Sentences with phrase «as lead actresses»

Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton were both submitted as lead actresses while four men have to fight it out in supporting, although Anthony Hopkins is the sole lead actor representation.

When you have Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett as the lead actresses, it's more than reasonable to expect that the film will be bolstered by powerhouse performances, and that's exactly what you'll get here.

Larson is normally an outstanding support act (she was one of the only good things about Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), but Short Term 12 proves that she can more than hold her own as a lead actress.

COMMENTARY: As the Lead Actress remains highly competitive, the Supporting Actress race seems prime to be one of those years where the same five names pop up at every award show.

But «The Sinner» was blessed with heavenly awards news Monday, scoring two marquee Golden Globe nominations, one for best TV movie or limited series and another for Biel as the lead actress, making the show one of the big surprises of the Golden Globe derby.

I was worried about this film as the lead actress Frances McDormand is often in Cohen Brother's films and I tend to think they're utter cack, but three billboards is worthy of the Oscar nomination it has received, as is she for hers.

It's the first time I suppose she's doing a part as a lead actress as an adult on her own and she's absolutely extraordinary,» he said.

That's easy for men, harder for women, harder even still for women of color who are almost completely absent this year, either as filmmakers or as celebrities or as leading actresses.

Some notable things, Judi Dench as well as Bill Nighy will both be campaigned as Lead Actress and Actor for this year's season.

JLaw saying she won't make another» mutant move» changes alot too, as she was basically going to be carrying that Gambit film as lead Actress, getting it bankrolled.

2003 saw her return as lead actress and executive producer of Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde.

Greta Gerwig has admitted she couldn't imagine anyone else but Saoirse Ronan as her lead actress in her directorial debut «Lady Bird».

A few weeks ago I mentioned in an episode of Oscar Talk that «Up in the Air» star Vera Farmiga would be pushed as a lead actress.

Not only is it the one Best Picture nominee this year to have a corresponding Best Actress nominee, but it's also the only Best Picture nominee this year to have what could realistically qualify as a lead actress at all.

Opposite Sudeikis is «Community» star Alison Brie, also making waves as a lead actress.

Berry became the first African - American woman to win an Academy Award as a leading actress.

As the lead actress in Magic Magic, Juno Temple brings the same wet - eyed vulnerability she displayed as the trailer trash daughter...

As the lead actress in Magic Magic, Juno Temple brings the same wet - eyed vulnerability she displayed as the trailer trash daughter in the recent, excellent Killer Joe.

The next time you reveal a Hollywood starlet and indie darling as the lead actress in your upcoming game, how about your subsequent video footage has her actually doing something rather than staring into middle distance blankly for ten minutes.

Three actresses, who were the best - known sex symbols at the time of the work's production, pose on the poster as pin - up girls: Pamela Anderson, Halle Berry and Catherine Zeta - Jones as the leading actresses for a film whose title aludes to D.W. Griffith's classic The Birth of a Nation (1951).

Not exact matches

Tara Slone worked as an actress and musician (she was the lead singer of the Juno - nominated band Joydrop) before becoming a TV host.

Ashton Kutcher and Michael Arrington, for instance, led Zaarly's seed round of funding in March, and LeVar Burton and actress Demi Moore, serve as advisors.

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.

As expected, Quvenzhané Wallis, the 6 - year - old wonderworker in Beasts of the Southern Wild and youngest woman to ever be nominated for best lead actress, will be going head - to - head with Amour «s Emmanuelle Riva, the oldest - ever woman in the same category.

The Sun claim Salamo, a Spanish actress, is seen as having led Isco astray with a wild lifestyle, which is seen as a factor behind the 25 - year - old's dip in form.

Even as actress Cynthia Nixon weighs a run for governor, a leading women's organization — the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women — backed Cuomo for reelection, calling the move «an easy decision.»

Starring Julia Louis - Dreyfus in her recent Emmy award - winning turn as Vice President Selina Meyer (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series), Veep is an up - close and politically (in) correct look at the daily successes and disappointments of being second in command.

Even as actress Cynthia Nixon weighs a run for governor, a leading women's organization on Thursday backed Gov.

ALBANY — Even as actress Cynthia Nixon weighs a run for governor, a leading women's organization on Thursday backed Gov. Cuomo for reelection.

As one of our leading actresses Catherine Zeta Jones shares her dramatic Winter coloring with two former icons of the silver screen.

Soon after, she scored the lead in the movie Johnny Mnemonic, where she did almost all of her own stunts establishing herself as an athletic actress.

What we have left in Godard Mon Amour, after the laughs dry up, is a thin sketch of a filmmaker who inspired a hero worship in his young bride that dissolved in squabbling, as had Godard's first marriage to another of his leading ladies, actress Anna Karina.

For her performance as Carrie Mathison on HOMELAND she has won back - to - back Golden Globe ® Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama, a 2013 Screen Actors Guild Award ® for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and the 2012 Emmy ® Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Moss» striking performance led many viewers to question where she had been all these years; like many other fledgling Hollywood actresses, she had done time as a model and an actress in second - rate films while waiting for her big break.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 21, 1967, Moss decided that she wanted to be an actress at an early age.

There are many good scenes, and it is helped immensely by the lead actress, Marion Cotillard, who gives an appropriately beautiful, ugly, bold and brave performance as the doomed singer.

Christopher Reeve is good if a bit stiff and Vanessa Redgrave is exquisite as always but the pace is slow and the central character and lead actress lack a radiance and fire that is essential for the story to engage.

It's ironic that the actresses in the film such as Emma Watson may lead lives equally as narcissistic as the characters they play.

So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar.

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

At eighteen she travelled across Asia, contributing lead vocals to a friend's band, before making the decision to pursue a career as an actress.

If you don't know, the lead character is sixteen - year - old Katniss Everdeen, and, according to Variety and EW, the list of actresses reading for the part includes 2010 Oscar nominees Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), as well as Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Chloe Moretz (Kick - Ass), Emma Roberts (It's Kind of a Funny Story), Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick - Ass), Saoirse Ronan (the upcoming Hanna), Emily Browning (the upcoming Sucker Punch) and the lesser known Shailene Woodley (TV's The Secret Life of the American Teenager) and Kaya Scodelario (U.K. TV's Skins).

That same year also found the promising young actress replacing Ellen Page as the lead in Sam Raimi's supernatural horrorcomedy Drag Me to Hell, though curiously she vanished from the spotlight almost immediately thereafter.

It also offers New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey (Heavily Creatures, Happy Christmas) one of her juiciest roles to date as the lead character, a nursing assistant who has lost all faith in humanity and then finds herself chasing after some petty criminals who stole her laptop and heirloom silverware.

The cast is uniformly excellent, with Francisco Reyes a particularly likable beam of strength and light as the unfortunate Orlando, but the film's great triumph is Daniela Vega, a transgender actress and singer, who makes an indelible impression in the leading role.

The pair were both nominated for supporting actress at the SAGs and Critics Choice, and both as lead at the Golden Globes.

Even as the parenting dramedy «The Kids Are All Right» hauled in the nominations — for best picture, original screenplay, lead actress (Annette Bening) and supporting actor (Mark Ruffalo)-- director and co-writer Lisa Cholodenko expressed a degree of shock that «Kids» co-lead Julianne Moore had been overlooked.

A completely first rate cast is led by the inimitable Frances McDormand, an actress never afraid to growl as she still draws us in.

In Nigel Cole's crowd - pleasing «Made in Dagenham,» we already know Sally Hawkins is a solid contender in a dense lead actress field for her work as Rita O'Grady, a composite character representing a number of ladies who stood up for equal pay in late - 1960s England.

The director: Maïwenn (France) The talent: Actress - turned - writer - director Maïwenn Le Besco (who prefers going by her first name, and whom US viewers might remember as the blue - tentacled soprano from «The Fifth Element») takes the lead role herself, starring opposite French rapper - turned - actor Joeystarr.

Kind of a big day for shortlists, as The Wrap reports that the three actresses are in the running to play the leading role in Ready Player One.