Oscar nomina- lovely,” she added. The
this with my acting legends, tion, for supporting actress. other contenders in the
my heroes, Diane Ladd Laura Dern began acting category were Kathy Bates
and Bruce Dern. You’ve as a child, moving from for “Richard Jewell”; Scar-
got game. I love you.” small roles to substantive, lett Johansson, “Jojo Rab-
Dern also paid tribute to attention-getting work in bit”; Florence Pugh, “Little
“Marriage Story” filmmaker the mid-1980s with “Mask,” Women” and Margot Rob-
Noah Baumbach. His film “Smooth Talk” and “Blue bie, “Bombshell.” In a year
detailing a marriage’s end Velvet.” Backstage, Dern notably scant in nominees
is about love and heal- was asked who inspired her of color, critics saw oppor-
ing divisions in the home take on the strong char- tunities missed in the cat-
and family, she said, “and acters she played in “Mar- egory with the omission of
hopefully for all us, in the riage Story” and in TV’s “Big Jennifer Lopez for “Hustlers”
name of our planet.” Little Lies.” “I start with my and Zhao Shuzhen for “The
The actress, who turns 53 on mother. She and my god- Farewell.”q

Leslie Jones livens up Siriano’s NY

Fashion Week front row

By LEANNE ITALIE AP En-
tertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — With
shouts of “Work it! work it!”
from superfan Leslie Jones
in the front row, Christian
Siriano helped kick off
New York Fashion Week
on Thursday, rolling out
sculptured showstopping
gowns, looks of rainbow
fringe and pops of bright
“funhouse” green. Model Coco Rocha wears the final look of the Christian
The “Saturday Night Live” Siriano collection during Fashion Week, Thursday, Feb. 6,
alum could barely con- 2020, in New York.
tain herself, hopping out (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
of her seat at times to Press he drew inspiration with others to battle crime
cheer on models as Hei- in part from the DC Com- lord Black Mask. Column
di Klum looked on. In a ics superhero film “Birds gowns came in “Joker”
backstage interview, Si- of Prey,” the story of how Jacquard and multicol-
riano told The Associated Harley Quinn joins forces ored “Harley” fringe.q