Sentences with phrase «time an actor won»

Daniel Day - Lewis» Oscar win for playing the 16th President of the United States marked the first time an actor won an Academy Award for a Steven Spielberg movie.

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It also marks the first time that an actor won an Oscar for a performance in a Spielberg movie.

The three - time Oscar winner and five - time nominee hasn't made an appearance in a movie since 2012's «Lincoln,» for which he won his third Oscar for best actor.

Few have achieved such remarkable success in as many different fields as Davis has: she is not only an Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor, but a world - class athlete (at one time the nation's 13th - ranked archer), a member of the genius society Mensa, and is becoming recognized for her tireless advocacy of women and girls nearly as much as for her acting accomplishments.

For correctly guessing all six winners (Best Movie: «Argo,» Best Director: Ang Lee, Best Actor: Daniel Day - Lewis, Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz and Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway), she wins a $ 100 gift certificate to the Mattituck Cinemas, courtesy of Times / Review NewsGroup.

Spielberg rightfully pursued Day - Lewis to portray the title role of one of the most respected and popular American presidents, knowing the two - time Academy Award - winning actor could accurately portray the uncompromising leadership skills Lincoln possessed.

Widely rumored for quite some time now, but now official, Academy Award - winning actor Eddie Redmayne has been cast as Newt Scamander in Warner Bros..

Oh, and best of all, Joel Grey (openly gay now but not at the time of winning his Best Supporting Actor award) as that scary Master of Ceremonies who acts as the audience's window into the twisted heart of the rise of Nazi - ism in Germany, and an observer / commenter to the bisexual threesome that gives the film its frisson.

It was the first time a straight actor won for playing a gay man, though nine more straight actors / actresses have followed suit since then.

The French Connection helped usher in the second golden age of Hollywood (arguably the best decade in movie history) and went on to win 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - time.

The project lingered on as lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio went off to make «The Wolf of Wall Street,» which gave Mr. Iñárritu time to direct «Birdman» (which went on to win four Oscars last year, including best picture and director).

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Richard Attenborough Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Moira Kelly Plot: The life and times of Charlie Chaplin: from his first stage performance before the age of ten to Vaudeville, to Mack Sennett's movies, to making his own movies, to winning an Oscar.

Unfortunately this is nothing new, especially when we look back at the last time a silent film won the best picture award and a best actor was denied the award he had rightfully won.

Winning Best Actor was, once again, Chalamet, this time for his singular performance in Call Me by Your Name.

The two - time Academy Award - winning actor will join director Edgar Wright and Paul Rudd in Marvel's «Ant - Man,» hitting theaters July 31, 2015.

Although Affleck's lamentations of unrealized ambitions are symptomatic of a first - time filmmaker, because he's been around the block as an actor (and is, lest we forget, an Oscar - winning screenwriter), he can, unlike most newbies, talk the talk without coming across as pretentious.

Meanwhile, lead actor John Goodman was nominated seven times for his performance and never won.

Brian Cox will attend the Irish Film and Television Awards Two award winning actors are taking time out from filming in Dublin to present accolades at this year's Irish Film and Television Awards.

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

This week Michael, Melissa and Brad discuss the careers of actors and actresses who win at Oscar time then the drop out of sight.

Washington is now approaching his 60th birthday and he's spent more than a quarter of a century on the big screen, breaking into the big time when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on the back of 1989's Glory and became a household name in the 1990s with the likes of Malcolm X, The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia, Crimson Tide and Courage Under Fire.

For O'Toole (who won his third Golden Globe as best actor — he would get another one the following year for Goodbye, Mr. Chips), this was the second time he played King Henry II of England in a film, after Becket (1964).

That said, the film went on to become a smash hit around the world, becoming the only the second of three films to date to win the top five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) and is regularly enshrined in lists of the greatest American films of all time.

Watch out for: Tony Hale, Veep The two - time and defending champ is only other Veep actor besides Louis - Dreyfus to win.

A moving, groundbreaking film about growing up, which was shot with the same actors a few consecutive Sundays at a time over 12 years, won the top awards at the 2015 Baftas.

To save time and effort, you should just have Best Picture, whatever wins, that's the movie that wins everything else; actor, actress, supporting, screenplay, director, editor, fx, music, etc..

The acting wins were repeat wins for all and for Paul, his 3rd win puts him in singular territory as the only Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in Emmy history to win three times.

Every actor works differently, and nobody knows this better than two - time Academy Award — winning director Ron Howard.

James Franco's Golden Globes win for The Disaster Artist was short lived after Ally Sheedy and others took to Twitter to accuse the actor of inappropriate behavior and alleged hypocrisy at him wearing a «Time's Up» pin during the ceremony.

While Kress, like many casting directors, has filmmakers she works with regularly, this was her first time paired with actor turned director Scott Cooper, best known for having written and helmed «Crazy Heart,» which won Jeff Bridges an Academy Award.

It's hopes and dreams will seem to lie on the shoulders of three - time nominee Joaquin Phoenix, who won Best Actor at Cannes.

The other voice actors aren't given as much to do, and the film has a habit of oversimplifying its treatment of Riley's emotions (which were clearly inspired by the work of Robert Plutchik), including some manufactured conflict that's a bit flimsy, but it makes up for those minor blemishes with boundless levels of creativity that win out every time.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

Chow Yun - fat, at this time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.

Another three time nominee, he's been in the Best Supporting Actor category prior to this for the aforementioned «Beginners» (where he won) and «The Last Station.»

When one name keeps cropping up on list after list, that actor or actress can sometimes build an unstoppable head of steam such that by the time the Golden Globes are announced in mid-December, a win for one actor or another already seems like a foregone conclusion.

In recent times we have seen British actor Tom Wilkinson take him on somewhat controversially in Selma, as well as Bryan Cranston in his Tony - winning and Emmy - nominated turn in All the Way; both were excellent in the role, especially Cranston.

Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez, a first - time nominee, won best lead female actor in a comedy series, beating Veep's Julia Louis - Dreyfus, Girls» Lena Dunham and Orange is the New Black's Taylor Schilling.

An unusually prolific period for the Oscar - winning actor has seen him star in three films in the past month, but which roles stand out as his all - time best?

He said:» It's nice to be able to phone your mum, she was in hospital at the time, and I was able to say «your son's just won best actor at Cannes» and she told the nurses and I could hear them say «where?»»

Fassbender, who won Best Actor in Venice in 2011 for his performance in Steve McQueen's Shame, is currently shooting Ridley Scott's The Counselor alongside Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz, while Domhnall Gleeson recently finished shooting Richard Curtis» new comedy About Time, and was recently named as one of Variety's ’10 Actors to Watch».

Allen has directed six actors to Oscar wins, third most all - time behind William Wyler (14) and Elia Kazan (9).

Operating on several levels at once — as fiction, as documentary, as investigation into the documentary form, as historical excavation and as exploration of the process of a talented and committed actor --» Kate Plays Christine» which won Greene the Documentary Writing award, even finds time to be beautiful, with Sean Price Williams «cinematography giving the film an aesthetic that is as unique as its premise.

How does an actor play TWO roles at the same time and still not win an Oscar?

Not only did «Moonlight's» Mahershala Ali and «Fences»» Viola Davis earn Oscars for their supporting roles — the first time two African American actors won in both supporting categories in the same year — Ruth Negga was nominated for her lead role in «Loving» and Denzel Washington earned his seventh acting nomination plus a shot at best picture as one of the producers of «Fences.»

A little bit of history was made today as two - time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe won Best Supporting Actor from LAFCA for «The Florida Project.»

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Hey, last time he did it it won him his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

The Oscar - winning actor, who does a fine job of balancing dramatic fare like Sicario with appearances in blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy, was cast in Star Wars: The Last Jedi a long time ago... but we still don't know who he's playing.

When: November 21st Why: The last time that director David O. Russell got this much talent together, it resulted in a movie that earned seven Oscar nominations (including two wins in the Supporting Actor and Actress categories) and landed on just about every Top 10 list in the country.