Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Essays

  • Spanish Actors and Actresses

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    Spanish Actors and Actresses Benicio del Toro When Benicio Del Toro first announced to his father and siblings that he intended to pursue a career in acting, they didn't take the news very well. As Del Toro told one interviewer, "My family freaked when I told them I wanted to be an actor. It was like telling them I wanted to be an astronaut. On top of that, it was like saying that in order to be an astronaut, I was going to have to drive a cab in New York for five years. " The family

  • Leonardo Dicaprio: An Acclaimed Actor and Environmentalist

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    Leonardo Dicaprio is an acclaimed actor and environmental activist. He made his first major television entry with Santa Barbara in 1991. Titanic was his first huge milestone for his tremendous career. Since then he has received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Revenant. Along with being a great Actor, Dicaprio had made some massive contributions to charities that surround the environment, including his $1 million donation to the Wildlife Conservation Society in 2010. Over all

  • Django Unchained Poster

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    Django: Unchained Film poster advertisements are meant to attract an audience, but no one actually pays attention to every single detail that is on a poster. Every detail that is put on a poster could give an idea on what type of movie it is and who is the main character, but some movie posters fail to do so and could also convey the wrong idea. Django: Unchained was released in 2013 and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The top billed Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington

  • Free Will: Eleanor Prentiss Brainwashing

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    Denzel Washington plays the role of Major Bennett ‘Ben Marco’ who is war veteran in the Manchurian Candidate. Ben Marco begins to doubt what took place during the Gulf War within his Army unit because of strange dreams that seem realistic to him. On another horizontal, during the war, Raymond Shaw, played by Liev Schreiber rescued all except two members. Raymond Shaw was awarded the Medal of Honor that pushed his political career to the forefront. After a significant passage of time, one of Marco’s

  • The Movie Bugsy

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    interest Mickey Cohen-Harvey Keitel –Bugsy’s right hand Harry Greenberg-Elliot Gould –Bugsy’s friend from NY Meyer Lansky-Ben Kingsley –Bugsy’s boss Warren Beatty was the main character in this film. Virginia Hill was Bugsy’s love interest. These two actors did a wonderful job of acting in a manner congruent with the times of the 40’s. The cast was sprinkled with tremendous talent such as Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, and Elliot Gould. As a whole I think the cast did a magnificent job taking the viewers

  • Montgomery Clift's Performance in Judgement at Nuremberg

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    despite his matinee idol good looks he won respect of the film critics for his performances in, 'The search', and 'From here to eternity', for which he received nominations for best actor academy award, although did not win. His next nomination after 1954's 'From here to eternity', was in 1961, as best supporting actor in 'Judgement at Nuremberg'. In 1956, a few years before he started filming for, 'Judgement in Nuremberg', Clift was involved in a terrible car crash which spoilt his matinee

  • Magnoli Textual Analysis

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    It is an expectation to know the actors from the pictures and if not, the name of each person is displayed at the top of the cover, this works as circumtextual framing. What is signified to the audience through the various pictures with different actions in each, is that the movie may be about the lives of many different people. A prominent face among the pictures is one that many different audience members would know, Tom Cruise, who is best known for action and drama films. Intertextualised

  • Father Son Relationship Essay

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    which in this case Biff does but Happy does not. It is in the father’s best interest to use this opportunity to give these qualities and allow his sons to become responsible individuals. In this case, Willy does not accomplish this with one of his sons, because of his favoritism. In William’s play, the relationship between mother and daughter is important because it shows how Amanda loves her children and wants the best for them, but she creates an imaginary world. No, I don’t have secrets

  • Archetypes In Carl Jung's The Karate Kid

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    From the Greek word “exemplary,” Carl Jung created the word “archetypes.” Jung a Swiss psychiatrist, extended on the idea of something that frequently occurs in a movie or novel which stimulates a strong unconsciousness. Jung said archetypes are in all everyone, including characters. In The Karate Kid from 1984, archetypes arise for the entirety of the movie. Daniel LaRusso, a boy who is forced to move to California from New Jersey has trouble fitting in. The amount of archetypes that emerge throughout

  • Garrett Clayton's 5 Love In King Cobra

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    King Cobra casts the actor James Franco as a pimp and producer who runs his business through his own lover played by Garrett Clayton. Clayton plays Sean Lockhart, a teen who enters the online gay porn website which is known as Brent Corrigan, displaying himself on a sofa in front of porn director Stephen who can barely focus on the shoot because he is so attracted to Brent. Stephen runs a thriving business from his home that his neighbors constantly question him about, and invites the Brent to stay

  • Karate Kid: Cobra Kai

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    The wax was off but is apparently on again. The long-awaited "Karate Kid" sequel, "Cobra Kai," is in the works and stars several main characters from the original screening in 1984. A new report out says Ralph Macchio, who played Daniel LaRusso and William Zabka, who starred as Johnny Lawrence, are thrilled about the reboot. Some 30 years after Mr. Miyagi, played by the late Pat Morita, a martial arts teacher (or sensei), agrees to teach a diminutive Daniel, the victim of bullying, the journey

  • Film Analysis: Frozen River And The Karate Kid

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    Name Course Tutor Date Analysis of Frozen River and the Karate Kid John G. Avildsen directed while a major Hollywood studio, Columbia Pictures produced The Karate Kid in 1984 (Avildsen, “The Karate Kid”). On the other hand, Courtney Hunt directed while an independent studio, Harwood Hunt Productions produced the film Frozen River in 2008 (Hunt, “Frozen River”). Ideally, the two productions companies manifested differences in the plot and cinematography of the two American drama films. The setting

  • The Joker Analysis

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    The Joker has been represented in two films in the last 30 years, Batman (1989) played by Jack Nicholson and The Dark Knight (2008) played by Heath Ledger. Batman’s director Tim Burton gave Nicholson’s Joker an identity outside the Joker persona: an identity that effects his motivations and the overall tone of the film as being filled with revenge. In contrast, The Dark Knight’s director Christopher Nolan focuses on the mental connection between Ledger’s Joker and Batman (Christian Bale) through

  • How Does Donald O Connor Influence Jazz Dance

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    performers, but no one is more deserving of the title than Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor. In his long career spanning his entire 78 years (1925-2003), Donald O’Connor was a paramount athletic tap jazz dancer in addition to his talents as a singer, actor and comedian. Surprisingly, he had no formal dance lessons. He lived his life as a performer who learned by watching, applying and hard work. Uncovering his story and watching his performances begs some natural questions such as, what background and

  • Tom Cruise's Role In The American Film Industry: Thomas Cruise Mapother II

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    Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born July 3rd, 1962. He is known in the movie industry as Tom Cruise. He is most famous for his role as an actor and movie producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe awards. He started his career in the movie Endless Love at the age of 19. Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York. He is the son of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III. His mother was a special education teacher, and his father was an electrical engineer. He

  • George Clooney: A Hero

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    been nominated in six categories of the Academy Awards( elibrary 2010 world Almanac books) Is George Clooney truly a hero? Does George Clooney help the country or does he just receive populates as a star? George Clooney is a hero. He is an American superstar. George Clooney first made his breakout role in 1992 as Dr. Doug Ross on TV's ER. This led to many other leading ,ajar film roles. He is also a director and screenwriter, and an Oscar-winning actor and producer. George has a lot of movies

  • Film Analysis: Million Dollar Baby

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    This film was nominated for 48 different awards. Actors include Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Hilary Swank. Hopefully, these are some reasons to intrigue your interest. You do not need to be a fan of boxing to enjoy Million Dollar Baby. There is a deeper meaning to this movie like realizing that one always has a place in someone’s heart. Out of the 48 awards that this film was nominated for it received 19 of them including two Golden Globe Awards

  • Marlon Brando

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    military boarding school - Shattuck Military Academy in Fairbult, Minnesota, from which he was eventually expelled for insubordination. In 1943, Brando relocated to New York City to study the Stanislavsky method under Stella Adler. (Editor, 2004) Brando's, first film was Fred Zinnemann's The Men in 1950. In 1951, he played in A Streetcar Named Desire .The role he performed in that movie earned him the first of four consecutive Best Actor Academy Award nominations. He followed up with impressive,

  • The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

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    and Oscar The year is 1948, and the Academy Awards have gathered the best of the best from around the world to celebrate the greatest achievements of the film industry. The five nominees for Best Picture included Johnny Belinda, The Res Shoes, The Snake Pit, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and a foreign adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The two forerunners of the night, Jonny Belinda and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, both got their fair share of awards from the Golden Globes, but the night

  • My Darling, My Blood - Film Review of Million Dollar Baby

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    lead actor Eastwood carefully selected unique, high-quality ingredients for the script and co-actors, and skilled chefs – i.e. film artisans - to plan and create something exceptional. The final result leaves a subtle, distinct and memorable flavor. A Million Dollar Baby (MDB) film reviewer suggests that Eastwood’s “touch only gets lighter with time”. (Grey, 2005) MDB won the Academy Award for 2004’s Film of the Year as well as Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Supporting Male Actor - this