Sentences with phrase «smaller named actors»

I did like how she thanked some of the smaller named actors in the film «Precious,» but you know once she wins the Oscar, she's going to speak even more deliberately.

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A character actor with a unique name and specialty, British - born Skelton Knaggs was an expert in half - wit roles, but that was only a small part of his range onscreen.

Clearly, no actor would say no to a phone call from Steven Spielberg asking if they'd like to participate in an Abraham Lincoln movie, so even the smallest part is filled by either a big name movie star or a noticeable character actor, among them Lukas Haas, Hal Holbrook, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones (serving as the de facto emotional center for the movie), David Strathairn, Lee Pace, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill, Gregory Itzin, Jared Harris, Michael Stuhlbarg and Walton Goggins.

The performances of big and small characters are so intense, that by simply saying big name Brad Pitt gives the weakest performance will give a clear idea of how incredible each actor is in their role; Pauls Dano and Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Taran Killam, Alfre Woodard and more all contributing to their unique and unforgettable stories.

And how we learned about his casting is even stranger: his name was listed with the main actors in the small print of the recent Doctor Strange movie poster that was released during Comic - Con 2016.

He is going through his own Odyssey, trying to hide from locals who are apt to shoot deserters and meeting all sorts of characters (which translates to a slew of big name actors in small roles) along the way.

Known names Melissa George, Taye Diggs and Julia Stiles all go to impressive lengths but it is David Harbour (a Tony nominated actor who is mostly known on screen for small character roles) that just knocks it completely fucking out of the park.

For those who wish to see the young actor tackling both small and lead roles with the youthful exuberance and undeniable charm that assured he would be a household name by the early 1940s, it's definitely worth your time to pick up 1936's Speed and 1935's The Murder Man.

The supporting cast is lined up with name actors who do very fine work in small roles, highlights coming in the form of Viggo Mortensen as the William S. Burroughs surrogate, Kirsten Dunst as one of Moriarty's scorned lovers, and Amy Adams, giving a performance very far removed from her usual routine.

The result, U-Turn, is a derivative, trite noir that resembles better films and better stories, with Stone trying his best to distract you from that sameness by dangling lots of flashy things and big name actors in small cameos resulting in a melted banana split; very colorful with no substance whatsoever.

While most of the big - name supporting cast is wasted in small roles, I want to draw attention to character actor John Benjamin Hickey, who plays Mapes» husband.

A send - up of the current gossip - fueled entertainment industry, For Your Consideration focuses on a trio of no - name actors (O'Hara, Shearer and Posey) who are thrust into the spotlight when their performances in a small, sentimental indie titled «Home for Purim» begin generating Oscar buzz.

Other name character actors — Dylan Baker, Stephen Root, Giovanni Ribisi — show up in equally small parts, failing to fill out the whole significance of the story.

Unfortunately, Paddington's efforts to find the perfect present to celebrate his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton) 100th birthday then go terribly awry, thanks in no small part to the illicit deeds of one washed - up actor named Phoenix Buchanan (Hugh Grant).

When in Rome features supporting performances from a range of small - and even - smaller - name actors, particularly in the roles of the newly smitten coin - casters.

And yeah, while I liked that they cast big name actors in even the smallest parts — John Goodman and Tobey Jones — I felt like those roles in particular could have been taken by anyone and made just as good.

Smaller roles would go to a couple of actors that would be bigger names in the future, such as a very young Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets, Dr. T and the Women) as Harry's daughter and a throwaway bit part for Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy, Part 2), marking the first big screen appearance for both.

When you're watching a movie that has X-Ray content (as indicated by a small icon), a little window appears at the upper left corner that shows the names of the actors currently on screen.

For example, in Law of the Jungle (2017), the actors» names — Hattie McDaniel and Bill (Bojangles) Robinson are painted white and large, then wiped by hand, in the foreground, while the films Law of the Jungle, Midnight Shadow and Blood of Jesus, are in a smaller font in a light gray tone and blurred to a greater extent so it seems they are floating — as if into obscurity — in the background.

Given that text documents are still very much the core material produced by legal professionals, and that references to text documents will remain the basis for grounded and verifiable legal reasoning regardless of the actors and technologies employed, current generation standards in the legal domain are providing a layered organization of their offerings: presentation - oriented XML is being replaced with structured XML with ample room for metadata and annotations; naming mechanisms based on URIs and IRIs provide linkable anchors both to entire documents and to smaller fragments; and document - oriented ontologies provide the necessary glue between abstract legal reasoning and the textual pieces of supporting evidence.