Sentences with phrase «leading role in a film since»

Malone hasn't had a decent leading role in a film since 2004's Saved!

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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.

Honestly, while Samantha Isler gives a great performance in the lead role, I just didn't find the «modern day» stuff (in quotation marks since the film takes in 1977) to be all that interesting to be honest.

Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001).

It was the first time since 1958 films with female actors in lead roles topped North America's box office, according to the Guardian.

The duo haven't worked together since their last film in 2002, but the good news is that a reunion seems to be imminent, with Spall announcing that he's taking the lead role in Leigh's next feature effort.

Refn skipped out on a formal film education to make the hard - edged, mesmerizing 1996 crime drama Pusher, and he's been making features steadily since, including two more loosely chained Pusher movies, the chillingly intimate crime biopic Bronson, and the superb Drive and the strange Only God Forgives, both with Ryan Gosling in the lead roles.

Perhaps that is unfair, because the young actress has amassed an impressive resume since her graduation from standard Disney fare to more challenging roles in films like «Panic Room» (she replaced Hayden Panettiere and in doing so garnering much comparison to that film's lead, Jodie Foster).

This has been on my must - see list ever since it was announced, and that excitement has only grown with each new reveal, from the casting of Chris Pratt in the lead role, to landing Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper to voice the movie's CGI characters, to the strong buzz emerging from early screenings that have pegged it as one of the studio's best films to date.

Since then he has played a mix of leading roles in small independent films and supporting roles in big budget films such as Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.

It's been a while since the Aussie actress has taken a lead role in a mainstream film, of course she is co-leads here with Drew Barrymore.

Here they are, in alphabetical order along with two numbers accompanying each name: how many feature films they've made since 2000, and how many of those films had a woman in a lead role.

The film has three unknowns in John Magaro, Will Brill and Jack Huston (who has since broken out with his role on «Boardwalk Empire «-RRB- as the leads, which shouldn't be a problem as Chase's depiction of youth with inexperienced talent on his HBO show was stellar, but it also boasts a strong supporting cast with Bella Heathcote as the protagonist Magaro's girlfriend, Christopher McDonald as her father, Molly Price as Magaro's mother, Lisa Lampenelli as his aunt, Brad Garrett as a composer / producer, and Chase's «Sopranos» leading man James Gandolfini, who apparently shines as Magaro's father, «a postwar, post-Depression era parent who has given his kid every advantage that he didn't have growing up.»

It's definitely going to be a showcase for Winslet as this will be her first truly leading role in a feature film since she pulled double - duty on «Revolutionary Road» and «The Reader» in 2008, and we're intrigued to see how she works with Brolin.

Employing a workshop format to cast the film, he ended up with quite the impressive roster; working with DiCaprio again for the first time since his take on «Romeo & Juliet,» he also has a galaxy of stars in support, including Maguire, and, playing against type, Mulligan as the materialistic, sometimes simple - minded Daisy Buchanan; curiously, it's her first leading role in a big Hollywood production.

The casting is certainly on point; Eisenberg has been destined to be the lead in an Allen film since breaking out in The Squid and the Whale (and whetting his whistle with a supporting role in To Rome with Love), and Carell plays his fast - talking no nonsense agent to the stars with vigor.

In the 15 - odd years since he started acting — on a whim after seeing a flyer for a sketch comedy group while walking across his college campus — he's starred in a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's haIn the 15 - odd years since he started acting — on a whim after seeing a flyer for a sketch comedy group while walking across his college campus — he's starred in a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hain a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hain an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hat.

Twenty Seven years since Lily Tomlin has taken a lead role in a film.

Keanu Reeves leads the film in his first big action role since concluding The Matrix trilogy, and he's surrounded by a Japanese cast including Hiroyuki Sanada, Kou Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano and Rinko Kikuchi.

(MCT)-- Actress Meg Ryan, known for her leading - lady roles in romantic films, has been having an on - again, off - again relationship with her Bel - Air home since she first listed it in 2008 for $ 19.5 million.