Director, producer, writer and actor Natasha Lyonne will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Friday, February 23, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She will present 16 achievements during the evening.
A five-time Emmy® nominee and two-time Golden Globe® nominee with a career spanning more than three decades, her film credits include “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” “But I’m a Cheerleader” and “Slums of Beverly Hills.” She will next produce and star opposite Carrie Coon and Elizabeth Olsen in Azazel Jacobs’ feature film “His Three Daughters.” Lyonne stars in, executive produces, as well as writes and directs the series “Poker Face,” which is in pre-production for its second season. She co-created, wrote, directed and starred in the critically acclaimed series “Russian Doll.” Most recently, she directed and executive produced the stand-up special “Get On Your Knees” from Jacqueline Novak. Lyonne executive produced and stars in the upcoming animated series “The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy.” She produces under her banner, Animal Pictures.
Scientific and Technical Awards need not have been developed and introduced during a specified period. Instead, the achievements must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to making motion pictures.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More