Sentences with phrase «greatest film actress»

Not a peep out of her for years after the break - up, then suddenly a role she would have played had she and Woody still been a dysfunctional couple is given to the greatest film actress of our time, and the Green - Eyed Monster comes out full bore.

The words «Barbara Stanwyck is one of the greatest film actress of all time» have been repeated so often they risk coming across as mere rote.

Shailene Woodley will be America's next great film actress.

Not exact matches

After getting her break on UK TV on The Darling Buds Of May, the Welsh actress headed to Hollywood and starred in films such as Traffic, Entrapment, The Online shopping from a great selection at Movies & TV Store.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

Very 70's TV movie but with a superior cast, Nimoy is okay but watch it for the chance to see three great actresses, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, and Vera Miles together in one film.

The Cabin in the Woods WOW it was a great film the actors and actresses are great the writers the directors, producers and everyone who was involved, The film has a understanding story im not going to give it away for anyone who has not seen it.

In a supporting role as Giacometti's beleaguered wife, who endures her husband's penchant for prostitutes, the great, undervalued French actress Sylvie Testud strikes the film's most resonant note.

Mary Field is the actress who played Huntz Hall's sister in the 1941 Universal serial Sea Raiders; the spinsterish sponsor of Danny Kaye's doctoral thesis in A Song of Born (1947); the nice lady standing in Macy's «Santa Claus» line with the little Dutch girl in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); the long - suffering music teacher in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); and Harold Peary's bespectacled vis - a-vis in The Great Gildersleeve (1942)-- to name just four films among hundreds.

The cast is uniformly excellent, with Francisco Reyes a particularly likable beam of strength and light as the unfortunate Orlando, but the film's great triumph is Daniela Vega, a transgender actress and singer, who makes an indelible impression in the leading role.

Both Rodríguez and Jonsson give great performances but the film focuses mostly on Jonsson and the challenges she faces and the actress shines in the role.

This is Blanchett indulging in her hobby, she knows it's not a film for great actressing but a big load of fun.

We saw some really great actresses who, frankly, were quite beautiful and had them read for the part, but there was never someone who could tell the story of the film through their face the way she could.

Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz are both great actresses, generally known for choosing good films, but this Daniel Craig guy, really?

Plus, you certainly want to catch another world - class performance from, whom I consider, the greatest actress in film history.

Gloria Swanson gave possibly the greatest performance by an actress never to win the award with her seething work in «Sunset Boulevard,» easily among the most iconic portrayals in film history.

An even more welcome surprise is how the film's women are given their due, with Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps proving a more than capable sparring partner for Day - Lewis's bratty 1950s dress designer, and the great Lesley Manville commanding her scenes as his imperious, but not unkind, sister.

Played by one of the great grump actresses of our day, Bette Midler, Mona and her poison demeanor soon discover that the brakes on her son's Yugo are not in full working order (everyone in this film has a Yugo but that's another story.)

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

Aronofsky, didn't make her into a great actress all of a sudden and her acting ability is just fine as demonstrated by such films as Leon and Closer (career best work so far).

The actress starred in great films such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dick Tracy and the recent HBO series The Night Of.

This is a competent enough, if plodding, espionage thriller with mostly compelling actors (except for the lead, Jessica Chastain, a lightweight who is mysteriously being called great in this film, and who just received a Best Actress nomination) that tells the story of the painstaking intelligence gathering that led to the ultimate revenge killing, when U.S. Navy Seals exacted retribution for the murder of 3000 people on September 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Acactress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece ActressActress).

Also great (and everything Smith does in this film is great) is Dench and Smith's relationship where the two legendary actresses get to play off of one another with such naturalism that you wouldn't be surprised if they'd been acting together their entire lives.

At the 2004 Venice Film Festival, «Vera Drake» earned Imelda Staunton the Coppa Volpi for best actress — yet while her performance as Vera is note - perfect, the characterisation of Vera is one of the film's greatest problems.

That said, the film went on to become a smash hit around the world, becoming the only the second of three films to date to win the top five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) and is regularly enshrined in lists of the greatest American films of all time.

Director Niels Arden Oplev and actress Noomi Rapace found great success across the globe with the trilogy of films based on Steig Larsson's Millennium novels, beginning with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

But Squires has one great scene, set at a food bank, in which the actress and Loach stage a genuinely and disarmingly surprising moment, one that briefly turns Kattie into the film's most galvanizing character.

Never really works, mostly because Harlow, while great as the slutty girl in films like Red - Headed Woman or Red Dust, isn't a particularly good comedic actress.

I also just think she's a great actress who has been incredibly undervalued with the lowbrow reception of blacksploitation films of the 1970s.

As Colin so eloquently and accurately puts it, Olivier is a great actor wanting to be a film star, Monroe is a film star wanting to be a great actress, and their joint film is of little use to either end.

The film has a great cast which features Zack Efron, Allison Janney, Richard Jenkins and Elizabeth Olsen, who is an up and coming actress.

Olivier Assayas» Clouds of Sils Maria pairs Juliette Binoche, one of the greatest actresses of her time, with Kristen Stewart, one of the most ridiculed actresses of her time; to the shock of all, Stewart, playing the long - suffering twentysomething assistant to Binoche's celebrated but imperious screen acting legend, turns out to be the film's greatest treasure, even next to Binoche's superb work and Assayas» thoughtful, contemplative filmmaking.

Released last week, this is definitely one of the best short fan films we have seen, using some great camera angles, what feels like an actual Panaglide camera that Carpenter would die for, slow burn suspense, and a killer performance from leading actress Suzee Dunn playing «Jamie», who is stalked by Myers for no apparent reason (other than it's Halloween).

Zhou Xun: regarded as one of the four great young actresses in China (the other three are Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei, and Zhao Wei) she has a high international profile thanks to her appearances in Lou Ye's Suzhou River, the French - Chinese art - house film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, and Feng Xiaogang's Hamlet adaptation, The Banquet.

by Walter Chaw Nikki (Laura Dern) is an actress landing her dream role opposite Devon (Justin Theroux) in a film directed by the great Kingsley Stewart (Jeremy Irons).

Other prestigious Jurors at NVFF 2013 included Dierk Sindermann, a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press; Lissa Gibbs, producer of educational and network documentaries; Jennifer Siebel Newsom, producer / director of the award winning Miss Representation; Musician and film director Dave Grohl; actresses Rose McGowan (Charmed) and Madeline Zima (Californication); Paul Duffy, Amazon Web Services executive; Ryan Tudhope, co-founder Atomic Fiction; and Neil Berkeley, founder of Brkly Productions (creative work includes: Project Runway, Top Chef, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, America's Next Great Restaurant and more).

The Toy Story films are jam - packed with an incredible selection of great actors and actresses who have given memorable performances that have stuck with audiences for years.

Verhoeven spoke only briefly on taking the big prize, reiterating his love for Huppert and turning the mic over to producer Saïd Ben Saïd who said the film wouldn't have been what it was «without a great filmmaker and an extraordinary actress.»

While her co-star Joel Edgerton did a great job playing a near - monosyllabic character, she is the heart of the film and will almost certainly be in any Best Actress conversations.

Jurassic World, as well as Bryce Dallas Howard's performance in the film, there remains a great deal of controversy surrounding the actress.

Alright, so this probably won't get Nats Oscar ® number two for best supporting actress, nor will it go down in history as the greatest comedic film of our time — but what it will do is make you laugh.

«It's agony because he's a great actor who wants to be a film star, and you're a film star who wants to be a great actress.»

The 41 - year - old actress was joined by Bryce Dallas Howard, Mozart in the Jungle «s Gael García Bernal, Julie Andrews, The Strain «s Mia Maestro, and Scooby - Doo «s Matthew Lillard at the event featuring a special performance by John Williams, one of the greatest film composers of all time.

Returning for this sequel is Kristen Wiig as Lucy (a different character than Wiig voiced in the first film), sounding more or less like a boisterous version of the actress's natural persona, and coming on board is Benjamin Bratt (Snitch, The Great Raid), completely not like himself with an over-the-top Mexican accent for Eduardo, Antonio's father.

Directed by Paul McGuigan (in a decisive change of pace after «Victor Frankenstein»), the film offers a «My Week With Marilyn» - style gloss on the life of the great, oft - neglected stage and screen actress Gloria Grahame (Bening), who won an Academy Award for «The Bad and the Beautiful» and who is perhaps best remembered now for her heartbreaking performance opposite Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray's 1950 noir masterpiece, «In a Lonely Place.»

It's great to see a film about a guy actually give actresses fun things to do and Sherri Shepherd, Gabrielle Union, Rosario Dawson, and Leslie Jones all have good moments.

Some great news for minorities in Hollywood has been the about the cast of this film which will have approximately 90 % of the cast be African or African - American / black actors and actresses in respective roles.

Hamaguchi's skill and the unified magnificence of seemingly every actor in the ensemble, especially the main actresses, ensure that the film feels exactly pitched in the right way, making the most mundane exercises and casual conversations (especially during the absolutely extraordinary workshop and subsequent hangout sequences, probably the greatest stretch of filmmaking I've seen released in 2016) seem monumental.

Shot in black and white and filled with nuance, the film is directed with great affection by Noah Baumbach, who wrote it with his star — actress Greta Gerwig.