Monday, May 18, 2026

RESUME: JASON MOMOA

 

RESUME returns with a new format - a complete breakdown of the careers, reputations, hits, misses, and future outlooks of LRF’s biggest stars. This edition examines the rise of Jason Momoa from supporting heavy to blockbuster franchise centerpiece.

For years, Jason Momoa looked like the kind of actor destined to spend his career playing memorable side characters and intimidating villains. He had the physical presence studios wanted, but early in his LRF career, the projects themselves rarely matched his charisma. While audiences noticed him immediately, genuine leading-man status remained elusive.

That changed gradually - and then all at once. Across a string of increasingly ambitious genre projects, Momoa transformed from a cult favorite into one of LRF’s most valuable blockbuster anchors. Between his breakout villain performance in The Fall Guy and the massive success of Tarzan, Momoa now finds himself at the center of two major franchises simultaneously. With Boba Fett arriving next and a Tarzan sequel already in development, no actor in LRF currently has more momentum behind them.




FIRST LRF APPEARANCE --- Detective James (Season 5)

TOTAL LRF PROJECTS --- 4

GOLDEN REEL AWARDS --- 1

GRA NOMINATIONS --- 2

HIGHEST GROSSING FILM --- Tarzan ($600,251,517)

BEST REVIEWED FILM --- Ranger (Metascore: 80)

SIGNATURE GENRE --- Action / Adventure

FREQUENT COLLABORATORS --- James Wan

CURRENT CAREER STATUS --- Franchise Megastar





Jason Momoa enters Season 36 as arguably the safest blockbuster investment currently on LRF’s roster. After years of gradual career growth, Tarzan finally cemented him as a true leading man capable of carrying a large-scale franchise internationally. The film’s massive profitability, strong reviews, and audience reception completely changed how the industry views him.

Just as importantly, Momoa has avoided the overexposure trap that hurts many modern action stars. His LRF filmography remains surprisingly selective, allowing each appearance to feel like an event. The upcoming release of Boba Fett gives him the opportunity to solidify himself as both a fantasy-adventure lead and a full-scale sci-fi franchise centerpiece simultaneously.





SEASON 5 - DETECTIVE JAMES
Momoa’s LRF debut came in one of the studio’s stranger early misfires. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, Detective James centered on two washed-up television stars stranded on a Pacific island where the locals mistake them for the detective characters they once portrayed on television. The film struggled critically and commercially, posting a weak box office return against its modest budget and earning a brutal 33 Metacritic score.

Ironically, one of the film’s few memorable elements was Momoa himself. Playing livestock thief Shaun, he brought an oddball physical menace and comedic unpredictability that stood out amidst the chaos. While nobody at the time could have predicted the trajectory of his career, Detective James planted the seeds of what would become Momoa’s greatest strength: overwhelming screen presence.




SEASON 7 - RANGER
If Detective James introduced Momoa, Ranger legitimized him. Scott Cooper’s gritty western adventure about the formation of the Texas Rangers gave Momoa a much smaller but far more effective role as Ajoba, a violent Native American enforcer operating on the edges of the conflict.

The film itself was a modest success critically, earning an impressive 80 Metacritic score and helping establish LRF’s reputation for adult-oriented westerns. Momoa was not the headline attraction, but his physical intensity added genuine danger to the film whenever he appeared onscreen. More importantly, Ranger proved he could contribute to prestige-minded material rather than simply broad commercial fare.

Even now, this remains one of the most underrated entries in Momoa’s LRF career.




SEASON 14 - THE FALL GUY
Every major movie star has one project where audiences suddenly “get it.” For Momoa, that film was The Fall Guy.

Directed by Jon Favreau, the action-comedy adaptation paired Dwayne Johnson and Glen Powell with Momoa as Don Santo, a charismatic A-list actor secretly operating a sex trafficking empire behind the scenes. It was exactly the kind of larger-than-life role Momoa had been building toward for years.

The performance earned him his first Golden Reel nomination for Best Villain and finally demonstrated that he could dominate blockbuster material rather than merely support it. The film’s success also reframed Momoa’s image within LRF. He was no longer simply “that intimidating supporting actor.” He had become a genuine attraction.

Looking back, The Fall Guy feels like the exact moment his career trajectory permanently changed.




SEASON 30 - TARZAN
Then came Tarzan.

Directed by frequent collaborator James Wan, the film represented the single biggest gamble of Momoa’s career. Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations had become notoriously difficult to modernize successfully, and LRF’s decision to spend $125 million on a sincere, large-scale jungle adventure initially raised eyebrows across the industry.

Instead, the gamble paid off spectacularly as Momoa’s performance as Tarzan/John Clayton II finally merged all of his strengths into one defining role: physicality, charisma, vulnerability, humor, and mythic screen presence. His chemistry with Hayley Atwell became one of the film’s biggest selling points, ultimately winning the Golden Reel Award for Best Starring Couple.

Financially, Tarzan completely transformed Momoa’s standing within LRF. The film generated over $600 million worldwide and became one of the studio’s most profitable action-adventure releases of the modern era. More importantly, audiences embraced Momoa as a true leading man for the first time.




BEST PERFORMANCE --- Tarzan
This is the role that finally unlocked Momoa’s full potential as a blockbuster lead. Rather than trying to reinvent him, the film intelligently amplified everything audiences already liked about him.

MOST UNDERRATED PROJECT --- Ranger
Overshadowed by bigger titles later in his career, Ranger remains one of Momoa’s strongest pure acting showcases inside a grounded ensemble.

BIGGEST CAREER GAMBLE --- Tarzan
A $125 million jungle adventure built entirely around Momoa’s ability to carry a franchise could easily have collapsed. Instead, it became the defining success of his career.

CAREER TURNING POINT --- The Fall Guy
Without this performance, it is difficult to imagine LRF handing Momoa the keys to Tarzan or Boba Fett.

BEST COLLABORATOR --- James Wan
Wan clearly understands exactly how to use Momoa’s strengths onscreen. Their collaborations have elevated both men commercially and creatively.

MOST SURPRISING PROJECT --- Detective James
Seeing the future Tarzan and Boba Fett debut in a bizarre island comedy remains one of the strangest beginnings to any major LRF career.




BOBA FETT
Fresh off the success of Tarzan, Momoa reunites with James Wan for a massive new sci-fi action film centered on one of the most iconic bounty hunters in the Star Wars universe. Expectations are enormous, and for the first time in his career, Momoa enters a project carrying full franchise-level anticipation on his shoulders.

TARZAN 2
After Boba Fett, it looks like Tarzan 2 is on the release schedule, but no information has been leaked yet.


RESUME will continue tracking the hits, misses, risks, reinventions, and legacies of LRF’s biggest stars in future editions. Stay tuned.

In Development

 

Boba Fett: Rounding out the cast of the debut film of Season 36, the Star Wars Galaxy production, Boba Fett will be Charlee Fraser (Anyone but You, Furioa) as Koyi Mateil as a Twi'lek slave, Fra Fee (Rebel Moon, "Unchosen") as Black Sun Underlord Prince Xizor, Abbey Lee (Batman: Gotham Knight, Killer Heat) as Guri as human replica driod, and Oded Fehr (Justice League Dark, Uncharted 3) as smuggler Talon Karrde. James Wan is at the helm of the Jason Momoa-led film which was written by Nic Suzuki.

Heartbeat: James Norton (Rubicon Lies, Resident Evil 5) and Erin Doherty ("The Crown", "A Thousand Blows") are set to complete the cast of the medical/legal drama Heartbeat for star/director Ralph Fiennes. Norton will play a high-powered prosecutor, while Doherty has been cast as an expert in medical ethics. Sammy-Jo Ellis penned the script.

Donkey Kong Country: The blockbuster animation adaptation of the hit video game series has added the voice talents of Mark Hamill (Skyrim III, The Hammer of Thor) as the villainous King K. Rool, Kiernan Shipka (Heist Society, Anastasia) as Dixie Kong, and Elizabeth Banks (Maledicta, Pressing Luck) as Candy Kong. Mike Mitchell is handling the directing duties from an adaptation by APJ.

Pirouette: Karl Glusman (Task Force X: Jungleland, Something and/or Nothing), Nestor Carbonell (The Rip, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come), and Molly Parker (The Final Will, Batman Beyond) have joined Monica Barbaro and Johnny Depp in the Paris-set ballet drama Pirouette. Glusman plays Barbaro's love interest, while Carbonell and Parker will play Barbaro's parents. Mawienn directs from a script by Jimmy Ellis and John Malone.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Finn Wolfhard (New Christianity, Heist Society) is set to star in and direct an R-rated stoner comedy take on the hit juvenile book series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Wolfhard is set to play Greg Heffley in the film, while Woody Harrelson (DOOM, Eve of Destruction) and Tina Fey (Wine Country, Mean Girls) have been cast as his ecasperated parents. Alex Conn (New Christianity, The Revolution) penned the adaptation.

Stretch Armstrong: Ryan Gosling (Collapse, Justice League Dark) is set to re-team with directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Project Hail Mary, Booster Gold: Back in Time) for an unexpected action-comedy film based on the Stretch Armstrong toy line. Gosling will play Stetch himself, an elastic secret agent. Adria Arjona (Sniper, The Ghost Connection) will play Gosling's rookie partner, while Michael Pitt (Splendour, Resident Evil 5) play a Bond-style supervillain with a floating fortress. Giovanni Garcia (Blood Brothers, The Flash) is behind the script.

Friday, May 15, 2026

LRF COMIC-CON (SEASON 36)

 

LRF Comic-Con returns for Season 36, bringing with it a new wave of casting reveals, exclusive footage, first-look posters, and updates on the studio’s upcoming slate of comic book and comic book-adjacent films. From major superhero franchises to cult properties and genre-bending adaptations, this year’s presentation offers the first major glimpse at some of the biggest projects of the upcoming LRF season. Plus, LRF's resident Comic Book Guy will share his opinions from the Con floor after each panel.


ROUND 1 - BOBA FETT

LRF Comic-Con opens with one of the loudest crowd reactions in recent memory as Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Conan the Barbarian) storms onto the stage, Guinness in hand, to officially unveil Boba Fett, the studio’s long-rumored standalone film centered on the iconic Star Wars bounty hunter. Directed by horror and action specialist James Wan (Tarzan, DOOM) and written by Nic Suzuki (Robopocalypse, Sniper), the project promises a brutal, stripped-down take on the galaxy’s most feared mercenary. Momoa confirms the film will adapt elements from classic Expanded Universe lore, including Black Sun, Prince Xizor, Jodo Kast, and Fett’s estranged family, while emphasizing that the film is “more western crime saga than nostalgia trip.” Momoa then introduces the audience to the film’s opening sequence, which is screened exclusively for attendees....

Wind howls across the smog-choked skyline of Ord Mantell, a mining world decimated by decades of strip mining operations. In the narrow alleys of a rusted-out city, Boba Fett (Jason Momoa) moves through a half-collapsed power relay station. His armor is scorched from earlier hits. His rangefinder twitches. His blaster is drawn but low on charge. He stalks his target - a debt-ridden slicer - into a subterranean pumping station, stepping over leaking coolant and the bodies of mercenaries he already defeated. The target makes a desperate last stand, jury-rigging a security turret from scavenged parts, but Fett flanks it using his grappling line and disables it with a thermal detonator. When the dust settles, the target is alive, wounded, and shackled. Fett limps slightly as he drags the captive to his ship, Slave I, parked on a ridge above the outpost.





ROUND 4 - LOBO

Vin Diesel (Superman: The Last Son of Krypton, Gargoyles) takes the stage to officially unveil Lobo, the studio’s upcoming adaptation of the ultraviolent DC Comics antihero. Directed by Doug Liman (Splinter Cell, The Lone Gunman) and written by APJ (Batman: Duality, Broadway Joe), the film is described as a brutal sci-fi action comedy following “the galaxy’s last guy you’d ever want hunting you.” Diesel receives a thunderous ovation before presenting the film’s first official poster and promising fans that the project will fully embrace the character’s violent, absurd, and unapologetically over-the-top tone. 

The crowd reaction only intensifies when Diesel introduces Ruth Negga (Scion, Haute Couture) as co-star Darlene, marking the first supporting casting announcement for the film. Negga jokes that she signed onto the project “before fully understanding how insane it was.” 





ROUND 5 - LUKE CAGE: THE PURPLE MAN

LRF Comic-Con takes a bizarre and unexpectedly stylish turn when the panel for Luke Cage: The Purple Man begins not with title star Omari Hardwick, but with the arrival of Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of Thieves, Oppenheimer), who is officially revealed to be playing Zebediah Killgrave - better known as the Purple Man. Schweighöfer immediately leans into the character’s manipulative charm, jokingly telling the audience, “You’re all going to love me by the end of this panel.” Directed by George Tillman Jr. (Luke Cage: Power Man, Big George Foreman) and written by Jimmy Ellis (Rubicon Lies, Macbeth) and Dwight Gallo (The Lone Ranger, The Punisher: Purgatory), the sequel is described as a psychedelic, funk-fueled psychological thriller set against the glittering nightlife of late-1970s New York City.

The panel’s biggest surprise comes when Sabrina Carpenter (Bunny, The Water Cure) appears via live video call to officially confirm she’s playing mutant disco superstar Dazzler in the film. Carpenter then helps unveil one of the centerpiece songs featured in the movie’s soundtrack: Diana Ross’ classic disco anthem “Upside Down,” which blasts throughout the as purple lights sweep across the crowd and promotional imagery from the film flashes onscreen. 






ROUND 7 - THE HULK 3

Marvel’s gamma-powered corner of the LRF Universe storms back into Comic-Con as filmmaker Leigh Whannell (The Hulk, Wolf Man) takes the stage to officially unveil The Hulk 3, the newest chapter in the studio’s darker, horror-inspired Hulk saga. The panel’s major surprise comes when Timothy Olyphant (The Hulk 2, Redhead) joins him onstage to officially confirm his expanded role as Glenn Talbot - now fully transformed into the monstrous Abomination. Olyphant receives a huge reaction from the crowd, joking that he has “never been offered a role involving this much screaming and mutation” before Whannell describes the character as “less a supervillain and more a human catastrophe.” The pair then present the film’s first official poster.

Though no footage is shown, Whannell heavily emphasizes the sequel’s horror influences, citing David Cronenberg and classic monster cinema as key inspirations behind Talbot’s transformation. He also hints that Bruce Banner enters the story in a more stable place emotionally than audiences have previously seen, making Talbot’s violent spiral into monstrosity a direct contrast to Banner’s hard-earned control.




ROUND 8 - BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 2

LRF Comic-Con shifts into lighter supernatural territory as Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2 star Meg Donnelly (The Saints, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) takes the stage to discuss the in-production sequel. Donnelly quickly wins over the crowd while teasing the film’s larger emphasis on horror, romance, and dark comedy, unexpectedly citing Bring It On as one of the sequel’s biggest tonal inspirations due to its blend of teen rivalry, humor, and heightened drama. She promises the new film will dive deeper into the emotional chaos of Buffy trying to balance normal teenage life with increasingly dangerous supernatural threats, while also teasing the arrivals of several major fan-favorite characters into the rebooted continuity.

The panel’s biggest moment comes when Donnelly officially announces that Dacre Montgomery (The Flash #2, Detroit: Become Human) has been cast as Angel, with Montgomery then joining her onstage to a massive audience reaction. Montgomery jokes that he’s “spent most of his life preparing to brood professionally,” while Donnelly playfully describes Angel as “Buffy’s biggest red flag so far.” 



And that's a wrap on the Season 35 LRF COMIC-CON! Season 36 kicks off on May 18th! 



Tuesday, May 12, 2026

HISTORY LESSON (SEASON 35)

 

Welcome to History Lesson, where we take a closer look at the movies that dare to tackle real-life events with varying levels of accuracy, drama, and WTF casting choices. These films promise to educate and entertain, but more often than not, they rewrite history with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. We’ll be your guide through the land of miscast biopics, dramatic embellishments, and historical “inspired-by” liberties, breaking down whether these flicks are Golden Reel Award-worthy masterpieces or just a big-budget Wikipedia summary. Either way, it’s more fun than your high school history class—and there’s popcorn.

This time around we will take a look at Season 35's fact-based slate....




HISTORY LESSON: BLOOD AND GLORY
If Tarsem Singh was handed a history textbook about Alexander the Great and Darius III and immediately asked, “Yes, but what if everyone was glistening and on fire?” — Blood and Glory is the result. Visually? Unquestionably stunning. Every frame looks like it was painted in blood and gold leaf. Dave Bautista sacrifices bulls on ziggurats like he’s auditioning for “Most Intense Man Alive,” and Cosmo Jarvis’ Alexander spends much of the film charging into battle as if OSHA regulations were a personal insult. The problem is that once you scrape off the slow-motion gore and incense smoke, the film seems only vaguely aware of how the actual fourth century BCE worked. It plays less like a historical epic and more like a mythological fever dream inspired by someone who once overheard a podcast about Macedon.

The historical liberties here are… bold. Alexander burning his ships upon landing? That’s Cortez, not Macedonia. The siege of Ecbatana culminating in a one-on-one duel where Alexander personally skewers Darius in a dramatic temple square showdown? Spectacular cinema — completely fictional. Darius was betrayed and killed by Bessus while fleeing east, not engaging in gladiatorial death matches under flaming banners. Gaugamela is geographically and tactically compressed into a cinematic blender, timelines are flattened, and characters like Antigonus are killed in places and ways that make historians quietly close their laptops. Even the Siwa oracle scene, while rooted in fact, is rendered as a psychedelic Zeus-origin montage that feels closer to superhero canon than ancient record. The film wants epic inevitability; history, unfortunately, was messier and far more political. What we get instead is an operatic retelling where Alexander personally fights every major battle, Darius smashes pillars like a WWE champion (admittedly well-cast for that), and geopolitical nuance is sacrificed alongside that bull in Persepolis. Gorgeous? Absolutely. Accurate? Only in the broadest “Yes, these men existed” sense of the word.





HISTORY LESSON: THUS DREAMED ZARATHUSTRA
If you ever wondered what would happen if someone adapted Nietzsche’s life but filtered it through a Wagner opera and a DMT trip, here we are. Thus Dreamed Zarathustra is visually staggering - bone churches, desert mirrors, serpents with clock-hearts, centaur Wagners, sphinx Lou Salomé, and a literal book-beast demanding to be written. Franz Rogowski commits fully, wandering through metaphysical fever dreams like a man who just discovered philosophy is not a spectator sport. As filmmaking, it’s audacious and hypnotic - as subtlety, it’s extinct. Donnersmarck doesn’t imply symbolism - he hurls it at you in flaming slow motion until you either ascend to higher consciousness or politely excuse yourself from the theater to sit in silence.

Historically speaking, the film treats Nietzsche’s biography less like a record of events and more like a suggestion box. The real Friedrich Nietzsche did not physically duel abstractions in glass deserts, nor did Wagner gallop around as a mythic centaur issuing operatic ultimatums (though one suspects Wagner might have approved). The core milestones - Röcken, Leipzig, the break with Wagner, Lou Salomé, the Turin horse - are technically present, but they’re submerged beneath so much allegory that accuracy becomes secondary. And yet, in a strange way, it captures something truthful: not the literal details of Nietzsche’s life, but the operatic scale of his ideas. It’s wildly inaccurate as biography, gloriously excessive as art, and absolutely certain that if you’re going to dramatize the death of God, you might as well do it with skull chandeliers.





HISTORY LESSON: THE MOLANDER CASE
There’s a fascinating, morally thorny film buried inside The Molander Case — one about complicity, artistic compromise, and the quiet bargains people made under the Nazi regime — and you can feel it trying to claw its way out of this script. The problem is the film keeps undercutting its own strongest idea: that G. W. Pabst wasn’t a mustache-twirling villain or a simple victim, but something far more uncomfortable — a brilliant artist who chose to stay, adapt, and rationalize. Instead, the film leans a little too hard on dreamy symbolism and narrative withholding, to the point where key emotional beats feel oddly distant. The use of concentration camp prisoners as extras — the film’s most devastating element — lands, but it’s almost treated like a late-act reveal rather than the central moral rot it should be. You keep waiting for the story to really interrogate that choice, and instead it sort of drifts past it like smoke in one of its own scenes.

Historically, the film is playing in a murky but compelling space — Georg Wilhelm Pabst did return to Nazi-controlled Europe and did continue working, and the broader question of artists operating under authoritarian regimes is very real. But the fictional framing of The Molander Case itself muddies the waters in a frustrating way. By hinging everything on a possibly-lost film and a conveniently silent witness in Franz Wilzek, the story sidesteps the harder, more interesting truth: we already know enough about this era to not need a mystery box. The final “he had the film all along” reveal feels less like tragedy and more like narrative sleight-of-hand. It’s the kind of ending that wants to be haunting but instead makes you wonder why the film spent two hours circling a question it never fully commits to answering. Not a disaster — far from it — but frustratingly close to being something great and choosing, like its protagonist, the safer path instead.

Saturday, May 9, 2026

MOST STREAMED (SEASON 35)

 

As many know, initial box office success or critical reception is not always the best indicator of which films become hits on the home video and/or streaming marketplace. In this segment, we will take a look at which LRF releases from last season were actually viewed the most in the week following their initial release.


MOST STREAMED FILMS OF SEASON 35

T-10. UNREASONABLE DOUBT




T-10. SPELLJAMMER



T-10. ZORRO



9. RUBICON LIES



8. THE PUNISHER: PURGATORY



7. VULTURES



6. MAN-THING



5. THE TICK



4. THUNDERCATS



3. BATMAN: DUALITY



2. THE HOUSE OF BLACK



1. EIDOLON





Stay tuned for Season 35's HISTORY LESSON on May 12th!

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

THE NUMBERS: SEASON 35 GRA EDITION

 

In this annual special edition of The Numbers, we will take a look at the voting of the 35th Golden Reel Awards. Specifically, we will take a look at the percentage of votes each nominee received. In addition to that, we also will reveal what films and talents just missed out on a GRA nomination by placing 5th in the nomination polling, as well as bringing in some trivia to coincide with each category.




40% - EIDOLON
20% - THE FRIEND ZONE
20% - NEW CHRISTIANITY
20% - TARA'S WRATH

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: RUBICON LIES

TRIVIA: This is the third time a John Malone-penned film has won both Best Production Design AND Best Picture. Eidolon joins The Prisoner and Risico with the feat. 




30% - TARA'S WRATH
28% - THE PUNISHER: PURGATORY
21% - THE DAM
21% - VULTURES

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: DISCOVERY

TRIVIA: Roy Horne now has 5 Best Soundtrack GRA trophies to his resume along with 9 more nominations since his debut in Season 6.




35% - THE HOUSE OF BLACK
25% - BATMAN: DUALITY
25% - EIDOLON
15% - ZORRO

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: THE PUNISHER: PURGATORY (TIE) / THE TICK (TIE)

TRIVIA: The House of Black is the first non-superhero Fantasy film to win the Most Wanted Sequel GRA since Gargoyles in Season 7. The only other winner with that criteria is Inferno in Season 3. Both Gargoyles and Inferno did indeed garner sequels.




60% - DISCOVERY
25% - EIDOLON
15% - THE HOUSE OF BLACK
0% - RUBICON LIES

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: BLOOD AND GLORY (TIE) / VULTURES (TIE)

TRIVIA: Writers Jimmy Ellis and Chad Taylor have now combined to make up 40% of all Best Ensemble Cast winners in LRF history.




35% - JACOB ELORDI & VICTORIA PEDRETTI - TARA'S WRATH
25% - ANNA KENDRICK & CHRIS PRATT - THE FRIEND ZONE
25% - CRISTIN MILIOTI & CHANNING TATUM - UNREASONABLE 
DOUBT
15% - LUPITA NYONG'O & DAN STEVENS - EIDOLON

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: DAVE BAUTISTA & COSMO JARVIS - BLOOD AND GLORY

TRIVIA: In the past 10 seasons, Jacob Elordi has been nominated for Best Starring Couple six times, now winning twice.




40% - VICTORIA PEDRETTI - TARA'S WRATH
30% - ROBERT ARAMAYO - MAN OF GOD
15% - SHARLTO COPLEY - EIDOLON
15% - JONATHAN TUCKER - THE PUNISHER: PURGATOTY

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: CHRIS ROCK - BATMAN: DUALITY

TRIVIA: Victoria Pedretti joins rare company as just the third talent in LRF history to win GRAs for Best Starring Couple and Best Villain in the same season (for the same film). Russell Crowe and Angelina Jolie are the only other talents to accomplish this feat for Season 10's Kite and Season 24's Natural Selection, respectively.




55% - EIDOLON
15% - THE DAM
15% - THE HOUSE OF BLACK
15% - THE PUNISHER: PURGATORY

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: THE MOLANDER CASE

TRIVIA: Writer John Malone has now won the Best Adaptation GRA over 29% of the time since the category joined the awards in Season 2.




40% - DISCOVERY
30% - RUBICON LIES
15% - DUST SAINT
15% - TARA'S WRATH

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: THUS DREAMED ZARATHUSTRA

TRIVIA: On the flipside, Jimmy Ellis and Chad Taylor have combined to be awarded over 41% of the Best Original Story trophies in GRA history.




40% - JESSIE BUCKLEY - DUST SAINT
35% - LUPITA NYONG'O - EIDOLON
25% - RENATE REINSVE - DISCOVERY
0% - EMMA MACKEY - THE HOUSE OF BLACK

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: CARLA GUGINO - THE PUNISHER: PURGATORY

TRIVIA: Jessie Buckley and Dust Saint winning this award continues the long-standing trend of the Best Supporting Actress GRA NOT going to the eventual Best Picture-winning film. In 35 Seasons, the two categories have only lined up three times.




50% - MICHAEL SHANNON - MAN OF GOD
25% - CHRIS ROCK - BATMAN: DUALITY
25% - JASON CLARKE - RUBICON LIES
0% - JOSH O'CONNOR - DISCOVERY

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: SHARLTO COPLEY - EIDOLON (TIE) / ROBERT ARAMAYO - MAN OF GOD (TIE)

TRIVIA: Michael Shannon has now won GRA trophies for Best Ensemble Cast, Best Villain, and Best Supporting Actor. He's just missing Best Actor and Best Starring Couple from a GRA full-house.




35% - JULIA ROBERTS - DISCOVERY
30% - VICTORIA PEDRETTI - TARA'S WRATH
30% - YULIYA SNIGIR - THE WOMAN WHO WALKED ON RED SNOW
5% - RINKO KIKUCHI - UNKEMPT GARDEN

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: ALLISON WILLIAMS - MAN-THING

TRIVIA: Julia Roberts at 55 years old is the second oldest Best Actress GRA winner in LRF history, only behind Patricia Clarkson, who was 59 years old when she won for Suzanne.




27% - JOSH BROLIN - MAN OF GOD
26% - JACOB ELORDI - TARA'S WRATH
24% - LEONARDO DICAPRIO - RUBICON LIES
23% - DAN STEVENS - EIDOLON

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: PAUL DANO - DUST SAINT (TIE) / HIROYUKI SANADA - UNKEMPT GARDEN (TIE)

TRIVIA: Josh Brolin has now won the Best Actor GRA all three times he has been nominated. The only award he's been nominated for that he did not win was in Season 3 for Best Ensemble Cast for the film Inferno.




45% - DANNY BOYLE - EIDOLON
25% - DAMIEN CHAZELLE - DISCOVERY
15% - ROSE GLASS - DUST SAINT
15% - MARTIN SCORSESE - RUBICON LIES

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: JAMES MANGOLD - MAN OF GOD (TIE) / LYNNE RAMSAY - TARA'S WRATH (TIE)

TRIVIA: The James Bond franchise, with four Best Director wins, now make up 11% of all Best Director trophies.




35% - EIDOLON
30% - DISCOVERY
20% - RUBICON LIES
15% - DUST SAINT

5TH PLACE NOMINEE: TARA'S WRATH (TIE) / THUS DREAMED ZARATHUSTRA (TIE)

TRIVIA: Writer John Malone's films now accounts for over one-third of all Best Picture GRA wins - 37% to be more precise.



Stay tuned for MOST STREAMED on May 8th!