2024 Contenders
Danielle Deadwyler, Cynthia Erivo, Demi Moore, Saoirse Ronan, Zoe Saldaña and Kate Winslet on standing their ground, the downside of box-office hits and crying during press tours.
Edward Berger, Brady Corbet, Coralie Fargeat, James Mangold, Denis Villeneuve and Malcolm Washington on adapting as you go, feminism in film — and vaping in the Sistine Chapel.
Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, Colman Domingo, Peter Sarsgaard, Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong dive into their films, truth-telling and acting alongside your director.
2023 Contenders
Fantasia Barrino, Emily Blunt, America Ferrera, Eve Hewson, Sandra Huller, Julianne Moore offer insights into their work.
On the 2023 Envelope Actors Roundtable, Colman Domingo, Paul Giamatti, Cillian Murphy, Mark Ruffalo, Andrew Scott and Jeffrey Wright exchange views on AI, work that changed their lives and looking like other actors.
Directors Blitz Bazawule (‘The Color Purple’), Bradley Cooper (‘Maestro’), Michael Mann (‘Ferrari’), Alexander Payne (‘The Holdovers’), Celine Song (‘Past Lives’) and Justine Triet (‘Anatomy of a Fall’) on how they do what they do.
2022 Contenders
The directors at this year’s Envelope Roundtable -- Rian Johnson, Jordan Peele, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Maria Schrader, Charlotte Wells and Florian Zeller -- found shared experiences.
Bassett, Monáe, Emma Corrin, Kerry Condon, Danielle Deadwyler and Laura Dern open up about the benefits of intimacy coordinators and channeling pain.
Six Oscar contenders -- Austin Butler, Paul Dano, Brendan Fraser, Jonathan Majors, Bill Nighy and Adam Sandler -- talk about family, playing real people ... and mortality.
2021 Contenders
For the Envelope roundtable, Kenneth Branagh, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Siân Heder, Adam McKay and Lin-Manuel Miranda come together to talk about the deep connections they all forged to their work.
Six actresses at the top of their game -- Penelope Cruz, Kirsten Dunst, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Hudson, Kristen Stewart and Tessa Thompson -- dive into how to get into character, on-set safety and how best to play drunk.
Javier Bardem, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Dinklage, Andrew Garfield, Oscar Isaac and Jared Leto gather to talk about their films, their inspirations and ... orchids exploding with blood?
2020 Contenders
Riz Ahmed, George Clooney, Delroy Lindo, Gary Oldman and Steven Yeun take us inside their new films and open up about their insecurities.
Michelle Pfeiffer, Rashida Jones, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Kirby and film newcomer Andra Day gather (virtually) to talk nerves, women’s stories and the trick to lengthy careers.
When six directors — David Fincher, Paul Greengrass, Regina King, Spike Lee, Aaron Sorkin and Chloé Zhao — recently got together to talk about their latest projects, they shared candid feelings about control on-set and the movie business in a post-COVID world.
2019 Contenders
The Envelope brought together Eddie Murphy, Robert De Niro, Antonio Banderas, Taron Egerton, Robert Pattinson and Daniel Kaluuya for a candid conversation.
Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Marielle Heller, Bong Joon Ho, Todd Phillips and Lulu Wang share filmmaking tips, inspirations — and one big secret that’s still being kept.
What did Jennifer Lopez, Charlize Theron, Renée Zellweger, Awkwafina and Cynthia Erivo talk about when they got together for a conversation?