Sentences with phrase «bringing name actors»

Working with predominantly non-actors to great effect, what result did you find from bringing name actors into your projects?

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Actor Alan Cumming and PETA activists brought a sculpture of the New York skyline rendered entirely in vegetables to City Hall, as they named the the Big Apple the most vegan - friendly spot in the nation.

Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) was named Best Actor, and Helen Mirren (The Queen) continued her march to the Oscars as she was named Best Actress as both actors brought characters to real, and even sympathetic, life.

The story is so intimate that everything depends on the performances, and Jason Patric, Rachel Ward and Bruce Dern, and a character actor named George Dickerson, bring a grim, poetic sadness to the story.

Anyone familiar with these names should be aware by now that Calvo has assembled a terrific group of character actors for his film, and everyone brings their own unique presence to their roles.

Elsewhere, Wilkinson is on auto - pilot as the dogged cop, while Spruell makes a suitably nasty villain and French actor Omar Sy (The Intouchables) brings a spot of welcome charm to his urbane drug boss, who goes by the not - very - subtle name of Genghis Khan.

Time ticked on and costs mounted, even after Anderson was brought on to create a revue like the ones that made his theatrical name, Universal having given up on making an actor out of Whiteman.

But there's no reason why Guadagnino's faith in his actors needs to preclude sensorily riveting craft, and while Call Me by Your Name nails all the intimate details of Elio and Oliver's tender relationship, an indulgence of the director's emphatic visual energy might have brought out the extent of their passion even more.

The American Screen Actors Guild today cast their hats into the Oscar build - up with a series of nominations for Best Performances that brought a number of surprise names into the contest.

IN AMERICA (Grade: C): Jim Sheridan — the Irish director of «My Left Foot» and «In the Name of the Father» — tries to bring off his own, semi-autobiographical version of «To Kill a Mockingbird» with this episodic drama about an Irish actor and his family trying to survive its first year in a Manhattan.

Avengers: Infinity War brought the spotlight back to Thor, and reminded us that Hemsworth is the Best Chris out of all the actors named Chris.

That said, while in no way begrudging John Huston's prologue narration and John Hurt's standout rendering of the Horned King, I respect an old school Disney movie that uses professional voiceover actors and not the boldface names of the moment to bring its characters to life, notably the great John Byner as Gurgi, a Gollum - like troublemaker.

Music video veteran and first - time feature director Anthony Mandler has been desperate to bring Monster to the screen for years, and now he's done so with a cast that includes such heavyweights as Jennifer Ehle, Jeffrey Wright, and Tim Blake Nelson, as well as musicians - turned - actors like Oscar - winner Jennifer Hudson, Nas, and A$ AP Rocky (real name Rakim Mayers) as Harmon's co-defendant.

Unnaturally thin, these two actors deserve real credit for committing to the art and bringing to life these characters who suffer tremendously in the name of religion.

Sticking with big name leading actors, Cooper brings to life the true story of infamous crime boss Whitey Bulger starring Johnny Depp.

As evidence, I bring you the S - Class Coupé and the AMG GT, but also the freshest two - door accoutrement going by the name of C - Class Coupé, which makes the lead actor of the test drive in point.

As you're watching a movie, tapping the top of the screen while a film is playing will bring up the names of all the actors in that particular scene.

Joey, who got his name because of his resemblance to a baby kangaroo, brought his daddy, Lou Wegner, an actor, animal advocate, and founder of Kids Against Animal Cruelty, a global youth educational group that focuses on teaching kids to be compassionate about animals.

That brings us to throwing a party, which lets you buy a script or hire an actor or director from Hollywood Boulevard for half the regular price, letting you grab big names for a fraction of the cost, the catch being that you can only acquire a single script or character using this method, unlike casting where you can get up to three cards provided you've got the cash for it.

When Sora and company show up as toys, Rex mistakes him for a video game character named Yozora with the kind of infectuous enthusiasm that actor Wallace Shawn always brings to the role.

The new media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson had been developing an alter ego throughout the 1970s, named Roberta Breitmore, who she brought into existence with the help of hired actors and documentary evidence that she manufactured.

(MCT)-- If just the mention of the name Ed Asner puts the theme song from «The Mary Tyler Moore Show» in your head, then the actor's longtime Studio City house will probably bring to mind his trademark character: lovable, flawed, curmudgeonly, fatherly editor Lou Grant.