Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, as well Best Director for All We Imagine as Light‘s Payal Kapadia and Best Screenplay for A Real Pain‘s Jesse Eisenberg. The organization also ...

Check out all the new films and series this week on streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, Prime Video, BritBox, Apple TV+, CBC Gem and more. Only one new film managed to break ...

Michele Austin, who plays Jean-Baptiste’s gentle sister in “Hard Truths,” won the best supporting actress award. Austin and Jean-Baptiste also appeared as best friends in “Secrets & Lies.” ...

and her younger sister (Michele Austin, from Leigh’s Another Year), a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their temperaments. As Pansy increasingly nears a her snapping ...

Michele Austin, Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste Michele Austin, Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste Michele Austin, Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste at the 2025 Spirit Awards Nominees ...

Longtime Mike Leigh collaborators Michele Austin and Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunite in the director’s Hard Truths, playing two very different sisters living in north London. Jean-Baptiste plays ...

Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths is a study in contracts. At the center of the tale are two sisters, Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and Chantelle (Michele Austin), who are as dissimilar as possible. While ...

It’s done in isolation with each actor. Then Michele Austin will come into the rehearsal, and Mike will say, “Aha! Surprise, surprise, you’re playing sisters in this world!” Read more: ...