Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton reveal during Variety's 'Actors on Actors' that they nearly starred in 'Misery' together.

Rob Reiner's Misery is a great movie with a number of fantastic behind-the-scenes tales – including the fact that a ...

The Oscar-winning actors also discussed the "Landman" star's recent foray into Western television during a wide-ranging ...

Matlock' star Kathy Bates on her desert island shows, how 'Dolores Claiborne' changed a stranger's life and the movie that ...

Kathy Bates, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast, is widely regarded as one of the ...

Kathy Bates gave a career-defining performance in Misery — and won an Oscar for it. But both Bates and her director, Rob Reiner, were never sure that would be the outcome. In the film ...

"I didn't agree with that at all," Bates said of a change to the script Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously ...

By McKinley Franklin Kathy Bates wishes Misery was even more miserable. The Matlock star took the stage at the TCM Classic Film Festival alongside director Rob Reiner, where they looked back on ...

Kathy Bates won an Oscar in 1991 for her magnificent performance in the Stephen King thriller "Misery" – but it wasn't until recently that she realized she'd thanked her mother in her acceptance ...

Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Kathy Bates just had an incredible realization about her 1991 Academy Awards speech. Bates, who won Best Actress that year for her starring role in the 1990 thriller Misery ...

IndieWire Honors Vanguard winner Kathy Bates saluted the creative team behind CBS' 'Matlock' at the awards event June 5.