"Kominsky Method" Nominated

Michael Douglas’s comedy about the trials of modern aging, The Kominsky Method, has been nominated for six Emmy awards, including Best Actor and Best Comedy Series.

The Kominsky Method is now showing its its third and final season on Netflix. On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, it received these Emmy Nominations:

Outstanding Comedy Series
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Michael Douglas
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Morgan Freeman
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Paul Reiser
Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series

For more details and a list of all the 2021 nominations visit the Emmys Home Page. The Emmys award ceremony will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, September 19, 2021.

In the Kominsky Method, Douglas plays Hollywood acting coach Sandy Kominsky, whose late friend Norman (Alan Arkin) has made him executor of his multi-million-dollar estate. Returning this season are Kathleen Turner as Douglas’s ex-wife, plus Paul Reiser as Douglas’s prospective son-in-law, and Jane Seymour as the late Norman’s lady friend. Morgan Freeman also guest stars this season. The new season premiered on Friday, May 28, 2021.

The series won the Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Series in 2019; Douglas won as Best Actor. Douglas said this will be the final season for the show.

For more details visit: The Komiskey Method on Netflix. Below is a preview from Netflix.

Douglas and Turner

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner recently talked about their friendship and collaboration in this Youtube interview with People.

More on Michael Douglas

Actor and producer Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.

The elder son of Kirk Dou glas and Diana Dill, Michael Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations. In 1975, Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father. The film received critical and popular acclaim, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, earning Douglas his first Oscar as one of the film’s producers.

After leaving The Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he also starred, thus reintroducing himself to audiences as a capable leading man.

After reprising his Romancing the Stone role as Jack Colton in the 1985 sequel The Jewel of the Nile, which he also produced, and along with appearing in the musical A Chorus Line (1985) and the psychological thriller Fatal Attraction (1987), Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010).

His subsequent film roles included: Black Rain (1989); The War of the Roses (1989); Basic Instinct (1992); Falling Down (1993); The American President (1995); The Game (1997); Traffic and Wonder Boys (both 2000); Solitary Man (2009); Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2013, for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO film Behind the Candelabra, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Douglas currently stars as an aging acting coach in Chuck Lorre’s comedy series The Kominsky Method, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and in the Netflix series Green Eggs and Ham, where he voices Guy-Am-I.

Apart from his acting career, Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism, as well as media attention for his marriage to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Here is a Youtube retrospective of Douglas’s career:

Is Michael Douglas Married?

In March 1977, Douglas, who was 32 years old at the time, married 19-year-old Diandra Luker, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat. They had one son, Cameron, born in 1978. In 1995, Diandra filed for divorce and was awarded $45 million as part of the divorce settlement.

Dating since March 1999, Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on November 18, 2000. They were both born on September 25, though 25 years apart. Zeta-Jones says that when they met in Deauville, France, Douglas said, “I want to father your children.” They have two children, son Dylan Michael (born August 8, 2000) and daughter Carys Zeta (born April 20, 2003).

Michael Douglas with wife and children — LONDON – JUL 8, 2015: Dylan Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas and Carys Zeta-Douglas attend the Ant-Man – European premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on Jul 8, 2015 in London. Photo: Twocoms / Shutterstock.com

Douglas and Zeta-Jones began living separately for a short time in 2013 but reconciled and Catherine moved back into their New York apartment.

Douglas was born to a Jewish father and an Anglican (Church of England) mother. His cousin, the Right Reverend Nicholas Dill, is the Bishop of the established Anglican Church of Bermuda. Douglas was not raised with a religious affiliation, but stated in January 2015, that he now identifies as a Reform Jew. His son, Dylan, had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and the Douglas family traveled to Jerusalem to mark the occasion.^[59]

Douglas was selected as the recipient of the 2015 Genesis Prize, a $1 million prize, awarded by the Genesis Prize Foundation. Douglas plans to donate the prize money to activities designed to raise awareness about inclusion and diversity in Jewish life, and to finding innovative solutions to pressing global and community problems. Douglas is a U.S. citizen by birth in the United States and has British citizenship with Bermudian Status through his mother’s birth in Bermuda.