Sentences with phrase «first film actors»

When working on the first film the actor was keen to ensure Sadusky avoided the traditional sombre suit FBI clichés.

Not exact matches

This may be the first time that DiCaprio was genuinely free to be the most energetic and commanding character in a film, not left to share his spotlight with a veteran actor in a flashier role.

Black Panther is the first standalone film to focus on the titular character, the superhero alias of King T'Challa of the fictional country Wakanda, portrayed by actor Chadwick Boseman.

Whether Styles has the chops to make it as a film actor is yet to be seen, but given the confidence Nolan has in the singer - turned - actor, Dunkirk is as good a first chance to prove himself worthy as Styles could have hoped for.

Though the Best Actor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in DeceActor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in Deceactor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in December.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

In the case of Dumbledore, there were two actors: Michael Gambon for the latter six films and the late, great Richard Harris for the first two.

«When you first start [a film], so many people have so many different expectations, and you imagine what the expectations are,» notes the American actor, who was born in Puerto Rico.

Gov. Cuomo celebrated the opening of the first film and TV studio in The Bronx Wednesday — but he left the city's most prominent political actor, Mayor de Blasio — on the cutting room floor.

The actor / producer / director on his return from Australia is currently filming in Koforidua, Ghana for the first time.

ALBANY, NY (06/12/2010)(readMedia)-- First Lady of Saratoga Marylou Whitney and former New York First Lady Matilda Cuomo will welcome Emmy - winning actor and film - maker Joe Pantoliano as the Mental Health Foundation holds its annual August Evening in Saratoga on Monday, August 16 from 5:30 - 8:00 pm.

The first surprise is finding the hut lined with photographs of quite healthy prisoners, working in the sun and looking much like the actors in the Hollywood film.

One of the spiders, now described for the first time, crawled across his path during the filming of Dominic Monaghan's nature documentary «Wild Things», which is why he named it after the Berlin - born actor: Ctenus monaghani.

It's the first live - action comic - book film to be nominated for best picture at the Golden Globes (airing this Sunday); and Reynolds is up for the best actor award for his masterful portrayal of the anti-hero.

Mr Kam says that he hopes one day to be a martial arts actor in the cinema, comparing himself to Jean - Claude Van Damme (who appeared in his first film when he was 19).

As an actor, he continued to act or appear in more than 20 movies between 1976 and 2011 with the first film Stay Hungry released in 1976.

Egyptian actor Alex D'Arcy made his first film in Europe in 1928, and shortly thereafter appeared in Hitchcock's Champagne (1928).

With 1970's Husbands, Gazzara made the first of four film appearances under the direction of his old Actors Studio buddy John Cassavetes.

British stage actor William Stack made his first film appearance in 1918's The Girl From Downing Street.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

The Love Bug is surely the first film in which the actors... are so meticulously insipid that a car can handily steal the show.

The movie was nominated for an impressive 13 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielburg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), Best Supporting Actress Nominations for Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, along with Best Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Best Original Musical Score for a Motion Picture (Quincy Jones) which was the first time in any Spielburg produced film that composer John Williams did not compose a film score for a Spielburg movie.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

Mature's first starring film role was as Tumack the caveman in Roach's One Million BC (1940), which enabled the fledgling actor to display his physique without being unduly encumbered by dialogue.

From the first listing of the actors... most of whom had the same last name, it was readily apparent that The Talent Given Us was not your ordinary film.

It's apparent to most viewers that the Richard Pryor appearing in this film is a far cry from the actor most have seen previously; this is the first film undertaken by Pryor following a very serious illness.

The film's first act embarrassingly reduces the book's study of class, race, masculinity, and American gun worship down to a series of sketches in which bad actors and misplaced celebrities utter amateurishly presentational dialogue.

Beefy, white - maned stage actor Hale Hamilton made his first film appearance in 1915.

The director's work has been spotty, with his first film, Dawn of the Dead 58, holding his highest Metascore and his most recent, Sucker Punch 33, possessing his lowest, and lead actor Henry Cavill, relatively unknown at the time of his casting, hasn't inspired excitement in his recent lead performances in Immortals and The Cold Light of Day (maybe we can blame that on the material).

In 1939, still billed as Nicholas Conte, the actor made his first film, 20th Century - Fox's Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence (1939).

In film, Matthau played his first comic role (for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie (1966).

At first billed simply as Michael Vincent, the novice actor's «official» screen debut was the 1968 western Journey to Shiloh, though in fact he'd already had a shakedown cruise, as it were, in the Mexican film Los Bandidos (1967).

The excellent child actors carry this film (there is only one adult's face visible for the first 90 minutes), and the E.T. doll was wonderfully convincing for that time and still works today.

Married three times, Bloom's first husband was actor Rod Steiger, with whom she co-starred in 3 Into 2 Won't Go (1969) and The Illustrated Man (1969); her second was producer Hillard Elkins, who packaged Bloom's 1973 film version of The Doll's House; and her third was novelist Philip Roth.

Cast as themselves in the film, the three men, acting for the first time, bring sincerity and authenticity to their roles, even though professional actors may have had more polish.

While Conlin's first screen role after graduation was grounded firmly in reality (she was chosen to appear in a documentary film detailing the lives of young actors in New York City), it was only after moving to Los Angeles that her career truly began to catch on.

European character actor George Sorel made his first American film appearance in 1936.

American character actor Crane Whitley made his first film appearance in 1938, acting under his given name of Clem Wilenchik.

Lemmons» command of cinematic style, her appreciation of the chimerical aspects of life and her ability to inspire actors to give remarkably faceted portrayals mark Eve's Bayou a first film of exceptional promise.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

She recreated this portrayal in the 1951 film version, earning her a Cannes Film Festival Award as Best Actress, her first Academy Award nomination and an invitation to the prestigious Actors Studio.

Warner Anderson claimed that he made his first film appearance as a four - year - old juvenile actor in a 1915 Charles Ray vehicle.

In his first film starring role, Red Skelton plays radio actor Wally Benton, better known to his fans as that intrepid crime - solver «The Fox».

He did not complete the three volumes until his early twenties: first in print, and then on camera as one of a handful of actors carefully selected for New Line Cinema's highly anticipated, $ 270 million, three - film screen adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

After breaking through with films made by an emerging avant garde — including Josh Trank's Chronicle, Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Josh Krokidas» Kill Your Darlings — this year the 28 - year - old actor has starred in two very of - the - moment genres, first playing Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's childhood pal turned homicidal supervillain Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and now appearing opposite Aubrey Plaza in the zombie comedy Life After Beth.

While Pixar has previously replaced voice actors (Reese Witherspoon was originally be Merida in Brave), this is the first time the studio has cast an entire film, recorded dialogue, and then replaced 99 % of the cast.

The «guy» to whom Radcliffe is referring is actor Jamie Waylett, who played bully Vincent Crabbe in the first six Harry Potter films.

The film is the director's first effort since A Single Man, Ford's directorial debut, which led to Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award nominations for Colin Firth, as well as a Golden...

As with Sallitt's previous three films, The Unspeakable Act relies heavily on the (often first - time) actors» performances.