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Tom cruise set to receive CinemaCon 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…

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…

This need not deter you from respecting him as one of the greatest directors of all time, for this resembles the careers of renowned filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. 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…

Known for his extreme and realistic acting roles, Tom Cruise could be considered one of the most successful actors of our time. 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…

prostitute’s search for love. In this movie, Bob and Universal Studios created several new practices that became standard for directors for years to come. His next film, “Cabaret”, in 1972 was one of Fosse’s biggest successes and it won his eight academy awards. Also in 1972, his broadway show, “Pippin,” was, at its time…

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…

He reads the note while he grabs his uneaten turkey off his plate and feeds it to Grace. At the sight of food Grace sits up. MORRIS I can’t believe you taught Grace new tricks. Sandy looks at Morris. SANDY I wanted to surprise you when you came home from flying for the first time, but your surprise was much bigger. Morris smiles. He grabs a large chunk of turkey off his plate and feeds it to Grace. INT. HALLWAY - DAY Later. Morris walks down the hallway towards the front door. He holds…

The historical nominations of the Academy and the exclusively white pattern of Oscar winners demonstrate how this is an urgent issue that must be addressed. African Americans are not treated as equals, and are not credited for their work as often as their white counterparts. All people deserve…

At first glance, Oskar's disloyalty to his wife Emilie and the fact that he has a wife, a mistress, and a girlfriend might seem like a relatively unimportant part of Schindler's List. Schindler’s disloyalty is very easily interpreted as a background context for the book, and for the purpose of giving Oskar personality traits. Disloyalty is obviously a bad characteristic, but it’s possible we could empathise with Schindler now, because he is a flawed person, which is realistic and gives him a…

Wes Moore is the name of two boys living in Baltimore in the same neighborhood and age, but two different paths in their life. Life was difficult for them growing up without a father so they looked up to see in that limited world and follow the only models available" (Moore 178). Both Wes and Wes were lacking in their school having bad grades and a hard time fitting in. One day the other Wes Moore had a fight in football and after being punched, he runs and gets his knife following the words of…