When the cast was announced for the long - awaited next film in the Ghostbusters franchise, some short - sighted fans were upset that the Ghostbuster team would not star the original cast but would be
played by female actors in what seemed like a gimmick.
Not exact matches
The young
female cast of supporting
actors — led
by Gordon and including Gillian Jacobs, Adria Arjona, Jessie Ennis and Debby Ryan — is up to the task of
playing opposite McCarthy.
Brown, who
plays Eleven on the Netflix series, is up for outstanding performance
by a
female actor in a drama series along with co-star Winona Ryder.
Outstanding Performance
by a
Female Actor in a Leading Role CATE BLANCHETT, «CAROL» Two - time Oscar winner Blanchett
plays the titular role in Todd Haynes» «50s - set «Carol.»
Best Feature Winner: «Moonrise Kingdom» «Bernie» «The Loneliest Planet» «The Master» «Middle Of Nowhere» Best Documentary Winner: «How To Survive A Plague» «Detropia» «Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present» «Room 237» «The Waiting Room» Best Ensemble Performance Winner: «Your Sister's Sister» «Bernie» «Moonrise Kingdom» «Safety Not Guaranteed» «Silver Linings Playbook» Breakthrough
Actor Winner: Emayatzy Corinealdi («Middle Of Nowhere») Mike Birbiglia («Sleepwalk With Me») Thure Lindhardt («Keep The Lights On») Melanie Lynskey («Hello, I Must Be Going») Quvenzhané Wallis («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Breakthrough Director Winner: Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Zal Batmanglij («Sound Of My Voice») Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky («Francine») Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin («Now, Forager») Antonio Méndez Esparza («Aquí y Allá») Calvin Klein
Female Filmmaker Award Stacie Passon («Concussion») Bingham Ray Award Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Best Film Not
Playing At A Theater Near You «An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty» (written and directed
by Terence Nance) Gotham Independent Film Audience Award «Artifact»
• OSCAR WINNING ROLES: If
by some miracle Bryan Cranston won he'd be the second
actor to win for
playing a previous Oscar winner (the first being Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator) • GENDER: If
by some miracle Eddie Redmayne won it'd be the first leading
actor win for a
female character though not the first Oscar win for someone
playing another gender — that was Linda Hunt as a male photographer in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983) • MULTI-HYPHENATES: Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio have also been nominated outside of acting categories.
by Bryant Frazer An
Actor's Revenge, director Kon Ichikawa's colourful melodrama depicting an elaborate revenge plot by a Japanese onnagata — a kabuki actor trained to play exclusively female roles — begins, appropriately enough, in the Ichimura Theater, where the very first shot illustrates that a panoramic aspect ratio is a perfect match for the wide prosce
Actor's Revenge, director Kon Ichikawa's colourful melodrama depicting an elaborate revenge plot
by a Japanese onnagata — a kabuki
actor trained to play exclusively female roles — begins, appropriately enough, in the Ichimura Theater, where the very first shot illustrates that a panoramic aspect ratio is a perfect match for the wide prosce
actor trained to
play exclusively
female roles — begins, appropriately enough, in the Ichimura Theater, where the very first shot illustrates that a panoramic aspect ratio is a perfect match for the wide proscenium.
An exceptional suspense thriller elevated
by Fincher's tightly controlled direction and stand - out performances
by Jodie Foster — a rare
female protagonist for Fincher — as a recently single mother and a preteen Kristin Stewart resourcefully facing off against a trio of indelibly drawn and developed home invaders — a testament to Hollywood veteran David Koepp's underrated screenplay —
played by future Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto, and country - singer - turned -
actor Dwight Yoakum.
All parts can be
played by male or
female actors and things like character names can be changed easily because the file is a Microsoft Word file.
Actually, Link's technically a she here, since he's
played by a young
female actor.
Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works
by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black
female artist «created»
by Joe Scanlan and
played by various
actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.
His project for the Whitney Biennial involves creating the fictional persona of an Ivy League - educated black
female artist, «Donelle Woolford,» and presenting performances and art objects conceptualized
by Scanlan as the creative products of this fictional artist who is
played by a variety of
actors.
They submitted their withdrawal to the Whitney yesterday, which Yams Collective member Maureen Catbagan said was driven
by objections to the Biennial's inclusion of Joe Scanlan's «Donelle Woolford» piece, in which the white male Princeton professor hires black
female actors to
play the part of a fictional black artist named Donelle Woolford (the piece has been ongoing since 2005, according to the artist's website).