Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Suspense is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertanty about what may occur. Suspence is certainly the dominant feeling that overtakes the readers of Jack Finney 's "Contents of the Dead Man 's Pockets." This is a story of a man who risks his life to retrieve an important piece of a project that could make his career dreams come true. During his quest Tom stands face to face with death as he overcomes various challenges that arise between him and his goal. In "Contents of the Dead Man…

Ivan’s actions in the novel portray a character who is truly lonely, yearning for the company of his own kind. His loneliness is particularly evident when he states he has lived in captivity for years. Ivan admits to almost believing he was the last gorilla to exist, due to not physically seeing one in so long. His loneliness is emphasised more as he spends his time observing humans, attempting to gain attention to fill the void of loneliness. Ivan’s loneliness is particularly evident when he…

“Ask Me” by William Stafford is a contemporary poem that compares the author’s life to a river. The reader is instilled with a strong sense of nostalgia, placidity, and introspection as Stafford reflects on his past and the meaning of his actions and life. The theme of this piece is life and its relative pace, similar to a river which is used as an ongoing metaphor Stafford introduces himself early on because this work is a conversation between the author and the reader. In the first stanza,…

Black Swan: A Movie Analysis “I felt it. What? Perfect. I was perfect.” The movie starts with a ballerina dancing to a musical piece beautifully, and then enters a hideous black bird, which seems to torture the ballerina. The young and naïve ballerina is our protagonist, Nina Sayers, played by Natalie Portman. The ballet company she works in, opens for a new season. The director announces that the season will open with an ambitious adaption of “Swan Lake” with a new face. Nina dreams that…

accomplishments as he has, it is still shocking to me that he has only one the academy award for best actor, one time in his entire 40 plus years on the scene. Nevertheless, the award came at the right time with one of my favorite films of all time, Training Day, released in 2001 and directed by Antoine Fuqua. While I believe that he is an all-around amazing actor, Washington’s acting in this particular film is one of the best, if not the best that I have ever seen for him. With so many…

first major film performance, the 24-year-old Hepburn won an academy award for best actress. Three days later, she took home a Tony Award as well for the Broadway show online (1954)” (Sonneborn). Audrey Hepburn was not as confident as she portrayed in all of her performances. She did not believe in herself, but she still emanated out on top winning two awards in the short time of one week. Hepburn was a beautiful but fragile actress, “Thin, longed legged, with exquisite fragility, Hepburn…

Synopsis: On Friday, five people were shot dead at a Macy's store at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, north of Seattle. The lone suspect of killing five, a man and four women, was found and taken into custody after a 24-hour manhunt this Saturday night. Arcan Cetin, a 20 year old young man was charged of five first-degree murders. The identity of this young man has not yet been released but as of right now, he is in the Skagit County Jail and will appear in the country’s court on Monday.…

Off About the Oscars A funny thing happened on the way to the Academy Awards, A.K.A. the Oscars, in 2007. After early screenings with journalists and one at the Cannes festival, DreamGirls was widely deemed an Oscar frontrunner. It went on to be ranked 4th on the American Film Institute 's Best of 2006 list and won 3 out of 5 Golden Globes, including Best Picture-Comedy or Musical, Best Supporting Actor (Murphy) and Best Supporting Actress (Hudson). It also received nods and trophies from the…

As times change, values and ideas often change as they are invariably shaped by their context. However, some remain constant throughout time and are universal. The 1592 Shakespearean drama Richard III and Al Pacino 's 1995 docu-drama Looking for Richard [LFR] were written four hundred years apart yet both texts address perpetual values and ideas that are common to both eras. Through a simultaneous study of both texts, the responder is able to understand the influence of context on aspects of the…

The film Shawshank Redemption is an award-winning film by Frank Darabont in which an innocent man, Andy Dufresne, is sentence to two life sentences for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for after being wrongly convicted even after professing his innocence. While imprisoned Andy befriends a man everyone knows as Red who is known for being able to smuggle things into the prison. Over the years Red is able to get Andy a rock hammer as…