Showing posts with label director. Show all posts
Showing posts with label director. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Clint Eastwood - film actor, director, producer, composer and politician

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Clinton Eastwood is a great American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series Rawhide (1959–65), he starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry movies during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with some others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have ready him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as getting nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).

Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed movies in which he did not show such as Mystic River (2003) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and Changeling (2008), which getted Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received substantial critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were pan in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was award the Légion d'honneur award. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice movie Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

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Name

Clinton Eastwood

Date Of Birth

May 31, 1930

Place Of Birth

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, director, producer, composer, politician

Religion

Protestant

Spouse

Maggie Johnson, Dina Ruiz

Thursday, April 28, 2011

David Duchovny - Actor, writer and director

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David Duchovny is one of the American actor, writer and director. He has succeed Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication, four time nominated for emmy award. In 1996, People magazine name him one of its fifty Most Beautiful People. On August 28, 2008, Duchovny say that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction. In December 2009, Duchovny and his wife show together at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball and looked to be firmly back together as a couple. Duchovny has also remain close friends with his The X-Files costar Gillian Anderson, comment that "it's always very easy and natural to work with her."

Duchovny show in an advertisement for Lowenbrau beer in 1987. He act in two scenes in Working Girl (1988). He had a recurring role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator/host in the extended-running Showtime erotica/softcore TV series Red Shoe Diaries. In 1992, he played the character of Rollie Totheroh, in the biographic film Chaplin, directed by Richard Attenborough, and base on the life of Charlie Chaplin. In 1993, Duchovny began starring in the sci-fi sequence The X-Files as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, a plan theorist who believed his sister had been abducted by aliens.

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Born Name

David William Duchovny

Date Of Birth

August 7, 1960

Place Of Birth

New York City, New York

Occupation

Actor

Spouse

Tea Leoni

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Titanic film in 1997

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Titanic is the 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, co-produced, written, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the dipping of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, associate of different social classes who fall in love on board the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyag. Creation on the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the real Titanic wreck. The recent scenes were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had use as a foundation when filming the actual wreck. A rebuilding of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, and scale models and computer-generate imagery were also used to reconstruct the sinking.

Titanic was an enormous serious and commercial success. It was selected for fourteen Academy Awards, eventually winning eleven, with Best Picture and Best Director. It become the maximum grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over $1.8 billion the first film to attain the billion dollar mark and remain so for twelve years awaiting Cameron's after that directorial effort, Avatar, surpassed it in 2010. Titanic is also rank as the sixth top epic film of all time in AFI's 10 Top 10 by the American Film Institute. The film is due for dramatic re-release in 2012 after Cameron complete its conversion into 3-D.

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Director

James Cameron

Producer

James Cameron, Jon Landau

Written by

James Cameron

Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill

Music by

James Horner

Editing by

James Cameron, Conrad Buff IV, Richard A. Harris

Studio

20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment

Release date(s)

December 19, 1997

Running time

194 minutes

Country

United States

Language

English

Budget

$200 million

Gross revenue

$1,843,201,268

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Jodie Foster - American producer, film director and actress

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Jodie Foster is famous an American producer, film director and actress. Foster begin acting in profitable at three years old, and her first important role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute, Iris, for which she got a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Also that year, she star in the religious group film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. She got a Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a sequential killer. This presentation received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress.

She conventional her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell (1994). Other famous films contain Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), and Nim's Island (2008).Foster's films have span a wide multiplicity of genres, from family films to horror. She has also got three Bafta Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a People's Choice Award, and has received two Emmy suggestions.

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Birth Name

Alicia Christian Foster

Date Of Birth

November 19, 1962

Place Of Birth

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

Actress, producer, director