Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Lange thought that it was hard to adjust to the comedy in Tootsie because she had just had to play a very serious role in Frances. During the shoot of an angry scene of Tootsie, she stormed out of the dressing room and destroyed the set. She said there was dead silence after the incident (“50 Facts About Jessica Lange”). “To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I’ve never done before.” This quote from Lange fits the switch from a serious film, Frances, to a comedy film, Tootsie…

Hollywood is such a competitive place, actors’ jobs are simply to make movies and such, however, this is not exactly a stable job. The Hollywood limelight is such a competitive place, unfortunately, some people who actually have what it takes to make it big, don't get their chance simply because, there are some who are really just more famous, but just because they're famous, doesn't mean they're exceptionally talented. When people talk about great actors, they would immediately think of Tom…

How did Batman get so popular? It all started in 1939. “In 1939, National Comics (later to become DC Comics), was looking for a new super hero—a character who could build on the success of Superman” (Batman at 75: Highlights in the Life of the Caped Crusader). Editor Vin Sullivan asked Bob Kane to create a hero. Batman first started as an idea from writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane. Batman wasn’t always a superhero dressed in dark colors. Bob Kane originally drew Batman in brighter colors…

(loving-kindness), which means to be kind and caring to all creatures, whether it 's a small insect or a ferocious lion. Jared believes in the same concept when he converted to the vegan lifestyle. “I’m a vegan. I respect the environment and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue” (Leto). “Nature, or we could say our natural environment, is alive and at least partly conscious” (Epstein). This is the Buddhist way of thinking about nature, we must care for nature because it 's…

has the chance to finally reach North American audiences for the first time. Not only has his work landed distribution with Music Box Films after winning three 2015 Guldbagge Awards (Sweden's top film award), but the film earned Sweden's selection to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards, and some believe the film could land the country's first nomination since 2004. And while the pacing is scattershot in key moments, A Man Called Ove could easily find…

Hattie McDaniel As known as a great African-American Actress, Singer- Songwriter, Hattie McDaniel was a great woman who paved a way for several other African American entertainers in her time. During the rapid growth of the film industry, Hattie McDaniel was a woman of visionary that took the industry under her wings and evolved into a idealists to the media industry. Hattie McDaniel was born in Wichita, Kansas on June 10, 1893; she was her parents' 13th child. Her father, Henry,…

Bryan Singer film, The Usual Suspects (1995) American neo-noir and mystery film shows the audience how a small-time con man “Verbal” Kint and one of two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. Kint tells a convoluted story about the events and mysterious mob boss known as Keyser Soze. The movie The Usual Suspects a non-linear tale shows the mystery surrounding the investigation of a crime and the focus and efforts of the investigator solving the crime by of…

Sound designer and faithful collaborator Walter Murch was contacted by Coppola before the beginning of the shooting and touched more than one aspect of the film both during the shooting and the post-production; among his work on the film are the scene were the boat is patrolling on the river and stopping a Vietnamese boat (he felt like the viewers needed to see what the boat was doing in Vietnam when they were not carrying Kurt to his destination) some of the editing of the movie, but it most…

Famous Figure Journal 4: Robin Williams Robin Williams was a famous actor and comedian known for his improvisational performances. Some of his greatest work is the Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting. Additionally, he suffered from Lewy body dementia and chronic depression. Background Information/Accomplishments The famous comedian and actor Robin Williams was born on July 21, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois (Biography.com, 2016). Shortly after developing his own improvisational style as a…

remake of a 2002 film Hong Kong action movie Infernal Affairs. The movies are both based on a real-life Irish American Gangster Whitey Bulger, who was captured on June 22, 2011. In January 2003 the film studio Warner Brother’s producer Brad Grey, and actor and producer Brad Pitt bought the rights to remake the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs (2002) from Media Asia for $1.75 million. The movie a drama, crime, thriller was produced by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. The production…