Renee Zellweger Breaking News, Photos, and Videos

Renee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix, who won the top acting awards at last year’s Oscars, returned for the 2021 Academy Awards to bestow the awards on this year’s winners.

The Oscar-winning stars were the final two presenters of the evening during the event held at Union Station on Sunday night (April 25) in Los Angeles.

Renee was up fist and presented the Best Actress award to Frances McDormand for Nomadland. This marked her third acting win and her fourth overall Oscar win after winning Best Picture just minutes earlier.

Joaquin was the final presenter of the night and presented the Best Actor award to Anthony Hopkins for The Father. He wasn’t present at the awards show, so Joaquin accepted the award on his behalf.

FYI: Renee is wearing a custom Giorgio Armani Privé peony pink strapless silk gown with draped satin lapels at the neckline and a dramatic front slit, accented by a delicate crystal-embroidered trim. She completed her look with Jimmy Choo shoes and Cartier jewelry.

Renée Zellweger has lined up her next project, according to Deadline.

The site reports that the 51-year-old Oscar winner will be starring in The Back Nine, a comedy that will be directed by Michael Patrick King.

She’ll play Casey Jones, who gave up a golf career so that her husband could have one.

When she wakes up one morning to find her 25-year old marriage in free fall and her son off to college, she dusts off the clubs she tossed aside years ago in an effort to finally turn pro and redefine the “back nine” of her life.

Renee will also be an executive producer on the pic under Big Picture Co.

This isn’t the only project Renee has lined up. She’ll also be starring in a new NBC limited series!

You can next see Renee at the 2021 Oscars ceremony next weekend.

The 2021 Oscars have announced the first batch of presenters for next weekend’s award show.

In a trailer like announcement, the video asks, “In a world filled with award shows, what if an award show was actually a movie? Which stars would you cast?”

Producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh have said that in “keeping with our awards-show-as-a-movie approach, we’ve assembled a truly stellar cast of stars” for the first batch of presenters.

“There’s so much wattage here, sunglasses may be required,” they added in the statement.

On top of last year’s winners Bong Joon Ho, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern, Renee Zellweger and Brad Pitt, the “cast” will also feature Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Bryan Cranston, Harrison Ford, Regina King, Marlee Matlin, Rita Moreno, Reese Witherspoon, and Zendaya.

More of the “cast” are expected to be revealed soon.

The 2021 Oscars will be held Sunday, April 25 at both the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and at L.A.’s Union Station.

Only nominees and presenters will be allowed to attend due to COVID-19 safety protocols. This other rule about the show has been amended.

Last year’s big winners are back at the 2021 Golden Globes!

Renee Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix, and Awkwafina all took to the stage to present awards during the ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton on Sunday (February 28) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

At last year’s ceremony, Renee won the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her role in Judy, Joaquin won the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his role in Joker, and Awkwafina won the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for her role in The Farewell.

Other stars presenting awards at this year’s awards show included Jamie Lee Curtis and Bryce Dallas Howard.

You can check out the full list of 2021 Golden Globes winners here!

FYI: Renee Zellweger is wearing an Armani Prive dress, Jimmy Choo shoes, and David Webb jewelry. Awkwafina is wearing Gucci. Jamie Lee Curtis is wearing an Alex Perry dress and Cathy Waterman jewelry. Bryce Dallas Howard is wearing a Temperley dress.

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Renee Zellweger is taking on a TV role for the first time.

The 51-year-old actress will star in and executive produce a limited series called The Thing About Pam at NBC with a six-episode straight to series order, Deadline reported Thursday (February 4).

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The show is “based on the murder of Betsy Faria which resulted in her husband Russ’ conviction. He always insisted that he did not kill her, and his conviction was later overturned as the brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp, a role that will be played by Zellweger.”

The series will be written by Jessika Borsiczky (House of Lies) who will serve as showrunner.

The Betsy Faria case was featured on several episodes of Dateline, and was the subject of NBC News’ popular 2019 Dateline podcast, The Thing About Pam, which remains one of the most downloaded podcasts on iTunes.

“As someone who hasn’t missed an episode of Dateline in 10 years, what immediately stood out to me about Pam from other true crime stories is that while on its surface it has all the twists and turns of a thrilling whodunit murder mystery, it’s really a character story at its heart that reflects in a profound way the American landscape back to us,” showrunner Jessika Borsiczky said.

It was recently revealed that one of Renee‘s most famous co-stars didn’t originally think she was right for a big role!

Hugh Grant is looking back on Bridget Jones’s Diary 19 years later!

The 60-year-old actor took part in the new BBC Two documentary Being Bridget Jones where he chatted about Renee Zellweger being cast as the British lovesick thirtysomething, admitting that he wasn’t entirely convinced she was the right choice at first.

“There was a whole scandal about why isn’t this a British actress?” Hugh said, according to The Independent. “I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character, it did seem like a stretch.”

Hugh then went on to talk about the 51-year-old actress’ audition, saying it was “good” and that he found it “startling” because her accent sounded very familiar to Queen Elizabeth‘s sister Princess Margaret’s voice.

“She was told to kind of, well she thought she better loosen it up a bit,’” Hugh said, adding that a week later Renee‘s accent “was bang on.”

Earlier this month in another interview, Hugh said Renee is one of the few co-stars he still keeps in touch with.

Hugh Grant still stays in touch with his Bridget Jones co-star Renee Zellweger and says she’s one of the only female co-stars he still keeps in touch with regularly!

“I love Renée. Uh, she’s one of the few actresses I haven’t fallen out with,” Hugh said on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show. “And, we, we got on very well together and, we still exchange long emails.”

“Hers in particular, at least 70 pages each, interesting stuff, but quite hard to decipher and, she’s a properly good egg and a genius,” Hugh continued. “Did you see her Judy Garland? About as good as acting gets.”

The pair co-starred in Bridget Jones’ Diary back in 200 as well as the sequel, The Edge of Reason, in 2004. Renee starred in the third movie, Bridget Jones’ Baby back in 2016, but Hugh did not personally film additional scenes (though his character is involved!)

Find out which actor recently called Renee the love of his life.