Twenty years after ‘Hustle & Flow,’ Craig Brewer directs another Oscar-nominated performance
Kate Hudson, left, as Claire Sardina and Hugh Jackman as Mike Sardina in director Craig Brewer's "Song Sung Blue.” (Credit: Sarah Shatz/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved)
When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Jan. 22, one relative surprise was a Best Actress nomination for Kate Hudson, who plays Milwaukee tribute singer Claire Sardina in “Song Sung Blue.”
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Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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