The Oscar winner and writer-director Michelle Schumacher worked together on a 1991 touring production of 'Peter Pan' ...

He was closer to “greatness” in the middle row ... What I wouldn’t give to be you, men.” But the real J.K. Simmons, his Gregg Allman hair gone, his beard white, disagrees.

But a closer look at the movie’s knockout finale ... against ferocious conservatory ensemble conductor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), so, naturally, spoilers ahead. By film’s end, Andrew ...

It was easy to understand why J.K. Simmons would emerge as an Oscar favorite this year. And it wasn’t just his fierce, terrifying performance as the near-sadistic director of a college jazz ...