Sentences with phrase «giving aging actors»

If there's anything Tarantino does best, it's giving aging actors their due or sparking late - in - career resurgences.

Not exact matches

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

The only person who gives me any enthusiasm for this project at all is Anthony Ingruber (a pretty much unknown actor who played a young Harrison Ford recently in Age of Adaline).

Each year, he gives out The Chambie Awards for the best work from actors under age 18.

Directed by and starring Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) Rated PG for language, thematic material, some rude humor, and brief smoking Appropriate for all ages Available August 12, 2008 on DVD and Blu - ray disc In case the Olympic games in Beijing fail to give you your China fix, never fear — famed Chinese director / actor Stephen Chow is here to give us his version of ET.

For the other starring character, Sam, offers had been given out to other actors in the 60 — 70 year age - range, but then Jon Bernthal was given the script.

Criminally unrecognized by awards voters and general audiences (perhaps until next month with Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Oscar Isaac has been quietly giving the most diverse range of characters of an actor his age.

One attribute that he always brings to his pictures is to give a second life to either an ageing actor or to take a chance on someone who has for various reasons fell by the wayside.

In a movie mostly devoid of sympathy, Renfro gives a highly sympathetic performance as the fat, cowering loser, made even more affecting by the fact that, about a month after shooting wrapped, the actor died of a heroin overdose at age 25.

«It gave us a little more freedom as far as being able to see a range of actors for the sisters, and once we started figuring out the ballpark of the age the sisters were, it informed the rest of the family as well.

Like his Eastwood movies, Once Upon a Time in the West would give leading roles to American actors, whose careers either hadn't quite taken off or were on a downturn common to advancing age.

«Breaking Bad» actor gives a tour de force performance as middle - aged everyman who watches his life happen without him

«Their Finest» is small - scale, as WWII movies go, but that gives you time to appreciate its characters (including Bill Nighy as a demanding aging actor with hidden softness) and the moments it captures related to the everyday horrors of war — the inconvenience / tragedy of crew members not showing up on set because they were killed in the Blitz, for example.

After two child actors give it their all, Margot Robbie — who also produced — takes her turn as Harding, playing her from age 15 through adulthood.

It finds Brooks once again playing himself, this time as a struggling middle - aged actor and filmmaker who accepts a questionable gig as a comic ambassador to the Muslim world (in a neat bit of stunt casting, Fred Thompson, also playing himself, gives Brooks the assignment), partly out of boredom and professional ennui and partly out of a grossly exaggerated sense of his own importance.

If we must nominate children for Oscars, one compromise solution — which would at least shield them from the horse - race aspect of awards — would be to reinstate the Academy Juvenile Award, an honorary statuette that used to be given out periodically to actors aged 18 and under.

Oscar telecast producers Mike De Luca and Jennifer Todd delegated the task of delivering advice on speech - giving to actor - comedian Patton Oswalt who emphasized the need for brevity, and heartfelt remarks, and advised on a particular consideration in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp.

Better are the references to his ageing appearance; explained with the idea that a Terminators flesh ages just like a humans, it gives this T - 800 (and its actor) a creaky look.

Thanos is a Marvel villain for the ages thanks to the actor, who gives this Mad Titan a tragic dimension and damn near steals the movie.

A federal judge in San Francisco has overturned a California law that gives actors the power to remove information about their age from online profiles on the IMDb website.