Sentences with phrase «than any other film actor»

With the possible exceptions of fellow character players Fritz Feld and Gino Corrado, German - born actor Sig Arno played more waiters and maitre d's than any other film actor.

Not exact matches

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

Hopper's choice to have the actors singing during filming, rather than lip - synching to a pre-recorded soundtrack, gives such impact to the performances — even with his overuse of certain other filming choices — creates such a complete world that even with its flaws, Les Miz had me in the palm of its metaphoric hand throughout.

Once there was a film historian who opined that Wallace Ford was in more movies than any other character actor of his prominence.

Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.

He nails the time period, the locations are perfect, the young actors are amazing (not over or underplaying anything), the cadence is on the money, and the adults are much more genuine and sincere than they have been in other W.A. films.

Though the metaphysical overtones of the screenplay are sometimes awkwardly handled and Eastwood's direction of actors (other than himself) is occasionally uncertain, this was one of the better American films of 1985.

No other reason than that, not to mention the fact that I love all of the actors in this film.

i only wish those thousands went to work on movies of more substance than fighting robots... and you don't have to apologize to me, i can in fact compare «Real Steel» to «The Fast and the Frivolous» films because in essence they are one - in - the - same, simply just the flavor of the week kind of flicks that have no real pull behind them other than big name actors, CGI and a promise of action.

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.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Other films receiving more than one award were «Capote» (best actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman and best adapted screenplay to first - time screenwriter Dan Futterman) and «Crash» (best original screenplay to Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco and best ensemble acting).

Anderson — who's become even more of an actors» director in his last few films than he was already — is at the peak of his powers here, ironically but appropriately directing «Vice» in such a way that phrases like «peak of his powers» (and other language connoting masculine swagger or preening mastery) seem contrary to the spirit of the thing.

More than 80 real musicians performed alongside Boseman and the other actors in the course of filming Get on Up.

Nestor Almendros, Haskell Wexler and Ken Middleham have done work already legendary; the actors are extraordinary; the music haunts me more than that of any other film I've seen in the last year.

His success with «Alias» ultimately launched his career, and now, ten years later, here he is approaching A-list status, starring in a fine - looking action film, sharing the screen with none other than, in the words of Ricky Gervais, «the greatest screen - actor to have ever lived» — Robert De Niro.

The only redeeming quality to the film (other than the aforementioned running time) comes from the quality performances by the lead actors, especially Peter O'Toole, who exudes devilish charm in one of his best performances in years.

The Roaring Twenties is richer is emotion than any other Walsh film I know of, and much of the credit must go to Cagney; emotionally, this may be the actor's richest performance as well.

In other words: if a film wins the best - actor Oscar, it's more likely to also win best picture than if it wins best actress.

Essentially the «Punisher: War Zone» of «Ghost Rider» movies, «Spirit of Vengeance» is a true experiment in letting directors (and actors) go full - blast in what they do best, rather than trying to tie a film to other comic book movies or a larger shared universe.

That's Keiji Inafune, creator of Capcom's Dead Rising series, and none other than Bruce Campbell, the iconic actor of The Evil Dead and other pillars of the zombie - film genre.

Really, the most prominent actors in the film other than Keaton were Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones, and one wouldn't exactly call them superstars.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

The film took some big swings, and some of the decisions made didn't initially sit well with certain people, not the least of which included none other than Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill.

«Yes, audiences are more disposed toward being inclusive in matters of race and sexuality in the 21st century than they were in the 20th — witness the (Oscar) win by A Fantastic Woman, starring a trans actor in the leading role, as Best Foreign Film of the year, and the other major mainstream film of the year, Get Out, Jordan Peele's social critique / horror film, which also dominated at the box office.

«Other than Guillermo and the cinematographer and some of the actors, every single person on this film was Canadian and really kind of from Toronto — so it absolutely is I think unprecedented, frankly, in terms of the type of recognition,» Dale said Tuesday.

Believe it or not, despite the fact that Christopher Lee played Dracula more than any other actor in the history of film, he actually didn't approve of the most of the incarnations of his famous monster.

This guy other than Cohen was the funniest actor in the film.

Roger called him the International Man of Mystery and said he probably knew and introduced more directors, actors, distributors, exhibitors and critics than any other single person in the film industry.

It was bypassed by the main groups in New York and L.A., but it won in Boston and among the New York online critics — and so far in the best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actress categories, it has won more awards than any other film.

He's a crusty old cuss, but he softens a bit when he encounters his best buddy, played by none other than David Lynch (no relation to «Lucky's» director), who had cast Stanton in several films and considered the actor a dear friend.

Had Personal Shopper cast any other actor than Stewart, this film would be a completely different result.

Director Joss Whedon deserves a lot of credit for not only balancing the film's many tones, but the large cast as well, and although some actors fare better than others (namely Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo), the ensemble works together so well that you'd think it was part of the plan all along.

«Louder Than Bombs,» Trier's first English language project and inaugural collaboration with name actors, technically marks his biggest project to date — but this ruminative ensemble piece about a New York family haunted by the legacy of its departed matriarch fits right in with Trier's other films, yielding an alternately wise, melancholic and good - humored look at people surrounded by support but nonetheless alienated by their incapacity to confront their problems.

It now has some competition, though, in La La Land, another critical and festival darling that scored 12 Critics» Choice nominations, more than any other film, including key categories like best picture, best director, best actor, and best actress.

There are exceptions, of course (like Bernal and Luna) and the Latino market at least has the benefit of a really large and natively Spanish speaking film community that it can fall back into but, seriously, name a latino character actor other than Luis Guzman.

While films and their leading actors are split into «drama» or «musical or comedy» categories, the Golden Globes» supporting actors hail from all films; for that reason the two categories have a stronger correlation to the eventual Academy Award nominations than most others.

The 17 - year - old beat out more than 3,000 other actors to play the role of a young man stuck on a life raft with a tiger in the 3D film, which has a December 2012 release date.