Better Man: Last News

Robbie Williams at the AACTA Awards, and it seems as though they got on well with each other.Pearce told The Guardian how it feels to be nominated for awards in a new interview – his role as Harrison Lee Van Buren in The Brutalist has seen him nominated for everything from an Oscar to a BAFTA – joking that Kieran Culkin has been beating him to all of the awards for his turn in A Real Pain.At the “divine” AACTAs in his native Australia, Pearce was nominated for Best Lead Actor, this time for his role in The Convert, and bumped into Williams, nominated for his biopic Better Man, while he was there. He explained, “I said, ‘Hey, another award show!’ and he went, ‘But have either of us won anything? No!’ So we had a good old laugh – then of course he bloody won!”Better Man’s Jonno Davies was directly up against Pearce for Best Lead Actor, with Davies portraying Williams, and won in that category.

Saturday Night, the behind-the-scenes story of the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975. Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up In The Air), it stars Gabriel LaBelle as SNL founder Lorne Michaels, as well as Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner and Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd.Also new in cinemas is the critically acclaimed Hard Truths, the latest drama from legendary auteur Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, Abigail’s Party, Naked).

Robbie Williams’ new biopic Better Man has endured a difficult opening weekend in US cinemas.The semi-autobiographical film, which sees the star represented by a CGI chimpanzee, tells the story of his life and career, from the early days of childhood to his first taste of success with boyband Take That.Better Man was released in the UK on December 26, while in the US it expanded into over 1200 cinemas on January 10. As reported by Variety, that opening day saw the film draw only $580,000 (£475,000), which will be seen as a significant disappointment.The film, which is directed by The Greatest Showman’s Michael Gracey, was made for a reported budget of $110million (£90million), and has made a total of £3.8million from its first two weekends in UK cinemas, according to the Film Distributors’ Association.In a three-star review of the film, NME wrote: “Better Man begins like a John Lewis ad and swerves into an R-rated hodgepodge that somehow does too much while also barely skimming the surface of Robbie Williams’ career.

Robbie Williams has shared his thoughts on ‘Forbidden Road’ being disqualified from the Oscars 2025‘s shortlist for Best Original Song – see what he had to say below.In mid-December, the Oscars revealed its shortlist for Best Original Song for the upcoming 2025 ceremony on March 3. Originally on the list was Williams’ ‘Forbidden Road’ from his new biopic Better Man.

Robbie Williams is looking to head back to school and hit the books, he has revealed.Williams, who joined Take That at the age of 16 while preparing for the GCSEs, has shared in a new chat with The Sun that he’s been weighing his options in re-sitting for his exams, having left school without any qualifications.He told the publication: “I’ve been wanting to set up a university but, actually, I wouldn’t be able to attend if and when I do, because I didn’t get any GCSEs. I got nothing higher than a grade D, and everything else I failed or I didn’t turn up for.

Robbie Williams‘ song ‘Forbidden Road’ from his biopic Better Man has been disqualified from the Oscars 2025 Best Original Song shortlist.Better Man, which will be released on Boxing Day, sees the singer depicted as a CGI monkey, and the film tells the story of his life and career – from his early days in childhood to his first taste of success with boyband Take That.Earlier this week, when the Academy announced the shortlists for several categories for the 2025 awards ceremony, it was revealed that the film’s track ‘Forbidden Road’ was in the shortlist for Best Original Song.Now, though, the song has been knocked off the shortlist – no longer appearing on the official Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences webpage for this year’s Oscar shortlists.Members of the Academy’s Music Branch also reportedly received a letter yesterday (December 20) announcing the song’s disqualification, per Rolling Stone. According to the publication, the letter alleges that ‘Forbidden Road’ “incorporates material from an existing song that was not written” for the film.An Academy representative reportedly confirmed the song in question is ‘I Got a Name’ by Jim Croce, written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel.