Sentences with phrase «winning film actor»
The award - winning film actor, director and producer had a long association with Chelsea dating back to the 1940s and served as a club director before accepting roles as life vice-president and then life - president.
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In honor of the comedic genius and award - winning actor's birthday, we look back at 10 of his most poignant statements in life and film.
Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
Thus far, the film's accolades include seven nominations, plus a number of wins at run - up events, including Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globes for the movie, Frances McDormand and co-star Sam Rockwell.
Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.
Woody Harrelson is an award - winning actor who has appeared in films including White Men Can't Jump, Kingpin, Natural Born Killers and The People vs. Larry Flynt, as well as Meat Free Monday's own film One Day a Week.
And when Keith Smart had finished scoring 12 of his team's last 15 points, including the winning 16 - foot jump shot from the left side with five seconds remaining under massive pressure, most of Indiana didn't even care that the film Hoosiers» Dennis Hopper hadn't won the Oscar for best supporting actor just so long as this real - life Hoosier named Smart had.
Kids With Cameras follows the progress, challenges and triumphs of a group of children with autism and Aspergers syndrome participating in a film camp hosted by non-profit Actors for Autism, and taught by award - winning educator Brad Koepenick.
ALBANY, NY (06/12/2010)(readMedia)-- First Lady of Saratoga Marylou Whitney and former New York First Lady Matilda Cuomo will welcome Emmy - winning actor and film - maker Joe Pantoliano as the Mental Health Foundation holds its annual August Evening in Saratoga on Monday, August 16 from 5:30 - 8:00 pm.
It features Emmy - award winning actor John Turturro and 14 - year - old Jaeden Lieberher, and it will be filmed entirely in the Buffalo Niagara region from Sept. 11 to Oct. 20.
It features Emmy - award winning actor John Turturro and 14 - year - old Jaeden Lieberher, and it will be filmed...
An imposing and highly memorable presence on the Broadway stage, actor Frank Langella has won only a fraction of the acclaim he's received in the theater for his film career; still, his brooding good looks and his ability to play both villains and comic foils with a touch of menace has made him a welcome (and increasingly familiar) fare to film buffs.
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.
For her work in the film, Mulligan won a number of critics awards for Best Actress, as well as garnering nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Academy.
The film was an unqualified hit, netting seven Oscar nominations and winning two, a Best Actor for Jack Nicholson and a Best Actress for Helen Hunt.
The young star of the film, newcomer Josh Wiggins is absolutely terrific, outshining multiple award winning actors and actresses in this film, but he's not the only difference here.
Seriously funny and well done storyline and film with two award winning actors.
The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.
William H. Macy is an Oscar ® and Golden Globe ® nominee, an Emmy ® and SAG ® Award winning actor, and a writer in theater, film and television.
He made his screen debut in 1983 in the film comedy Baby It's You, and won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award that year for his work in Robert Altman's Streamers.
In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.
A series of starring roles in films including 1989's misbegotten Erik the Viking and 1990s Jacob's Ladder followed, before Altman's 1992 showbiz satire The Player won Robbins Best Actor honors at the Cannes Film Festival.
In film, Matthau played his first comic role (for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie (1966).
Drawing on his Navy memories to play the wily Ensign Pulver, Lemmon held his own opposite heavyweights Henry Fonda and James Cagney and won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his fourth film.
A beautifully crafted, multi award winning film from the extremely talented writer / actor / director Thomas McCarthy.
Surprisingly though, it's not the Oscar winning / nominated actors like Blanchett, Hilary Swank or Greg Kinnear or even the excellent supporting actors like Gary Cole, J.K. Simmons or Giovanni Ribisi that shine in this film but it's Keanu Reeves who steals the show in this impressive ensemble.
TURAN: Good versus evil films often rise or fall on the strength of the evil doer, and in the Oscar - winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mission Impossible 3 has a spectacular actor who delivers some deeply unnerving speeches.
How the Oscar people could have (totally) turned their back on a performance as a good as this puzzles; although the film and actor won prizes in Cannes and New York.
The film Creation, which some people take to refer to both the creation of the Origins book and the creation / evolution controversy, stars Paul Bettany, who is best known for his roles in popular movies such as «The Da Vinci Code,» «Master and Commander,» and «A Beautiful Mind» (in which he won the London Film Critics» Award for Best British Actor).
His mother sends the kid off from the slums of Baltimore to live with her estranged parents, the Rev. and Mrs, Cobbs (played by Oscar winning actor Forest Whitaker, and Oscar nominated best supporting actress Angela Bassett both of whom for their work in films «The Last King of Scotland», and «What's Love Got To Do With It?»)
Rory Kinnear is an award - winning British actor, perhaps best known for his role as Bill Tanner in the James Bond films QUANTUM OF SOLACE, SKYFALL and SPECTRE.
Additional film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast Film Critics Award and Screen Actors Guild ® Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award ® winning film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image Award nomination; FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master might have lost the Golden Lion in Venice (while still winning Best Director and Best Actor (s) awards), but it emerged as the most critically acclaimed film of the fall festival season.
But as in his previous film, Crazy Heart, for which Jeff Bridges won an Oscar playing an alcoholic country and western singer, the writer - director Scott Cooper is able to rely on his actors to give life to characters and situations which might otherwise seem tired.
CANNES, France — Tommy Lee Jones walked away from the 58th Cannes Film Festival here Saturday night as a double winner, after his film «The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada» won him the award as best actor, and the screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga also was honored.
In television, Sutherland won both Emmy and Golden Globe awards as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the HBO film Citizen X, and he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Clark Clifford, advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the HBO historical drama Path to War.
The directors: Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) The talent: Dardennes regulars Jérémie Renier and Olivier Gourmet (who won Best Actor at Cannes for the brothers» 2002 film «The Son») return in supporting roles, but «The Kid With a Bike» is headlined by perhaps the most established star they've yet worked with: Cécile De France, the -LSB-...]
Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»
He has never really excited me as an actor, starring in a few films that I hate with a passion, but here I was finally won over by his steady charisma and willingness to satirise himself.
Nominated for 12 Oscars — the most of any film — it won four statuettes, including for Colin Firth for lead actor, Tom Hooper for director, and David Seidler for...
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.
Elsewhere, the Gotham Independent Film Awards named Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman best film ahead of Boyhood, with Michael Keaton winning best actor for his turn as a faded former star of superhero movies vying to make a comeback.
The film reunites the actors with Christopher Nolan, who recently directed them in the award - winning blockbuster «Inception.»
Given his method - inspired, Golden Globe - winning (for best actor in a miniseries or television film) effort, it is now impossible to imagine anyone else as Dean apart from the legendary figure himself, in a testament to Franco's pervasive prowess.
Oscar - winning TV and film actress Patty Duke, who died on Tuesday, was remembered fondly by actors, actresses, social media celebrities and mental health advocates.
Gregory Peck's Best Actor win was inevitable, and the film also picked up Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Art Direction.
Slumdog Millionaire and Return of the King (no other acting noms) are probably the least nominated film to film to win ensemble there but they were winning everything anyway and their winning the SAG was a good bet that those films would go on to sweep the Oscars, having the actors on board.
hollywoodnews.com: Oscar winning actor Jeff Bridges's latest film «True Grit,» is one of this year's Oscar contenders.
Also, this is Grandage's first feature film; he was previously a theater actor turned theater director and has won several distinguished awards, including the Laurence Olivier theater award for Best Director for «Caligula» in 2004.