Sentences with phrase «acting in feature films»

The film Poetic Justice marked this very versatile talent's first foray into acting in feature films, and that was soon followed by a co-starring role in Nutty Professor II.

Best known as a big - band leader, Leighton Noble also occassionally acted in feature films, beginning with a small role as an orchestra leader in the musical Gift of Gab (1934).

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After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Gibson is set to produce the film through his Icon Productions company, and will decide on whether to direct or act in the feature after the script is completed.

The TV exposure led to acting roles for Jimmy, as a regular on Daniel Boone, and in feature films, including his debut in the James Bond flick Diamonds are Forever.

For now, Williams is taking private lessons with an acting coach and had cameos in the Martin Lawrence film Black Knight and in rapper Memphis Bleek's Do My video, featuring Jay - Z.

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It also means Jena Malone features in the film, acting as Q to Lois's Bond, an interesting side - plot that should have remained in the theatrical version.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

Additional highlights of his previous film credits include HERCULES, CUBAN FURY, JACK AND THE GIANT SLAYER, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, starring in, and co-producing, the motion picture 44 INCH CHEST, Woody Allen's SCOOP, and voice over acting in the highly - acclaimed animated features, CORALINE, SHREK THE THIRD, KUNG FU PANDA, and THE GOLDEN COMPASS.

Best known in feature films for his acting work in Cool Runnings (1993), he also became a television star during the second half of the decade on Cosby, the sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which ran from 1996 until 2000.

The film is basically a remake of Bunuel's classic Belle du Jour, and features plenty of lingerie - clad and naked beauties engaged in a variety of soft - core hetero and homosexual acts.

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series, acting in the eight feature films and related properties between 1999 and 2011.

Woody Allen returns to Europe and returns to acting in his 41st directed feature film.

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is an acting showcase featuring one of the best performances of Joaquin Phoenix «s career and a supporting turn for Jonah Hill that joins his acclaimed performances in films like Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street.

Writer / director Michael Pearce's feature film debut is exceedingly well acted by a cast virtually unknown in the U.S., but not in the U.K.

As in that foreboding classic, Phantom Thread features an imposing, specter - dusted manse inhabited by what will become, by the end of the film's first act, a peculiar trio.

Often featuring quiet men who commit savage acts while drifting through their respective worlds, his films are as hyper - violent as they are hyper - stylish — from the Viking - era brutality of Valhalla Rising to Bronson's dark corners of the modern penal system to the postmodern urban underworlds in Drive and Only God Forgives.

The nominations covered 31 separate categories of feature film, short - form and television work, as well as individual achievements in character animation, design, effects, music, storyboarding, writing, voice acting and more.

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»

It's one of the biggest dates in the international film festival calender, as both Hollywood and the international film industry at large take a keen interest in the new emerging acting and filmmaking talent featured at the festival.

It took the 29 - year - old filmmaker some time to get this project to the screen, having to first develop it as a short film in order to secure funding for the desired feature - length project, but we're all lucky he pursued it to fruition as Whiplash is a marvelously involving exploration of the perils of obsession and the virtues of perseverance, played out through one of the finest - acted two - handers in years.

Interesting casting sees singer Norah Jones in her feature film debut, and while you certainly won't see anything in her performance to suggest big things in her future from an acting standpoint, she does a decent enough job in a relatively undemanding role.

It's crazy, but Ono has acted in very few feature films that have no connections to music.

After being featured in two films, Lynskey, with the help from her friend and director Gaylene Preston, changed her approach to acting and was advised to become a stronger person to handle the rejection of Hollywood.

Whatever tenuous grasp on our attention it still manages to hold falls completely apart in a ridiculous gunfight sequence, and a final summation to the mystery, featuring over-the-top acting that sinks the entire film into the realm of the absurd.

My Man Godfrey features brilliant performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell, and was the first film to receive Academy Award nominations in all four acting categories.

In his eighth feature film, The Hateful Eight, director Quentin Tarantino once again invites a cast of familiar faces to act on screen.

With their acting careers on permanent hold, Wiseau decides to do the seemingly impossible: write, produce, direct, and star in his own feature - length film.

Scholars in Europe began to embrace the term in 1955, when Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, in their book Panorama du film noir américain, used it more broadly to describe the wave of American crime films after World War II that, among many other attributes, featured insulted, beaten heroes driven by desperation to acts of violence.

Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows of the time to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers overseen by Whiteman himself (including a larger - than - life rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue»)-- all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson and beautifully shot in early Technicolor.

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Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Not only will Infinity War feature one of the largest ensembles in the history of cinema, but the movie will also act as payoff for years and years worth of set up that Marvel has spent precious time inserting into all of its past films.

The acting is another high point in this film, featuring a great leading cast in which Ryan Gosling impresses in a great follow - up to «Drive» and Clooney directs himself into his stock character that works perfectly with the script.

He's been in short films, voiced characters in animated movies and video games, and held his own acting alongside some of the best actors in the game, but he's never, ever, in his whole career, played the leading role in a feature - length film.

Besedka Johnson, who made her acting debut in the film and is featured extensively in the bonus features, died last month at the age of 87, adding a further, bittersweet note.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

After spending a decade acting in film and TV projects, writer / director Scott Cooper made his feature film debut in 2009 with Crazy Heart.

There are still some great moments in the film, and many people are focusing on Anne Hathaway's show - stopping solo, featuring the best acting you'll see in the film.

The sequence, fittingly titled «Belle,» features Watson as the titular character, fleshed out by the townspeople, made up of the film's chorus, who — like the townspeople in the animated version — don't understand why Belle is all about the books, and not about acting like everyone else.

He made his feature film acting debut in 2017 with the war drama film The Man with the Iron Heart.

With lackluster acting and stiff drama, the momentum of the film as a whole drags whenever the Burnford family is featured in their plight to find their beloved pets.

, features some fine acting performances from some of the best actors in American film today: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, and Dianne Wiest.

Further, the film's male characters seem purposefully two - dimensional, and it even features its own Manic Pixie Dream Guy, a studly musician that Cheryl meets and has a one - night stand with in the final act.

But again, in the long tradition of cinema, suspenseful films often featured such final - act monologues.

Ramin Bahrani's «At Any Price» features the best Dennis Quaid performance in forever and its last act is rather excellent, but the film is too uneven and unfocused for us to include here.

In addition to his celebrated acting both on stage and on screen, Hoffman made his directorial debut with the feature film Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's stage play.

His feature debut was in Boy Eats Girl (2005) and in 2006, he acted alongside his father again in the Irish film Studs.

The opening sequence featuring outlaws Purvis (David Arquette) and Buddy (horror vet Sid Haig doing his best Slim Pickins imitation) sets the stage for the brutal violence to come in the third act, as well as the film's crackling dialogue that's clearly influenced by The Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, and Elmore Leonard.