Hugo Award for Best Novel

Grace Kelly lead an extraordinary life pursuing an extremely successful acting career, but gave up hollywood to start a family with Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Grace Kelly was born on November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a wealthy and award winning family. Grace showed great interest in performance at an early age participating in school plays, community productions and occasionally modeling with her mother and sister.…

the life of Forrest Gump from Alabama, who is unintelligent and naive, but he is a nice guy and very athletic, who witnesses some events of the 20th century in the United States. Through the movie’s entirety, outstanding performances from various award winning actors give this film’s involved and interesting plot a sense of realism that is far superior to that of other dramatic movies. Although many people think that the movie Forrest Gump may only contains romance, comedy and drama as genre,…

As far as movies go Apocalypse Now is at the very top of my list pertaining to favorite movies; although Robert Duvall performance as LtCol Kilgore may only last but a few moments, his portal of the character for me is one of the most enjoyable parts of the movie. Duvall has a history of both appearing in movies as supporting roles and delivering a performance that somehow always seems to stand out as one if not the most memorable scenes of each movie. Apocalypse Now is no exception to this rule…

recites the soliloquy. During the soliloquy Hamlet pulls a knife and points it toward himself but to show the audience that he cannot go through with suicide he actually throws the knife off of the cliff and walks away. The Olivier version does the best job at the actions that Hamlet plays…

American actor, comedian and filmmaker,he has been entertaining the world since 1977. He first started with Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival. The most famous movie he has started in was when he was playing the role for Forrest Gump in 1994. This was the best movie and had the most Oscars.Hanks was interested in theatre as a young student and found it the perfect platform for expressing himself. Tom Hanks gradually gained more exposure and built some important relationships.He played in a varied…

Anne Hathaway is known for her break out role in ‘Princess Diaries’. She is also famous for her portrayal as a Parkinsons’ patient in ‘Love & Other Drugs.’ While she is clearly a talented actress, able to move from one spectrum to another, not a lot of people know that she had her share of higher education. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Anne Hathaway was inspired to pursue acting because of her mother. Her mother, Kathleen, appeared in ‘Les Miserables’ - during the first U.S. tour. But she was…

Crash is Paul Haggis’s famous follow up to his first critically acclaimed film Million Dollar Baby, and with his reputation on the line, Haggis has rolled up his sleeves to create a film that in many eyes is a rarity. Crash is a hackneyed masterpiece. The film portrays the lives of many characters over thirty six hours as they encounter taut situations of racial discrimination. Among the mass of characters that plague the film, several others stand out and prove to be more than their one…

After the masterpiece documentary “The Salt of the Earth” about the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, the extraordinary German director, Wim Wenders, stumbles in his most recent fictional drama, “Every Thing Will Be Fine”. Here, the iconic filmmaker works over a script by the Norwegian Bjorn Olaf Johannessen and entrusts to James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Rachel McAdams, the main roles. The story is based on Tomas Elden (Franco), a writer who’s making an effort to maintain in…

when Rachel confused Caine for her best friends lying ex-boyfriend, was hilarious. She told off Caine and treated him like the lowest scum on earth, but he took it all with a stride and a smile on his lips. Even when Rachel was walking away after her realization that she told off the wrong guy, Caine still watched her with a smile on his lips and curiosity. Their first meeting was just the beginning, the first day of school as a teacher’s assistant was the best. Rachel walked in class to her…

Million Dollar Baby is an inspirational film. Directed and filmed by Clint Eastwood in 2004, Million Dollar Baby is a motivational film featuring a young women living in the lower class who follows her passion for boxing. Part of the reason I believe it was a good film was since it was a comeback movie. It started with a thirty-one year old waitress named Maggie Fitzgerald who comes from a lower class family in which they do not all get along well. Maggie Fitzgerald has a passion to one day…