"Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. Due to its history-spanning structure, blank-page title character and technical sleight of hand, the film ...

Intermittently throughout "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," an elderly man recounts in a worn and quivering voice, "Did I tell you how I was struck by lightning seven times?" Cut to a silent-film ...

Here’s a helpful comparison for understanding why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button really shouldn’t have been made into a movie: Consider Franz Kafka’s ...

Dagleish earned a 2025 Olivier Award for the ‘Benjamin Button’ musical, while Austin earned a National Society of Film Critics award for her work in the Mike Leigh movie. By Mia Galuppo Senior ...

Why it’ll win: “Button” is thematically gripping, viscerally poignant, visually stunning storytelling with a literary backbone in the way of an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story that will appeal to the ...

Make up! Host Ryan Tucker talks about the make up required for Benjamin Button. Make up! Host Ryan Tucker talks about the make up required for Benjamin Button. Plus, we dive into the career of ...