Sentences with phrase «by white actors»

Marvel has been dominated by white actors for so long that Ryan Coogler's ambition is inevitably exciting.

It also seems an odd choice for everyone to speak Japanese except the dogs who not only all speak English but are also all portrayed by white actors.

The African American actor who played Dr. Kananga / Mr Big in «Live and Let Die,» believes «James Bond was established by Ian Fleming as a white character,» and should be «played by white actors»

In Selma, white characters are played by white actors and black characters are played by black actors.

This was the most insulting thing of all as fan who is a woman of color because if I were white or if Johnny Storm was played by a white actor, stupid comments like.

Not only do these African - American - voiced characters played by a white actor (Tom Kenny) speak street jive, but they boast about being unable to read and one sports a gold tooth.

A major supporting Native American role in a classic Western might even be played by a white actor.

In the first known movie version, from 1903, the aging, potbellied Tom is played by a white actor in blackface, and black actors playing slaves dance merrily at the beginning of each scene.

Not exact matches

«And [on Monday], we heard the White House Press Secretary condemn the act but very deliberately skirt the actor, which, by all accounts, appears to be Moscow in this case.»

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

Women and minority actors and stage managers are getting fewer jobs and often wind up in lower - paying shows than white male theater artists, according to a new study by Actors» Eactors and stage managers are getting fewer jobs and often wind up in lower - paying shows than white male theater artists, according to a new study by Actors» EActors» Equity.

«I am white,» Whoopi Goldberg says next, followed by Steve Buscemi, Harvey Fierstein and a dozen other actors and citizens.

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A native of Chicago, IL (he was once offered a contract with the Chicago White Sox by Hall - of - Famer Rogers Hornsby), Masak was classically trained as an actor at the Windy City's own CCC.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

The Call Me By Your Name star may not have won the Academy Award for Best Actor on Sunday, but with the sharpest white tux to possibly ever grace the red carpet, his fandom only grew stronger at the Oscars.

He's the archetypal cable - TV antihero — white and affluent, a master in his field with impulse - control issues; a charismatic asshole — with one exception: he's exhausting, made all the more so by the actor playing him.

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Best Actor: Viggo Mortensen, The Road Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Last Station Best Supporting Actor: Woody Harrelson, The Messenger Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds Best Foreign Language Film: Summer Hours Best Non-Fiction Film: Mugabe and the White African Best Cinematography: Greig Fraser, Bright Star

Led by Denzel Washington (2 Guns), as sometime lawman Sam Chisolm, that cast includes white guys Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Daredevil), but also actors Byung - hun Lee (I Saw the Devil), Manuel Garcia - Rulfo (Cake) and relative newcomer (and Native - American actor) Martin Sensmeier (Lilin's Brood), making the overall balance of the titular group more diverse than in 1960.

PRIMETIME TELEVISION Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries KEVIN COSTNER / «Devil Anse» Hatfield — «HATFIELDS & McCOYS» Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries JULIANNE MOORE / Sarah Palin — «GAME CHANGE» Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series BRYAN CRANSTON / Walter White — «BREAKING BAD» Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series CLAIRE DANES / Carrie Mathison — «HOMELAND» Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy — «30 ROCK» Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series TINA FEY / Liz Lemon — «30 ROCK» Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series DOWNTON ABBEY Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series MODERN FAMILY

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

New York has Sachs, a down - to - earth city scion who tackled love and apartment - hunting in the must - see Love Is Strange and returns to examine the budding friendship between two Brooklyn kids: an introvert with art skills and the safety net of white privilege, and an audacious aspiring actor being pushed out of the neighborhood by gentrification.

Best Picture: Moonlight Best Director: Damien Chazelle (La La Land) Best Actor: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) Best Actress: Emma Stone (La La Land) Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis (Fences) Best Original Screenplay: Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight Best Cinematography: La La Land Best Editing: Hacksaw Ridge Best Production Design: La La Land Best Costume Design: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Suicide Squad Best Sound Mixing: Hacksaw Ridge Best Sound Editing: Arrival Best Original Score: La La Land Best Original Song: «City of Stars» (La La Land) Best Animated Feature: Zootopia Best Documentary Feature: O.J.: Made in America Best Documentary Short: The White Helmets Best Animated Short: Piper Best Live - Action Short: Sing Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman

The sister, Anne, played by the singer Zendaya, falls in love with Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), a wealthy white actor who invests in Barnum's show for reasons the film is completely unable to explain.

A creature shop video has been released by Lucasfilm and we've spotted that English / Welsh actor Ian Whyte will be playing the white haired Gigoran mercenary named Moroff.

Ghost in the Shell, which will be distributed by Paramount, was widely accused of whitewashing after Johansson and other white actors were cast as the traditionally Japanese characters.

Julie White is terribly shaken by a spirit she encounters backstage in a theater; after buying a new home in the country, actor Roger Bart's peaceful existence is shattered by the presence of a deranged ghost.

It displays the same black - and - white stunning visuals, along with another all - star cast, where returning actors like Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Powers Boothe and Rosario Dawson are joined by new faces like Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Juno Temple, Ray Liotta, Lady Gaga, Jeremy Piven, Dennis Haysbert and, as the lady of the title, Eva Green.

Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the tWhite Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the twhite squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the title.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Featuring music by Jack White and interviews with Serpico's associates and admirers — including writer Luc Sante and actor - filmmaker John Turturro — this is an inspiring, all - access portrait of a courageous man who refused to betray his ideals.

Pastor Paul (2015 — Nigeria) When a white tourist travels to West Africa, gets cast in a micro-budget version of «Hamlet», and is possessed by a ghost, anything can and does happen in this film that multi-hyphenate director - writer - actor Jules David Bartkowski calls «the world's first American Nollywood film.»

«Call Me By Your Name» director James Ivory was formally supporting his star Timotheé Chalamet on the Oscars red carpet Sunday — he had the actor's face custom - drawn on the white shirt under his tuxedo jacket.

Portman is surrounded by a good supporting cast, including Greta Gerwig as White House Social Secretary Nancy Tuckerman, Crudup as the reporter who knows all along that he will never be permitted to print most of his interview and Danish actor Caspar Phillipson, who bears an amazing resemblance to the late President Kennedy.

Racism is the word no one has the bad manners to utter, but Peele and his actors have great fun showing us white liberals trying and failing not to be bothered by blackness.

However, when director Ridley Scott mounted his own production of the Moses story, titled Exodus: Gods and Kings, quite a few heads were turned by the fact that the principal cast - which includes Christian Bale as Moses, Joel Edgerton as Rhamses and Aaron Paul as Joshua - was comprised almost exclusively of white actors.

That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series PATRICK J. ADAMS / Mike Ross — «SUITS» (USA) STEVE BUSCEMI / Enoch «Nucky» Thomson — «BOARDWALK EMPIRE» (HBO) KYLE CHANDLER / Eric Taylor — «FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS» (DirecTV) BRYAN CRANSTON / Walter White — «BREAKING BAD» (AMC) MICHAEL C. HALL / Dexter Morgan — «DEXTER» (Showtime)

Moonlight, an intimate story of a black boy in Miami coming to terms with his sexuality, had a low profile in the industry — it was the first movie fully financed by upstart distributor A24, and the most famous person in the cast was Mahershala Ali, a TV actor largely unknown to Telluride's mostly white audiences.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series BETTY WHITE / Elka Ostrovsky — «HOT IN CLEVELAND» (TV Land)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series STEVE BUSCEMI / Enoch «Nucky» Thompson — «BOARDWALK EMPIRE» (HBO) BRYAN CRANSTON / Walter White — «BREAKING BAD» (AMC) JEFF DANIELS / Will McAvoy — «THE NEWSROOM» (HBO) JON HAMM / Don Draper — «MAD MEN» (AMC) DAMIAN LEWIS / Nicholas Brody — «HOMELAND» (Showtime)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy — «30 ROCK» (NBC) TY BURRELL / Phil Dunphy — «MODERN FAMILY» (ABC) STEVE CARELL / Michael Scott — «THE OFFICE» (NBC) JON CRYER / Alan Harper — «TWO AND A HALF MEN» (CBS) ERIC STONESTREET / Cameron Tucker — «MODERN FAMILY» (ABC) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series JULIE BOWEN / Claire Dunphy — «MODERN FAMILY» (ABC) EDIE FALCO / Jackie Peyton — «NURSE JACKIE» (Showtime) TINA FEY / Liz Lemon — «30 ROCK» (NBC) SOFIA VERGARA / Gloria Delgado - Pritchett — «MODERN FAMILY» (ABC) BETTY WHITE / Elka Ostrovsky — «HOT IN CLEVELAND» (TV Land)

Now, Schepisi has filmed The Eye of the Storm from a screenplay by former actor, Judy Morris, and while sticking to the overall trajectory of White's narrative, he has honed persuasive drama from the family tensions at its heart.

The 44 - year - old actor and Ellar, 20, were joined by their Boyhood co-star Patricia Arquette and her artist boyfriend Eric White, producer John Sloss, and director Richard Linklater at the ceremony where they took home the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

It's stocked mainly with super-fit actors, few of whom are likely in the ballpark of what actual ancient Egyptians looked like, unless Egypt was populated mainly by white folks with gym - sculpted bods.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

Her post on Facebook went on to suggest that producers were looking to add «va va voom to the cast list» by casting non-white actors and that the policy was putting «talented white performer's [sic] out of work».

White did not write the part with Stiller in mind, but once the actor had read the script and became interested, White became hooked by the notion too.

Granted, Anderson, a white American, wrote and directed the film, and the story was concocted primarily by white Americans (including regular Anderson collaborators Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman), although a story credit goes to Japanese actor, DJ, and radio personality Kunichi Nomura.