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His résumé includes indelible performances like ‘Half Nelson.’ ‘8 Mile.’ ‘The Hurt Locker.’ He’s been Spike Lee’s muse (twice) and has worked with dozens of legends. With ‘Captain America: Brave New World,’ he’ll lead the MCU’s next decade. So why is recognition just coming now?

Director Rachel Morrison told us how she conveyed the inherent thrill and triumph of boxer Claressa Shields’s story—while making this year’s best biopic. (Sorry, Timmy.)

"Literally a hundred girls would book themselves in a hotel to be with me. This is not normal."

How did a demure jazz-club owner become a global literary sensation and a perennial Nobel Prize contender? Behind the unlikely rise of Japan’s greatest contemporary writer.