Sentences with phrase «film features the supporting»

The film features the supporting voice talents of Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Nick Offerman, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Jonah Hill, and many others.

The film features a supporting case that is funnier including a crew performance by Sam Rockwell.

Not exact matches

Having Mudbound become the first Netflix original feature film to compete at the Oscars would be a big deal for the streaming service, and a Golden Globes win (it's nominated for Best Original Song, and Mary J. Blige is nominated as a supporting actress) could be the first step.

12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.

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.

At the same time, the film harks back to Disney's first - ever fairy - tale feature, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its story of a princess in disguise living hidden in a forest; a villainess with access to supernatural powers; a supporting cast of lovable eccentrics; frolicking animal friends; and a handsome prince who awakens the heroine from a deathlike sleep with love's first kiss.

The film also features 30 Rock's Alec Baldwin in a supporting role.

A beautiful short film made by activists and filmmakers in Liverpool, featuring a wide range of local Labour members explaining why they support # JeremyForLabour.

HRC says this new «public engagement campaign» will feature prominent Americans who support gay marriage, drawing from a cadre of supportive professional athletes, film and music celebrities, political and civil rights leaders.

Through a feature film, interactive app, website and more, the movement seeks to create a motivated community of global citizens who will replant the world's forests and continue to raise awareness and support for the importance of trees in our lives.»

Jake Jake Gyllenhaal nabbed a feature for Elle this week in support of his new film Stronger, in which he portrays real - life Boston bombing survivor Jeff Bauman.

The next year, Cho went on to essay a supporting role on the short - lived chef sitcom Kitchen Confidential before returning to feature films.

Throughout his Broadway years, he made infrequent film and TV appearances; he played supporting roles in such movies as All the President's Men (1976) and Pennies from Heaven (1980), was briefly a regular on Falcon Crest, guested as Shelley Fabares» father on the sitcom Coach, and was seen in the made - for - TV features Separate but Equal (1991) and Citizen Cohn (1992).

«Mississippi Grind» features fully realized characters, from the film's stars to the small supporting roles.

British supporting actor Alan Howard is primarily a stage actor, but he also occasionally appears in feature films.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

With success on the small screen soon prompting James to try his talent in feature films, a supporting role in 50 First Dates and a co-starring role opposite Will Smith in Hitch found the television favorite's amiable humor translating well to the big screen.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best.

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

The film was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber (500) DAYS OF SUMMER and also features wonderful supporting turns from Brie Larson, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

He benefited hugely from his association with Foxworthy, who featured the comic in an occasional supporting role on his sitcom The Jeff Foxworthy Show; the two then teamed up with Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White for the mega-successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour, which spawned its own concert film in 2003.

One of the few features in which he had more than five lines was RKO's 1945 mystery - comedy Having Wonderful Crime; perhaps significantly, his sister Blanche Ring topped the film's supporting cast.

Tilly's other feature film credits include Bound, The Getaway, Made inJennifer received an Academy Award ® nomination and an American Comedy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Olive in Bullets Over Broadway.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

The «Girls With Guns» films featured strong female leads, usually supported by ineffective or soon - to - be-killed male counterparts, and blended martial arts action with heavy gunplay, usually supported by eye - piercing 80s fashion, heavy synth scores, and lots of explosions in empty warehouses and abandoned construction sites.

In support of the action film's home release this Tuesday, July 7, Shockya has a new exclusive clip featuring the actor from the Blu - ray and DVD's special features.

The film features an A-list supporting cast that includes Oscar - winners Kate Winslet and Octavia Spencer and nominee Naomi Watts, along with effective performances on the part of Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Zoe Kravitz and Miles Teller.

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is an acting showcase featuring one of the best performances of Joaquin Phoenix «s career and a supporting turn for Jonah Hill that joins his acclaimed performances in films like Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street.

ABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.

While the supporting cast, featuring James Franco, Sharon Stone, Chris Noth, and Chloë Sevigny (the list literally goes on and on), is amusing simply for the novelty of seeing them dressed in kitschy»70s getups playing the likes of Hugh Hefner and Harry Reems, the revolving door of familiar faces is just one example of the film's lack of focus.

The film features excellent support from the likes of Steve Martin who plays Norm Oglesby, owner of the Dallas football team, Tim Blake Nelson as Wayne Foster and one Vin Diesel as Shroom, a fallen hero from the war.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

This thin premise is better suited to a half - hour sitcom than a feature film (in fact, there's an episode of Frasier with a very similar setup), but it's strong enough to support some fun performances from a group of TV stars, along with a lot of weightless filler.

Linn was memorable as the rogue treasury agent who assists terrorist John Lithgow in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Cliffhanger (1993), which brought the actor the recognition he so persistently sought and led to a series of supporting roles in dozens of feature films.

From the crystalline shores of a deserted island to the green grass and dusty roads of 1940s suburban America, Ballard and director of photography Caleb Deschanel create a film of consistent visual invention and purity, one that also features a winning supporting performance by Mickey Rooney as a retired jockey and a gorgeous score by Carmine Coppola.

Actress Danielle Harris spent much of her childhood playing small supporting roles on television and in feature films.

Dern gives an engaging, against - type performance, though the script is stretched out very thin to support a feature - length film.

Supporting actor Clayton Rohner works on television and in feature films.

A versatile performer whose patrician features and keen intelligence have distinguished him in both leading and supporting roles, Colm Feore spent 13 seasons as a classical actor at the Stratford Festival before embarking on a successful screen career that has encompassed both art films and more populist fare.

Best motion picture of the year «Amour» «Argo» «Beasts of the Southern Wild» «Django Unchained» «Les Misérables» «Life of Pi» «Lincoln» «Silver Linings Playbook» «Zero Dark Thirty» Performance by an actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper in «Silver Linings Playbook» Daniel Day - Lewis in «Lincoln» Hugh Jackman in «Les Misérables» Joaquin Phoenix in «The Master» Denzel Washington in «Flight» Performance by an actress in a leading role Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty» Jennifer Lawrence in «Silver Linings Playbook» Emmanuelle Riva in «Amour» Quvenzhané Wallis in «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Naomi Watts in «The Impossible» Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in «Argo» Robert De Niro in «Silver Linings Playbook» Philip Seymour Hoffman in «The Master» Tommy Lee Jones in «Lincoln» Christoph Waltz in «Django Unchained» Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in «The Master» Sally Field in «Lincoln» Anne Hathaway in «Les Misérables» Helen Hunt in «The Sessions» Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» Achievement in directing «Amour,» Michael Haneke «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» Benh Zeitlin «Life of Pi,» Ang Lee «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg «Silver Linings Playbook,» David O. Russell Best foreign language film of the year «Amour,» Austria «Kon - Tiki,» Norway «No,» Chile «A Royal Affair,» Denmark «War Witch,» Canada Best animated feature film of the year «Brave,» Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman «Frankenweenie,» Tim Burton «ParaNorman,» Sam Fell and Chris Butler «The Pirates!

Presented as a «sort of sequel» to Apatow's 2007 sophomore feature, Knocked Up, This Is 40 gives center stage to the earlier film's supporting characters: Los Angeles record label executive Pete (Paul Rudd) and his wife Debbie (played by Apatow's real - life wife, Leslie Mann).

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

There's a great supporting cast lined up in this film with Damien Lewis, Ed Westwick, Paul Giamatti, Stellan Skarsgard, Christian Cooke, Natascha McElhone and Lesley Manville all featuring.

Rumor came in last week that John C. Reilly will star (with an impressive cast of supporting players) in Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, the first feature - length film from comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.

The film features not only Eddie Peng (Tai Chi Zero, Tai Chi Hero), but also Sammo Hung and Angelababy in supporting roles and action choreography from Seven LIttle Fortunes prodigy Corey Yuen.

The film was supported by the the Sundance Feature Film Program and the San Francisco Film Society Filmmaker Residency.The film was bought by NETFLIX at Sundance.

It all feels like Gilliam is firing on all freaky cylinders, and gives us hope for the rest of the film, which also features David Thewlis, Melanie Thierry, Lucas Hedges, Ben Whishaw, Tilda Swinton and Matt Damon in a superbly be-wigged supporting turn.

Although Cameron also didn't have a hand in Terminator: Genisys, he has already expressed his support of the feature, calling it the true third film in the franchise.