Organizers MRC Live and Alternative Tubefilter unveiled nominees for the 2021 YouTube Streamy Awards on Wednesday. The list of noms range from up-and-comers to global stars including Bill Gates, Lil Nas X, Nick Jonas, Hailey Bieber, Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith . Winners will be announced in December during a livestreamed ceremony. Additional creator appearances and show details are to come. This year’s top nominees include MrBeast (with seven nominations) along with Emma Chamberlain, true crime and makeup maven Bailey Sarian, Bella Poarch, gaming collective FaZe Clan, comedic gamer Markiplier, and “kidfluencer” Ryan’s World. Other notable names include Addison Rae, Sunisa Lee and Dream. The Streamy Awards honor creator excellence in online video content. More than half of this year’s nominations were first-time nominees. Here’s the full list of noms: OVERALL AWARDS Creator of the Year Addison Rae Alexa Rivera Avani Gregg …
Here’s Where the Cast from The Social Network Is Today
Movies about recent history can be hit-or-miss, especially when they deal with a subject as touchy as social media. Despite being about wealthy Ivy League students inventing a website that allows them to rate co-eds, The Social Network is a resounding hit that provides insight on the creation of Facebook. Starring Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, Armie Hammer as both of the Winklevoss twins, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, and many more, the movie focuses on the lawsuits and power struggle that arose once people realized that Zuckerberg was on to something big. Directed by David Fincher , famous for his psychological thriller films, and written by Aaron Sorkin, known for his whip-smart dialogue, the movie has viewers at the edge of their seats. Over a decade later, the eight-time-Oscar-nominated movie has held up as a critically-acclaimed historical drama. Not only did the movie endure, but it also furthered the acting …
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‘Dune’ Wages an All-Out Attack on the Senses — and Wins
It’s hard to be a messiah. Even before he recognizes that this is what he is, the young Paul Atreides of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune , played by Timothée Chalamet, lets the grief of expectation seep into his body, down to the drowsed slump of his shoulders and the toneless, contemplative wariness of his voice. The actor’s charm is kept in check; his latent vulnerabilities are in overdrive. Paul is the heir to House Atreides, whose fief is the oceanic planet of Caladan, a stony, rainy, tumultuous world, limited in its purview and power. An unusual home for a family said to descend from the ancient Greeks — but it sure helps to explain why everyone seems a little down in the dumps. In another kind of movie, this quality would maybe seem less worthy of remark. A moody teen. So what? But Dune , as Villeneuve has ambitiously sought to tell it, is above all a story of empire, to which Chalamet’s performance lends an interesting texture, soft and uncertain amid the movie’s …
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