From her breakout with the Brat Pack in 'St. Elmos Fire' to her Oscar-nominated turn in 'The Substance', here are the 15 best Demi Moore movies and TV shows, ranked.

Demi Moore is taking a (very classy) moment to reflect on the monumental awards season she just had. Thanks to key precursor wins at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards — and endlessly charming and passionate speeches at said ceremonies — many awards prognosticators penciled in Moore to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in The Substance at Sunday night's Academy Awards. When the envelope was read on stage by last year's winner, Emma Stone, however, it was Anora star Mikey Madison who reigned victorious. In an Instagram post on Monday, Moore made it clear she was taking it all in stride. "As this awards season comes to a close, I’m so overwhelmed with gratitude for this journey," she wrote, alongside a video reel of her pre- and post-Oscars glam routines. "It’s been the ride of a lifetime and we’re just getting started! So grateful for my team, my fellow nominees, and everyone who has made this experience so full of joy and light." Anora's Mikey Madison wins Best Actress over Demi Moore, honors sex workers in tearful speech: 'I will continue to support' She then thanked the cast, crew, and fans of The Substance, giving special shoutouts to costar Margaret Qualley and the film's writer and director, Coralie Fargeat, before addressing Madison directly. "It’s been such an honor to work alongside you, learn from you, and celebrate this film with you," she wrote, adding, "And a huge congratulations to #MikeyMadison — can’t wait to see what you do next." Moore ended her note with a heart emoji. She may not have won the Oscar, but the 62-year-old star did still walk away with a surprising prize on Sunday night — two giant plates of tasty-looking French fries, as peeped in the reel and on her daughter Tallulah Willis' Instagram, below. Moore also attended the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar party with Tallulah and her other daughters, Scout and Rumer. Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore embrace during sweet Ghost reunion on Oscars red carpet The Instagram post serves as a bookend to an awards season full of Moore having plenty of moving things to say. When she won at the Golden Globes — an honor she said marked "the first time I've ever won anything as an actor" — she shared a bit about what The Substance taught her. "I'll just leave you with one thing that I think this movie is imparting," she said. "In those moments when we don't think we're smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough — or basically, just not enough — I had a woman say to me, 'Just know, you will never be enough. But you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.'" Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. "And so," she concluded, "today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me. For the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong, thank you so much."

Roughly $2.4 billion in combined worldwide ticket sales? Universal critical acclaim? Twenty-one Oscar nominations between them? It might seem like everyone's a winner when it comes to lifting up Barbie and Oppenheimer as shining examples of Hollywood excellence, and yet the "Barbenheimer" narrative that swept the summer of 2023 continues as the high-profile blockbusters prepare to square off at the 96th Academy Awards. So, will the 2024 Oscars ceremony finally put to rest the long-standing (and good-spirited) war between Greta Gerwig's tentpole and Christopher Nolan's historical epic? In one context, it should, as Oppenheimer — Nolan's three-hour drama about the titular father of the atomic bomb that ended World War II — is the clear-cut frontrunner to win Best Picture. With 13 overall nominations (the most at a single ceremony since La La Land notched 14 nods in 2017), Oppenheimer has clear, cross-branch support from all sects of the movie industry — compared to Barbie's haul of eight total nods. While Barbie showed up in Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), and Best Adapted Screenplay, Gerwig was shockingly omitted from the Best Director lineup — a category Nolan was nominated in and is poised to win. Margot Robbie in 'Barbie' ; Cillian Murphy in 'Oppenheimer'. Warner Bros.; Universal Pictures  As Barbie suffers on that key front, its Oscars chances significantly dwindle. Only two movies in the last 30 years have won Best Picture without a Best Director nomination: Ben Affleck's Argo in 2013 and Peter Farrelly's Green Book in 2019. Since Oppenheimer is generating heat for multiple victories in other key categories (Robert Downey Jr. is the likely Supporting Actor winner, while Cillian Murphy is still alive in the Best Actor race, though far from a sure thing), it probably will notch higher on the voters' preferential ballots across every branch of the Academy. Further fueling speculation that Barbie was never as strong of an Oscar contender as many speculated, Margot Robbie, the face of the film who gave a soaring performance in the titular role — and who also received a nod for producing the movie — missed out on a Best Actress nomination, despite showing up at virtually every precursor awards ceremony on the circuit. Some Oppenheimer skeptics might say that the film has, thus far, only won hardware from groups that don't share crossover membership with the Academy (Golden Globes, Critics Choice), and they'd be right — but the film is the most consistent presence on the awards trail so far, later dominating nominations announcements from the industry-inclusive SAG Awards, BAFTA Awards, Producers Guild of America Awards, and the Directors Guild of America Awards. In the end, does it really matter who wins the Barbenheimer showdown of 2023? For studio prestige, both Universal and Warner Bros. have huge victories under their belts: In the age of the dying box office draw, Robbie flexed her might at ticket booths around the world, and Oppenheimer proved that a director's name can sell a project perhaps more than any actor working today. Shades of pink and black dividing the two will meld to gold at the Academy Awards on March 10, with both films winning by mere virtue of existing as pillars of success, side by side, just like those adorable Barbenheimer houses on the beach in Santa Monica. Check out more from EW's The Awardist, featuring exclusive interviews, analysis, and our podcast diving into all the highlights from the year's best in TV. Related content: The most shocking snubs and surprises of the 2024 Oscar nominations Shocking snubs shut out major Oscars contenders among BAFTA nominations See top 2024 Oscars contenders for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and more Awards season calendar 2024: See key show dates for Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes See where 18 Academy Award winners keep their Oscars

How could you leave Halle Berry on read? On a red carpet premiere for her new Netflix buddy comedy The Union, Berry revealed to ComicBook whether she'd been ask to reprise her iconic role as Ororo Munroe, better known as Storm, in the Marvel cameo-packed Deadpool & Wolverine. "No," she replied. Berry added that star Ryan Reynolds' wife Blake Lively, who herself cameos incognito as Lady Deadpool, "asked me one time." The Oscar winner explained that she ran into Lively at a Marc Jacobs fashion show, where she says Lively "asked if (I) would 'ever be in my husband's movie as Storm?' I said, 'Yeah, if he asked me,' but he never asked me." Halle Berry and Ryan Reynolds. Joe Pugliese/TV Guide/20th Century Fox/ Everett; 20th Century Studios/Marvel  Representatives for Berry, Reynolds, Lively, and Disney (Marvel's parent company) didn't immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment. It's surprising that Reynolds, who also helped produce and co-wrote the film, wouldn't call on Berry. She's one of the biggest stars to ever don a super suit for the X-Men films, her character had an involved personal relationship with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, which could have been tapped for added dramatic tension, and seemed entirely willing to take the plunge. Sorry, Swifties: Taylor Swift is not featured in Deadpool and Wolverine (exclusive) Alas, Storm-chasers will have to content themselves to Berry's four film appearances, in the original X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). The character was killed in the final film, but quickly revived by Patrick Stewart's Professor X. There was speculation of a young Storm prequel film featuring Lupita N'Yongo for some time, but like Channing Tatum's shelved Gambit prequel, nothing materialized. Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.'s free newsletter Unlike Berry, Tatum does make a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine, despite never actually appearing in a single minute in any MCU film as the Cajun card player. A veritable murderer's row of heroes and villains from the MCU's past (and possible future) joined him in the battle between the titular suited supers and the villainous forces of Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin). First Catwoman screenplay draft included tiger fights, melting faces, and rat army carrying bubonic plague (exclusive) Chris Hemsworth briefly appears as Thor and Henry Cavill shows up as a Wolverine variant alongside Matthew McConaughey's Deadpool cowboy variant. Chris Evans teases a Captain America appearance before revealing he's actually returned as Johnny Storm from the 2000s Fantastic Four films. Jennifer Garner joins the good guys as Elektra alongside Wesley Snipes' Blade, and a there are tons of brief cameos of fan-favorite characters, from X-Men's Toad to X2's Lady Deathstrike and The Last Stand's Callisto. That a minor (though memorable!) character like Callisto would return and not the superstar who killed her, Storm, is a bit surprising. But Berry's film and television career is doing just fine, Storm or no Storm. Recently she celebrated the 20th anniversary of one of the most misunderstood blockbusters of the first decade of the new millennium, Catwoman. "You can never take away my Oscar," Berry told EW, "no matter how bad you bash me! If you say I earned it, I’ll take this, too."

Everything is not what it seems at the Russo residence. Selena Gomez is making her return to the Disney+ series Wizards Beyond Waverly Place as free-wheeling wizard Alex Russo, and Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive first look from the episode.  In a preview clip from the season 1 finale “Nigh is Now!," we see that Alex once again has ulterior motives for visiting her brother Justin (David Henrie), as the two exchange an apprehensive hug. “Alex! So good to– what are you doing here?” asks Justin, clearly uneasy about his sisters return. “C’mon, can’t a sister visit her big brother?” Alex quips. “Also, random question, how’s Billie?” Justin and his wife Giada (Mimi Gianopulos) have been tasked with looking after Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown), a young gifted wizard, upon Alex’s request. But according to the official logline for the episode, “Billie is missing and the Russos must work together to rescue her from an evil villain's clutches.”  Benny Blanco gives Selena Gomez a bathtub full of cheese for Valentine’s Day — at what cost? Wizards Beyond Waverly Place continues the story of the hit series Wizards of Waverly Place, which aired from 2007 to 2012 on the Disney Channel. The reboot follows Justin and his family on his journey to rediscovering his love for wizardry through mentoring Billie and attempting to save the Wizard World. “Selena and I really look at ourselves as the guardians of the heart of the original show,” Henrie told EW. “So we're constantly watching to make sure that the same spirit is what's vivifying this whole new take.” Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. Although this isn't Gomez's first appearance on the sequel series, it's the first time Wizards fans have seen her in a bit. After all, Gomez has been busy supporting Emilia Perez across shows this awards season, and alongside her Only Murders in the Building cast mates, she recently picked up the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Selena Gomez says 'some of the magic has disappeared' amid Karla Sofía Gascón controversy, but she is 'proud' of Emilia Pérez The season finale of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place streams Feb. 28 at midnight PT on Disney+ and airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Disney Channel. Watch the exclusive clip above.

Oliver Sacks has an unconventional way of diagnosing and treating his patients. The legendary neurologist, who is the inspiration for new NBC drama Brilliant Minds, took a holistic approach to his work, seeking to get inside the hearts and minds of his subjects to better understand their challenges outside of a purely medical or scientific setting. Brilliant Minds stars Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf, a reimagined take on Sacks — who died in 2015 at the age of 82 — that situates the doctor in the Bronx in 2024. Recruited to Bronx General, Dr. Wolf initially struggles to connect with his colleagues (and the group of interns he did not sign up for), while also facing his own mental health and interpersonal struggles. Suffering from prospognosia (a.k.a. face blindness), Wolf tends to isolate himself. But as he brings his unconventional methods to the lives of his patients, he begins to change the minds of those around him. The 25 best shows on Peacock In tackling questions of neurological disorders and mental health on the show, the doctors often have to step outside the four walls of their hospital. In one episode, Wolf and his interns even go back to high school so as to enmesh themselves in their patient's world. “When you leave the hospital, your journey doesn’t end,” notes creator Michael Grassi, speaking to Entertainment Weekly for our 2024 Fall TV Preview cover story. “You’re still dealing with emotional and physical fallout. Dr. Wolf enters their POV and tried to understand how the patient is feeling. He wants to get into their heart, mind, and soul.” Andra De Shields and Zachary Quinto on 'Brilliant Minds'. Rafy/NBC To that end, Grassi and the production team needed to devise a way to visually render what Dr. Wolf is doing — without resorting to hokey animation or visual tricks. “I don't want this to be the type of show where we're flying into someone's brain and seeing neurons fire,” says Grassi. “Because I don't feel like that's necessarily representing what the patient is seeing and experiencing and feeling. What's really important is for us to be grounded in the experience of the patient as closely as possible. Even the way we approach how we're telling the stories and how we're seeing the patient's POV is very in-camera and tactile. We want to not have it be a visual effects extravaganza, but more told through our camera and our storytelling.” That most directly impacts the cinematography, and Grassi cites The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as two visual touchstones. But it’s similarly transformed Quinto’s approach to his work, particularly his representation of Wolf’s face blindness. “How do you dramatize neurological disorders?” Quinto asks. “That’s been a unique process, from a production standpoint. Each of our directors use the patient in that episode and their specific neurological challenge to inform the cinematic vocabulary of the show. It’s wonderful that the way an episode looks correlates to the patient and the condition they’re trying to come to terms with.” Stop making us wait so long between seasons of shows… please? Quinto studied the ways that those who suffer from face blindness cope, figuring out how to convey that experience to the audience. Working closely with the directors for the first two episodes, the actor developed a specific physical language. “Someone with face blindness would look at a certain feature of yours — the way that your hair is parted in the middle, or maybe you have attached or detached earlobes, or you may wear some statement ring. There are different skills that people with this condition are able to integrate and sharpen over time so that there's less of an apparent deficit. And these are the kinds of questions that we're asking ourselves, as creative collaborators: How do we bring this to life and make it relatable and make it interesting and make it dynamic in a way that'll keep people engaged?” While Quinto had heard of Sacks, the actor hadn’t read any of the scientist’s work until he signed on to the show (he expresses a deep sadness over never meeting Sacks). And though Sacks wrote numerous books and papers on his research, Quinto found the most useful insights in Sacks’ writings about himself, including his memoir and numerous essays. “Hearing his voice applied to himself was really valuable to me,” Quinto says. “There is a parallel between what drives [my character] and what drives most actors to investigate, explore, and immerse ourselves into the psyche of another person. To try to do that with empathy, compassion, and understanding. That’s true of Oliver Wolf and was true of Oliver Sacks. What drives the relentlessness of their pursuit on behalf of their patients is a deep empathy and respect for the human experience.” The best seasons of Yellowstone, Succession, and 84 more shows Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. These parallels are exactly why Grassi had the Quinto in mind as his first choice to play Oliver Wolf. “He has this inherent intelligence to him,” Grassi remarks of Star Trek, Heroes, and American Horror Story star. “He has always taken big swings with his performances, and they feel so authentic. When I think about Oliver Sacks, I think about somebody who always took big swings as well. It was an interesting mashup of actor and real life. We’ve seen Zach do so much genre. I was really excited to see him play a character that was grounded in a real hospital with real medicine and see him tap into this incredible pool of empathy that he has.” Fans of Quinto are used to seeing him play someone more interested in taking lives than saving them, which makes Brilliant Minds a major departure for the actor. “Wolf has not got any ulterior darkness to him,” Quinto notes. “He’s iconoclastic and rebellious. He sometimes acts before he thinks. But at his core, he is a good person. That could be a surprise for people used to seeing me play more nefarious characters.” Brilliant Minds premieres on NBC on Sept. 23 at 10 p.m.

Ever since The Outsiders was first published in 1967, it's been breaking hearts and giving teens a reflection of their own lives in S.E. Hinton's tale of class war between the working-class Greasers and the upper-middle-class Socs. It reached a new audience with Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film adaptation, which served as a launchpad for some of the decade's brightest stars, including Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, and Diane Lane. The cast of 'The Outsiders' on Broadway. Miller Mobley Now The Outsiders is being reinvented once again — this time as a Broadway musical, opening April 11 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. EW has your exclusive first look at the cast in character, including Brody Grant as Ponyboy Curtis, Sky Lakota-Lynch as Johnny Cade, and Emma Pittman as Cherry Valance. Set in Tulsa in 1967, The Outsiders follows a chosen family of "outsiders," held together by Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade, as they fight for survival and purpose in a world determined never to accept them. The production describes it as "a story of the bonds that brothers share and the hopes we all hold on to," and promises to reinvigorate a "timeless tale of 'haves and have nots,' of protecting what's yours and fighting for what could be." Brody Grant as Ponyboy Curtis in 'The Outsiders'. Miller Mobley The cast also includes Joshua Boone as Dallas Winston, Brent Comer as Darrel Curtis, Jason Schmidt as Sodapop Curtis, Daryl Tofa as Two-Bit Mathews, Kevin William Paul as Bob Sheldon, and Dan Berry as Paul Holden. It features a book by Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp and Justin Levine, with music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Levine. Both Levine and Rapp first discovered the book in school as teenagers. "I was a freshman at St. John's, a boarding military academy in Delafield, Wis.," Rapp tells EW. "We were reading The Catcher in the Rye for a Great Books class. During study hours I left my copy of Catcher on my bunk when I went to the bathroom, and when I returned someone had stolen it. It was my first good reading experience as a young teenager, but I was only about 50 pages into it. But I had to find something else to read." Sky Lakota-Lynch as Johnny Cade in 'The Outsiders'. Miller Mobley Rapp continues: "The Outsiders was the next book on the list, and it was with a stack of other books on my desk, so I grabbed it and was immediately held hostage by Ponyboy Curtis' voice, his story, his brothers, and of course, Cherry Valance. I couldn't put it down. I felt like I was stowing away with it on a ship. I think it was the first novel I read that was genuinely pleasurable." Levine adds, "I read The Outsiders in eighth grade in Mrs. LaFemina's English class. It was the first proper novel I'd ever read, and I was instantly drawn into Ponyboy's mind and heart. I was struck by how relatable his view of the world was even though I came from a completely different place. It truly ignited my lifelong love of literature." Jason Schmidt and Daryl Tofa in 'The Outsiders'. Miller Mobley Director Danya Taymor (Pass Over), however, first encountered the story through the musical. "I was stunned by the music and the storytelling, which led me to read the novel," she says. "I read the book in one sitting, and burst out crying when Ponyboy reads the letter Johnny wrote to him just before he died. I was so deeply affected by the authenticity of Susie Hinton's voice, her unwavering ability to tell hard truths. She captured what it feels like to be a teenager so profoundly, and that struck a powerful nerve in me." For Levine and Rapp, the lives of the Greasers and their struggle to connect with the world in spite of their feelings of alienation was ripe material for a musical. "I felt like the Greasers were beautifully inarticulate," Rapp reflects. "All these restless hearts and blue-collar bravado and tenuous dreams. The musical aspect — the actual singing of songs — afforded a mode in which these characters could express themselves when they didn't have the tools to do so through dialog or action. Philosophically that made a lot of sense to me." Emma Pittman as Cherry Valance in 'The Outsiders'. Miller Mobley Adds Taymor, "Music is perhaps the most profound medium for expressing emotion, and so the adaptation feels so natural. These boys are going through it in every way imaginable, and music allows an audience to dive deeply into their psyches. Susie Hinton has such a compassionate gaze on humanity, which allows her to uncover and expose so many different aspects of her characters." Through the project's development, the entire team kept Hinton's book as their guiding light. Most importantly, the iconic line "Stay gold, Ponyboy" retains its place in the story. "Johnny’s iconic line appears in our show the same way it does in the novel," Levine explains. "It's a powerful moment between best friends, and it needs no additional help from us!" Joshua Boone and Brent Comer in 'The Outsiders'. Miller Mobley Still, they wanted to be careful not to overplay their hand and make it too much of a thing. "I actually think we're pretty subtle about the phrase's first utterance," Rapp says. "It gets sung later, toward the end of the play, a number of times, but we were trying to be as efficient and subtle as possible before then. No one on the creative team wanted it to come off as cheesy or easy. It's a powerful phrase that lives on hats and T-shirts. Kids write it in their schoolbooks. They get tattoos. So we couldn't not go there. I think we saved it for the best possible moment." Perhaps Taymor sums it up best. "Susie's novel has been our North Star throughout this process," she concludes. "Even as we adapt the story to the medium of theater, it is our touchstone that we return to again and again. 'Stay gold' is the beating heart of The Outsiders, a message of hope and resilience despite darkness and grief, as well a testament to the power of art to save our spirits, and therefore our lives." Check out the photos above for more. The Outsiders begins previews March 16. Related content: An oral history of The Outsiders Angelina Jolie hires 15-year-old daughter as assistant for Broadway production of The Outsiders S.E. Hinton on The Outsiders' 50th anniversary: 'I could never be that un-self-conscious again'

Want to know what's going on in the teaser trailer for the Nicolas Cage- and Maika Monroe-starring serial killer film Longlegs? Hey, us too! The clip features terrifying imagery — A wall of mysterious symbols! A book called Nine Circles of Hell! A woman getting attacked from behind with what looks like an axe! — and an ominous score. What it does not feature is much in the way of plot explanation or, for that matter, Nicolas Cage. This is in line with the unrevealing posters and short clips which have already been released by distributors Neon over the past few weeks. It is also in line with the previous work of writer-director Osgood Perkins, the man responsible for such terrific but pretty darned gnomic horror movies as 2015's The Blackcoat's Daughter and 2016's I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. Maika Monroe in 'Longlegs'. NEON What we can tell you is that the film costars Monroe from It Follows and The Guest who plays an FBI agent assigned to the case of Cage's elusive serial killer. We can also confirm that the teaser's description on YouTube reads, "You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you," which obviously clears matters up no end. Perkins is the son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins and, as he explained to EW in 2016, it is no coincidence that this child of a horror icon is himself such a fan of the genre. “It was my father’s business,” he said. “As some children go into banking because their fathers are bankers, and some people become dentists because their fathers are dentists, one of my ways of connecting with my old man — who I couldn’t always connect with — was through the fact that he was an icon in this genre.” Longlegs will be released this July 12. Watch the teaser trailer below. Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. Related content: Nicolas Cage reacts to viral 'Nicolas Cage Loses His S---' video montage: 'Nothing I could do to stop it' Nicolas Cage talks up nutritional value of bugs but won't eat one again: 'I've learned to move on from that' Renfield stars Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, and Ben Schwartz had a fang-tastic time making Dracula horror-comedy

Margot Robbie addressed the fervor surrounding her exclusion from the Best Actress category at the 2024 Oscars for her role as an existential-tinged Barbie, stating that there are no hard feelings. “There’s no way to feel sad when you know you’re this blessed,” the Barbie star and producer, recognized in the Best Picture category, said at a SAG-AFTRA discussion alongside her fellow costars in Los Angeles this week. She conceded, however, that director Greta Gerwig should have been included in the Best Director category. “What she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing," Robbie said. "What she pulled off, it really is. But it’s been an incredible year for all the films.” Still, Robbie — who nabbed a leading actress nomination at the upcoming 2024 SAG Awards — said she was "beyond ecstatic" with the film's eight nominations at the upcoming March ceremony, including Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling and Best Supporting Actress for first-time Oscar nominee America Ferrera. “Everyone getting the nods that they’ve had is just incredible," Robbie said, noting that production "set out to do something that would shift culture, affect culture, just make some sort of impact," and "it’s already done that and some, way more than we ever dreamed it would. That is truly the biggest reward that could come out of all of this.” Rhea Perlman and Margot Robbie in 'Barbie'. Lara Cornell/Warner Bros. Both Gosling (Ken) and Ferrera (Mattel employee Gloria) have expressed disappointment over Robbie and Gerwig's omission in their respective actress and director categories. Though "extremely honored," Gosling previously said in a statement that "there is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film." Ferrera called Gerwig and Robbie's work "phenomenal" and said they "deserve to be acknowledged for the history they made, for the ground they broke, for the beautiful artistry." Other notable snubs at the upcoming ceremony include the absence of May December stars, such as breakout Charles Melton, and Past Lives star Greta Lee and director Celine Song. There were also some groundbreaking and celebratory firsts: Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone became the first Native American woman to receive a Best Actress nomination. The 96th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 10, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC.  Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. Related content: Oppenheimer leads 2024 Oscar nominations: See full list, from Emma Stone's double nod to Barbie snubs Breaking down the chaotic discourse around Barbie Oscars 'snubs' The most shocking snubs and surprises of the 2024 Oscar nominations

Andy Serkis’ Caesar may be missing from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, but his legacy looms large. Since debuting in 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Serkis’ protagonist has been the heart and simian soul of the franchise, a chimpanzee freedom fighter who learned to speak and led his brethren to triumph against warring humans. The fourth installment of the reboot series, Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (in theaters May 10), jumps forward a few centuries, long after Caesar has been laid to rest. But his teachings endure as a new protagonist rises to follow in his (prehensile) footsteps.   Set about 300 years after Caesar’s death, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes introduces a new hero in the form of Noa (Owen Teague), a young chimp living with his family in the post-apocalyptic wilderness. His father, Koro (Neil Sandilands), leads their small village, where the apes have embraced farming and falconry. (Our first introduction to Noa is watching him swing fearlessly above the treetops, searching for an eagle egg that he will raise and train from birth.) But before long, Noa’s peaceful clan is attacked by a group of mask-wearing apes — towering gorillas and chimps on horseback who capture the village’s residents. It's up to Noa to rescue his friends and family from this band of simian invaders. Noa (Owen Teague) and Nova (Freya Allan) in 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes'. 20th Century Studios By Noa’s time, most apes either revere Caesar or have entirely forgotten the charismatic chimp; Noa falls firmly into the latter category. As he’s wandering through the wilderness, he encounters a wise and solitary orangutan named Raka (Peter Macon), who schools him on Caesar’s teachings of peace, justice, and a disdain for ape-against-ape violence. With Raka serving as his Orangu-Wan Kenobi, Noa sets out on a perilous journey through the wilds, traversing crumbled cities, overgrown airports, and forgotten observatories in his quest to reunite with his clan. Along the way, he crosses paths with a mysterious human (played by The Witcher’s Freya Allen), whom Raka and Noa nickname “Nova” (a nod to the series’ many, many female characters of that name). She appears like most humans of her time — savage, mute, and incapable of complicated thought — but Noa soon discovers that this wild child may be hiding secrets of her own. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes star teases Caesar's legacy and the new generation Their trek brings them to the seaside war camp of the self-styled Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand), an ambitious bonobo who’s crowned himself as Caesar’s unofficial successor. He’s the kind of grinning dictator who greets his followers by declaring that every day is a “wonderful day,” and he’s guided by a simpering human, played by William H. Macy, who ploys him with tales of ancient Roman history. By harnessing electricity to create makeshift cattle prods, Proximus’ soldiers have already conquered this corner of the country, and up next, they plan to use their might to eradicate those pesky humans for good.   Like its predecessors, Kingdom probes big ideas about human (and ape) nature, especially once the young Noa witnesses the violence and ambition of Proximus Caesar’s prison camp. But where previous films tackled thorny issues of prejudice and power, Kingdom remains a bit more removed: Sure, the film flirts with concepts like fascism, authoritarianism, and how opportunistic leaders can twist history for their own gain, but it never really engages with them beyond a surface level. Kingdom especially drags in the third act, as its nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime starts to sag. Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. Far more successful are the early scenes of Noa’s journey through the wilderness: Teague’s wide-eyed chimp makes for a compelling hero, whether he’s bravely scaling cliffs to obtain an eagle egg or reluctantly sharing meals with Nova over a campfire. As a pure ape-versus-wild survival story, Kingdom is a thrill, and Ball captures his lush, post-apocalyptic jungle in gorgeous detail. (Up next, the director is helming the highly anticipated adaptation of The Legend of Zelda, and watching Noa wander through the wilderness, it’s easy to imagine how Ball might bring that same care and sense of wonder to his big-screen depiction of Hyrule.) Planet of the Apes director sets the stage for Kingdom and 'a lot more story to be told' More than anything, Kingdom simply looks beautiful: Each of the apes is rendered in loving detail, elevated by soulful motion-capture performances. (Teague is especially great as the heroic Noa, flitting between deep human emotion and animalistic rage in an instant.) And in a summer movie landscape littered with cynical reboots and quippy superhero sequels, there’s something refreshing about Kingdom’s earnestness, following Noa on a true hero’s journey. Caesar may be gone, but Noa is a more than worthy successor. Grade: B