Sentences with phrase «american actors in film»

Though he has provided a strong role model and has proved that there is a place for Native American actors outside the Western genre, he considers himself neither a spokesperson for Native rights, nor a great trail blazer paving the way for other Native American actors in film and television.

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While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

American actor Mark Hamill became famous for his role as Luke Skywalker in the epic film «Star Wars,» as well as its sequels «The Empire Strikes Back,» «Return of the Jedi» and «The Force Awakens.»

«When you first start [a film], so many people have so many different expectations, and you imagine what the expectations are,» notes the American actor, who was born in Puerto Rico.

American actor Jim Caviezel has revealed a conversation he had with film director Mel Gibson, in which he was told he may never act again if he played the role of Jesus in The Passion of the Christ.

The outspoken American actor, who was in London promoting his new film Grassroots, took a dim view of a video in which Cameron went for a curry with his wife to celebrate his birthday.

Since then, White has brought her genius to an incomparable variety of dramas and comedies, in both television and film, published books, and received eight Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy.

Daniel Craig is a very well - known British actor, but it wasn't until his early breakout roles in films like Layer Cake and Road to Perdition that he ever made it on the radar of American film watchers.

Wes Bentley was a relative newcomer to film when he starred in Sam Mendes» American Beauty (1999), but his haunting portrayal of the battered, enigmatic Ricky Fitts made him one of the most talked about young actors of the year.

American actor and dancer Justin Smith played character roles in several films of the»60s.

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

This misstep didn't seem to hurt the actor, whose name was already attached to a number of high - profile projects that would no doubt further increase his star wattage.Two such projects were the edgy indie films American Psycho and Requiem for a Dream, both released in 2000.

In films from 1921 through 1952, white - maned American character actor Erville Alderson was most closely associated with D.W. Griffith in his early movie yearIn films from 1921 through 1952, white - maned American character actor Erville Alderson was most closely associated with D.W. Griffith in his early movie yearin his early movie years.

American actor Warren Kenner primarily worked in theater but also occasionally worked on television and in a few feature films including Obsession (1976) and Sounder, Part 2 (1976).

The Beijing - raised, London - and Mount Holyoke — educated filmmaker shares with the American Honey helmer an interest in young people at the margins, a knack for eliciting fantastic performances from amateur or under - the - radar actors, and what film critic April Wolfe described to me as a «dream - like realism.»

American character actor Albert Paulsen has been in films from 1961.

The film's first act embarrassingly reduces the book's study of class, race, masculinity, and American gun worship down to a series of sketches in which bad actors and misplaced celebrities utter amateurishly presentational dialogue.

In 1959, American actor Charles Tyner appeared on Broadway with film star Paul Newman in Sweet Bird of YoutIn 1959, American actor Charles Tyner appeared on Broadway with film star Paul Newman in Sweet Bird of Youtin Sweet Bird of Youth.

Runyonesque American character actor Tom D'Andrea came to films when the Broadway production This is the Army was transferred to the screen in 1943.

Heralded as «the finest American theater actor of his generation» by the New York Times, Liev Schreiber repertoire of resonant, humanistic, and oftentimes gritty portrayals have garnered him praise in film, theatre, and television.

Rotund, squeaky - voiced American actor Harry Holman forsook vaudeville and the legitimate stage for films in 1929.

Biography: Director / screenwriter / actor / producer Quentin Tarantino was perhaps the most distinctive and volatile talent to emerge in American film in the early»90s.

An African - American supporting actor, onscreen from 1972, Blakely often appeared in blaxploitation films.

The son of famed movie villain Fred Kohler and actress Maxine Marshall, American actor Fred Kohler Jr.'s own film career began in 1930.

In films from the age of 17, American actor Ralph Graves was a handsome, strapping young man who was most comfortable in comedIn films from the age of 17, American actor Ralph Graves was a handsome, strapping young man who was most comfortable in comedin comedy.

European character actor George Sorel made his first American film appearance in 1936.

In films from the early 1940s, American actor Phil Brown held down supporting roles in most of his Hollywood filmIn films from the early 1940s, American actor Phil Brown held down supporting roles in most of his Hollywood filmin most of his Hollywood films.

American character actor Crane Whitley made his first film appearance in 1938, acting under his given name of Clem Wilenchik.

Tall and beefy, American supporting actor Lee Paul appeared in a few films from the early»70s though the early»80s.

American actor Cliff DeYoung began a stop - and - start film career with Pilgrimage in 1972; most of his work for the next several years was on stage and in television.

Gad is the first American actor to be cast in the film, though there are still parts that need to be filled.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bruce Travis McGill (born July 11, 1950) is an American actor who has an extensive list of credits in film and television.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

Judi Dench stars as the Queen while Ali Fazal, an Indian - English actor who appeared in the American television miniseries Bollywood Hero, plays Abdul, and this first look trailer suggests the film will be full of wit, warmth, and wisdom.

Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.

The appeal of the film is manifold - its serenity as The American meticulously goes about his craft; the paucity of dialogue that heightens its few action sequences when they do occur; a superb ensemble of actors led by Clooney that also includes Violante Placido (Clara), Thekla Reuten (assassin), Johan Leysen (controller), and Paolo Bonacelli (as a local town priest); the artistic framing of the film by director Anton Corbijn both in its interiors and the long shots of the Italian settings; and simply the story's uncertainty that grips one from its very beginning.

Armando Iannucci plays funny business with accents in his mordantly funny new film The Death of Stalin, as Russian Communist party apparatchiks are exhumed by a slew of British and American character actors who all retain their natural accents.

In A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's third film as a writer - director - actor (The Hollars, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men), a cheaply made, disposable children's toy, a plastic and metal reproduction of the space shuttle — a symbol of both triumph and tragedy in American culture — portends an abrupt, premature end for the unfortunate member of a.In A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's third film as a writer - director - actor (The Hollars, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men), a cheaply made, disposable children's toy, a plastic and metal reproduction of the space shuttle — a symbol of both triumph and tragedy in American culture — portends an abrupt, premature end for the unfortunate member of a.in American culture — portends an abrupt, premature end for the unfortunate member of a...

We spoke to Kaluuya, who knew he'd «kill it» in the role as soon as he read the script, about the prejudice depicted in the film, his own experiences of racism, and Samuel L Jackson's recent criticism of black British actors taking African American roles in Hollywood films.

Features both the American and British versions of the film, commentary track by creator / actor Richard O'Brien and co-star Patricia Quinn, an audience participation picture - in - picture track with a live version of the show and a «callback» subtitle track that cues viewers to classic audience responses, featurettes, two deleted musical scenes, outtakes, alternate opening and ending, and other celebrations of the culture of «Rocky Horror.»

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

Overall, the English and Canadian actors get it but the Americans don't quite, which becomes especially problematic in the film's long final scene, featuring Paul Giamatti at his most irascible.

Brazilian actor - musician, who covered Bowie classics in Wes Anderson film, revives concept for 13 North American dates

We need African - American female lead actresses in films, in tandem with African - American male leading actors.

Cooper has starred in comedies such as the 2001 film «Wet Hot American Summer,» 2005's «Wedding Crashers,» and the 2009 box office hit «The Hangover» and earned his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the 2012 film «Silver Linings Playbook.»

As his performance in the upcoming film «American Sniper» is garnering Oscar buzz, «American Hustle» actor Bradley Cooper has returned to Broadway for a production of «The Elephant Man.»

Featuring a memorable ensemble cast of both British and American actors, the film centers on a group of reckless criminals that inadvertently become involved in a labyrinth - like plot full of two - timing back stabbers set to the tone of Ritchie's trademark comic violence and tongue in cheek humor.

He earned his second Oscar nod last year for the 2013 film «American Hustle,» that time in the category of Best Supporting Actor.