Sentences with phrase «performance as an actor»

But, he is just focused on his acting and his performance as an actor.

When given the right material, he's delivered some great performances as an actor (Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Boiler Room, Hollywoodland... etc).

Not exact matches

This statistic fails to highlight actors such as Jack Nicholson (The Departed) or Tom Hanks (Catch Me If You Can) who did not receive Oscar nominations for their performances but are widely considered among the best actors of their generation.

He and a few others tried to argue that preaching was a performance and just as an actor can speak Shakespeare's lines, so a preacher can speak someone else's.

Framing gender stereotypes as God's will turns too many men and women into actors and too many marriages into elaborate performances rather than genuine partnerships.

Noah seems to work as a film because of a plot that is paced to move along, convincing special effects, and quality performances from name brand actors like Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins.

I recently had the pleasure of watching a stage production of CS Lewis» Screwtape Letters featuring a magnificent solo performance by actor and director Max Mclean as the titular devil of the play.

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.

JAMES DEAN A 24 - year - old Californian, James Dean burst into sudden prominence this year as one of Hollywood's top young movie actors with a sensitive performance in East of Eden that drew critical raves.

When Paul Robeson, the black actor and singer, went to the U.S.S.R. after he was virtually hounded out of the U.S. for being a Communist sympathizer in the 1950s, Max's father served as Robeson's booking agent for several of his singing performances there.

Unfortunately, Sandler (+200) isn't listed as the favorite to win Worst Actor — that dubious honor belongs to Johnny Depp (+150) for his performance in Mortdecai.

For the most outstanding actor in a drama series, Jon Hamm's status as the clear cut favorite can likely be attributed to more to Mad Men's seven season run rather than his performance specifically in the final season.

A second study showed that training in realistic environments, including practiced encounters with armed - opponent actors in buildings and streets, improved their shooting accuracy under stress Similarly, trials with 66 of the officers revealed that those who trained weekly on their own in a combat sport such as karate or kickboxing performed better under high - anxiety fights than those with no additional training, although both groups suffered performance decreases when conditions shifted from low to high anxiety.

I thought it might be useful for people who are listening in their cars or people who are watching on iTunes or on YouTube, just to hear like what the application of Bulletproof does to someone who has obviously very high - level performance like working as an actor is crazy.

Any screen actor is a delight to watch when, take after take, they dish up their performance freshly, as if they were doing it for the first time.

Hollywood's elite gathered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles last weekend to honor the phenomenal performances of their fellow actors, as well as the stellar work of artists and visionaries.

As an actor he accomplished great performances, the most memorable being the one which won him the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for «Dallas Buyers Club&raactor he accomplished great performances, the most memorable being the one which won him the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for «Dallas Buyers Club&raActor Oscar for «Dallas Buyers Club».

The realism in «Hellion» is admirable, as are the actors» emotion performances.

As town wild - child and Reverend's daughter Ariel Moore, Jullianne Hough, best known for her stint on Dancing with Stars, shows off her own movie - star qualities, and though she's a professional dancer and not an actor, there's nothing stilted or wooden about her performance.

A busy stage actor as well, Jeter won a Tony in 1990 for his performance in Grand Hotel.

As was the case with Ransom, Howard has taken an actor known primarily for middle - of - the - road characterizations and managed to elicit a performance with undertones of ferociousness.

The performances are quite over the top, but you can tell the actors are having a lot of fun, and Reese Witherspoon really shines as Vanessa.

Granted, these movies are based on superhero comics, which do this sort of character development a lot, with characters baldly stating what they're thinking or feeling because of the comparative struggle of comics to delve into their characters» heads, lacking consistent devices for inner monologues (as a more traditional novel would have) or the benefit of an actor's performance (as a movie or TV show would have).

Unfortunately Aniston simply can not shake her comedic background and just can not convey a decent performance in drama as far as I'm concerned, she just isn't convincing, purely a TV actor period.

Instead, Malcolm's absurd, unsentimental take on sitcom family life became a spring 2000 hit, earning Kaczmarek Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors» Guild nominations for her performance as the no - nonsense mother of a genius and his incorrigible brothers.

Mickey Rooney is one of those child actors who is basically a fully formed performer right from the start, and his performance as Whitey Marsh wouldn't be significantly different if delivered as an adult.

Fans of the actors should be pleased at some fine performances, as well as Polanski's staunchest of followers.

The scenes with Spacey crackle — Hoult leans into the hero's attractive obnoxiousness and the older actor responds with one of his looser, funnier performances — and Zoey Deutch is unexpectedly good as Oona O'Neill, the brittle, sad - eyed debutante who toyed with the young writer before throwing him over to marry the aging Charlie Chaplin.

Where the mild - mannered Asquith was content to discuss, persuade, and ultimately defer to his actors in most matters of performance, and build his work around them, Crabtree also left most of the acting to take care of itself, permitting the performers to make the decisions about how to play a scene or read a line, just so long as it made sense and they hit their marks.

Already a familiar face in world cinema thanks to fine performances in such films as Open Your Eyes and Talk to Her, Spanish actor Fele Martínez teetered on the brink of international success in the wake of work for such internationally recognized directors as Alejandro Amenábar and Pedro Almodóvar.

Three years later, Winstone's harrowing performance in Oldman's Nil by Mouth garnered him a Best Actor BAFTA nomination, as well as recognition on both sides of the Atlantic.

But as a simplistic celebration of overcoming - adversity clichés, «Real Steel» may have the edge because its aim is to entertain kids, wearing its obviousness on its sleeve rather than disguising it behind performances by actors who by rights are worthy of more complex material than the O'Connor offers them.

And while Radcliffe remains reined in as an actor, that is by this stage a feature of the character, and his performance has moments of quiet brilliance.

If Boyega's performance in Imperial Dreams is any indication of how he will continue to progress as an actor over the years, we may just have another Denzel Washington on our hands, which is funny, due to the fact that he looks like he could literally be his son.

His performance as Billy Crystal's put - upon brother in the film won him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor of 1992, as well as a Golden Globe nomination.

It's Samuel L. Jackson who really shines, because his layered performance as the head house slave comments on an entire history of actors playing Uncle Tom.

For his performance as the title character DEXTER, Hall (who served as an executive producer) won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in 2010 and the 2007 TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.

This isn't the actor's fault, he gives as good a performance as possible considering the actions forced on him by the script.

Of all the actors working in Hollywood today, I do not believe a better one could have been picked, as far as appearance and performance go.

I can't really blame the actors, as all of the performances are quite good.

The actors are empowered to make the performances their own, with freedom to pause, stop, speak - sing, or belt out their numbers — and experiment with these in combination during different takes — as they see fit.

Christopher's won three Emmy awards — two for Outstanding Supporting actor in a comedy series for his role in both the 1982 and 1983 Seasons of Taxi and Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar&raactor in a comedy series for his role in both the 1982 and 1983 Seasons of Taxi and Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar&raActor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar».

Some of the voice actors, like Justin Timberlake's prominent turn, strike the viewer as being cast for name recognition over value - adding performances.

In addition to the excellence of Gere, Manz and Adams, there are fine performances from Sam Shepard as a rich, ailing rancher, and, as Shepard's foreman, Robert Wilke, an actor best known as one of the gunslingers pursuing Gary Cooper in High Noon.

Clint Eastwood won kudos from theater fans for tapping Broadway stars for his movie adaptation of 2014's «Jersey Boys,» but John Lloyd Young was a better singer and stage performer than actor in his performance as Frankie Valli.

This film is great watch with a solid narrative structure and with honest performances from all actors involved, hopefully you'll find Transsiberian a worthwhile watch as I did.

By shaping Roxanne Roxanne as a character profile, Larnell accentuates his actors» performances and crafts a nuanced community portrait, two strengths exhibited in his delightful first feature, «Cronies.»

The Beijing - raised, London - and Mount Holyoke — educated filmmaker shares with the American Honey helmer an interest in young people at the margins, a knack for eliciting fantastic performances from amateur or under - the - radar actors, and what film critic April Wolfe described to me as a «dream - like realism.»

In June 1996, the LAPD arrested the actor (who had already spent time in three rehabilitation facilities between 1987 and 1996) on counts including drug use, driving under the influence, possession of a concealed weapon, and possession of illegal substances, a development which struck many as ironic, given his star - making performance years prior in Less than Zero.

With a diverse roster of finely etched, award - winning and critically acclaimed performances, Paul Giamatti has established himself as one of the most versatile actors of his generation.