Sentences with phrase «best dramatic acting»

This is the Oscar - winning music artist's best dramatic acting work to date.

Not exact matches

It very well might have been the case that Vickers» instrument would have cracked by the third act, but that was Wagner's point, a point that Vickers certainly understood (while many musicians do not)» and one he would have managed with great dramatic skill.

But even though «Edge of the City» starts decently enough, and makes its point well in the end, the dramatic tension does fall off somewhat in the second act.

Yeah, it's well made and well acted, but everything about it is forced and not really edge - of - seat dramatic for me.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

Co-founding the Silver Spring Stage and the Maryland Academy of Dramatic Arts, with his wife Madolyn in the late»60s, Tabakin worked in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore - area theater communities as a director and acting coach, as well as directing the Jewish Community Center of Washington's drama school.

This movie's dramatic failings make it look like the crowd - pleasing Creed, the unlikely revival of an old Sylvester Stallone franchise, may be the most productive major studio's most likely ticket to the Best Picture and acting category races that have consistently featured its output.

Strange by name and strange by nature, Kim Farrant's debut is a confident, dramatic, suspenseful thriller that is well - acted but frustratingly ambiguous.

John Logan, screenwriter for Gladiator, provides some good moments of dramatic tension, even if Shinzon looks and acts a bit too much like Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus to think he wasn't borrowing ideas from himself.

Naturally we talk about Adam Sandler's dramatic acting jobs, and... well... what happened to them?

Crowe, despite his considerable talents as a dramatic actor, is plainly incapable of presenting Javert's convictions believably, starting with the embarrassingly obvious fact that acting well while singing is way beyond his reach; his warning to Valjean to heed his words and remember his name is delivered with such flatness and with so little affect that it's difficult to think of anything else.

Forte is just coming off a more dramatic role in the Best Picture nominee Nebraska, in which he more than holds his own opposite acting legend Bruce Dern.

Affleck also pulls his dramatic weight as Michael's best friend, and Eric Christian Olson gets most of the laughs, but it's Barrett's performance in the final act that steals the show.

The film is filled with well - crafted, well - acted, beautifully shot scenes, that ultimately add up to the same thing, with little dramatic thrust.

It is a difficult film as well in that most of its cast has been dubbed from the Italian, that its dramatic sensibilities are foreign besides, and that it is free of the act distinctions and standard plotting of western cinema.

As with many of the dramatic acting categories, last year's winner, Aaron Paul isn't around (neither is Josh Charles for «The Good Wife»), but there are plenty waiting in the wings: Ben Mendelsohn, Kit Harington, «Scandal» star Joe Morton, even a potentially returning John Slattery.

Not only does it begin with an account of how bits of movie dialogue (from «Rio Bravo,» «His Girl Friday») have entered her life, and the lives of her friends and colleagues, but it then segues into a great quotation from Steve Roman on SCTV (playing Juan Cortez, the first Puerto Rican Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the dramatic television series, «There's Justice for Everybody»): «It's got good actors, and that spells good acting.»

It felt like watching an old movie on a really battered, well - worn VHS tape and then watching the same movie's director's cut on Blu - ray on the biggest 3D television possible: the change in quality was dramatic in every way, from the video quality to the audio to the acting, writing, direction, special effects — everything.

The best comedic actors are often relegated to a very particular box, one that pushes us to act totally dumbfounded when they happen to deliver a great dramatic performance.

And on the television front, Bob Odenkirk won best actor in a dramatic series for Better Call Saul, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story won four times, including acting prizes for Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance, and Atlanta «s Donald Glover, showing off the very authentic mustache he'll be wearing in the upcoming Han Solo film, won for best actor in a comedy series.

I hope this trend of quality horror continues and a new age of brilliantly dramatic, well - acted, perfectly paced horror becomes the new normal.

Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): «Like Crazy» Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): «How To Die In Oregon» World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic): «Happy, Happy» World Cinema Jury Prize (Documentary): «Hell and Back Again» Audience Award (Dramatic): «Circumstance» Audience Award (Documentary): «Buck» World Cinema Audience Award (Dramatic): «Kinyarwanda» World Cinema Audience Award (Documentary): «Senna» The Best of NEXT Audience Award: «to.get.her» Directing Award (Dramatic): Sean Durkin, «Martha Marcy May Marlene» Directing Award (Documentary): Jon Foy, «Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles» World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic): Paddy Considine, «Tyrannosaur» World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary): James Marsh, «Project Nim» Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: «Another Happy Day» World Cinema Screenwriting Award: «Restoration» Documentary Editing Award: «If a Tree Falls» World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: «The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975» Cinematography Award (Dramatic): «Pariah» Cinematography Award (Documentary): «The Redemption of General Butt Naked» World Cinema Cinematography Award (Dramatic): «All Your Dead Ones» World Cinema Cinematography Award (Documentary): «Hell and Back Again» Special Jury Prize (Acting): Felicity Jones, «Like Crazy» Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): «Another Earth» Special Jury Prize (Documentary): «Being Elmo» World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Documentary): «Position Among The Stars» World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): actors Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan, «Tyrannosaur» Alfred P. Sloan Prize: «Another Earth» Sundance / NHK International Filmmakers Award: Cherien Dabis

Ensemble drama BABEL leads the nominations at next year's (07) Golden Globe Awards, boasting seven nods including Best Dramatic Picture and an acting accolade for star BRAD PITT.

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.

She was probably the only good part of the movie, but her acting came off a bit like over dramatic soap opera acting.

Release: Christmas Day 2013 [Theater] By the seem of things, Mr. Stiller has been secretly getting all the little memos we, the patient viewers, have continued to slip underneath his door over the years, beseeching, imploring the actor to put his dormant dramatic sensibilities to good use for once — actually act in a movie instead... Continue reading The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Whether it be the superpowers of Coogler's direction or just the rare blooming of Sly's dramatic acting chops, Stallone brings his A-game in what might be his best performance as a pure actor since 1976.

Some of the dramatic beats are facile, and Garner is a weakness both in the writing and in the acting, but there's plenty of balance in the rest of the cast, and Tomlin is just pure enjoyment throughout, in a role that lets her do the puckish sourness she does best.

The most dramatic alteration is the central act of theft pulled off by bored billionaire Thomas Crown (Brosnan) is an art heist, not a bank robbery, and the film is better for it.

For those in the mood for this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptation.

Though dysfunctional family dramas are not everyone's cup of tea, and the Westons are a more volatile clan than most who've graced the silver screen, August: Osage County emerges as a very thoughtful, insightful, and well - acted drama that manages to break from the staginess of the play to be quite a good dramatic film on its own.

Many comedians who try their hand at acting eventually feel the lure of something a little more dramatic, and it can often lead to good things.

It is important to note that even with the dramatic savings from Act 10, district costs and total premiums in Wisconsin are still well above the national average for teachers.

The Nida acting school (The National Institute of Dramatic Art) as well as the TAFE Randwick campus are also nearby.

Looking to settle an old score, Satan has returned to bring about the apocalypse as an act of final revenge for his previous defeat, and Dracula must face him head on as the fight between good and evil comes to a dramatic end.

Anyone who has ever enjoyed cooking shows like Iron Chef should get a kick out of the dramatic competition setup, the art is good, and there is voice acting in every important scene.

«The spraying technologies are well - developed... The bigger question is what are the unintended consequences of doing such a dramatic act.»