Not exact matches
His hobbies included watching
films on TV, especially those on football, athletics, boxing, as well as Ghanaian and Nigerian
films which were
acted in Ewe and English, as he could not speak any other
language than the two.
I don't know, just the way her body
language and how she
acted actually really worked and added something to the
film that improved it much more than just your basic horror
film.
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»
And that gives you a shared history,
language, a shorthand, so when you're writing for them, when you're
acting, it makes all of those directors who work with the same people, makes their
films so rich.
The
film, Bong's English -
language debut, is a violent sci - fi action flick that lets its anarchist leanings take over in the final
act.
For that matter, if academy voters took international cinema seriously, they might have spared a thought for Beya, a Congolese woman who had never
acted on - screen before giving her mesmerizing performance in «Félicité» (shortlisted as Senegal's entry for the foreign -
language film Oscar).
It's joined by Guillermo del Toro's love fantasy The Shape of Water, Jordan Peele's prescient horror
film Get Out, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedyLady Bird and the French -
language ACT UP drama BPM (Beats Per Minute).
Julie Delpy in Before Midnight, another French actress but
acting in an English
language film, has never been nominated for Actress though this could be her year.
Transgender actress Daniela Vega stars in A Fantastic Woman and could very well make history at the Oscars by becoming the first transgender actress nominated for an
acting role in the foreign
language film should Sony Pictures Classics play their cards right.
When Diane Kruger started to research her role in director Fatih Akin's «In The Fade,» a German -
language film in which Kruger plays a grief - stricken woman whose husband and young son are murdered by two neo-Nazi terrorists, she reached out to several support groups in her adopted hometown of New York City, thinking she could quickly absorb some of the painful knowledge of those who'd lost loved ones to violent
acts.
Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on
acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this
film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic
language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely
filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.
While foreign
language films have a decent track record with
acting nominations (Penélope Cruz in Volver, Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose, Javier Bardem in Biutiful, to name a few), the success rate for Best Picture is much lower.
The
acting and
language are much more natural, making this
film easily accessible to audiences who would normally shun Dickens.
«Secret in Their Eyes» (November 20): Eduardo Sancheri's novel that previously made for an Oscar - winning foreign
language film (directed by Juan José Campanella) now gets the American treatment, this time from the
acting talent of Chitwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, and Nicole Kidman.
The director with the help of co-writer Boris Frumin adds a clumsy scene in a car where John and Setsumo
act like two spontaneous teens, and the
film concludes on a sad note showing the difficulty of romance across the Pacific when the couple know little of each other's native
language.
David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his
film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical
act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes
language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.