Sentences with phrase «as lead actor»

Filmed over the span of a dozen years, as its lead actor aged from 6 to 18 and his co-stars went through similar 12 - year odysseys, writer - director Richard Linklater's «Boyhood» is ambitious, engaging fiction that aims to convey time's mysterious effects on character.

While some have expressed dissatisfaction, the movie still made it big, with Nicholas Cage as the lead actor.

On top of all that, Chris Hemsworth has yet to prove he can carry a non-Marvel film to financial success as its lead actor, with both Blackhat and In the Heart of the Sea performing poorly last year.

I was just sort of thrown in and started seeing how everything worked first hand as a lead actor.

And «Brooklyn Nine - Nine,» which won the Golden Globes award earlier for best comedy as well as lead actor in a comedy for Andy Samberg, failed to get Emmy nominations in either category.

Bogart proved his mettle as a lead actor in The Maltese Falcon and High Sierra but here he showed he could play the romantic lead, something studio heads were more than skeptical of considering he'd spent nearly a decade as a heavy in gangster pictures.

She — as well as the lead actor Seth (Rhys Ifans), who saw Isabella leave Arnold's room that night, and the playwright Joshua (Will Forte), who has intentions of gentlemanly romance with Isabella — believes Isabella is perfect for the role.

Ryan Gosling has been billed as the lead actor here, and he's just as mesmerizing in this role as he was in Drive, with his quiet stoicism and suppressed rage in check.

Eventually Ben Stiller was announced as the lead actor, but the film still had no director attached until Stiller also took on that role.

It was a tremendous oversight that both Edward G. Robinson (as supporting actor) and Fred MacMurray (as lead actor) were denied Academy Award nominations.

Carrey has won two Golden Globes as a lead actor, for features The Truman Show and Man on the Moon.

Judging by both the events on - screen and in the room, Day - Lewis, a longtime Oscar favorite, solidified his status as a lead actor contender.

He is cheaper, younger and has done good work in the movies released so far, so he is perfect for a multi-movie deal as a lead actor.

He's already won an Oscar for his writing, and though he has had a career as a lead actor that is now approaching veteran status, perhaps he will also do like Eastwood and direct many of his own vehicles from here on out.

James Franco had been viewed as a lead actor contender for his work in «The Disaster Artist.»

Billy Crudup says the filming schedule for «The Flash» is «unclear» as lead actor Ezra Miller is a «busy man».

Bale was pushed as the lead actor.

The project lingered on as lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio went off to make «The Wolf of Wall Street,» which gave Mr. Iñárritu time to direct «Birdman» (which went on to win four Oscars last year, including best picture and director).

Timothy Hutton joins The Haunting of Hill House as a lead actor, reports Deadline.

Globes voters showered FX's first - year limited series «Fargo» with a lot of love, giving it the prize for TV movie / miniseries and naming Billy Bob Thornton as lead actor.

What a stellar cast we have in Lawless, (Gary Oldman) as the gangster, (Guy Pearce) as the violent deputy from Chicago, (Tom Hardy) as the oldest bondurent brother, (Jessica Chastain) as the head waitress at the Bondurants restaurant, then finally (Shia LeBeouf) as the lead actor and most developed character in the film.

What a stellar cast we have in Lawless, (Gary Oldman) as the gangster, (Guy Pearce) as the violent deputy from Chicago, (Tom Hardy) as the oldest bondurent brother, (Jessica Chastain) as the head waitress at the Bondurants restaurant, then finally (Shia LeBeouf) as the lead actor and most

Frank Capra's classic comedy - drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles.

As the lead actor and director of «City Lights», everything, down to the slapstick comedy, or the quiet and delicate dramatic moments, «City Lights» is a blast.

Title: 후아유 / Hoo Ah Yoo; Genre: Fantasy, romance, horror, melodrama, mystery, thriller, action; Episodes: 16; Broadcast network: tvN Ji Jin - Hee (June 24, 1971), or Jin - Hee Ji, is a South Korean actor best known for his roles as lead actor in various South Korean drama series, which

Ji Jin - Hee (June 24, 1971), or Jin - Hee Ji, is a South Korean actor best known for his roles as lead actor in various South Korean drama series, which Profile.

Additionally, Janelle took her talent to the silver screen, wherein she starred as a lead actor in the critically acclaimed drama, Hidden Figures and Best Picture winner, Moonlight.

In one of Comic Con's most awaited presentations, Marvel superheroes of all kinds from Iron Man to Ant - Man took over the fan convention recently as leading actors revealed surprises to films that will showcase the characters

I'm hearing (not altogether surprising) rumblings that Robert Downey Jr.'s role in Joe Wright's «The Soloist» is larger than Jamie Foxx's homeless violinist Nathaniel Ayers and that he'll be pushed as a leading actor contender by the good folks at Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG.

Although this is not a biographical study, Thomas» book does proceed in a basically chronological manner, beginning with Lorre's work on the European stage in the 1920s and early 1930s, following his move to Hollywood and roles as a leading actor in the 1930s, proceeding to a study of his work as a supporting actor at Warner Bros. in the 1940s, his not - so - triumphant return to Europe to direct and star in Der Verlorene after WWII and finally his late screen roles in the 1950s and 1960s.

When you can see people driving past in the background as the leading actors battle sharks tumbling from a tornado.

Other pairs of performers — Denzel Washington and Viola Davis for «Fences» and Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman for «Lion» — found themselves on the shortlist, as well as leading actor contenders Meryl Streep for «Florence Foster Jenkins» (Paramount Pictures), Isabelle Huppert for «Elle» (Sony Pictures Classics), Natalie Portman for «Jackie» (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Andrew Garfield for «Hacksaw,» and Viggo Mortensen for «Captain Fantastic» (Bleecker Street).

I'm sure Kitsch turned in an amazing screen test and that he has potential as a leading actor, but this film needed a star.

Since then, Ewan McGregor, John Hurt, Robert Duvall, and Jack O'Connell have all come and gone as lead actors.

Idris Elba is being lined up as the leading actor in the hugely anticipated movie adaptation of Stephen King's «The Dark Tower».

But just as lead actors in Woody Allen films frequently mimic the tics of their director, so female writers working with him, including Schumer, invariably create typical Apatow characters — the stunted adolescent who can't grow up — just with added oestrogen.

Pearce spoke about the possibility in an interview with MTV at the New York premiere of «Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation», writer Drew Pearce hinted that the project, which eyed Chris Pratt and Channing Tatum as leading actors, might still happen.

Not exact matches

In a throwaway line intended to highlight his perpetually boyish good looks, his agent Rick Yorn refers to DiCaprio as a character actor in a leading man's body.

He is allowed to be both a character and a lead, a perfect match for his sensibilities as an actor.

As Clooney led off the first episode of The Late Show, the actor freely admitted he had nothing to plug and instead spent some time talking with Colbert about his humanitarian work in the Darfur region of Sudan.

After the success of the first season, all of the lead female actors reportedly received «sizeable» raises, including a reported $ 1 million per episode for Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, who also serve as executive producers on the series.

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.

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

As such, Mueller, who created it in an effort to eliminate the major vulnerabilities in ethereum smart contract code that have led to the loss of millions of dollars in ether, built Mythril to find the faults in smart contracts so that malicious actors won't be able to later.

«Unfortunately, a few bad actors are taking advantage of the [VA home loan] program as home lenders have begun targeting veterans and servicemembers to generate profit and fees at their expense, often leading to higher loan amounts and putting families in a worse financial position than they started off,» observed Senator Tillis.

Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in the hit movie «Up in the Air,» told CNN that she began panicking during preproduction, as the magnitude of the undertaking - simultaneously directing and playing the lead role, lots of child actors, and 25 scenes that included music - became clear.

This led a collective of online conspiracy theorists to posit that these weren't school shooting survivors at all, but rather «crisis actors» paid off by George Soros as part of some sort of elaborate plot to disarm America.

He delivers a knockout performance in the lead role as Caesar that should cause critics to give pause and ponder the possibility of an actor playing a GC character being in contention this awards season.

Investing in efficient, low - cost and sustainable processing technologies, adequate storage and packaging solutions, road infrastructure and market linkages as well as providing training and education to chain actors, including consumers, are among the tried and proven interventions which increase the efficiency of the chain and therefore lead to a reduction in food loss and waste.

Before all the action in the Moët Suite, Opening Night of the US Open began with the star - studded USTA Serves Opening Night Gala in the President's Suite, where actor Kevin Spacey — who led an exciting charitable auction during the Gala — as well astennis legend Billie Jean King and US tennis players Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan signed a bottle of Moët & Chandon — crystalized with the US Open logo — for the USTA Serves.