The Best Episodes of Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Every episode of Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter!
Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter" is "Comedy Actresses", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Comedy Actresses" aired on 7/10/2016 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Actresses".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Comedy Actresses
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/10/2016
TV's leading funny ladies – Rachel Bloom, Gina Rodriguez, Allison Janney, Niecy Nash, Lily Tomlin, Ilana Glazer – disclose the best advice they ever got, the moment they knew they wanted to become actors and their funniest fan interactions.
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9.0/10 91 votes#2 - Actresses
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/2020
Rebecca Ford, Renée Zellweger, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Lopez discuss the craft of acting.
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8.8/10 75 votes#3 - Drama Actresses
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/26/2016
Six of the year's most sought after drama actresses engage in a candid conversation about sex scenes and nudity as they get older. Sarah Paulson, Julianna Margulies, Kerry Washington, Constance Zimmer, Kirsten Dunst, Regina King, and Jennifer Lopez discuss the advantages of working with female directors, the new landscape of television, and what their first big splurge was.
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8.3/10 13 votes#4 - Drama Actresses
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/16/2017
Nicole Kidman ('Big Little Lies'), Jessica Lange ('Feud: Bette and Joan'), Chrissy Metz ('This Is Us'), Elisabeth Moss ('The Handmaid's Tale'), Oprah Winfrey ('The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks') and Reese Witherspoon ('Big Little Lies') talk about how they prepare for intense scenes and gender equality in Hollywood.
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8.0/10 1 votes#5 - Comedy Actresses
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/2/2017
Pamela Adlon ('Better Things'), Minnie Driver ('Speechless'), America Ferrera ('Superstore'), Kathryn Hahn ('I Love Dick'), Issa Rae ('Insecure') and Emmy Rossum ('Shameless') talk about typecasting in Hollywood, male nudity vs. female nudity and their most embarrassing moments on set.
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8.0/10 1 votes#6 - Drama Actors
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2017
Riz Ahmed ('The Night Of'), Sterling K. Brown ('This Is Us'), John Lithgow ('The Crown'), Ewan McGregor ('Fargo'), Billy Bob Thornton ('Goliath') and Jeffrey Wright ('Westworld') talk about what scenes they were nervous to approach and the process of letting a character go.
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8.0/10 1 votes#7 - Drama Showrunners
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 7/30/2017
This season's 2017 Drama Showrunner Roundtable features Ava DuVernay ('Queen Sugar'), Ryan Murphy ('Feud: Bette and Joan'/'American Horror Story: Roanoke'), Noah Hawley ('Fargo'/'Legion'), Lisa Joy ('Westworld'), Jenji Kohan ('Orange is the New Black') and David E. Kelly ('Big Little Lies').
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8.0/10 1 votes#8 - Writers
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/18/2018
Scribes behind six of the season's most unusual scripts — including Darren Aronofsky (mother!), Anthony McCarten (Darkest Hour), Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) and Fatih Akin (In The Fade) — reveal the struggles and satisfactions of bringing their words to the screen ("Rule number one: Don't bore an audience") and say nothing is off limits (even porn).
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8.0/10 11 votes#9 - Actresses
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/27/2019
Glenn Close, Lady Gaga, Kathryn Hahn, Nicole Kidman, Regina King and Rachel Weisz discuss the craft of acting.
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7.8/10 8 votes#10 - Comedy Actors
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/24/2018
Louie Anderson - "Baskets" (FX) Sean Hayes - "Will & Grace" (NBC) Marc Maron - "GLOW" (Netflix) Tracy Morgan - "The Last O.G." (TBS) Ray Romano - "Get Shorty" (Epix) Tony Shaloub - "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon)
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7.7/10 11 votes#11 - Actresses
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 2/4/2018
Six top actresses — Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game), Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes), and Jennifer Lawrence (mother!)— open up about risky roles and how the industry's culture of abuse might finally be on the verge of change
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7.6/10 19 votes#12 - Directors
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/3/2016
The year's most notable directors join for The Hollywood Reporter's Writer Director Roundtable. The directors include Quentin Tarantino ('The Hateful Eight'), Tom Hooper ('The Danish Girl'), Alejandro G. Inarritu ('The Revenant'), Ridley Scott ('The Martian'), Danny Boyle ('Steve Jobs') and David O. Russell ('Joy').
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7.6/10 6 votes#13 - Actors
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/22/2017
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water), Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Snowden) and Dev Patel (Lion) discuss how they go about researching roles, being typecast and what it's like working with celebrated directors.
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7.6/10 12 votes#14 - Actors
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 1/19/2020
Stephen Galloway, Adam Driver, Adam Sandler, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Jamie Foxx, Shia LaBeouf discuss the craft of acting.
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7.5/10 10 votes#15 - Actors
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1/20/2019
Mahershala Ali, Chadwick Boseman, Timothée Chalamet, Richard E. Grant, Hugh Jackman and Viggo Mortensen discuss the craft of acting.
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7.0/10 1 votes#16 - Comedy Actors
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 6/25/2017
Anthony Anderson ('Black-ish'), Kevin Bacon ('I Love Dick'), Ted Danson ('The Good Place'), Brian Tyree Henry ('Atlanta'), William H. Macy ('Shameless') and Kumail Nanjiani ('Silicon Valley') talk about tackling unlikable characters, what it's like making comedy in the current political climate and their proudest moments from their shows.
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7.0/10 1 votes#17 - Comedy Showrunners
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 7/23/2017
2017 Comedy Showrunner Roundtable features the talented Gloria Calderon Kellett ('One Dat at a Time'), Scott Silveri ('Speechless'), Judd Apatow ('Girls', 'Crashing', 'Love'), Phoebe Waller-Bridge ('Fleabag'), David Mandel ('Veep') and Kenya Barris ('Black-ish')
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7.0/10 1 votes#18 - Producers
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/11/2018
THR's Roundtable Series kicks off with superproducers including Jason Blum (Get Out), Eric Fellner (Darkest Hour, Baby Driver, Victoria & Abdul), Seth Rogen (The Disaster Artist) and Ridley Scott (All The Money in the World, Blade Runner 2049) debating tough decisions, surprise successes and sexual harassment in Hollywood.
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7.0/10 1 votes#19 - Cinematographers
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/25/2018
The lensing experts behind 'Blade Runner 2049,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Mudbound,' 'The Post,' 'Roman J. Israel, Esq.,' 'The Shape of Water' and 'Suburbicon' open up about their craft and finding a balance with their directors.
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6.8/10 15 votes#20 - Directors
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 1/21/2018
Six top filmmakers — also including Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049), Angelina Jolie (First They Killed My Father) and Joe Wright (Darkest Hour) — open up about choosing the right projects ("You don't want to end up in a bad marriage"), firing staff and what it feels like to direct a movie that bombs: "People think you move on, but you don't."
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6.6/10 9 votes#21 - Directors
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 1/5/2020
Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Todd Philipps (Joker), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes) and Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) discuss their films.
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6.5/10 12 votes#22 - Directors
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/15/2017
The directors of this year's most acclaimed films, Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Mira Nair (Queen of Katwe), Oliver Stone (Snowden), Denzel Washington (Fences), talk about the filmmaking process.
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6.4/10 9 votes#23 - Comedy Actors
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 6/30/2019
Sacha Baron Cohen, Jim Carrey, Ted Danson, Don Cheadle, Henry Winkler and Timothy Simons discuss the craft of acting.
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5.8/10 13 votes#24 - Actors
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/28/2018
Tom Hanks (The Post), James Franco (The Disaster Artist), John Boyega (Detroit), Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) open up about their latest films.
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5.2/10 8 votes#25 - Actors
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/2016
Some of the past year's most notable actors join The Hollywood Reporter's Actor Oscar Roundtable. Each actor shares their stories, from their journey to becoming an actor, views on race relations and what racism means, as well as some surprising personal stories along their way. The actors include Will Smith ('Concussion'), Mark Ruffalo ('Spotlight'), Benicio Del Toro ('Sicario'), Joel Edgerton ('Black Mass', 'The Gift'), Samuel L. Jackson ('The Hateful Eight'), and Michael Cain ('Youth').
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