Here are some photos of Kristen Stewart at the Chanel Metiers d’Art 2015/16 fashion show in Rome on Tuesday. We got these photos later than I was expecting, which is why I’m posting them a day later than I should have! Kristen has been hard at work on a new movie (Personal Shopper) in France for a few months, but she always makes time to honor her Chanel contract by attending several Chanel shows a year. I really like what Karl Lagerfeld gave her to wear this time – she looks sophisticated and pretty, nary a lip-bite in sight.
Kristen has actually had a decent year, career-wise. She had a small part in Still Alice, which ended up being an Oscar-winning film for Julianne Moore. Kristen and Jesse Eisenberg bombed at the box office with American Ultra, but K-Stew isn’t wearing that failure. And Kristen won a Cesar Award back in February for her role in Clouds of Sils Maria. Well, I didn’t realize this, but it seems like Clouds was released in America this year (not 2014), so Kristen could potentially be up for some awards during this Oscar season. And guess what? She just won the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actress!!!
Kristen Stewart is an underdog this awards season. Yes, she’s already won a César Award—the French equivalent of an Oscar—for her performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, but the competition in the best supporting actress Oscar category this year is tough, and Clouds of Sils Maria opened, without much fanfare, months ago. But if the Kristen Stewart Oscar campaign was ever going to get started, it definitely did today, when Stewart won the best supporting actress prize from the New York Film Critics Circle.
The organization, one of the country’s most prestigious film critic’s groups and among the first to announce their annual awards, met Wednesday and announced their choices via Twitter throughout the day. Michael Keaton won the best actor prize for Spotlight, even though he and the rest of that film’s cast are being campaigned in the supporting categories by distributor Open Road, and Saoirse Ronan won best actress for her role in Brooklyn. The biggest overall winner, though, was Todd Haynes’s Carol, which won four prizes, including best film.
You can read the full list of NYFCC winners here – I’m happy for Saoirse (I want to see Brooklyn so, so much) and Michael Keaton. The critics’ awards have been all over the place thus far – the National Board of Review gave Best Picture to Mad Max: Fury Road, and Jennifer Jason Leigh got Best Supporting Actress. What I’m saying is that while I’m happy for Kristen Stewart, I just don’t think she’s going to get nominated for an Oscar this year. And I’m guessing that she’s fine with it.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
The fat lady is about to sing.
She was fantastic in Sils Maria, the way this year is shaping up she definitely deserves a nomination. I doubt she’ll get one, but her performance was absolutely worthy.
I’m really looking forward to her new film with Assayas. She’s got some interesting stuff lined up. Livingston and Billy Lynn sound great and the Lizzie Borden film has a lot of potential. I’m a big fan of the career moves she’s making.
I actually think she has a good agent who has steered her in the right direction by doing a mix of ensemble roles and supporting roles in prestige pics with the occasional lead role in a lesser indie to build up credibility. The Lizzie Borden project is also something extremely different, which is probably good for her so she can show some more range. Emma Watson’s agent has done the same more or less, and I think more former franchise actors could benefit from this path instead of being thrown in the deep end. She’ll probably have an even better year next year with an ensemble role in that Ang Lee film and one of the three leads with Michelle Williams and Laura Dern in the Reichardt film.
I’d agree with that. I don’t even like her all that much (I want to, but then she gives yet another really insufferable interview), but even I’ll admit that she’s been playing her post-Twilight game very, very smartly.
Co-sign. She was absolutely incredible in Clouds of Sils Maria! She is showing some actual acting chops, her career is changing big time and in the right direction : after having been a tween sensation she is becoming an actress ( a real one!)
Her chops have always been there. People sneered at her performance in the Twilight movies, but I could see she had ‘it’ even then. Those horrible movies were the problem, not her.
Crumpet, you read my mind. She was a terrific child actress. She is getting back in her acting game.
Oh come on even Michael Sheen who is a great actor was just kind of blah in the Twilight franchise. I am sorry I’ll admit to kind of liking the books, but it really didn’t translate well and the movies were poorly written. Yes the YA audience loved it, but they would love anything related to it. Not saying any of the other actors from the franchise will pop out too, but I think judging anybody on that crap is a bit unfair. At least they all made some money.
@Crumpet: I didn’t see any of her work as a child actor, but I don’t doubt for a second that her acting chops were already there: you cannot invent or have talent in an instant.
That film was so meta in many ways.
I loved that movie and her in it, but I feel like she was just playing herself. Like, when asked to play herself she does spectacularly, but she doesn’t have much range.
Madame Binoche made my year though. Always and forever.
I really want to see this film. Just saw it’s available online. I thought she was great in Still Alice, but I haven’t seen any of her other work.
NBR leans heavily towards Warner Bros, so that’s why Mad Max got the kudos it did.
I’m actually quite surprised that Saoirse won for Brooklyn by NYFC. It was a lovely film and she does well in it, but it’s not a standout performance or script, in my opinion. Brie Larson is much more deserving of the award — which she got from NBR. Which I understand may curse her at the Oscars as no one who won best actress from NBR has ever won the Oscar.
Brooklyn and Ronan are excellent. I’ve liked Stewart in some of her previous roles so she can act. At the shallow end of the pool, her outfit is hideous. As usual, Lagerfeld looks like he’s recently been exhumed.
Mmmm… that movie was released at the beginning of the year or last year…I think her nomination chances are overdue. But she was good in it, not mind blowing but just good.
Critics awards only in my view not to mention she had some best of year notices but I doubt anything else. They aren’t sending out screeners for the film and it made so little money back in beginning of the year it wouldn’t make sense to add an awards campaign.
I would love to just for the expression of horror that many would have if she ends up nominated, and she was really good in the film too. It would actually be really nice if she and Saoirse would win in the end and break the “classic” win for once (chances are either Cate or JLaw win for best actress)
but yeah, she won’t get nominated, i doubt they would spend on money on an actual campaign for her or the film, it’s been so long (that’s not saying much, though)
Kristen would be nominated in the supporting category, so not up against Cate or JLaw.
yeah i was talking about saoirse winning in the lead and kstew in supporting
She gives me a “cold person” vibes. Like nothing gets to her, nothing moves her, she’s nothing but passionate and she doesn’t care about anything in the world.
She was good in Sils Maria but she played yet another version of herself. I couldn’t see the difference between her character and what I know of her from her interviews.
I…don’t really get the playing a version of herself impression. The character Chloe Moretz played was a parody of the public perception of bad girl actresses, including people like Kristen. Her character was a snarky, somewhat eloquent, free spirit type which is not how she comes across in interviews to me at all….I mostly like Kristen but eloquent and free spirit seeming is not the impression she gives imo. Maybe the hipster thing is what bugged you? It was very meta, but not that meta. She’s also played Joan Jett and Mary Lou in On the Road, which are wildly different roles.
Totally agree. I’ll never understand why anyone is ever impressed with her one note performances.
I dont get cold vibes from Kristen. She actually reminds me very much of an old classmate who was later diagnosed with mild aspergers. Awkward as hell because she has to consciously read social cues that everyone else picks up naturally, upsets easily and struggles with social anxiety.
I don’t get cold vibes from her at all.
She is just not an extrovert person who opens easily.
She seems to be one of these people who are guarded at first, and struggle with crowd but once you get to know them, they are really friendly and fun. There are many many such people around.
To me she has vibes similar to Cate Blanchett who said that when she was younger she would walk into a room fool of people and not what to say. She had to learn how to socialize.
She’s not going to get a nomination because the competition is stiff as hell this year with veteran actresses in addition to Alica and Rooney’s lead performances, while regarded as leads by some groups like the Critics groups and GGs, are probably going to be put in the supporting category for the Oscars. She has a good shot at a GG though, but she’s probably happy with just this and the Cesar. I do find it kind of funny because she hasn’t campaigned at all; she promoted the film when it came out in the spring but that was it.
Also, it is just me or does Karl look like a dementor about to suck her soul Harry Potter style in one of those bottom pics?
It’s a tough category, but only IF the Academy keeps both Mara and Vikander as Supporting (even though it’s pretty clear neither is a supporting part). Without those two it’s a lot wider.
I loved Clouds of Sils Maria and both Juliette B. and Kristen S. were fantastic. I have been confused about IFC handling of the movie. They pushed the movie back, until 2015. I guess to promote Boyhood and Patricia, but they wasted the critical buzz Juliette and Kristen were receiving in 2014.
IFC is notoriously wack and I wish they didn’t handle so many of her projects – I really feel like her chances (despite the win, which I’m happy about) are still very slim. In order for this win to go all the way up to the Oscar’s, they would definitely need to campaign for her which they have not been doing and other contenders have been campaigning seriously for weeks now.
It also depends on whether or not she wins the LAFCA on Sunday (which I think there’s a 50/50 chance of happening) – she could win it or they could decide to go in a different direction altogether. It all rests on whether or not IFC will campaign for her or not.
This win is odd, because she hasn’t been campaigning. As a fan, I am just happy she received the recognition from France and NYFCC, both were a wonderful surprise.
Girl is still trying to crawl out of that mess she made with her director and her boyfriend by keeping a low profile personally and professionally. I do not see range when I watch her acting and this is going to catch up with her.
Wasn’t that years ago at this point?
Umm no. Critics awards have nothing to do with the Academy. No matter how many critic awards she wins, she still ain’t getting nominated. Her stans are delusional.
Not necessarily. Some critics choices will bolster an underdog’s chance at an Oscar win, other’s don’t. I listened to an podcast in which they talked about how certain awards seemed to correspond with the eventual Oscar winner.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/for-your-consideration-the-10-pre-oscar-awards-announcements-that-could-change-this-race-20151201
Whoops, my bad. It appears I stumbled onto the Onion website rather than Celebitchy. I don’t think the Academy could ever be that out of it.
I enjoyed Sils Maria but someone please tell me what happened to KS in the 3rd act of the film.
I think she got fed up with the hot/cold treatment of her boss and just kept walking until she was gone. That’s my interpretation anyway.
I can’t comment in her performance but I think she looks great in this Chanel ensemble. She really owns/wears it, compared to some celebs who end up looking like the clothes are wearing them. Her hair and makeup are perfect, too.
She looks really gorgeous. Nice to see her smiling.
She was wonderful in Clouds and also in Still Alice and I don’t think she gives a fig about an Oscar or fame and that is very refreshing.
I may be the only one but I thoroughly enjoyed American Ultra. It wasn’t at all as lame as I was expecting it to be or what I thought the movie would be like. I actually liked Kristen in it too but then Im indifferent to her. I know she gets a lot of hate on here but I never really paid much attention to her outside of the blog world. I never heard of the guy in there but he was really likable and kind of cute in that film. I was surprised I liked it so much since I’m usually not into those kind of movies and I’d definitely watch it again if I couldnt find anything else to watch.
Most people who saw American Ultra actually really enjoyed it.
I’ll join in with you. I liked the movie a good deal. I think it was the most I ever liked KS in a movie–at least since Panic Room. She seemed relaxed and natural in it and like she was having a good time.
I think what killed AU is dipstick Eisenberg as the opening was around the time of his asinine comments about Comic Con. I truly believe that is career will be over…..soon.
She’s the same as her ex boyfriend they both are trying to build a respectable career post Twiligh by doing indies. Not particularly impressed by her acting but good luck to her.
Saoirse Ronan though is a real talent and the one young actress who can snatch JLaws crown as the young darling of the critics, she’s so gifted.
Of the younger actresses Brie Larson also has more of a chance at the oscars this year in my opinion. Possibly Alicia Vikander too.
She has a shot if IFC puts money into her campaign. Right now, they are only financing the effort to get Olivier’s screenplay nominated. This should change their minds. After all, the film is already out on DVD and streaming, so they can send it around to voters easily.
I don’t understand the critical tongue bath she’s received for Clouds of Sils Maria. I saw it in the theater because I adore Juliette Binoche. I was pleasantly surprised by how good Kristen was in it. But the Cleo and now the NYFCC awards? Really? I swear I’m not some sort of irrational Kristen hater. I just don’t get why that performance has been so lauded. I feel that way about JLaw in “Silver Linings Playbook” too but I at least understand the adulation a little better in that case. JLaw is extremely charismatic on screen. KStew isn’t. I don’t hate KStew but I have no idea why she’s suddenly the critic’s darling for this film
I feel exactly the same way, Keaton. Kristen is fine, but I found her performance in “Clouds” to be average at best. Plus I thought Juliette Binoche was really excellent in it, yet the critics seemed to give better reviews to Kristen than they did to her, which was just completely bizarre!
Apropos of nothing, she looks so much like Jenna Malone in that first picture!
I thought she was good in Clouds, but I’ve honestly never seen her in any performance where she truly blew me away like Saoirse, JLaw, Brie, or Alicia V. Most of the time when I see her in something, I find myself picturing some other actor in her place. When I saw Clouds, I knew that Mia Wasikowska was originally cast as Valentine, for instance. So while I was watching it, I kept finding myself picturing Mia instead of Kristen, and thinking how much better the movie would have been with Mia doing that role. I just never quite believe Kristen’s performances.
@Tiny Martian i 100% agree with you. When i watched a very painful-to-watch half hour of twilight, i was constantly imagining Emily Browning as Bella and thinking that it would have been bearable to watch if she was in it. Same with Clouds. I enjoyed that film esp Binoche but just couldn’t stand kristen’s acting and kept on thinking that it would have been amazing with Mia.
Sidenote: i love saoirse. Hands down one of the best actresses today. So excited to see Brooklyn as i’ve been waiting for two years to see that film. I wish this site covered her more.
She was good in Sils and fantastic in still alice. I remember walking out of those films thinking wow Kristen Stewart can act?! I’d much rather her nominated than Vikander, who is campaigning shamelessly for it.
Congrats to saorise on the win! She was fantastic in brooklyn.
Is it just me, or are the vibes between KS and Uncle Karl very creepy? You could not pay me enough to get close enough to have his gnarly glove covered hand on my arm, and breath in my face. I fancy that he smells of camphor and old lavender, shudder. Also, Princess Caroline is looking very “surprised” these days, but the work is impeccable.
Karl is actually very popular and beloved amongst the models and actresses who wear his clothes. He’s not creepy at all. He can sometimes put his foot in his mouth and be very blunt but apparently he is a very nice and intelligent man.
Besides, he’s as gay as you can get so it’s not like he’s creeping after her that way, though her detractors do like to say that’s the only way anyone would hire her. *eyeroll*
Doesn’t work when a lot of the men she works with are gay lol – Bill Condon, the directors of Still Alice, Karl
Stew is a mediocre actress at best, and I strongly agree with the other comments that peg her as basically playing herself in the majority of roles she takes on. However, as a human being…I just can’t with her. I am a clinical social worker and a person who has struggled with crippling anxiety for most of my life. I found the criticism she made fairly recently about medications and the often life saving role they can play in the lives of people who struggle with mental illness to be both ignorant and hypocritical. Ignorant because even though she never signed up to be the spokesperson for MI, she must realize that there are still teens/tweens (for reasons unknown) who look up to her and listen to what she says. While she didn’t have to support medicinal therapy for MI, she could have least taken the, “Hey, if it works for you…..” , route–instead of slamming it completely.
Hypocritical because she is an admittedly socially awkward person, and chooses substances such as alcohol and drugs to cope with her symptoms of anxiety, which often have just as many (if not more) side effects as prescription drugs.
The bottom line is that Stewart may not be the brightest of actresses or human beings, but tends to fare better when giving a so-so script interpretation rather than an uneducated, spontaneous opinion that her .PR team has not had the opportunity to approve/formulate first.
She was talking about using meds when a person doesn’t need them. Since she was talking about her social circle, she’s the one to know it. Over prescription is a big and well known issue. The stigma surrounding mental health is awful, but no reason to jump on anyone who points at the problem with over prescription.
“Hypocritical because she is an admittedly socially awkward person, and chooses substances such as alcohol and drugs to cope with her symptoms of anxiety, which often have just as many (if not more) side effects as prescription drugs”
Wow, amazing that you have such insight into Kristen’s private affairs. Since when does Kristen get papped falling out of clubs drunk? She literally never has. What drugs does she take? She might be a bit of a stoner but she’s from a hippy background where it’s more of a recreational thing than a way to get thru life’s hardships. She said herself that she has never taken hard drugs and there has never been any evidence of it, not even a whisper of it. You are talking out of your ass.
I just recently saw an interview where Ed Sheeran called out America’s obsession with pills to cope with everything. He said whenever he is touring America and mentions having trouble sleeping because of jet lag o whatever, he is immediately bombarded with people telling him to take this pill or that pill. He too said the over-reliance on pills was ridiculous yet i don’t see him getting jumped on. People just like to pick apart everything Kristen says when the fact is that anybody with common sense can see that drugging yourself up to deal with minor issues is not a good thing. I say this as the daughter of somebody who has taken anti-depressants for over 20 years and truly needed them to cope with life. I would never judge anybody for getting the help they need. My family has been to hell and back trying to cope with severe depression in the family, but that doesn’t stop me knowing when people abuse them.
I was so thrilled to read this yesterday!!!! She thoroughly deserves it and i love how she came out of left field and surprised everyone, even herself i am sure! I really doubt she was even thinking about the NYFCC. She has worked so hard post Twilight and proved all the trolls and haters wrong. It’s so amusing to see them all still trying to minimize her successes .. Why do they bother at this point?
As for Oscar chances? I have no idea. She hasn’t campaigned at all where as all the others have been out there doing roundtables and going to events. I don’t know when she’s back from Europe either. Campaigning is not something she will ever love doing and i dont know what the studio is doing either. She will be nominated one day for sure. Anyone who says otherwise is just in denial!
Her outfit at Chanel was killer! I want that jacket! I think she’s looking a little too thin though. She’s not somebody who ever had a lot of meat on her bones so she can’t afford to lose any more.
She is stunning. She owns the Chanel, instead of vice versa.
Embarrassing. Hollywood still tries to make her happen. There was wonderful talented Juliette Binoche in that movie too. But hey – who cares in Hollywood. Lets give something to that Twilight one.
She happened a long time ago. But like you say, who cares…. 😉
Clouds of Sild Maria was great but there was literally no difference between Kristen Stewart and her character. It was just more mumbling and lip-biting while constantly pushing back her hair. It would be a shame if she got a nom over more worthy actresses.
I saw this movie and it really showed how great an actress Juliette Binoche is and how Kristen pales in comparison. Juliette was the shining actress here and I am frankly shocked that Kristen is getting awards for such a weak acting performance. Kristen is just not a great actor and certainly does not deserve a Golden Globe and Academy nomination for her performance in Clouds of Sils Maria. The Cesar award must have been heavily influenced by French producer Charles Gillibert and the SILS director, and also by Chanel because her performance didn’t earn it, in my opinion.
omg ….. all the other producers of Cesar nominated movies were French too.. so how does your theory work there? Such BS! No matter what award she won you’d come up with some excuse to take it away from her talent. What about the NYFCC? Did she pay off 34 top critics? zzzzzzzz
You mightn’t think she’s any good, but obviously many disagree.
What the actual F*ck???…this bland actress/woman must have the best PR team in Hollywood with an endless supply of cash for payola.
I agree with you, @JULES!
I saw Clouds and I still don’t get how anyone got past Binoche’s stellar performance, to make it about Stewart.
Is it that Stewart rose past the lower than whale sh** expectations of terrible acting to actually surprise some people with an performance that fit the story? Or are they figuring that they got cheated out of another JLaw-but’edgier’-type – that they’d been investing in since her Teen Vogue days – after that Rupert nonsense – and want it back on track (until, of course, she gets bored with it being ‘too easy’ again and decides to sabotage and torch her career a second and third time – because she will)?
I still think Mia Wasikowska and Ellen Page are better actresses.
KStew just has a far larger *potential* following they can trade on (and probably better connections) which could yield bigger dividends if they coud work around her detractors. She certainly has enough hardcore stans jumping in to defend her every twitch and sniff, as evidenced on every post about her on here ever.
And in an industry run by aging white guys it probably doesn’t hurt that she had heart-eyes for her older man director once.
It’s nice to see them trying to make a girl-Fetch happen for once, I guess. Can’t say I’m buying it though.
Kstew’s acting range can fit in a teaspoon. But, if the role calls for a teaspoon of self-absorbed, lip-biting, angsty, dull hipster, she’ll nail it. She’s got a couple more years where her shtick will work for these roles, but then she’ll have to switch to sullen, immature bitchy 30-something roles.