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Gary Oldman was picked best dramatic actor for his performance as Winston Churchill in «Darkest Hour.»
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The story below may be a bit embellished to make the video more dramatic, and it's an actor in the video, but it's based on a real story of a man that kept fast food burgers in his basement to study them for breakdown.
I think when I was younger, especially since I wanted to be an actor and I was quite dramatic, I really dressed for attention.
British actor Patrick Macnee barely had time to earn his Eton school tie when he began training for his career on a scholarship to the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art.
A gender - bending role in the 1989 comedy Nobody's Perfect provided more exposure for the emerging actor, though it wasn't until his breakthrough performance in the 1991 - 1993 seasons of Life Goes On that audiences truly realized his dramatic abilities.
In 1987, Sheen starred in Stone's next project, Wall Street, and after establishing himself as a solid dramatic actor, Sheen proved he also had a flair for comedy in the 1989 hit Major League.
A character actor with a knack for playing blustery Southerners and military men (comic and dramatic), Chris Ellis was, appropriately enough, born and raised in Mississippi.
As he did with Jonah Hill, Miller will direct an actor known for comedy in a dramatic role, with Steve Carell playing du Pont.
Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.
Jacqueline Brookes was one of but a handful of American actors accepted for training in the 1950s by Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
That same year, he was nominated for a Gemini Award as Best Actor in a Dramatic Series for his role of Theo in the drama YAMASKA, a long - running, one - hour television series starring Anne Marie Cadieux and Elise Guilbaut.
On top of trying to be a Big, Important Film, Jones is also meant to be a showcase for McConaughey's post-Oscar relevance as a dramatic actor, and he turns in a solid but unmemorable lead performance.
Oscar winner Danny Boyle assembled an all star A team of actors for «The Children's Monologues,» a charity event of performances to benefit the UK charity Dramatic Need.
They like rewarding predominantly comic actors for taking a darker dramatic turn, even if the degree of difficulty isn't notably higher than in their comedy work.
At the same time, most of the actors in the film are comedic actors, except for Dane [DeHaan] who is a generally dramatic actor.
In the past year, Omar Sy has gone from being a French comedy writer and actor, to a star known internationally for his dramatic performance in The Intouchables.
I suppose the only real surprises to be found come from the fact that there are some poignant dramatic scenes, delivered by actors that aren't exactly known for doing them.
It's not an unusual trajectory to take; after all, most actors crave the respect of their peers, and what else but dramatic roles for a comedian?
Adam Sandler is the type of comedic actor who would get an Oscar nomination for stepping out of his comedic comfort zone to do something with a little more dramatic heft to it.
They may be two actors known largely for comedic work, but here the two show off their dramatic skill in equally astonishing measure and both have elevated themselves to a point where it becomes clear that they can handle both sides of the tonal coin in perfectly - measured stature.
In addition to Chiwetel Ejiofor from «12 Years a Slave,» the dramatic actor nominees were Idris Elba for «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,» Tom Hanks for «Captain Phillips,» Matthew McConaughey for «Dallas Buyers Club» and Robert Redford for «All Is Lost.»
We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their «big» moments — ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity.
But that could be the problem: for those of us who yearn for a James Bond film that recalls the more lighthearted Bond of our childhood rather than Bond's childhood trauma, an actor with Elba's dramatic chops might be a mixed blessing.
Patton Oswalt is a stand - up comedian and actor best known for his dramatic turn in «Young Adult» and recurring roles in TV shows like «Agents of SHIELD» and «Veep».
Michael Polley, her British - born father — an actor who worked for an insurance company — at one dramatic point says he will not try to «guess» what Sarah's thoughts are.
For director Jon Turteltaub, the four actors» wealth of dramatic experience was a key to making the comedy work.
But for a span of time, he was also a dramatic actor to be reckoned with, and Peter Weir's prophetic satire was the beginning of that phase.
The former is particularly memorable for featuring comic actors Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson in dramatic roles played dead straight.
The 34 - year - old actor won the award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actor for his work on Chicago actor won the award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actor for his work on Chicago Actor for his work on Chicago Fire.
However, Jonah Hill has rejected the playbook that was pre-written for him after Superbad and built a career unlike any actor Hollywood has ever seen by turning down typecast roles and specifically using key roles to springboard him to wider possibilities — thus setting him up as a serious dramatic actor, a major creative force, and an unexpected streetwear ambassador.
Though «People Places Things» is tailored to Clement's strengths as an actor with well - placed moments of deadpan humor, it also gives him a chance to flex his dramatic muscle, or at the very least, showcase a different, more mature side compared to his goofier work in «Flight of the Conchords,» «What We Do in the Shadows» and «Dinner for Schmucks.»
(Not that the actor hadn't shown promise before; McConaughey's dramatic chops in The Lincoln Lawyer and Killer Joe are surely impressive but for the sake of argument let's just ignore those right now.)
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.»
The members of the jury responsible for the U.S. dramatic winners included actors Michael Stuhlbarg, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Octavia Spencer, as well as the newly Academy Award - nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison and filmmaker Joe Swanberg.
Fortunately, the two filmmakers have a dramatic tale to tell about the travails of delivering a film with outstanding production values and name actors for a remarkably low six - figure budget.
Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.
«Spellbound» (1945) Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Miklós Rózsa * Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Michael Chekhov), Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock), Best Black - and White Cinematography (George Barnes), and Best Special Effects (Jack Cosgrove).
At least the film has a number of surprisingly inspired comic performances by actors best known for their dramatic work.
Both actors have such adult intensity that their participation in a juvenile fantasy (replete with simultaneous hood - flipping and at least a half dozen dramatic dives from great heights, along with the aforementioned self - satisfied libertarianism) becomes a source of bizarre fascination — for a little while, anyway.
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.
Golden Globes, «Argo» won for best dramatic film and best director Ben Affleck, while the musical «Les Miserables» took home three Golden Globes — for best musical or comedy, lead actor for Hugh Jackman and supporting actress for Anne Hathaway.
Playing a frequent - flyer junkie in «Up in the Air,» Clooney had a nomination for best dramatic actor, along with Jeff Bridges as a boozy country singer in «Crazy Heart,» Colin Firth as a grieving gay academic in «A Single Man,» Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in «Invictus» and Tobey Maguire as a prisoner of war in «Brothers.»
The close - ups of animals or plants, or the pastoral images of trees or streams are «very, very inserty - type shots, and yet they have the same kind of dramatic impact» as the spectacular wide shots — or, for that matter, the scenes involving the lead actors.
For all her chops as a dramatic actor, she's our new Judy Holliday and Goldie Hawn, only even sharper.
Director, co-writer and producer Alejandoro González Iñárritu, well known by cinephiles for his «Birdman,» which features Michael Keaton as a popular actor trying to deal with the problems of his current life, now puts his skill on creating a dramatic biopic of fur trapper Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) who, in 1823 in an area which became the Dakota Territory, is brutally attacked and mauled by a bear while scouting for an expedition.
He is a very fine dramatic actor, though, but there's just little in The Big White that suggests they needed someone of his stature to play such an undemanding role, other than for the commercial appeal of a big name to attach to it.
The comedic actor hasn't had many opportunities to show off his dramatic acting chops until the release of Colossal, so it's a relief to see that he's more than just an SNL alumnus with a knack for making people laugh.
He then cast Bateman, who was on in an earlier incarnation, signed dramatic veterans such as Fonda and the character actor Stoll and re-teamed with «Date Night» star Fey (in arguably her most dramatic part), hoping to bring her along for the career reinvention.
What is acclaimed dramatic actor Tony Leung, better known for starring in arthouse flicks such as In The Mood For Love (2000), doing in a frivolous family fantasy movie such as thfor starring in arthouse flicks such as In The Mood For Love (2000), doing in a frivolous family fantasy movie such as thFor Love (2000), doing in a frivolous family fantasy movie such as this?
Jim Carrey has shown ability as a dramatic actor, yet even if he seems a strange fit for this lurid and glacially paced murder mystery, he's not the reason for its failure.