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He stars alongside a cast made up of 90% former inmates, including breakout star Clarence Maclin.
\"It's such an incredibly hopeful film, and I think we need that -- especially where we are right now in the world,\" Domingo told \"GMA\" in February. \"We need stories about people who feel like they can overcome insurmountable odds.\"
Maclin spoke to \"Good Morning America\" at the 2025 Critics' Choice Awards about the humanizing RTA program and the film.
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\"We gotta represent ourselves in the best possible way that we can. We gotta let the world know that … I'm not an animal, I'm not a monster, I'm actually a father, I'm actually a brother, I'm somebody's son,\" he said.
\"Sing Sing\" is up for three Oscars.
Domingo scored a best actor nomination last year for his role as Bayard Rustin in \"Rustin.\"
Read Travers' review of \"Sing Sing\" here.
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Ralph Fiennes earned his best actor nomination for playing Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in the papal thriller \"Conclave,\" a story about the drama surrounding the selection of a new pope.
Fiennes, as Lawrence, is tasked with the role of dean of the College of Cardinals, the body in charge of electing the new pope after the sitting pope dies.
This is Fiennes' third time up for an Oscar, following his nod for best supporting actor in 1993's \"Schindler's List\" and his nomination for best actor in 1996's \"The English Patient.\"
Fiennes is also up for a BAFTA and SAG Award this year, results pending.
Read Travers' review of \"Conclave\" here.
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Sebastian Stan's role in \"The Apprentice\" as Donald Trump, decades before he ascended to the presidency, scored him a best actor Oscar nomination.
The drama, set in 1970's New York City, depicts the friendship between Trump, then a young and ambitious businessman, and Jeremy Strong's Roy Cohn, Trump's friend, mentor and personal attorney.
This marks Stan's first Oscar nomination.
President Trump has publicly derided the film, calling it a \"cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job\" in an October 2024 post on Truth Social.
\"So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want in order to hurt a Political Movement, which is far bigger than any of us,\" Trump added.
Stan responded to Trump's public criticism on NPR's \"Fresh Air\" podcast with Terry Gross.
\"If the movie is really just sort of so irrelevant, then why warrant that reaction from him to begin with?\" Stan replied when asked about Trump's reaction to the film. \"It might be because the truth hurts, and there is something truthful to the movie, one of them probably being that, you know, he doesn't like anyone else taking credit for the way he is.\"
In a joking response to Trump's post, \"The Apprentice\" director Ali Abbasi posted on X, \"Thanks for getting back to us @realDonaldTrump. I am available to talk further if you want. Today is a tight day w a lot of press for #TheApprentice but i might be able to give you a call tomorrow.\"
Stan is also up for a BAFTA for his role in \"The Apprentice.\" Last month, he won a Golden Globe -- but for a different film. Stan was up for both his roles in \"The Apprentice\" as well as \"A Different Man,\" winning for the latter.
Read Travers' review of \"The Apprentice\" here.
The 2025 Oscars will take place Sunday, March 2, airing live on ABC and streaming live on Hulu beginning at 7 p.m. ET.
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