Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Twenty years later, and the past two Academy Awards have had all white actresses and actors nominated as best roles. Why is this? As of 2015, Henriksen, a published reporter from the AltPress database, stated “The majority of the Oscar voters are nearly 94 percent Caucasian and 77 percent male” (Henriksen). There is a need for a more diverse Academy. I interviewed Michael Green, a professor at Arizona State University that focuses on racism…

Imagine going through life in silence and still being able to be the only Deaf person to win an Academy Award. Marlee Matlin is an inspiration to the Deaf community and encourages, not only Deaf people, but everyone with a disability that anything is possible if you put your mind to it. Matlin has been a well known actress to achieve many accomplishments such as awards and being a successful writer. Being a Deaf actress is not easy, yet Marlee Matlin goes above and beyond with her work. It…

one of the best movie of the 2000’s. The Dark Knight so more than just good vs evil and more than just a comic book . This Movie show what the human race has turned to which is chaos and this isn't your normal good vs evil this movie turned that into something more this movie made way for new way to make comic book movies. This movie give us a deeper meaning for good vs evil and comic books in general this movie won many awards in its time . The Dark Knight screenplay was amazing the actors told…

2015). He too was an actor. Ms. Hudson is of Hungarian, Italian, English, and German descent (Wikipedia, 2015). She has two sons, Ryder Russell Robinson, born January 7, 2004 (11yrs old) and Bingham Hawn Bellamy born July 9, 2011 (4yrs old). Hudson shares Bingham with ex-fiancée Matthew Bellamy, and Ryder with ex-husband Chris Robinson (Martin 2015). She also has 3 dogs named Clara, Doctor, and Bella (Imdb,…

really depressed. I was 25 and thinking, 'This is supposed to be the best time and I'm miserable' but it felt like acting was happening for me, and I went back to acting classes". In 2010, Gerwig starred in Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg. Gerwig and Baumbach co-wrote his next film, Frances Ha, which was released in May 2013 after having toured the festival circuit since September…

is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Jennifer Hudson. Jennifer Hudson is a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, Academy Award-winning actor, and best-selling author. In 2007 she received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for her performance in “Dreamgirls”. The title song from the album was “I Remember Me” which was co-written with Ryan Tedder who is also a Grammy Award-winning recording artist. Along with co-writing this song with Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Tedder wrote the…

time-period and has a vision and that includes the audience he wishes to engage. The cinematographer of Laura, Lucien Ballard, uses shadow, lighting, high-contrast black and white cinematography. The film received the award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for five academy awards. For those who love a good romantic mystery thriller, Otto Preminger’s “Laura (1944)” will be enjoyed…

played by an African American actor, he is played by a white actor, Henry Fonda, despite the subject of the film focusing on lynching. Nevertheless, Hollywood would sometimes provide necessary social commentary on the violence African Americans faced, but still lacked the knowledge to have a predominantly black cast, when the subject of the movie indicated the need for one. White actors had increasingly more opportunity within the film industry and African American actors had to work much harder…

story itself, penned (with Josh Singer) and directed by Tom McCarthy, is nothing short of captivating. No investigative-inspired film has been this earth-shattering and ground-breaking since All the President’s Men – a film that could have easily won Best Picture back in 1976 had it not been pitted against the likes of Network, Taxi Driver, and the eventual winner, Rocky. Regardless, McCarthy has chiseled out and developed a well-rounded, fine-tooled drama – both via screenplay and directing. …

Southern belle of Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind” who had dreams of more genteel past, just like Blanche’s character. The film earned 12 Academy Awards nominations, all four were nominated for Oscars, of which three won. Leigh won for best actress in a leading role. Malden for his best actor in supporting role and Hunter for best actress in supporting…