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Royal Opera House
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The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is referred to as simply Covent Garden. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, originally called the Theatre Royal, it served primarily as a playhouse for the first hundred years of its history. In 1734, the first ballet was presented, a year later, Handels first season of operas began. Many of his operas and oratorios were written for Covent Garden and had their premieres there. The current building is the theatre on the site following disastrous fires in 1808 and 1856. The façade, foyer, and auditorium date from 1858, the main auditorium seats 2,256 people, making it the third largest in London, and consists of four tiers of boxes and balconies and the amphitheatre gallery. The proscenium is 12.20 m wide and 14.80 m high, the main auditorium is a Grade I listed building. The letters patent remained in the possession of the patentees heirs until the 19th century, in 1728, John Rich, actor-manager of the Dukes Company at Lincolns Inn Fields Theatre, commissioned The Beggars Opera from John Gay. In addition, a Royal Charter had created a fruit and vegetable market in the area, at its opening on 7 December 1732, Rich was carried by his actors in processional triumph into the theatre for its opening production of William Congreves The Way of the World. Despite the frequent interchangeability between the Covent Garden and Drury Lane companies, competition was intense, often presenting the plays at the same time. Rich introduced pantomime to the repertoire, himself performing and a tradition of seasonal pantomime continued at the modern theatre, in 1734, Covent Garden presented its first ballet, Pygmalion. Marie Sallé discarded tradition and her corset and danced in diaphanous robes, george Frideric Handel was named musical director of the company, at Lincolns Inn Fields, in 1719, but his first season of opera, at Covent Garden, was not presented until 1734. His first opera was Il pastor fido followed by Ariodante, the première of Alcina, there was a royal performance of Messiah in 1743, which was a success and began a tradition of Lenten oratorio performances. From 1735 until his death in 1759 he gave regular seasons there and he bequeathed his organ to John Rich, and it was placed in a prominent position on the stage, but was among many valuable items lost in a fire that destroyed the theatre on 20 September 1808. In 1792 the architect Henry Holland rebuilt the auditorium, within the shell of the building but deeper and wider than the old auditorium. Rebuilding began in December 1808, and the second Theatre Royal, the Old Price Riots lasted over two months, and the management was finally forced to accede to the audiences demands. During this time, entertainments were varied, opera and ballet were presented, kemble engaged a variety of acts, including the child performer Master Betty, the great clown Joseph Grimaldi made his name at Covent Garden
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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Jonathan Ross
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Jonathan Stephen Ross, OBE is an English television and radio presenter, film critic, and actor best known for presenting the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross during the 2000s. Ross also hosted his own show on BBC Radio 2. After leaving the BBC, Ross then began hosting a new show on ITV. Other regular roles have included being a regular panellist on the sports quiz They Think Its All Over. Ross began his career as a programme researcher, before débuting as a television presenter for The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross on Channel 4 in 1987. Over the next decade he had radio and television roles, many through his own production company. In 1995 he sold his stake in Channel X, and embarked on a career with the BBC. In 1999, Ross took over presenting the Film programme from Barry Norman, for the chat show, Ross won three BAFTA awards for Best Entertainment Performance, in 2004,2006 and 2007. By 2006 Ross was believed to be the BBCs highest paid star, in 2005, Ross was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting. Ross has been involved in throughout his broadcasting career. As a result, in 2008 he wrote a work titled Why Do I Say These Things. Detailing some of his life experiences, Ross has been married to the author, journalist and broadcaster Jane Goldman since 1988, they have three children. Ross and Goldman have together established the production company Hotsauce TV. Ross is known as a fan and collector of comic books and memorabilia. Ross is known for his voice, flamboyant style of dress, light-hearted banter. Their mother put all of her children forward for roles in television advertisements, Ross first appeared in a television advertisement for the breakfast cereal Kelloggs Rice Krispies in 1970, when he was 10 years old. He also appeared in an ad for the laundry detergent Persil, Ross was educated at Norlington School for Boys, a comprehensive school and at Leyton County High School for Boys, a comprehensive school. He then studied Modern European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, Ross began his adult career as a researcher on the Channel 4 show Loose Talk
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Atonement (film)
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Atonement is a 2007 British romantic drama war film directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwans 2001 novel of the same name. The film stars James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai and it was produced by Working Title Films and filmed in England. Distributed in most of the world by Universal Studios, it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 September 2007, a commercial success, the film earned a worldwide gross of approximately $129 million against a budget of $30 million. Critics gave the positive reviews, praising its acting performances, its cinematography. Atonement won an Oscar for Best Original Score at the 80th Academy Awards and it also garnered fourteen nominations at the 61st British Academy Film Awards, winning both Best Film and Production Design, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. In 1935, Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl from a wealthy English family and has just finished writing a play. Briony attempts to stage the play with her three visiting cousins, twin boys and their sister, Lola, however, they get bored. Briony stays behind and witnesses a significant moment of tension between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, a servants son. Robbie returns home and writes several drafts of letters to Cecilia, including one that is explicitly sexual, initially written for the sake of humour, he does not intend to send it and sets it aside. On his way to join the Tallis family for dinner, Robbie asks Briony to deliver his letter, Briony secretly reads the letter and is simultaneously disgusted and jealous. She tells Lola of its contents and they call Robbie a “sex maniac” while debating whether to turn him in to the police and that afternoon, Lola and her younger brothers meet a friend of the Tallis family, a wealthy chocolate manufacturer named Paul Marshall. Though he is older than her, he excites Lola by flirting with her. That evening, Cecilia confronts Robbie about the letter which she has since read and they meet in the library where they make love and tenderly confess their love for one another. During the act, Briony watches through the open door. At dinner it is revealed that Lolas twin brothers have run away and she eventually stumbles upon a man running away from apparently raping Lola. Lola claims that she not know the identity of her attacker. In a fit of pique, the still-hurt Briony tells everyone that she saw Robbie commit the act and she shows Robbies shocking letter to her mother and the police. Everyone believes Brionys story except for Cecilia and Robbies mother, Robbie is arrested, four years later, Robbie is released from prison on condition that he join the army
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This Is England
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This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983, the films title is a direct reference to a scene where the character Combo explains his nationalist views using the phrase this is England during his speech. In 1983, 12-year-old Shaun gets into a fight at school with a boy named Harvey after he makes a joke about his father. On his way home, Shaun comes across a gang of skinheads led by Woody. They accept Shaun as a member, and he finds a big brother in Woody, while developing a romance with Michelle, also known as Smell, Combo, an older skinhead, returns to the group after a prison sentence, accompanied by a knife-wielding moustachioed man called Banjo. A charismatic but unstable individual with sociopathic tendencies, Combo expresses English nationalist and racist views and this leads the group to split, with young Shaun, the belligerent Pukey, and Gadget, who feels bullied by Woody for his weight, choosing Combo over Woodys apolitical gang. Shaun finds a figure in Combo, who in turn is impressed by. Shaun goes with Combos group to a National Front meeting, after Pukey expresses doubt over their racist and nationalistic politics, Combo throws him out of his group and sends him back to Woody. The gang then engages in bigoted antagonism of, among others, shopkeeper Mr. Sandhu, Combo becomes depressed after Lol, Woodys girlfriend, rejects him when he admits that he has loved her since they had sex years before. To console himself, Combo buys cannabis from Milky, the only black skinhead in Woodys gang, enraged, Combo enters a frenzied state and brutally beats Milky unconscious, Banjo holds down Shaun, and Meggy watches them on in horror. After defending Milky, Combo angrily throws Shaun out of his flat, when Banjo attempts to hit Milky as well, Combo violently beats him and evicts him and Meggy from the apartment. Horrified at the realisation of what he has done, Combo weeps over Milkys body, Shaun and Combo later take Milky to a nearby hospital. Shaun is then shown walking near the beach and throwing his St Georges Flag, the opening fight was filmed at Wilsthorpe Business and Enterprise College, a secondary school in Derbyshire. Additional scenes such as the docks were filmed in Turgooses home town of Grimsby, Turgoose was 13 at the time of filming. Turgoose had never acted before, had banned from his school play for bad behaviour. The film was dedicated to Turgooses mother, Sharon, who died of cancer on 29 December 2005, while she never saw the film, the film is set in an unidentified town in the Midlands. Although much of the film was shot on location in Nottingham, a number of feature the towns docks. Similarly, the dialects of the characters are drawn from a wide geographical area
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Daniel Day-Lewis
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional training at the Bristol Old Vic, he is considered to be a method actor, known for his constant devotion to. He often remains completely in character for the duration of the schedules of his films. He is one of the most selective actors in the industry, having starred in only five films since 1998. Protective of his life, he rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances. He starred in My Beautiful Laundrette, his first critically acclaimed role and he then assumed leading man status with The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He was also nominated in category for In the Name of the Father. He has also won four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, in November 2012, Time named Day-Lewis the Worlds Greatest Actor. In June 2014, he received a knighthood at Buckingham Palace for services to drama, Day-Lewis was born in Kensington, London, the son of poet Cecil Day-Lewis and English actress Jill Balcon. Day-Lewiss mother was Jewish, and his maternal great-grandparents Jewish families emigrated to England from Latvia and his maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, was the head of Ealing Studios. Living in Greenwich, Day-Lewis found himself among tough South London children and he mastered the local accent and mannerisms and credits that as being his first convincing performance. Later in life, he has known to speak of himself as very much a disorderly character in his younger years, often in trouble for shoplifting. In 1968, Day-Lewiss parents, finding his behaviour to be too wild, at the school, he was introduced to his three most prominent interests, woodworking, acting, and fishing. The transfer led to his debut at the age of 14 in Sunday Bloody Sunday in which he played a vandal in an uncredited role. He described the experience as heaven, for getting paid £2 to vandalise expensive cars parked outside his local church, for a few weeks in 1972, he and his parents and sister lived at Lemmons, the north London home of Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Cecil Day-Lewis had cancer and Howard invited the family to Lemmons as a place they could use to rest, Cecil died there in May that year. Leaving Bedales in 1975, Day-Lewiss unruly attitude had diminished and he needed to make a career choice, although he had excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre in London, he applied for a five-year apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker, but was rejected due to lack of experience
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There Will Be Blood
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There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic historical drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano. The film was inspired by Upton Sinclairs novel Oil and it tells the story of a silver miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern Californias oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kevin J. OConnor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier are also featured in the film, There Will Be Blood received significant critical praise, with the performance of Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview receiving widespread acclaim. Other qualities of the film, such as its cinematography, direction and it premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director and a Special Artistic Contribution Award for Jonny Greenwoods score. Day-Lewis won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, NYFCC and IFTA Best Actor awards for his performance, the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning Best Actor for Day-Lewis and Best Cinematography for Robert Elswit. There Will Be Blood is now regarded as one of the greatest films of the 2000s. In 1898, Daniel Plainview, a prospector in New Mexico, in the process of dynamiting the lode, he falls from a broken rung of the tunnel ladder and breaks his leg. He saves a silver sample, climbs out of the mine, in 1902, he discovers oil near Los Angeles, California and establishes a small drilling company. Following the death of a worker in an accident, Daniel adopts the orphaned son. The boy, named H. W. becomes his business partner. In 1911, Daniel is approached by Paul Sunday, who tells him of an oil deposit under his familys property in Little Boston, Daniel attempts to buy the farm at a bargain price. However, Eli, Pauls twin brother and pastor of a church, is aware of his plan. Eli demands $10,000 and states that it is for the church, an agreement is made and Daniel goes on to acquire all the available land in the area, except for one holdout, William Bandy. Oil production begins, but an on-site accident kills a worker, Eli blames the disasters on the well not being properly blessed. When Eli demands the $5,000 Daniel still owes his family, Daniel beats, at the dinner table, Eli berates his father for trusting Daniel. A man arrives at Daniels doorstep, claiming to be his half-brother, Daniel hires Henry to work for him, and the two grow closer. H. W. sets fire to their house, intending for it to kill Henry, angered by his sons behavior, Daniel sends him away to a school for the deaf in San Francisco, and leaves him on the train by himself. While reminiscing about his childhood, Daniel becomes suspicious of Henry, Henry confesses that he was a friend of the real Henry, who died from tuberculosis
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Marion Cotillard
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Marion Cotillard is a French actress, singer-songwriter, musician, environmentalist and spokesperson for Greenpeace who achieved international fame with the film La Vie en Rose. She is the recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, Cotillard has appeared in more than 50 feature films and is also known for being the face of Lady Dior handbags since 2008. She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010 and she received Frances highest honor and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2016. She made her Hollywood debut as Joséphine Bloom in Tim Burtons Big Fish and her performance of Luisa Contini in the musical Nine, earned her a second Golden Globe nomination. She next starred in Michael Manns Public Enemies as Billie Frechette, Cotillard became one of only six actors to receive multiple Academy Award nominations for foreign-language performances. Cotillard played Joan of Arc on stage in different countries between 2005 and 2015 in the oratorio Jeanne dArc au bûcher. She provided voice acting for animated films as The Rose in The Little Prince, April in April and the Extraordinary World and Scarlet Overkill in the French version of Minions. Her other notable French and Belgian films include La Belle Verte, Furia, War in the Highlands, Lisa, Pretty Things, Love Me If You Dare, Innocence, Toi et Moi and Dikkenek. Cotillard was born in Paris, and grew up around Orléans, in an inclined, bustling. Her father, Jean-Claude Cotillard, is an actor, teacher, former mime, Cotillards mother, Niseema Theillaud, who has Kabyle ancestry, is also an actress and drama teacher. Her two younger brothers Quentin and Guillaume are twins, Guillaume is a screenwriter and director. Cotillard began acting during her childhood, appearing in one of her fathers plays, or How I Got into an Argument, and the comedy La Belle Verte, directed by Coline Serreau. In 1998, she appeared in Gérard Pirès action comedy Taxi, playing Lilly Bertineau, the film was a hit in France and she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. Cotillard reprised the role in two sequels, Taxi 2 and Taxi 3 and she then ventured into science fiction with Alexandre Ajas post-apocalyptic romantic drama, Furia in 1999. That same year, Cotillard starred in the Swiss war drama film War in the Highlands, in 2001, she appeared in Pierre Grimblats film Lisa, playing the title role and younger version of Jeanne Moreaus character, co-starring with Benoît Magimel and Sagamore Stévenin. In the same year, she starred in Gilles Paquet-Brenners film Pretty Things, in the drama, Cotillard portrayed twins of completely opposite characters, Lucie and Marie, and she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performances. In 2002, Cotillard starred in Guillaume Niclouxs thriller A Private Affair, in 2003, Cotillard had a notable supporting role in Tim Burtons film Big Fish. In the same year, she starred in the French romantic comedy film Love Me If You Dare, as Sophie Kowalsky, the film was directed by Yann Samuel and was a box office hit in France
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La Vie en rose (film)
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La Vie en Rose is a 2007 French biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf. The film was co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and starred Marion Cotillard as Piaf, the U. S. and U. K. title La Vie en Rose comes from Piafs signature song. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup, Costume Design, Film Music, five César Awards, the film is structured as a largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Édith Piaf. The film begins with elements from her childhood, and at the end with the prior to and surrounding her death, poignantly juxtaposed by a performance of her song, Non. The film opens with Édith as a child in 1918. Her mother stands across the alley singing, busking for change and her father returns to Paris and scoops up a sick Édith, then in turn leaves the child with his own mother, who is a madam of a brothel in Normandy. Titine sings to, plays with, and tenderly cares for Édith through travails including an episode of keratitis-induced blindness, years later, Édiths father returns for her. Despite anguished protests from both Titine and Édith, he takes the child away to him as he works as a circus acrobat. When Édith is nine years old, her father leaves the circus after an argument with the manager, years later, a nightclub owner named Louis Leplée approaches Édith while she sings on the streets of Montmartre for supper money with her friend Mômone. He invites her to his club for an informal audition, impressed, he hires her, after creating for diminutive Édith a stage surname of Piaf, a colloquialism for sparrow. Soon, Leplée is shot dead, suspected by the police to be due to connections to the mafia through the pimp who has demanded a large portion of her street singing earnings. When Édith next attempts a show at a low grade cabaret, things go from bad to worse when Mômone is forcibly taken away to a convent for girls on orders from her mother. Desperate, Édith turns to Raymond Asso, a songwriter and accompanist, while performing in New York City, Édith meets Marcel Cerdan, a fellow French national who is a boxer competing for the World Champion title. Though she quickly learns from him that he has a wife, the affair that ensues, while supposedly secret, results in La Vie En Rose being played for Marcel wherever he goes. The morning after Édith has persuaded Marcel to fly from Paris and join her in New York, she wakes up to his kiss. She joyfully hurries to get him coffee and her gift to him of a watch, while she mocks and they finally break the news to her that Marcels plane crashed. Édith hysterically searches for the ghost of Marcel that was lounging on her bed just a few moments before, the narrative bookends these scenes from Édiths middle life with repeated vignettes of an aged-looking Édith with frizzy red hair, being nursed and tended to. She spends much of her sitting in a chair by the lakeside
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British Academy Film Awards
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The British Academy Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to honour the best British and international contributions to film. Between 2008 and 2016, the ceremony was held in central London at the Royal Opera House, the 70th British Academy Film Awards were held on 12 February 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. British Academy of Film and Television Arts was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others. BAFTA stated charitable purpose is to support, develop and promote the art forms of the image, by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners. In addition to awards ceremonies BAFTA runs a year-round programme of educational events including film screenings. BAFTA is supported by a membership of about 6,000 people from the film, television, the Academys awards are in the form of a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, which was commissioned by the Guild of Television Producers in 1955. The ceremony previously took place in April or May and since 2002 it takes place in February in order to precede the Oscars. The awards are open to all nationalities, though there is an award for Outstanding British Film. Only UK films are eligible for the categories of The British Short Film, the Awards ceremony is delayed broadcast on British television the same evening, and across the world for example its shown on BBC America in the United States. It has been broadcast in colour since 1970, the award ceremony is held in London. From 2000 to 2007 the ceremonies took place at the flagship Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, between 2008 and 2016, the ceremonies took place at the Royal Opera House. The 70th Awards in 2017 were held at the Royal Albert Hall, until 2012, the mobile network Orange sponsored the awards and starting in 2013 Oranges parent company, EE, began sponsorship. British Academy of Film and Television Arts British Academy Television Awards Official website BAFTA Awards database Museum of Broadcast Communications, BAFTA IMDB, BAFTA
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. David Lean was the founding Chairman of the Academy, the first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. In 2005, it placed a cap on worldwide voting membership which now stands at approximately 6,500. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong, amanda Berry OBE has been chief executive of the organisation since December 2000. Many of these events are free to online at BAFTA Guru. BAFTA runs a number of programmes across the UK, US. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of support to take an industry-recognised course in film. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of in his role as President of BAFTA, since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles. The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. Todays BAFTA award – including the mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg and measures 27 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm. BAFTAs annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or the BAFTAs, in 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has held at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000, the ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards, or Oscars. They have been awarded annually since 1954, the first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, from 1968 until 1997, BAFTAs Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate the talent behind the programmes, such as working in visual effects, production
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Coen brothers
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Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen, collectively referred to as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody and their best-reviewed works include Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, True Grit, and Inside Llewyn Davis. The brothers write, direct, and produce their films jointly, although until The Ladykillers, Joel received sole credit for directing and they often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing film credits for editor under the alias Roderick Jaynes. The duo also won the Palme dOr for Barton Fink, and were nominated for Fargo, the Coen brothers have written a number of films that neither of the two directed. Ethan is also a writer of stories, theater. Their films No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen were born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Their mother, Rena, was an art historian at St. Cloud State University, when they were children, Joel saved money from mowing lawns to buy a Vivitar Super 8 camera. Together, the brothers remade movies they saw on television, with a kid, Mark Zimering. Their first attempt was a romp entitled Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go, cornel Wildes The Naked Prey became their Zeimers in Zambia, which also featured Ethan as a native with a spear. Joel Coen has said, in regards to whether our background influences our film making, theres no doubt that our Jewish heritage affects how we see things. Joel and Ethan graduated from St. Louis Park High School in 1973 and 1976 and they both also graduated from Bard College at Simons Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Joel then spent four years in the film program at New York University. Ethan went on to Princeton University and earned a degree in philosophy in 1979. His senior thesis was a 41-page essay, Two Views of Wittgensteins Later Philosophy, Joel has been married to actress Frances McDormand since 1984. They adopted a son from Paraguay, named Pedro McDormand Coen and she also did a voice-over in Barton Fink. Ethan married film editor Tricia Cooke in 1990 and they have two children, daughter Dusty and son Buster Jacob, who goes to Vassar College. Both couples live in New York, after graduating from New York University, Joel worked as a production assistant on a variety of industrial films and music videos. He developed a talent for film editing and met Sam Raimi while assisting Enda Ruth Paul in editing Raimis first feature film, in 1984, the brothers wrote and directed Blood Simple, their first commercial film together
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No Country for Old Men (film)
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No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-western neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthys novel of the same name. A cat-and-mouse drama starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder, themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance are explored, ones that the Coen brothers have previously explored in the films Blood Simple and Fargo. No Country for Old Men premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19 and it won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards including Best Director, and two Golden Globes, the American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year, and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007. More critics included No Country for Old Men on their 2007 top ten lists than any other film, in 2016, it was voted the 10th best film of the 21st century as picked by 177 film critics from around the world. In a neighboring county, Anton Chigurh, a hitman, strangles a sheriffs deputy to escape custody, Chigurh spares the life of a gas station owner after the owner accepts a challenge and correctly calls the result of Chigurhs coin flip. Hunting pronghorns in the desert, Llewelyn Moss comes across the aftermath of a deal gone awry. He finds several dead men and dogs, a wounded Mexican begging for water and he takes the money and returns home. That night, Moss returns to the scene with water and he is pursued by two men in a truck and escapes. At home, he sends his wife, Carla Jean, to stay with her mother, then drives to a motel in Del Rio, Chigurh, hired to recover the money, abruptly kills his employers after obtaining a clue to Mosss identity. Arriving to search Mosss home, he uses his pistol to blow the lock out of the door. Investigating the break in, Sheriff Bell notices the blown-out lock, using a tracking device hidden with the money, Chigurh goes to Mosss motel and kills a group of Mexicans who are preparing to ambush Moss in his room. Moss has rented a room adjacent to the Mexicans room with access to the same vent in which the money is hidden. He retrieves the briefcase just before Chigurh opens the vent and finds it empty, while staying at a hotel in Eagle Pass, Moss discovers the tracking device, but Chigurh has already found him. Their firefight spills onto the streets and both are wounded, Moss flees to Mexico, stashing the case of money in weeds along the Rio Grande. He asks for help from musicians, who take him to a hospital. Carson Wells, another hired operative, fails to persuade him to accept protection in return for the money, Chigurh cleans and stitches his own wounds with stolen supplies and kills Wells at his hotel. Moss telephones the room and Chigurh answers, lifting his boots to avoid Wellss blood, Chigurh tells Moss that he will kill Carla Jean unless Moss gives up the money, he remarks that he will kill Moss regardless of whether he receives the money
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Javier Bardem
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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. Bardem won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the 2007 Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men. Bardem has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, five Goya Awards and he is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Oscar, as well as the first Spaniard to win one. He received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, Spain. His mother, Pilar Bardem, is an actress, and his father, the two separated shortly after his birth. Both his older brother and sister, Carlos and Mónica, are actors and he also comes from a political background, as his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films. Bardem was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith by his grandmother, as a child, he spent time at theatres and on film sets. At age six, he made his first film appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómezs El Pícaro and he also played rugby for the junior Spanish National Team. Though he grew up in a full of actors, Bardem did not see himself going into the family business. Actually, painting was his first love and he went on to study painting for four years at Madrids Escuela de Artes y Oficios. In need of money he took acting jobs to support his painting, but he also says he was a bad painter and eventually abandoned that career pursuit. In 1989, for the Spanish comedy show El Día Por Delante, he had to wear a Superman costume for a comedic sketch, Bardem has confessed to having worked as a stripper during his struggling acting career. Bardem came to notice in a role in his first major motion picture, The Ages of Lulu. The film, which starred a teenaged Penélope Cruz, was a major international success. He then starred again in Lunas next film Golden Balls, Bardems talent did not go unnoticed in the English-speaking world. In 1997, John Malkovich was the first to him, then a 27-year-old, for a role in English. His first English-speaking role came that year, in with director Álex de la Iglesias Perdita Durango. After starring in two dozen films in his native country, he gained international recognition in Julian Schnabels Before Night Falls in 2000
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Tilda Swinton
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Katherine Matilda Tilda Swinton is a British actress, performance artist, model, and fashion muse, known for her roles in independent and Hollywood films. She is the recipient of two BAFTA Awards, one BIFA Award, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and has received three nominations for a Golden Globe Award. She began her career in films directed by Derek Jarman, starting with Caravaggio, followed by The Last of England, War Requiem, Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance as Isabella of France in Edward II. She next starred in Sally Potters Orlando, and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress, Swinton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End. She followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky, Adaptation, Young Adam and she then starred in the crime drama Julia, I Am Love, and the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Swinton later starred in the romantic fantasy drama, Only Lovers Left Alive. She is also known for her performances as the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia series, Swinton won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as lawyer Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton. In 2005, Swinton was given the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry, in 2013 she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. Swinton was born in London, the daughter of Judith Balfour and her father is a retired major general in the British Army, and was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1989 to 2000. Her paternal great-grandfather was a Scottish politician and herald, George Swinton, the Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the Middle Ages. The family is one of three families that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest. Swinton attended three independent schools, Queens Gate School in London, the West Heath Girls School and also Fettes College for a brief period, West Heath was an expensive boarding school where she was a classmate and friend of Princess Diana. Children need their parents and the parents can provide. Swinton went to volunteer in Kenya during a break from college with a charity called Project Trust. In 1983, Swinton graduated from New Hall at the University of Cambridge with a degree in Social and Political Sciences, while at Cambridge, she joined the Communist Party, she later joined the Scottish Socialist Party. It was in college that Swinton began performing on stage, Swinton joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, appearing in Measure for Measure. She also worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, starring in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge in 1987, on television, she appeared as Julia in the 1986 mini-series Zastrozzi, A Romance based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her first film was Caravaggio in 1986, directed by Derek Jarman, Swinton also played the title role in Orlando, Sally Potters film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf
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Michael Clayton (film)
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Michael Clayton is a 2007 American legal thriller film written and directed by Tony Gilroy and starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton and Sydney Pollack. Michael Clayton is a fixer for a prestigious New York City law firm, using his connections, although he is paid well enough, he is divorced, is addicted to gambling, and his personal life is in a shambles. After leaving a clandestine poker game and dealing with a wealthy clients hit and run case, Michael drives despondently and stops at a remote field. As he climbs the hill to look at them, his car explodes, the narrative moves back to four days earlier. Michael is $75,000 in debt from a restaurant investment he entered with his brother Timmy, which collapsed when Timmy used the restaurants funds to fuel his drug habits. Michael, having gone to a shark to raise the money, refuses to give up on his brother and is held responsible for the debt. Michael arrives in Milwaukee and bails Arthur out of jail, after finding out hes no longer taking his medication, Karen brings this to the attention of U-Norths CEO Don Jeffries, who puts her in contact with two hit men secretly on retainer. She contracts them to follow Arthur and bug his apartment and phone, when they report that Arthur is building a case to expose his own client, Karen approves of their taking drastic measures. The men murder Arthur in such a way as to make it look like a drug overdose or suicide. She tells him no one knew of her conversations with Arthur, not even her attorney. There is also a copy of Realm and Conquest, a novel which Michaels son Henry had recommended to Arthur. He finds a receipt from a copy store being used as a bookmark, Michael is caught in the apartment and arrested for trespassing, but Gene bails him out. Using the receipt, Michael discovers that Arthur had ordered 3000 copies of the confidential U-North document, Michael takes one copy with him, the two hit men inform Karen. Michael is about to show his boss Marty Bach what he has discovered, an additional confidentiality agreement allows Michael to realize that his boss already knows about U-Norths cover-up. One of the hit men rigs Michaels car with a bomb, while at a poker game, Michael receives a phone call summoning him to meet the hit-and-run client in a remote part of Westchester County, as seen at the start of the movie. He is being followed by the two men, who have trouble trailing him, but eventually get close enough to detonate the radio-controlled bomb. However, Michael had left the car to admire the horses in the field, after the hit men drive off, Michael approaches the fire, throws his personal effects into the burning car, and escapes into the woods. Later, at a U-North board meeting at a Manhattan hotel and she leaves the room to let the board of directors deliberate
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Diablo Cody
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Brook Busey-Maurio, better known by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, memoirist, stripper and exotic dancer. She first became known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her The Pussy Ranch blog and in her memoir Candy Girl, A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. She is also known for creating, writing and producing Showtimes television series United States of Tara and for writing and producing the films Jennifers Body, for the latter, she received a second nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Her directorial debut, Paradise, was released on October 18,2013, Cody and her older brother Marc were born and raised in Lemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She is the daughter of Pam and Greg Busey and her mother is of Italian descent and her father is of British ancestry. Cody was raised Catholic and attended Benet Academy, a Roman Catholic school in Lisle and she took the pen name Diablo Cody after repeatedly listening to the song El Diablo by Arcadia while passing through Cody, Wyoming. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a media studies degree, while at the University of Iowa, she worked in the acquisitions department in the main university library. Her first jobs were doing work at a Chicago law firm. Cody began a blog called Red Secretary, detailing the exploits of a secretary living in Belarus. The events were thinly-veiled allegories for events that happened in Codys real life and her first bona fide blog appeared under the nickname Darling Girl after she had moved from Chicago to Minneapolis, Minnesota. On a whim, Cody signed up for amateur night at a Minneapolis strip club called the Skyway Lounge, having enjoyed the experience, she eventually quit her day job to become a full-time feminist stripper. Cody also spent time working peep shows at Sex World, a Minneapolis adult novelty, while still stripping, Cody began writing for City Pages, an alternative Twin Cities weekly newspaper. She left City Pages just before it changed hands, and has since written for the now-defunct Jane magazine. In December 2007, Cody began writing a column for the magazine Entertainment Weekly, at the age of 27, Cody wrote her memoir Candy Girl, A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. The memoir began after Mason Novick, who would soon become Codys manager, showed interest in her sharp, based on the popularity The Pussy Ranch had received, he was able to secure her a publishing contract with Gotham Books. After completion of her book, Cody was encouraged by Mason Novick to write her first screenplay, within months she wrote Juno, a coming-of-age story about a teenagers unplanned pregnancy. The Jason Reitman-directed comedy stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera, in July 2007, Showtime announced that it would be producing a pilot of Codys DreamWorks television series, United States of Tara. Based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, Tara is a comedy about a mother with dissociative identity disorder, the series began filming in Spring 2008, and premiered on January 18,2009
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Shia LaBeouf
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Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker. He made his debut in Holes, based on the novel of the same name by Louis Sachar. In 2004, he made his debut with the short film Lets Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac, starring American rappers Cage. In 2007, LaBeouf starred in the successful films Disturbia. The same year he was cast in Michael Bays science fiction film Transformers as Sam Witwicky, despite mixed reviews, Transformers was a box office success and one of the highest-grossing films of 2007. LaBeouf later appeared in its sequels Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers, Dark of the Moon, in 2008, he played Henry Mutt Williams Jones III in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise. His other films include Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps, Lawless, The Company You Keep, Nymphomaniac, since 2014, LaBeouf has pursued a variety of public performance art projects with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner. LaBeouf was born in Los Angeles, California, as the child of Shayna. His mother is a dancer and ballerina turned visual artist and clothing jewelry designer and his father is a Vietnam War veteran who had numerous jobs. LaBeoufs mother is Jewish, and his father, who is of Cajun descent, is Christian, LaBeouf has described himself as Jewish, and has stated that he was raised around both sides, he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and was also baptized in the Angelus church. One of the camps he attended was Christian and his first name is derived from the Hebrew shai Yah, meaning gift of God. During his childhood, he accompanied his father to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, LaBeouf has also said he was subjected to verbal and mental abuse by his father, who once pointed a gun at his son during a Vietnam War flashback. LaBeouf has stated that his father was on drugs during his childhood, LaBeoufs uncle was going to adopt him at one stage because his parents could not afford to have him anymore and they had too much pride to go on welfare or food stamps. As a way of dealing with his parents divorce, he would perform for his family, LaBeouf remains close to and financially supports both of his parents. He attended 32nd Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet in Los Angeles and Alexander Hamilton High School, in an interview, LaBeouf said that, looking back on his childhood, he feels grateful and considers some of those memories scars. Prior to acting, LaBeouf practiced comedy around his neighborhood as an escape from a hostile environment, at age 10, he began performing stand-up at comedy clubs, describing his appeal as having disgustingly dirty material and a 50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old kid. He subsequently found an agent through the Yellow Pages and was taken on after pretending to be his own manager. In the early 2000s, LaBeouf became known among young audiences after playing Louis Stevens on the Disney Channel weekly program Even Stevens and he has said that grew up on that show and being cast was the best thing that happened to him
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Anthony Hopkins
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, since 2016, he has starred in the critically acclaimed HBO television series Westworld. Along with his Academy Award, Hopkins has won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, and the Cecil B, in 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, Hopkins was born on New Years Eve 1937, in Margam, a suburb of Port Talbot, Glamorgan. His parents were Annie Muriel and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker and his school days were unproductive, he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing, or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to discipline, his parents insisted he attend Jones West Monmouth Boys School in Pontypool. He remained there for five terms and was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan. Hopkins was influenced and encouraged by Welsh compatriot Richard Burton, whom he met at the age of 15, Hopkins promptly enrolled at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, from which he graduated in 1957. After two years in the British Army doing his national service, he moved to London, where he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hopkins made his first professional appearance in the Palace Theatre, Swansea. In 1965, after years in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier. Hopkins became Oliviers understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a production of August Strindbergs The Dance of Death, despite his success at the National, Hopkins tired of repeating the same roles nightly and yearned to be in films. He made his debut in a 1967 BBC broadcast of A Flea in Her Ear. His first starring role in a film came in 1964 in Changes, in 1968, he got his break in The Lion in Winter playing Richard I. Although Hopkins continued in theatre he gradually moved away from it to more established as a television. He portrayed Charles Dickens in the BBC television film The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens in 1970, and Pierre Bezukhov in the BBCs mini series War and Peace. In 1972 he starred as British politician David Lloyd George in Young Winston, in 1980, he starred in The Elephant Man as the English doctor Sir Frederick Treves, who attends to Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in 19th century London. That year he starred opposite Shirley MacLaine in A Change of Seasons
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American Gangster (film)
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American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian. The film stars Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in their first lead acting roles together since 1995s Virtuosity, the film also co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr. Development for the film began in 2000, when Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment purchased the rights to a New York magazine story about the rise. Two years later, screenwriter Steven Zaillian introduced a 170-page scriptment to Scott, original production plans were to commence in Toronto for budget purposes, however, production eventually relocated permanently to New York City. Because of the rising budget Universal canceled production in 2004. After negotiations with Terry George, it was revived with Scott at the helm in March 2005. Principal photography commenced over a period of five months from July to December 2006, filming took place throughout New York City, American Gangster premiered in New York on October 20,2007, and was released in the United States and Canada on November 2. The film was received by most film critics, and grossed over US$266.5 million worldwide. In 1968, Frank Lucas is the man of Harlem gangster Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson. When Johnson dies of an attack, Lucas takes control of the Harlem crime scene. After handing in almost $1 million that he found in a mobsters car, after his exiled and addicted partner overdoses on a potent brand of heroin called Blue Magic, Captain Lou Toback puts Roberts in charge of a task force that targets local suppliers. Lucas buys Blue Magic directly from producers in Thailand and smuggles it into the U. S. through returning Vietnam War servicemen and his low overhead allows him to eventually wholesale Blue Magic to most the dealers in the New York area. With this monopoly, Lucas expands his control to nightclubs, casinos and he buys a mansion for his mother and recruits his five brothers, including Huey and Turner, as lieutenants to spread his empire. During his rise to becoming Harlems crime boss, Lucas falls in love with Eva, as Lucas business prospers, he makes a point of operating quietly and dressing with a modest conservatism both as a sign of strength and to avoid attracting police attention. Also, he stays away from the drugs to avoid making decisions under the influence. Lucas must also compete with local crime figure Nicky Barnes, a young gun trying to take over Harlem who has been diluting Lucas Blue Magic, after the Fall of Saigon cuts off Lucas supply, he is forced to rely on the other crime rings. Roberts detectives witness Frank Lucas cousin and driver shoot a woman, the gathered information allows Roberts and his task force to identify and search one of the last planes carrying Lucas stock, discovering Blue Magic in the coffins of dead returning servicemen. With this evidence they obtain a warrant to follow the drugs into Newarks projects, in the ensuing shootout, Steve Lucas, Frank Lucas young nephew who gave up a promising career for the New York Yankees to join Lucas crime family, is killed
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The Lives of Others
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The film was released in Germany on 23 March 2006. At the same time, the screenplay was published by Suhrkamp Verlag, the Lives of Others won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Golden Globe Awards, the Lives of Others cost US$2 million and grossed more than US$77 million worldwide as of November 2007. and Sonnenallee. This approach was widely applauded in Germany even as some criticized the humanization of Wieslers character, the films authenticity was considered notable, given that the director grew up outside of East Germany and was only sixteen when the Berlin Wall fell. Wiesler and his team bug the apartment, set up equipment in an attic. While Wieslers superior, Lt. Col. Anton Grubitz, sees no problem with this, as it is an opportunity for advancement, the idealist Wiesler is skeptical. Minister Hempf coerces Sieland into having sex with him by exploiting her reliance on the state for employment as an actress, after an intervention by Wiesler leads to Dreyman discovering Sielands relationship with Hempf, he implores her not to meet him again. Sieland flees to a bar where Wiesler, posing as a fan. She returns home and reconciles with Dreyman, rejecting Hempf, though a communist and supporter of the regime, Dreyman becomes disillusioned with the treatment of his colleagues by the state. At his birthday party, his friend Albert Jerska gives him sheet music for Sonate vom Guten Menschen, Dreyman decides to publish an anonymous article on the East German suicide rate in Der Spiegel, a prominent West German newsweekly. Dreymans article accuses the state of callously ignoring those who commit suicide, since all East German typewriters are registered, an editor of Der Spiegel smuggles Dreyman a miniature typewriter with a red ribbon. Dreyman hides the typewriter under a false floorboard of his apartment and he also decides against informing his boss of Dreymans article and instead requests that surveillance be scaled back to eliminate his subordinate. A few days later, Dreymans article is published, angering the East German authorities, the Stasi obtains a copy of the suicide article, typewritten in red ink, but they are unable to link it to any typewriter legally registered in the GDR. Livid at being jilted by Sieland, Hempf orders Grubitz to arrest her and she is blackmailed into revealing Dreymans authorship of the article and becoming an informant. When the Stasi search his apartment, however, they find the typewriter. Dreyman and his friends conclude that Sieland could not have informed because she would have given away the location of the hidden typewriter. Grubitz, suspicious that Wiesler has mentioned nothing unusual in his reports of the monitoring, gives Wiesler one more chance. Wiesler resumes his role as Stasi interrogator and forces Sieland to tell him exactly where the typewriter is hidden, Grubitz and the Stasi return to Dreymans apartment
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Paul Thomas Anderson
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Paul Thomas Anderson also known as P. T. Interested in film-making since a young age, Anderson was encouraged by his father to become a filmmaker, in 1993, he wrote and directed a short film titled Cigarettes & Coffee on a budget of $20,000. After he attended the Sundance Institute, Anderson had a deal with Rysher Entertainment to direct his first feature film, Anderson received critical and commercial success for his film Boogie Nights, set during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s. His third feature, Magnolia, takes place over a day in the San Fernando Valley, following the interconnected lives of several characters in search of happiness. It received strongly positive reviews despite struggling at the box office, in 2002, the romantic comedy-drama Punch-Drunk Love, Andersons fourth feature, was released to generally favorable reviews. The epic drama There Will Be Blood, set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, released after a five-year absence, it garnered wide acclaim from critics. Andersons sixth film, the drama The Master, was released to critical acclaim and his seventh film, the crime comedy-drama Inherent Vice, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon, was released in 2014, to general acclaim. His eighth film, Junun, is a documentary about the making of an album of the same name, Anderson has been nominated for six Academy Awards over the course of his career, while his works have earned a further fourteen Academy Award nominations for cast and crew. There Will Be Blood has been named by critics as the best film of the 2000s. It later ranked, along with The Master and Inherent Vice, Anderson was born June 26,1970, in Studio City, California, to Edwina and Ernie Anderson. Ernie was an actor who was the voice of ABC and a Cleveland television late-night horror movie host known as Ghoulardi, Anderson grew up in the San Fernando Valley. He is third youngest of nine children, and had a relationship with his mother but was close with his father. Anderson attended a number of schools, including Buckley in Sherman Oaks, John Thomas Dye School, Campbell Hall School, Cushing Academy, Anderson was involved in filmmaking at a young age and never really had an alternative plan to directing films. He made his first movie when he was eight years old and he later started using 8 mm film but realized that video was easier. He began writing in adolescence, and at 17 years old he began experimenting with a Bolex sixteen millimeter camera. After years of experimenting with standard fare, he wrote and filmed his first real production as a senior in school at Montclair Prep using money he earned cleaning cages at a pet store. Feeling that the material shown to him at film school turned the experience into homework or a chore, the film was screened at the 1993 Sundance Festival Shorts Program. He decided to expand the film into a film and was subsequently invited to the 1994 Sundance Feature Film Program
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Paul Greengrass
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Paul Greengrass is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his use of hand-held cameras. His early film Bloody Sunday won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival, in 2004 he co-wrote and produced the film Omagh, which won British Academy Television Award. In 2007 Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, an organization of British filmmakers. In 2008 The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture, Greengrass was born 13 August 1955 in Cheam, Surrey, England. His mother was a teacher and his father a river pilot and he is the brother of noted English historian Mark Greengrass. Greengrass was educated at Westcourt Primary School, Gravesend Grammar School and Sevenoaks School, in October 2012, he received an honorary degree from Kingston University in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to television and cinema. Greengrass is a self-confessed Crystal Palace supporter and his 1998 film The Theory of Flight starred Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter, who played a woman with motor neurone disease. The film dealt with the issue of the sexuality of people with disabilities. Bloody Sunday was inspired by Don Mullans politically influential book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday, mullan was a schoolboy witness of the events of Bloody Sunday. The book is credited as a major catalyst in the establishment of the new Bloody Sunday Inquiry chaired by Lord Saville, the inquiry, the longest running and most expensive in British legal history, led to an historic apology by Prime Minister David Cameron on 15 June 2010. Mullan was co-producer and actor in Bloody Sunday, in 2004 Paul Greengrass co-wrote the television film Omagh with Guy Hibbert. Based on the bombing of 1998, the film was a critical success and this was the first professional film that Paul Greengrass had not directed, instead being credited as a writer and producer, because of his work on The Bourne Supremacy. Instead the film was directed by Pete Travis and it was the second film Greengrass had written about terrorism and mass killing in Ireland after Bloody Sunday. Based on that film, Greengrass was hired to direct 2004s The Bourne Supremacy, the film starred Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, an amnesiac who realises he was once a top CIA assassin and is now being pursued by his former employers. It proved to be an enormous financial and critical success. In 2006, Greengrass directed United 93, a based on the 11 September 2001 hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93. The film received acclaim, particularly for Greengrass quasi-documentary-style directing
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The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
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The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 American-German action spy thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass loosely based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum. The screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi, the Bourne Ultimatum is the third in the Jason Bourne film series, being preceded by The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy. The fourth film, The Bourne Legacy, was released in August 2012, without the involvement of Damon, Matt Damon reprises his role as Ludlums signature character, former CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac Jason Bourne. In the film, he continues his search for information about his past before he was part of Operation Treadstone and it went on to win all three of its nominations at the 80th Academy Awards, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing. Following his pursuit by Kirill, Jason Bourne evades Moscow police while wounded, six weeks later, CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy divulges the audiotaped confession of Ward Abbott, the late former head of Treadstone, to Director Ezra Kramer. Meanwhile, in Turin, journalist Simon Ross of The Guardian meets an informant to learn about Bourne and Operation Blackbriar, the CIA tracks Ross as he returns to London, after his mention of Blackbriar during a cell-phone call to his editor is detected by the ECHELON system. Bourne reappears in Paris to inform Martin Kreutz, the step-brother of his girlfriend Marie Helena Kreutz, of her assassination in India, Bourne reads Rosss articles and arranges a meeting with him at London Waterloo station. Vosens team, reluctantly assisted by Landy, analyzes Rosss notes and identifies his source as Neal Daniels, Bourne makes his way to Danielss office in Madrid but finds it empty. He incapacitates gunmen sent by Vosen and Landy, Nicky Parsons, a former Treadstone operative who shares a history with Bourne, tells him that Daniels has fled to Tangier and aids his escape from an arriving CIA unit. Nicky learns that Blackbriar asset Desh Bouksani has been tasked with killing Daniels, Vosen sees that Nicky accessed information about Daniels and sends Bouksani after Nicky and Bourne as well, a decision with which Landy fiercely disagrees. Bourne follows Bouksani to Daniels but fails to prevent Danielss death by a planted bomb, however, Bourne manages to kill Bouksani before he can kill Nicky. After sending Nicky into hiding, Bourne examines the contents of Danielss briefcase and finds the address of the deep-cover CIA bureau in New York City, Landy receives a phone call from Bourne, which is intercepted by Vosen. When Landy tells him that his name is David Webb and gives him the birth date 4-15-71, Bourne tells Landy to get some rest because she was tired. Vosen intercepts a text to Landy from Bourne apparently of a location to meet up, Bourne however waits for them all to leave, enters Vosens office and takes classified Blackbriar documents. Realizing that he has been hoodwinked, Vosen sends Paz after Bourne, Bourne holds the injured Paz at gunpoint, but spares his life. Bourne arrives at a hospital at 415 East 71st Street, having figured out Landys coded message, outside, Bourne meets Landy and gives her the Blackbriar files before going inside. Vosen also figures out Landys code and warns Dr. Albert Hirsch, who ran Treadstones behavior modification program and he follows Landy inside the building but is too late to stop her from faxing the Blackbriar documents out. Meanwhile, Bourne confronts Hirsch on a floor and remembers that he volunteered for Treadstone
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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Donnersmarck was born in 1973 in Cologne, West Germany, into the aristocratic Roman Catholic Henckel von Donnersmarck family, and grew up in New York City, Brussels, Frankfurt, and West Berlin. He is fluent in English, German, French, Russian and he holds a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at New College, Oxford, and a diploma in Film Directing from the University of Television and Film of Munich. Henckel von Donnersmarck is married to Christiane Asschenfeldt, former International Executive Director of Creative Commons and they have three children and currently live in Los Angeles. In 1977, while living as a child in New York and he expected to see Doctor Dolittle but was exposed instead to the German melodrama Varieté. He cites this experience as the start of his interest in film and his first short film, Dobermann, broke the school record for the number of awards won by a student production. It became an international sensation, and Donnersmarck travelled the festival circuit for over a year. His next film, The Tourist, which Donnersmarck re-wrote, directed and completed in under 11 months, was a thriller starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. The film was nominated for three Golden Globes, Best Musical or Comedy, Depp for Actor Musical or Comedy and Jolie for Actress Musical or Comedy and it also won three Teen Choice Awards nominations of which it won two. The film grossed US$278.3 million at the box office. In 2007, Donnersmarck was one of 115 new members to be invited to join AMPAS, in a 2010 interview with The Guardian, director Howard Davies named Donnersmarck as the artist he most admired. René Pollesch wrote a play, LAffaire Martin, which poked fun at von Donnersmarck. According to Pollesch, the directors attended a performance and came backstage to say they liked it. After meeting him at the Davos World Economic Forum, Jay Nordlinger, writing for the National Review, described Donnersmarck as one of the most impressive people on the planet. Other honourees included Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Saint Thomas More, John Locke, Christopher Wren, Adam Smith, Lawrence of Arabia, Oscar Wilde, tolkien and living university alumni Rupert Murdoch, Bill Clinton and Stephen Hawking. For the cover of the 2011 Prospectus, Oxford University named 100 streets in Oxfords historical centre after these graduates, upper Oxpens Road was renamed in the prospectus for Florian Henckel von Donnersmark. The Lives of Others and Contemporary German Film, A Companion, Das Drehbuch - ein Drama für die Leinwand. Drehbuchanalyse am Beispiel von Florian Henckel von Donnersmarcks Das Leben der anderen, henkel von Donnersmarck, Bankiers, Industrielle, Oscar-Preisträger. A list of publications, including many articles Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck at the Internet Movie Database Biography, in German Films Quarterly photographs of Donnersmarck on official site Interview Archived 10 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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Joe Wright
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His most recent film, Pan, is a Peter Pan origin story. Darkest Hour, Wrights political drama about Winston Churchill, will be released in 2017, Wright was born on 25 August 1972 in London, where his parents, John and Lyndie, founded the Little Angel Theatre, a puppet theatre in Islington. Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting and he would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings acting in a drama club. He left school without any GCSEs and he began his career working at his parents puppet theatre. He also took classes at the Anna Scher Theatre School and acted professionally on stage and he spent an art foundation year at Camberwell College of Arts, before taking a degree in fine art and film at Central St Martins. In his last year of studies he received a scholarship to make a film for the BBC that won several awards. On the success of the short, he was offered the script for the serial Nature Boy. He followed this up with the serials Bodily Harm with Timothy Spall, during the 1990s he worked at Oil Factory, a music video production company based in Caledonian Road, Kings Cross. He worked on a variety of productions in numerous roles, including casting director, here he was able to get the opportunity to direct some music videos. Alongside this, particularly on the strength of his film work, he was also developing The End. He attributes some of the aesthetic and emotion of the UK rave scene as an influence on his work, in 2007, Wright became engaged to actress Rosamund Pike, yet the wedding was called off in 2008. Wright is married to sitarist Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar and they have two sons, Zubin Shankar Wright, who was born in February 2011, and Mohan Shankar Wright, who was born in February 2015. In 2005 he made the transition to films with the critically acclaimed adaptation of Pride & Prejudice starring Keira Knightley. The film received numerous accolades including 4 Academy Award nominations,6 BAFTA nominations among a host of nominations and wins. On 13 December 2007, the film was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, though Wright himself was not nominated for director, the film received seven Academy Award nominations, winning only for Best Original Score. At the BAFTA Awards it received 14 nominations and went on to win for Best Production Design and his next film was The Soloist which stars Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. It was to be released on 21 November 2008, however the date was pushed back to 24 April 2009. Wright reunited with Atonement star Saoirse Ronan for the action thriller Hanna, the title character is a 15-year-old girl trained since birth to be an assassin by her father, a rogue CIA asset
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George Clooney
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George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana and the other for co-producing Argo, in 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooneys fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Oceans Eleven, in 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. He is the person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. In 2009, Clooney was included in Times annual Time 100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World and he is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31,2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, was a beauty queen and city councilwoman and his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and game show host who hosted AMC for five years in the late 1990s. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry and his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has a sister named Adelia. His aunt was the cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he does not know if he believes in Heaven, or even God. He has said, Yes, we were Catholic, big time, whole family and he began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michaels School in Columbus, Ohio, then Western Row Elementary School in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974, and St. Susanna School in Mason, the Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade. In middle school, Clooney developed Bells palsy, a condition that partially paralyzes the face, the malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that yes and it takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed. After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School and he has stated that he earned all As and a B in school, and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out to professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977
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James McAvoy
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James McAvoy is a Scottish actor. His notable television work includes the drama show State of Play, the adult comedy-drama Shameless, besides screen acting, McAvoy has performed in several West End productions, receiving three nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He has also done work for animated films including Gnomeo & Juliet. In 2003, McAvoy appeared in a role in Bollywood Queen. This was followed by a role, the faun Mr. Tumnus, in The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch. His performance in Kevin Macdonalds drama The Last King of Scotland garnered him several award nominations, the critically acclaimed romantic drama war film Atonement earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination and his second BAFTA nomination. He appeared opposite Angelina Jolie as a trained assassin in the action thriller Wanted. Since then, he is notable for playing the young Professor Charles Xavier in the 2011 superhero film X-Men, First Class, McAvoy starred in the 2013 crime comedy-drama film Filth for which he won Best Actor in the British Independent Film Awards. In 2017, he portrayed Kevin, a man with 23 personalities in his body, in M. Night Shyamalans Split, McAvoy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Elizabeth, a psychiatric nurse, and James McAvoy, Sr. a builder. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and his parents divorced when he was seven. His mother lived with them intermittently, the actor has a sister, Joy, and a younger half-brother, Donald. McAvoy has not been in contact with his father since childhood and he attended St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill, Glasgow, a Catholic school, and briefly considered joining the Catholic priesthood. In a 2006 interview, McAvoy said that he considered becoming a priest as a child because it seemed to be a way to explore the world via missionary work, during his education, he worked at a local bakery. McAvoys acting debut came at the age of 15 in The Near Room and he later admitted that he was not very interested in acting when joining the movie, but was inspired to study the craft after developing feelings for his co-star, Alana Brady. He continued to act while still a member of PACE Youth Theatre, McAvoy eventually graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2000. Throughout the early 2000s, he made guest appearances in television shows, in 2001, McAvoys performance as a gay hustler in the play Out in the Open impressed director Joe Wright so much that Wright began offering McAvoy parts in his films. McAvoy kept declining them, however, and it wasnt until six years later that the two worked together. He also starred in Privates on Parade in the Donmar Warehouse, also in 2001, the actor appeared as Private James W. Miller in Band of Brothers, an eleven-hour World War II miniseries by executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
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Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. is a Danish-American actor. I. Jane, A Perfect Murder, A Walk on the Moon, Mortensen received international attention in the early 2000s with his role as Aragorn in the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. In 2005, Mortensen won critical acclaim for David Cronenbergs crime thriller A History of Violence, Two years later, another Cronenberg film Eastern Promises earned him further critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. A third teaming with Cronenberg in A Dangerous Method resulted in a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture. Other well-received films have included Appaloosa, adapted from a Robert B. Parker novel, and Far from Men and he received a second Best Actor nomination in 2017 at the 89th Academy Awards for his role in Captain Fantastic. Aside from acting, his artistic pursuits include fine arts, photography, poetry. In 2002, he founded the Perceval Press to publish the works of little-known artists, Mortensen was born in New York City. His mother, Grace Gamble, was American, and his father, Viggo Peter Mortensen Sr. was Danish and his maternal grandfather was from Nova Scotia, Canada, and his maternal grandmothers family was from New England. At the age of 11, his parents divorced and he returned to New York with his mother and he then attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, earning a bachelors degree in Spanish Studies and Politics in 1980. Afterward, he went to Europe and lived in Spain, England and he eventually returned to the United States to pursue an acting career. Mortensen made his first film playing an Amish farmer in Peter Weirs Witness. Also in 1985, he was cast in the role of Bragg on Search for Tomorrow, Mortensens 1987 performance in Bent at the Coast Playhouse, Los Angeles, won him a Dramalogue Critics Award. Coincidentally, the play, about homosexual concentration camp prisoners, was brought to prominence by Ian McKellen. In 1987, Mortensen guest starred as a police detective on the hit series Miami Vice. I. Of these roles, Mortensen was probably best known for playing Master Chief John Urgayle in G. I, another major mainstream breakthrough came in 1999, when Peter Jackson cast him as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In the The Two Towers DVD extras, the swordmaster, Bob Anderson. Mortensen often performed his own stunts, and even the injuries he sustained during several of them did not dampen his enthusiasm. He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Aragorn, and was ranked No.15 on a 2015 survey of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters conducted by Empire
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Eastern Promises
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Eastern Promises is a 2007 British-Canadian-American gangster film directed by David Cronenberg, from a screenplay written by Steven Knight. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel and it tells a story of a Russian-British midwife, Anna, who delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year old Russian prostitute who dies in childbirth. As Anna tries to protect the baby, she is enmeshed deeper into the criminal underworld, principal photography began November 2006, in locations in and around London. Eastern Promises received positive reception, appearing on several critics top 10 films lists for 2007. The film has won awards, including the Audience Prize for best film at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film received twelve Genie Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, Mortensen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Anna Khitrova, a British-Russian midwife at a London hospital, finds a Russian-language diary on the body of Tatiana and she also finds a card for the Trans-Siberian Restaurant, which is owned by Semyon, an old vor in the Russian Mafia. Anna sets out to track down the family so that she can find a home for the baby girl, having meetings with Semyon. Annas mother Helen does not discourage her, but Annas Russian uncle and self-proclaimed former KGB officer, Stepan, whom Anna asks for help with the translation of the diary, urges caution. Through translation of the diary, Anna comes to learn that Semyon and his ignorant, unstable son Kirill had raped the girl, gotten her addicted to heroin, ultimately, Anna realizes that the baby was fathered by Semyon not Kirill. Kirills driver is Nikolai Luzhin, who serves as the family cleaner, removing evidence. Through Nikolai, Semyon, fearing prosecution, promises to give the location of the family to Anna if she hands back the diary. Nikolai takes the diary and gives a location, but urges Anna to keep the baby in London, Semyon distrusts Annas uncle Stepan and orders Nikolai to kill him. Nikolai accepts and soon Stepan goes missing, the hit was ill-advised and not approved by Semyon. Two Chechen hit-men soon arrive in London seeking vengeance and kill Azims mentally handicapped nephew who took part in the hit. Semyon hatches a plan to trick Nikolai into taking Kirills place during a meeting at the baths with Azim, the Chechens attack, thinking Nikolai is Kirill, but Nikolai kills them both, ending up in the hospital with severe wounds. It is revealed that Nikolai is actually an FSB agent who has infiltrated the gang, working under license from the British Government, Stepan is also safe, hiding in a 5-star hotel in Edinburgh for protection. Semyon orders Kirill to kidnap the girl and kill her
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Cate Blanchett
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Catherine Elise Cate Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received acclaim and many accolades, including six AACTA Awards. In 2013, she starred as Jasmine Francis in Woody Allens Blue Jasmine, Blanchett is one of only six actors, and the only actress, to receive Academy Award nominations for portraying the same role in two films, accomplished in her case by portraying Queen Elizabeth I. She is additionally the only Australian to win two acting Oscars, a seven-time Oscar nominee, she has also received nominations for Notes on a Scandal, Elizabeth, The Golden Age, Im Not There and Carol. Blanchett has also had a career on stage and is a four-time Helpmann Award winner for Best Female Actor in a Play. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband Andrew Upton were co-CEOs, Blanchett has been awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society by the Australian government. She was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012, in 2015, she was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art and received the British Film Institute Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the industry. Blanchett was born on 14 May 1969 in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe and she is the middle of three children, her older brother is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister is a theatrical designer. The two met when Blanchetts fathers ship broke down in Melbourne, when Blanchett was 10, her father died of a heart attack, leaving her mother to raise the family on her own. Blanchetts ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and remote French roots, Blanchett has described herself as being part extrovert, part wallflower during childhood. She had a penchant for dressing in traditionally masculine clothing, and went through goth and punk phases during her teenage years and she studied economics and fine arts at the University of Melbourne but dropped out after one year to travel overseas. While in Egypt, Blanchett was asked to play an American cheerleader, as an extra in the Egyptian boxing movie, Kaboria, in need of money, she accepted. Upon her return to Australia, she moved to Sydney and enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art to pursue an acting career and she graduated from NIDA in 1992. Blanchetts first major role was opposite Geoffrey Rush, in the 1992 David Mamet play Oleanna for the Sydney Theatre Company. That year, she was also cast as Clytemnestra in a production of Sophocles’ Electra, a couple of weeks after rehearsals, the actress playing the title role pulled out, and director Lindy Davies cast Blanchett in the role. Her performance as Electra became one of her most acclaimed at NIDA, Blanchett played the role of Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–95 Company B production of Hamlet directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh, and was nominated for a Green Room Award. She appeared in the 1994 TV miniseries Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the miniseries Bordertown with Hugo Weaving and she also appeared in the 50-minute drama short Parklands, which received an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Her first leading role was as Lucinda Leplastrier in Gillian Armstrongs romantic drama Oscar and Lucinda, Blanchett received wide acclaim for her performance, and earned her first AFI Award nomination as Best Leading Actress, she lost to Deborah Mailman in Radiance
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
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Elizabeth, The Golden Age is a 2007 sequel to the 1998 film Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur and produced by Universal Pictures and Working Title Films. It stars Cate Blanchett in the role and is a fairly fictionalised portrayal of events during the latter part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The film co-stars Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Jordi Mollà, Abbie Cornish, the screenplay was written by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, and the music score was composed by A. R. Rahman and Craig Armstrong. Guy Hendrix Dyas was the production designer and co-visual effects supervisor. The film was shot at Shepperton Studios and various locations around the United Kingdom, the film premiered on 9 September 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It opened in wide release in the United States on 12 October 2007, premiered in London on 23 October 2007, at the 80th Academy Awards, the film won Best Costume Design and Blanchett received a nomination for Best Actress. In 1585, Catholic Spain ruled by King Philip II of Spain is the most powerful country in the world, seeing Protestant England as a threat, and in retaliation for English piracy of Spanish ships, Philip plots war. He plans to take over England and make his daughter, Isabella, therefore, the Queen is presented with portraits of appropriate suitors, particularly the very youthful Charles II, Archduke of Austria, but she refuses to marry any of them. Elizabeth is attracted to Raleigh, enthralled by his tales of exploration, Bess also finds Raleigh attractive and secretly begins an affair with him. With tensions strained between England and Spain, Elizabeth seeks guidance from her astrologer, Dr. John Dee, however, he cannot predict which will triumph over the other, leaving Elizabeth to ponder her and Englands fate. Jesuits in London conspire with Philip to assassinate Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, in what Philip calls The English Enterprise, from her imprisonment, Mary sends secret correspondence to the Jesuits, who recruit Anthony Babington to assassinate Elizabeth. Walsingham continues to warn Elizabeth of Spains rising power and of the Catholics plots against her, however she, unlike her predecessor and half-sister Mary I of England, refuses to force her people to share her religious beliefs. Even so, those conspiring against Elizabeth are being hunted and murdered, including Besss cousin, Sir Francis Throckmorton and his father, whom Bess had failed to protect. Walsinghams brother, a Papist, who knows of the plot against Elizabeth is jailed and Walsingham reveals Spains plot to Elizabeth, the Spanish ambassador feigns ignorance, accuses Elizabeth of receiving Spanish gold from pirates, and insinuates that she has a sexual relationship with Raleigh. Enraged, Elizabeth throws the Spaniards out of court, meanwhile, Philip is cutting down the forests of Spain to build the Spanish Armada, to invade England. Mary writes letters condoning the plot, Babington storms into a cathedral where Elizabeth is praying and fires a pistol at her, though Elizabeth is unharmed as it is revealed that there was no bullet in the gun. The conspirators of The English Enterprise are imprisoned and interrogated by Walsingham, as Elizabeth learns of Marys involvement in the plot, Walsingham insists Mary be executed to quell any possible revolt. Elizabeth is reluctant, but nevertheless agrees, Mary is tried for high treason and is beheaded, after ascending the block in a blood-red dress
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Julie Christie
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Julie Frances Christie is an English actress. An icon of the swinging London era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Christies breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar. From the early 1980s her appearances in mainstream films reduced, though she held roles as Thetis in Wolfgang Petersens historical epic Troy and in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She has continued to receive significant critical recognition for her work, including Oscar nominations for the independent films Afterglow and Away from Her. Christie was born on 14 April 1940 at Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India, the child of Rosemary, a Welsh painter. Her father ran the tea plantation where she was raised and she has a younger brother, Clive, and an older half-sister, June, from her fathers relationship with an Indian woman, who worked as a tea picker on his plantation. Frank and Rosemary Christie separated when Julie was a child, after her parents divorce, Christie spent time with her mother in rural Wales. As a teenager at the all-girls Wycombe Court School, she played the Dauphin in a production of Shaws Saint Joan and she later studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Christie made her stage debut in 1957, and her first screen roles were on British television. Her big break came in the 1961 BBC serial A for Andromeda and she was a contender for the role of Honey Rider in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought her breasts were too small. In 1962, Christie appeared in films with co-starring roles in a pair of comedies for Independent Artists, Crooks Anonymous. Her breakthrough role, however, was as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the character played by Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar. The director, John Schlesinger, had cast Christie only after another actress dropped out of the film, Christie, who had obtained the lead role after the casting of Shirley MacLaine fell through, won numerous accolades for her performance, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Christie starred in two films released in 1965, first appearing as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy, a biopic of Irish playwright Seán OCasey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff. Her last film of the year was David Leans Doctor Zhivago, the film was a box office smash, and Christies role as Lara Antipova became her most famous. As of 2016, Doctor Zhivago is the 8th highest-grossing film of all time, in 1966, Christie played a dual role in François Truffauts adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, where she starred opposite Oskar Werner. Later, she played Thomas Hardys heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesingers Far from the Madding Crowd, Christies persona as the swinging 60s British bird she had embodied in Billy Liar and Darling was further cemented by her appearance in the documentary Tonite Lets All Make Love in London. In 1967, Time magazine said of her, What Julie Christie wears has more impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten best-dressed women combined
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Away from Her
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Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley and starring Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie and Olympia Dukakis. Executive produced by Atom Egoyan and shot in Ontario, it debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, the cast also includes Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, Lili Francks and Kristen Thomson. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Christie for Best Actress and Polley for Best Adapted Screenplay and it also won seven Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture. Grant and Fiona are a married couple living in rural Brant County. Fiona begins to lose her memory, and it becomes apparent she suffers from Alzheimers disease, throughout the film, Grants reflections on his marriage are woven with his reflections on his own infidelities, and influence his eventual decisions regarding Fionas happiness. Wary of this policy, Grant agrees anyway, at the insistence of his wife whom he loves, during the drive to the home, Fiona acknowledges Grants past infidelity while he was a university professor. Despite the awkward situation, the couple makes love one last time before separating, a caregiver at the facility befriends Grant and gives him some advice and support. While seeing his wife grow closer to Aubrey, Grant becomes an unhappy voyeur when visiting his wife at the nursing home. As time goes by and Fiona still does not remember him, Grant even wonders whether Fionas dementia is an act, after some time, Aubreys wife Marian removes him from the home due to financial difficulties. This causes Fiona to sink into a depression, with her physical well-being also appearing to deteriorate. Grant is touched by this, and visits Marian in an effort to allow Fiona to see Aubrey again and he would rather see his wife happy with another man than miserable and alone. Marian initially refuses, but the leads to a tentative relationship between her and Grant. As time passes, Grant continues to visit both Fiona and Marian and he eventually succeeds in taking Aubrey back to visit his wife. But in his moment alone before he brings Aubrey into Fionas room, Fiona temporarily remembers him and the love she has for him. Sarah Polley was on a flight from working on Hal Hartleys No Such Thing in Iceland when she read the Alice Munro short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain in The New Yorker. Polley claimed that I found it so moving and poignant and it went so deep in me and she also envisioned her No Such Thing co-star Julie Christie as Fiona. At that point of Polleys career, she had acted and had directed numerous short films, although Polley said Christie liked the story, it was still challenging to persuade Christie to star given her desire to semi-retire, and she was secured after seven months of negotiation. Atom Egoyan, who directed Polley in films such as The Sweet Hereafter and he advised her on directing, telling her the actor is the only person who is doing something genuinely magical on set- and that has to be protected at all costs
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Keira Knightley
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Keira Christina Knightley is an English actress. She began acting as a child on television and made her debut in 1995. She had a role as Sabé in Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace. In 2014, she was nominated for a Golden Globe, a SAG, a BAFTA Award, in October 2015, Knightley made her Broadway debut in the title role of Thérèse Raquin. Knightley was born in Teddington, London, England, the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, an actress turned playwright, and Will Knightley and her Scottish-born mother is of Scottish and Welsh descent, while her father is English. She was meant to be named Kiera, after the Russian ice skater, Kira Ivanova and she has an older brother, Caleb. Knightley lived in Richmond, attending Stanley Junior School, Teddington School and she requested an agent at the age of three. Knightley has noted that she was single-minded about acting during her childhood and she performed in a number of local amateur productions, which included After Juliet, written by her mother, and United States, written by her drama teacher, Ian McShane. She focused on art, history, and English literature while at Esher, after getting an agent at six, Knightley worked mostly in commercials and small TV roles. Her first role was Little Girl in Royal Celebration, a 1993 TV film, a year later, she had a small role in the film A Village Affair. She later starred in 1995s Innocent Lies and 1998s Coming Home and she was a princess in the 1996 film The Treasure Seekers. Later in 1999, she appeared as Rose in Oliver Twist, sabés dialogue was dubbed over with Natalie Portmans voice. This was to hide the fact that the handmaiden Padmé was actually disclosed as the real Queen Amidala at the end of the film. Knightley was cast in the role because of her resemblance to Portman. Knightleys first starring role was in 2001, when she played the daughter of Robin Hood in the made-for-television Walt Disney Productions feature Princess of Thieves and she trained for several weeks in archery, fencing and horse riding. During this time, Knightley also appeared in The Hole, a thriller that received a release in the United States. Its director Nick Hamm described her as a version of Julie Christie. She appeared in the adaptation of Doctor Zhivago as Lara, alongside Scottish actor Hans Matheson in the title role
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Ellen Page
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Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page, known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Her career began with roles in Canadian television shows including Pit Pony, Trailer Park Boys, Page starred in the 2005 drama Hard Candy, for which she won the Austin Film Critics Associations Award for Best Actress. Page portrayed Kitty Pryde in the X-Men series of films and she also provided the voice acting, motion capture, and likeness for the character Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond, Two Souls. Page was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page and she attended the Halifax Grammar School until grade 10, spent some time at Queen Elizabeth High School, and graduated from the Shambhala School in 2005. She also spent two years in Toronto, Ontario, studying in the Interact Program at Vaughan Road Academy, along with close friend, growing up, Page enjoyed playing with action figures and climbing trees. Page first acted in front of the camera in 1997 at age ten in the CBC television movie Pit Pony and this led to more roles in a number of small Canadian films and television series, notably playing Treena Lahey in season two of Trailer Park Boys. At 16, she was cast in Mouth to Mouth, an independent film shot in Europe. Page starred in the 2005 movie Hard Candy as a girl who takes a pedophile hostage. Page appeared in X-Men, The Last Stand and X-Men, Days of Future Past as Kitty Pryde, in the previous X-Men movies, the part had been used in brief cameos played by other actresses, but never as a main character. Page was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Scene Stealer for the role, Page portrayed the title character in the 2007 film Juno. Film critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times described her as talented and Roger Ebert said. Page was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, Page also co-starred in Smart People, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Shot before Juno, but released afterwards, the saw her playing overachieving daughter to Dennis Quaids college professor character. Before his death in January 2008, Heath Ledger had discussed with Page the idea of starring in his directorial debut, in 2008, she was ranked #86 on FHMs Sexiest Women in the World list, and placed at #93 for 2009. In June 2008, Page was listed in Entertainment Weeklys future A-List stars list, Page hosted Saturday Night Live on March 1,2008. On May 3,2009, she guest starred in the episode Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-Doh of the animated series The Simpsons as a character named Alaska Nebraska, a parody of Hannah Montana. She also starred in Drew Barrymores directorial debut, Whip It, alongside Juliette Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden, Drew Barrymore, the film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and had its wide release on October 2,2009. She featured in Michael Landers film Peacock, opposite Cillian Murphy, Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman and Josh Lucas, in August 2009, Page began shooting the big-budget Christopher Nolan thriller Inception, alongside co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ken Watanabe
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Juno (film)
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Juno is a 2007 American comedy-drama independent film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy. Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, filming spanned from early February to March 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia. It premiered on September 8 at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Juno won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and earned three other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Page. Juno earned back its budget of $6.5 million in twenty days. It went on to earn $231 million, Juno received acclaim from critics, many of whom placed the film on their top ten lists for the year. It has received criticism and praise from members of both the pro-life and pro-choice communities regarding its treatment of abortion, sixteen-year-old Minnesota high-schooler Juno MacGuff discovers she is pregnant by her friend and longtime admirer, Paulie Bleeker. Going to a clinic run by a womens group, she encounters a schoolmate outside who is holding a one-person protest for pro-life vigil. Once inside, however, a variety of factors lead Juno to leave and she decides against abortion, and she decides to give the baby up for adoption. With the help of her friend Leah, Juno searches the ads in the Pennysaver and she tells her father, Mac, and stepmother, Bren, who offer their support. With Mac, Juno meets the couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring, in their expensive home, Juno visits Mark a few times, with whom she shares tastes in punk rock and horror films. Mark, who has set aside his rock band youth, works at home composing commercial jingles. Juno and Leah happen to see Vanessa in a mall being completely at ease with a child, and Juno encourages Vanessa to talk to her baby in the womb. As the pregnancy progresses, Juno struggles with the emotions she feels for the father, Paulie. Juno maintains an outwardly indifferent attitude toward Paulie, but when she learns he has asked another girl to the upcoming prom, Paulie reminds Juno that it is at her request they remain distant and tells her that she broke his heart. Not long before her baby is due, Juno is again visiting Mark when their interaction becomes emotional, Mark then tells her he will be leaving Vanessa. Juno is horrified by this revelation, with Mark asking Juno How do you think of me, Vanessa arrives home, and Mark tells her he does not feel ready to be a father and there are still things he wants to do first. Juno watches the Loring marriage fall apart, then drives away, returning to the Lorings home, she leaves a note and disappears as they answer the door
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Paul Dano
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Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor, producer, singer, and musician. Dano started his career on Broadway before making his debut in The Newcomers. He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L. I. E. for his dual roles as Paul & Eli Sunday in There Will Be Blood, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in 12 Years a Slave and his acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy, earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano was born in New York City, New York, the son of Gladys and he has a younger sister named Sarah. Dano spent the first few years of his childhood in New York City and initially attended the Browning School, while he was a child, Danos family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut. Dano continued his education there at Wilton High School, graduating in 2002 and he was involved in community theater, and while performing in New Canaan, his parents were encouraged to take him to New York. He appeared in an episode of the sitcom Smart Guy and a role in the 2000 family drama The Newcomers, as well playing the part of Patrick Whalen. Dano acted in his first major role when he was 16, playing the character of Howie Blitzer. He then appeared in the TV movie Too Young to Be a Dad as a school student whose life is disrupted when his girlfriend becomes pregnant. In 2004 he played a role as young Martin Asher in Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie. In 2005, he played supporting roles in The King with Gael Garcia Bernal, Danos work with Daniel Day-Lewis led to a dual role opposite him in his next film, Paul Thomas Andersons There Will Be Blood, playing identical twin brothers Eli and Paul Sunday. And Peter Travers remarking All praise to the baby-faced Dano. for bringing sly cunning, rolling Stone magazine included Dano in its Hot List for 2007, calling his performance style Daniel Day-Lewis + Billy Crudup × Johnny Depp. In 2008, he starred in Gigantic, a film about a man seeking to adopt a Chinese baby. He reunited with Brian Cox in 2009s Good Heart, a low-budget English-language Icelandic film and he provided the voice of one of the creatures in the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. He played a genius inventor in 2010s Knight and Day, a thriller starring Tom Cruise. The same year he appeared in Meeks Cutoff, a historical drama. In 2011, he had a role in the big-budget science fiction film Cowboys
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