Angelina Jolie nods two nominations: Golden Globe
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- Published on Thursday, 14 December 2017 11:46
- Written by Politicalore
The 75th annual Golden Globe Awards’ jury has announced the full shortlist of nominations, and director Angelina Jolie landed two nods this year. She can receive two statuettes for her recent works — war drama First They Killed My Father and animated The Breadwinner.The Hollywood A-lister and talented director Angelina Jolie was happy to find out her works are on the Golden Globe’s list. According to the actress, she wasn’t only directed and co-wrote the film. That means a lot to Jolie because she is also one of the producers which means if the film wins, she will be on stage giving a speech.Both films have heavy subject matters. The drama First They Killed My Father is about the atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, the second, animated The Breadwinner, is about a young girl who lives under Taliban rule in Afghanistan who cuts off her hair to go to work so she can support her family. Jolie is a producer on that one too. The actress Jolie got her first Golden Globe in 1998 for her work in the drama Gia, the jury called her the Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV category. Next year, it was another win for Angie’s work with Winona Ryder and the late Brittany Murphy in the movie Girl, Interrupted.And in 2011 her film In the Land of Blood And Honey, which she directed, was placed in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Last week, Angelina surprised people when she confessed that she got into acting mainly to help her mom Marcheline Bertrand pay the bills. The Lara Croft star admitted that acting wasn’t in her nature despite having actors for parents.
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Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight Bury the Hatchet
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- Published on Wednesday, 13 December 2017 11:29
- Written by Hollywood Reporter
"Jon and I have gotten to know each other — through grandchildren now — [and] we're finding a new relationship," says Jolie on THR's Awards Chatter podcast.Angelina Jolie's off-again,on-again relationship with her father, actor Jon Voight, is on again."Jon and I have gotten to know each other — through grandchildren now — [and] we're finding a new relationship," the 42-year-old actress, who is promoting her fourth directorial effort, First They Killed My Father, tells Scott Feinberg on THR's Awards Chatter podcast (which can be downloaded via THR.com/TheRace). "We've had some difficulties, [but] through art we've been able to talk. It's the common language." Their difficulties reached a nadir in 2002, shortly after Voight and Jolie starred together as father and daughter in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, when Voight gave an interview to Access Hollywood and claimed that Jolie had "serious mental problems." Jolie responded by legally dropping "Voight" from her name, though she had never used it professionally ("I wanted to have my own identity — I didn't want to walk into a room as 'Jon's daughter,'" she explains).For now, though, Jolie and her famously conservative dad seem to have figured out the secret of keeping filial peace. "We don't really talk politics well," she says. "We talk art very well."
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Angelina Jolie takes kids Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne shopping at flea market.... after calling on NATO to do more to protect women in war zones
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- Published on Monday, 11 December 2017 06:55
- Written by Daily mail
Angelina Jolie spent part of her Sunday browsing for bargains at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena.The actress, 42, tried to hide her identity under a very large floppy black hat as she took three of her six children shopping.The star wore a long gray jersey coat over a black dress with lace at the bust.Angelina stepped out in slipper-style black flats and carried a large black leather tote over one shoulder.With their famous mom were Shiloh, 11, and twins Knox and Vivienne, nine.Shiloh wore a gray hoodie with the hood up over her short blonde hair. She added tan cargo pants and black flipflops and snaked on tortilla chips as she walked along.Knox was dressed in a black t-shirt and black sweatpants with black trainers.He carried a toy wooden crossbow that he'd found at one of the hundreds of stalls of merchandise.Vivienne had on camouflage pants and black shoes along with a baggy white cotton shirt that she left untucked. She also carried a purchase - a blue and green blanket dotted with dinosaurs.Their mom also carried purchases in a white plastic bag.Meanwhile, Angelina co-wrote an Op-Ed published in a British newspaper on Sunday calling for more to be done to protect women in war zones.She co-authored the article for The Guardian with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for The Guardian.'In our different roles we have seen how conflicts in which women’s bodies and rights are systematically abused last longer, cause deeper wounds and are much harder to resolve and overcome. Ending gender-based violence is therefore a vital issue of peace and security as well as of social justice,' the two wrote.'Despite being prohibited by international law, sexual violence continues to be employed as a tactic of war in numerous conflicts from Myanmar to Ukraine and Syria to Somalia. It includes mass rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, and rape as a form of torture, ethnic cleansing and terrorism. It accounts in large part for why it is often more dangerous to be a woman in a warzone today than it is to be a soldier.' They concluded: 'It is humanity’s shame that violence against women, whether in peaceful societies or during times of war, has been universally regarded as a lesser crime. There is finally hope that we can change this. We owe it to ourselves – men and women alike – and to future generations.'
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Angelina Jolie admits she fell into acting to pay her mother's bills
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- Published on Saturday, 09 December 2017 11:13
- Written by EWN
Jolie says despite the success she's enjoyed during her career, she has never truly felt at home in front of the camera. Award-winning star Angelina Jolie has confessed she turned to acting simply to help her late mother Marcheline Bertrand pay her bills.The Academy Award-winning star says despite the success she's enjoyed during her career, she has never truly felt at home in front of the camera.She explained: "There's a lot that's not in my nature to be an actor."I'm very happy that I was able to be one - I'm very lucky and very fortunate - but I realised how much it was for my mother when she passed away, because I felt very differently about it as soon as she was gone."I think, when I started acting, it was a good means to an end. It was a job, and I wanted to help my mom with bills."It was a creative job, something where you get to explore different times in history, different people, different sides of yourself, learn different skills, so it's a wonderful job to have as you grow and as you learn as a person. But you also are not those people."Jolie, 42, conceded she's struggled to cope with the pressures of fame during her time in Hollywood.The actress-turned-director said that when she first emerged on the scene, she was too inexperienced in life to deal with the scrutiny she faced.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Jolie reflected: "You're young and you don't know exactly who you are, yet you also get a microphone in front of your face, and you're 17, 18, and people are asking you your opinions, and you haven't formed them yet."In the late 90s, Jolie even briefly turned away from the movie business, as she attended New York University.Of that experience, she recalled: "I was ready to kind of have a different life ... I'd done what everybody said you should do - become an actor. This is what should make you happy, right ...? I was miserable. I was completely unhappy."
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'We don't have to keep our heads down!': Angelina Jolie inspires with powerful speech about 'asserting ourselves' at Women In Entertainment event
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 04:46
- Written by Daily Mail
Angelina Jolie took to the stage at The Hollywood Reporter's 2017 Women In Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning.The Maleficent actress, 42, dressed in black as she addressed the crowd that included Jennifer Lawrence, Gal Gadot, Lily Collins, Olivia Munn and Emmy Rossum.The mother-of-six gave a powerful speech about how women who assert themselves in Hollywood can inspire women all over the world. The room was silent as the estranged wife of Brad Pitt said her words.'We have the right to speak truth as we see it,' said the Oscar-winning Salt actress.'We all know women who were never able to live their creative dreams because they had to put their families first, who poured their creative truth into their families.'The Vogue cover girl spoke slowly and with passion as the room full of mostly women looked on.'We all know that our industry lacks diversity and equality and that there's so much we have to change.'Jolie was most likely referring to the pay gap where females are paid a fraction of what male stars earn. 'But we have a level of freedom that is unimaginable for millions of other women around the world,' added the UN spokesperson.'Women who live with conflict and terrorism and displacement and poverty who never get a chance, whose voices are always silenced.'And the Tomb Raider star reminded the room that they have privileges most don't. 'We don't have to keep our heads down, we don't have to think the film we made... could land us in prison where we might be tortured or punished.'
She further drove home her point by saying: 'We don't have to worry that a play we did or what will be seen on TV will bring dishonor to our families.'We don't have to tailor out clothes or our pinions to what is acceptable to religious authority of violent extremist groups.'Angelina also said that 'we have the right to think freely and speak freely and put forward our ideas on equal terms.'There are women across the world just trying to have a voice trying to have an opinion.' Then the superstar brought her speech back to what happens in Hollywood and how these ladies in the room are role models. 'Asserting ourselves as female artists represents something really, really important in the world today,' said the star.Angelina last directed First They Killed My Father for Netflix. The star is committed to star in the sequel to Maleficent for Disney.
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