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    My favorite movie would have to be Silver Linings Playbook, written by Matthew Quick and Directed by David O. Russell. This movie identifies a variety of different genres: comedy and romance-drama are just two of these. This movie can relate to a range of different people; the themes are easily identifiable. Silver Linings Playbook is about a struggling man, Pat Solitano Jr., portrayed by Bradley Cooper. The movie begins with Pat leaving a mental institution with his mother, the movie then…

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    Tom Cruise Research Paper

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    2018 award Legendary actor Tom Cruise will be the first actor to receive of the 2018 CinemaCon Pioneer of the Year award. The award has been previously bagged by non actors like Dick Cook, Cecil B. DeMille and Alan Horn. Others are Donna Langley, Tom Sherak, Jack Valenti, and Jack Warner. For Cruise, this adds another feather on his hat. He is famous for stunts in Hollywood movies, as well as his successful acting career that has seen him star in hundreds of blockbuster movies. The award is…

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    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)…

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    Two directors with no academy award wins for best director who, without question, are labeled as some of the greatest directors of all time. Kubrick most notably similar to Nolan in the way that he lets his vision drive his work and strives to create a perfect film for his audience. Kubrick and Hitchcock had the misfortune of directing before the age of social media. Like Leonardo DiCaprio before him, the public pressure for a Christopher Nolan best director award may be around the corner,…

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    Tom Cruise Research Paper

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    He was born in Syracuse, New York, and spent a majority of his childhood moving across the country. By the age of nineteen, he received his first acting job for the movie Endless Love. From there, his celebrity fame shot forward to win thirty-nine awards and over seventy nominations. Later in his acting career, Tom Cruise began showing odd behaviors that the paparazzi indulged into papers. His symptoms began with delusions, paranoia, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors. Through these…

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    suggestive style stems from his time dancing in clubs during his younger years. He frequently dressed his dancers in black with white gloves and hats. Fosse received his first Tony for this show. His second musical, “Damn Yankees,” earned him many more awards and was his first musical with his third wife, Gwen Verdon, a big broadway star, and the mother to his daughter, Nicole. After having several instances when he disagreed with directors because his style was not very proper, he began…

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    James Roy Horner (1953 – 2015) was an Academy and Golden Globe award-winning American composer; conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was mostly known for the vocal and electronic elements in many of his film scores. Horner was also a respected composer of concert music before he started writing film scores. His first major film score was for the film "The Lady in Red," but he did not establish himself as a well known film composer until he worked on the 1982 film "Star Trek II: The…

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    can have many more nominations for Grammy awards than white artists while still winning a similar amount of Grammy…

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    Evaluation Paper #2 The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize “ artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to the album sales or chart position.” Album of the year is easily the most prestigious award category at the Grammy’s and has been since 1959. Kendrick Lamar, a West Coast rapper, was recently nominated for 11 Grammys; almost…

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    decades. It dominated the Tony awards and is completely sold out in every venue for the foreseeable future. This is an American story told in the American medium of the musical and features a diverse American cast. Hamilton is a nearly all black cast. Founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are played by black actors. These past few years have been celebrated as the best time for minority actors in Broadway history. “Tonys made history by giving the awards in all four of its…

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