Sentences with phrase «lead actors give»

Both lead actors give life and energy to their characters, along with a sense of understanding that they are reaching the end of their days.

The two lead actors give the project their all, which would be enough on a better project.

«The Way, Way Back» is one of the few genuine ensemble pieces to come down the pike this year, with the lead actors given more or less equal time by writer - directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.

Not exact matches

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.

In the best of that genre — The Three Days of the Condor, The Ipcress File, Notorious — the lead actor must hold a lot back but, in private moments with the audience, give us all they've got.

Here's the verdict of THE EMMYS: The real shocker, quite the welcome one, was NBC / Direct TV's Friday Night Lights winning both Outstanding Writing and Lead Actor, giving series creator Jason Katims and star Kyle Chandler their first wins.

He delivers a knockout performance in the lead role as Caesar that should cause critics to give pause and ponder the possibility of an actor playing a GC character being in contention this awards season.

The Rocky spin - off was also given prizes for lead actor Michael B Jordan and for supporting players Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson.

Sigh... the only saving grace in this show is the lead actor, and even he tends to let overacting do the work for him... This show is about real life events, yet I can't help but get the feeling that I really couldn't give a crap about the fact that this stuff happened.

In 1999, Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez, cast him as real - life adult filmmaker Artie Mitchell in the made - for - cable feature Rated X — a daring role, given Mitchell's drug abuse and sexual promiscuity — and the following year, Sheen became Hollywood's comeback kid when he was cast in the leading role of the popular situation comedy Spin City after the departure of actor Michael J.

All the lead's do well in this character study that becomes a chase movie, the actors given space to not explain every character nuance to us, the photography's decent, wide vistas of rugged Western canyons.

If the lead role was given to an actually charming actor, the movie would've worked much better.

Carell's clueless Brick, perhaps by necessity of the actor's current leading man status, has been given a bit more to do and a subplot involving his burgeoning romance with a woman (Kristin Wiig) who is his moronic female equivalent.

Keaton gave my favorite lead actor performance last year.

Today, the British actor is smiling for the nominations given to Grand Budapest Hotel — if not for himself as the lead in the film.

The film's ideas and lead actors / characters are each given attention.

Globes voters showered FX's first - year limited series «Fargo» with a lot of love, giving it the prize for TV movie / miniseries and naming Billy Bob Thornton as lead actor.

A backstage hug Liam Neeson gave Steven Spielberg's mother - in - law helped land the Irishman the leading role in Schindler's List.The actor had...

The film includes a number of deaf actors, including the female child lead Millicent Simmonds, who said she was given a number of films to watch.

Neither can I really see a scenario in which Christian Bale loses Best Supporting Actor, given the Guild's clear regard for «The Fighter» (it leads all nominees with «The King's Speech») and the fact that his chief competitor, Geoffrey Rush, has already been honored.

The project lingered on as lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio went off to make «The Wolf of Wall Street,» which gave Mr. Iñárritu time to direct «Birdman» (which went on to win four Oscars last year, including best picture and director).

As mentioned in the Lead Actor and Lead Actress writeup, Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie so packed with contenders from The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story that we could legitimately see four of the six spots given up to them.

«We believe these character actors are not being given the recognition they deserve as the Supporting Acting Award is now mostly going to leading men and women,» Carney Award producers said, in a statement.

That said, as an efficient, low - stakes thriller, A Patch of Fog comes recommended, mainly thanks to the showcase it provides for its leads: two reliable character actors given a chance to headline a psychologically probing battle - of - the - wits, something usually reserved for bigger movie stars, when this sort of film had an easier time getting funded in the current landscape.

Meanwhile, more weight is given to some very famous Hollywood heads cooing their admiration for Altman but as a leading American critic pointed out, where are the regular recurring members of Altman's ensemble of character actors.

Mike White — «Year of the Dog» Maybe one of the purest expressions of «screenwriter - turned - director» (though he's also an actor given to appearing in character roles in some of his films) Mike White had, in years leading to 2007, carved out quite a distinctive place for himself as an indie screenwriter dealing more in low - key human dramedy than some of the more bombastic Shane Black - types, or more mainstream Steve Zaillian - types on our list.

The intense Australian actor is finally being given the opportunities to lead major box - office...

In 1988 the know - it - alls in Hollywood laughed when it was learned that 20th Century Fox had given $ 5 million to a television actor to star in a film whose lead character had already been offered to, and turned down by, such stars as Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone, Don Johnson and Richard Gere.

One can only imagine how much better the film would be by plugging a better actor like Coburn in the lead role and giving someone with much more martial arts skills and screen presence like Bruce Lee in the other roles.

It should feel exciting to watch these characters deal with their new powers but there is nothing there to give the actors anything to play with, which leads to stiff performances from actors I normally admire.

Though a missed opportunity to give an amputated actor the juiciest role since Harold Russell's Oscar - winning turn in The Best Years of Our Lives, casting AnnaSophia Robb in the lead allows her to add another impressive performance to her strong filmography, this one raising clout and familiarity as her last few projects did not.

Her romance with a black doctor (James D. Ruffin, an amateur actor who manages to give a turn simultaneously stiff and limp) leads to painful revelations about her family's past and her own mixed - race, European ancestry.

In Monte Hellman's hypnotic road movie Two - Lane Blacktop, folk singer James Taylor gives a lead performance that is both unassuming and arresting, the kind of askew, unshowy, vanity - free acting that perhaps only a nonprofessional actor is capable o...

Here, she talks changing her script to give the lead role to the actress she'd originally wanted to play the mother, and about what she learned as a talent producer who walked actors to and from set for seven years.

It also gives one of my favorite actors, Michael Caine, a rich leading role.

German actor August Diehl is playing the lead, which is somewhat ironic given that he's best known for his role as the vindictive Nazi Major in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

With Crimson Peak, del Toro's given each of his trio of leading actors a substantial gift.

Although Song Hye Kyo had little screen time and declined to participate in the promotions, lead actor Tony Leung still praised her professionalism despite having a language barrier with the crew and basically gave a lot of «face».

The film was given more attention for the off - screen shenanigans of its lead stars than anything else, which is a slight pity because Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie aren't just beautiful people, they're very fine actors - rarely credited for the latter because, I suspect, of the former.

With a lead actor performance (from Gary Oldman) that's not only a lock for a nomination but an early and sole frontrunner to win, Scott Thomas is given a healthy headstart, playing the wife of the world's most well - known prime minister.

I'm rooting for Brad Pitt and under more ideal circumstances the Academy would've love to have given him the statuette in 2009 — you know ideal being if Benjamin Button being awesome instead of long and just interesting for both lead actor and director.

In the lead drama races, Taraji P. Henson (Empire) became the third black woman to win drama actress and the first in 23 years after Gail Fisher and Regina Taylor, while Jon Hamm — who didn't get to give a speech when he won his first drama actor Globe for Mad Men during the writers» strike — became the first former drama actor champ to get dropped as a nominee and return to win.

With excellent technical specs and two of the finest actors in the business in the lead roles, American Gangster is not unlike Frank Lucas himself, a polished, professional effort that gives the people what they want when they want it, without diluting the product.

Mike Leigh has always been something of an «actor's» director, often giving his leads opportunities to improvise and find their characters, and in Mr. Turner this approach has been rewarded by a superb performance by Timothy Spall.

Coming off the breakout success of his debut film Shifty (which netted him a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Debut, among other accolades), Creevy is given a much higher profile and two name lead actors to tell his energized tale.

Nonetheless, Hackman still missed out ultimately, and given the strength of the Best Actor field in most years, a nomination for Fiennes in Lead would be an uphill battle.

Though Chris Hemsworth doesn't exactly look like your typical hacker, he's proven that he has the charisma and talent to be a really good leading man, and it's the collaboration between actor and director that gives me hope that, if nothing else, «Blackhat» will be a fun distraction.

It doesn't try to garner Oscars for it's makers (there is no lead actor or actress to give Oscars to).

Although a great leading turn by Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth does give it a lift, unfortunately Thor struggles to maintain its momentum.

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.