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You couldn't write a fictional script with more affecting characters or lead actors whose dedication, courage, wisdom, and openness stay with you hours after you've left the theater.

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«The Prestige» From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.

Robert Easton, a character actor whose command of a vast array of foreign and American regional accents led to a flourishing second career as a dialect coach to Hollywood stars such as Charlton Heston and Anne Hathaway, has died.

Actress Blake Lively and actor Jason Clarke lead the way from a script by Forster and screenwriter Sean Conway with a story of intrigue, mystery and chilling uncertainty for a woman whose second chance to see for the first time since childhood brings both happiness, as well as striking new questions about her relationship.

The actors — many with considerable stage experience and minimal film work — deliver strong naturalistic performances, especially leading man Lamothe, whose Roque smoothly charms the ladies and sweeps us along whenever he speaks, while holding in reserve a restive intensity we glimpse in his pensive eyes.

Veteran French actor André Wilms, whose association with the filmmaker dates back to 1992's «The Bohemian Life» (for which he won a European Film Award) takes the lead here, while other Kaurismäki alumni in the cast include New Wave icon Jean - Pierre Léaud and, of course, the director's favorite actress Kati Outinen.

Now Deadline reports that four new actors have enlisted, led by Empire's Jussie Smollett, whose spaceship and / or scientist duties are also being kept...

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

You choose a lead like Alexander Skarsgard, a tall, muscular actor in the Johnny Weissmuller tradition whose impressively lean, long - limbed body will glisten next to furry CGI.

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.

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.

Consummate supporting actor Hawkes, whose recent filmography has plenty of titles that sound nearly interchangeable with this one (Life Of Crime, The Driftless Area, Low Down) leads an appropriately character - actor - heavy ensemble that includes Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Clifton Collins Jr., and Daniel Sunjata, among others.

Clouds of Sils Maria Director: Olivier Assayas Running time: 123 minutes Certificate: R Juliette Binoche stars as an actor whose role in a new play leads her to reflect on her career while developing a close relationship with her assistant, played by Kristen Stewart.

Details surrounding the project remain vague, but it is said to feature a Korean female lead and a host of English - language supporting actors whose scenes will be set in New York.

Goodwin leads the way with Judy, whose earnestness could come off sickly sweet in the hands of a lesser voice actor.

His aviation skills and reputation for sailing close to the wind lead to an approach from Schafer, a CIA agent (or possibly a composite of several) played by Domhnall Gleeson (whose father, actor Brendan Gleeson, resembles the stocky real Seal much more than sleek Tom Cruise does).

Ruffalo also had a charming, affable leading - man turn in «Begin Again» this year, as a weary record label exec whose passion for music is reignited by a young singer - songwriter, but his turn as real - life Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz in Bennett Miller's retelling of a bizarre true story is a prime example of an actor at the peak of his powers.

One of American cinema's finest character actors, Dern, whose career took off in the Seventies, proved too eccentric, too unconventional to work as a mainstream leading man in commercial fare, but here he's wonderfully worthy of this auspicious lineage.

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.

The most inspired move here would be a Supporting Actor nomination for Rhys Ifans, whose Earl of Oxford and supposed true Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, is less the lead character than the vivid standout of an ensemble.

Everything about it promises negligibility, and the promise is kept: a less - than - super star (Coburn), a female lead whose potential has scarcely ever been fully realized (Lee Grant), some character actors who stopped getting — or making — good parts some time ago (Andrews, Hendry), a forgettable British sub-leading man who muffed his one big chance (Jayston — Nicholas of Nicholas and Alexandra), an anonymously pneumatic foreign blonde (Christiane Kruger), an English hack with conspicuously unimaginative pretensions to distinction (Hughes), and above all the tiresomely formulaic genre in which doublecrosses are so taken - for - granted by the audience that no degree of geometric complication can do more than increase the boredom.

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

Always an actor we want to see more of, here he emerges as the lead character and has a blast playing the unhinged and unfiltered Billy whose increasingly self destructive tendencies come to a boil as the movie winds torward its conclusion.

The director Lee Daniels, whose film Precious I admired for its courage and grit, works well with his lead actors but makes some fatal narrative and casting choices.

No lead actor in 2010 was given more notes to play in a more curtailed stretch of screen time than de Lencquesaing, whose daughter Alice I already singled out for praise in the first of these columns.

One of its strongest assets is its cast, with superior actors in the leading roles: Cumberbatch as Steven Strange, the brilliant and arrogant New York surgeon whose reason for existence is cut short by a horrific car crash... Tilda Swinton as a mystic known as the Ancient One who is willing to lead him to enlightenment in Kathmandu if only he will subjugate his inflated ego... Chiwetel Ejiofor as her faithful follower and right hand man... Benedict Wong as the guardian of the library where the accumulated secrets of their sect are stored... and Mads Mikkelsen as the brilliant student gone rogue who may soon destroy the earth, one major city at a time.

Elba is a good starting point for this feature: He's a great actor whose undiscriminating ways have led him to figure prominently in the popular choice for the best television show ever made (The Wire), some big movies (American Gangster, Prometheus, Thor, 28 Weeks Later), and some unwatchable dreck, from the Madea - free Tyler Perry movie Daddy's Little Girls to the godawful Fatal Attraction knockoff Obsessed.

Taken just as a list of actors, without considering the actual movies, this would be a pretty plausible roll - call for any year's Best Actor nominations: two prior winners (Crowe for «Gladiator» along with two other nominations, Firth for «The King's Speech» plus a nod for «A Single Man»); one two - time nominee who has bizarrely never won (Fiennes, nommed in support for «Schindler's List» and in the lead for «The English Patient»); a character actor of long - standing reputation and popularity (Turturro); and a rising star whose meteoric ascent to bankable leading man suggests his Oscar is only a matter of when, not if (HaActor nominations: two prior winners (Crowe for «Gladiator» along with two other nominations, Firth for «The King's Speech» plus a nod for «A Single Man»); one two - time nominee who has bizarrely never won (Fiennes, nommed in support for «Schindler's List» and in the lead for «The English Patient»); a character actor of long - standing reputation and popularity (Turturro); and a rising star whose meteoric ascent to bankable leading man suggests his Oscar is only a matter of when, not if (Haactor of long - standing reputation and popularity (Turturro); and a rising star whose meteoric ascent to bankable leading man suggests his Oscar is only a matter of when, not if (Hardy).

Claflin is an appealing leading man, and the rest of the cast is a Who's Who of Popular British Actors, including Brendon Coyle (Mr. Bates of Downton Abbey) as Lou's out - of - work but genial dad; Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) as Will's father, whose caddish instincts have been excised; and Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter's heroic Neville Longbottom) as Lou's boyfriend Patrick, who prefers prepping for a triathlon to date night.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Violence and its Freudian cousin voyeurism play lead actors in this group of psychologically charged assemblages whose small - scale format adds to the sense of nervous suspense and where lust, seduction and yearning get collaged into something that only the viewer - cum - voyeur can drag up from deep within.