"2011). Ben Affleck is the youngest winner, at the age of 25 for ""Good Will Hunting""; he co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Damon (age 27 at the time of their award). Richard Schweizer was the first to win for a foreign-language film, ""Marie-Louise"". Other winners for a non-English screenplay include Albert Lamorisse, Pietro Germi, Claude Lelouch, and Pedro Almodóvar. Lamorisse is additionally the only person to win or even be nominated for Best Original Screenplay for a short film (""The Red Balloon"", 1956). Muriel Box was the first woman to win in this category; she shared the award with her"
"You Think You Are?"", in which she searched for information about her late father and found that he had a brother, Leslie, who became an actor in repertory theatre. On 11 October 2016, Driver said that she had been sexually assaulted at the age of 17 while on holiday in Greece. On 21 December 2017, Driver became an American citizen. Minnie Driver Amelia Fiona ""Minnie"" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is an English American actress and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gus Van Sant's ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997) for her role as"
"Minnie Driver Amelia Fiona ""Minnie"" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is an English American actress and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gus Van Sant's ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997) for her role as Skylar, and an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for her work in the television series ""The Riches"" (2007-2008). Her film work includes ""Sleepers"", ""Big Night"", ""Grosse Pointe Blank"", ""Tarzan"", ""Return to Me"", ""Ella Enchanted"", ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Conviction"", ""Barney's Version"", and ""Beyond the Lights"". She starred as Fiona Bowa on the NBC sitcom ""About a Boy"" and"
"Beautiful (2000 film) Beautiful is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Sally Field (in her feature film directorial debut), starring Minnie Driver, Joey Lauren Adams, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Herta Ware, and Kathleen Turner. The plot deals with the sacrifices that contestants in the Miss America pageant typically must make. The film was both a critical and a commercial failure. Mona Hibbard (Driver) is a young woman from a troubled home who has one overarching goal: to become the winner of the Miss America pageant. Her mother is an alcoholic who graduates from berating her young daughter for not doing"
"He came to prominence in 1997, when he wrote and starred in ""Good Will Hunting,"" alongside Ben Affleck, which won them the Academy and Golden Globe awards for Best Screenplay and earned Damon a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He continued to garner praise from critics for his roles as the eponymous character in ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998), the antihero in ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), a fallen angel in ""Dogma"" (1999), an energy analyst in ""Syriana"" (2005), and a corrupt Irish-American police officer in ""The Departed"" (2006). Damon is also known for his starring roles as"
"Goldbacher's film ""The Governess."" That same year, she co-starred opposite Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman in the action thriller ""Hard Rain"". Driver has also worked on several animated features, voicing Jane in Disney's 1999 version of ""Tarzan"" and Lady Eboshi in the 1999 English-dubbed release of the Japanese film ""Princess Mononoke"". In 2003 and 2004, she had a recurring role on ""Will & Grace"" as Lorraine Finster, the nemesis of Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) and daughter of Karen's lover, Lyle Finster (John Cleese). In March 2007, Driver made her return to television in the FX Network show ""The Riches"". She"
"score of 49, indicating ""mixed or average reviews."" John Williams was nominated for the best original score Academy Award. Minnie Driver was selected as best supporting actress by the London Film Critics Circle. Sleepers Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of the same name. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver and Vittorio Gassman. Lorenzo ""Shakes"" Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. The"
"various shows throughout his career, Smith would often avoid playing it or talking about it. It was not heavily requested compared to his other songs, and in one show he dedicated it to the audience. Miss Misery ""Miss Misery"" is a song by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Featured in the closing credits and the soundtrack of the 1997 film ""Good Will Hunting"", the song was nominated for Best Original Song in the 1997 Academy Awards. A previous version of ""Miss Misery"" with different lyrics was recorded in Jackpot! Recording Studio in early 1997 and appears on the 2007 posthumous collection"
"Worst Supporting Actor for his performance in both this film and ""U Turn"", but lost the trophy to Dennis Rodman for ""Double Team"". Most Wanted (1997 film) Most Wanted is a 1997 action thriller film starring Keenen Ivory Wayans (who also wrote the film) and Jon Voight. James Dunn (Wayans), a United States Marine who served in the Gulf War, is wrongly accused of an assassination of an officer he had disputed with. Dunn is later saved from death row and recruited for a top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col. Grant Casey (Voight). Their mission is to neutralize"
"(26) 1. Imelda Staunton – ""Vera Drake"" (TIE) (52)<br> 1. Hilary Swank – ""Million Dollar Baby"" (TIE) (52)<br> 3. Julie Delpy – ""Before Sunset"" (40) 1. Thomas Haden Church – ""Sideways"" (55)<br> 2. Morgan Freeman – ""Million Dollar Baby"" (54)<br> 3. Peter Sarsgaard – ""Kinsey"" (19) 1. Virginia Madsen – ""Sideways"" (58)<br> 2. Cate Blanchett – ""The Aviator"" and ""Coffee and Cigarettes"" (37)<br> 3. Laura Linney – ""Kinsey (18)"" 1. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – ""Sideways"" (60)<br> 2. Charlie Kaufman – ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" (55)<br> 3. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke – ""Before Sunset"""
"Most Wanted (1997 film) Most Wanted is a 1997 action thriller film starring Keenen Ivory Wayans (who also wrote the film) and Jon Voight. James Dunn (Wayans), a United States Marine who served in the Gulf War, is wrongly accused of an assassination of an officer he had disputed with. Dunn is later saved from death row and recruited for a top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col. Grant Casey (Voight). Their mission is to neutralize criminals who had avoided conventional law enforcement methods. On his first mission, Dunn finds that his purpose is to actually be falsely perceived"
"Julianna Margulies Julianna Luisa Margulies (; born June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer. After several small television roles, Margulies achieved wide recognition for her role as Carol Hathaway on NBC's long-running medical drama ""ER"", for which she won an Emmy Award. She also voiced Neera in ""Dinosaur"" (2000) and appeared in the miniseries ""The Mists of Avalon"" (2001). In 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama ""The Good Wife"" on CBS. Her performance on that show has garnered acclaim: she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress"
"Christine Baranski Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American actress, singer, and producer. She is a 15-time Emmy Award nominee, winning once in 1995 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Maryanne Thorpe in the sitcom ""Cybill"" (1995–98). Baranski has received further critical acclaim for her performance as Diane Lockhart in the legal drama series ""The Good Wife"" (2009–2016) and its spinoff series ""The Good Fight"" (2017–present), as well as her recurring role as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter in the sitcom ""The Big Bang Theory"" (2009–present) for which she has received two Emmy"
"celebrated scenes of the 1997 movie ""Good Will Hunting"", Matt Damon's title character gets into a battle of wits with a student from Harvard University, whom he accuses of uncritically parroting the views of the authors on his reading list as a first-year graduate student. He goes on to predict that a little later in his curriculum, he would simply be ""regurgitating Gordon Wood."" The student begins to respond with a critique of Wood, which Hunting interrupts, completes, and notes is plagiarized from Daniel Vickers' """". In ""It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"" at a college party Charlie,the janitor of Paddy's"
"English descent. Her mother has German, Swiss-German, English, and Irish ancestry. Gummer is currently expecting her first child as of December 2018. Mamie Gummer Mary Willa ""Mamie"" Gummer (born August 3, 1983) is an American actress. She starred in the title role of The CW series ""Emily Owens, M.D."" (2012–13), and played the recurring role of Nancy Crozier on ""The Good Wife"" (2010–15) and its spin-off, ""The Good Fight"" (2018). She has also appeared in the films ""Evening"" (2007), ""Side Effects"" (2013), ""Cake"" (2014), and ""Ricki and the Flash"" (2015). She was nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award for"
"1997 MTV Movie Awards The 1997 MTV Movie Awards were held on June 10, 1997, and hosted by Mike Myers. Performers included Jewel, Bush, and En Vogue. This year also eliminated the categories of ""Most Desirable Female"" and ""Most Desirable Male."" Scream"" Tom Cruise – ""Jerry Maguire"" Claire Danes – ""Romeo + Juliet"" Matthew McConaughey – ""A Time To Kill"" Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery – ""The Rock"" Jim Carrey – ""The Cable Guy"" Jim Carrey – ""The Cable Guy"" Bush — ""Machinehead"" (from ""Fear"") Vivica A. Fox and Will Smith – ""Independence Day"" Truck Drives Through Farm Equipment –"
"and Conrad Buff ""' ""Titanic"" ""' ""As Good as It Gets"" ""' ""Shall We Dance? (Shall We Dansu?)"" • Japan ""Titanic"" – James Horner ""' ""My Heart Will Go On"" performed by Céline Dion – ""Titanic"" ""' ""L.A. Confidential"" – Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland ""' ""Good Will Hunting"" – Ben Affleck and Matt Damon ""' Burt Reynolds – ""Boogie Nights"" ""' Rupert Everett – ""My Best Friend's Wedding"" ""' Julianne Moore – ""Boogie Nights"" ""' Joan Cusack – ""In & Out"" ""' ""Contact"" – Ken Ralston Boogie Nights ""' Jimmy Smits – ""NYPD Blue"" ""' Kelsey Grammer – ""Frasier"""
"was directed by Jason Bloom. Adams played the role of Monique, Bud Macintosh's (Pauly Shore) girlfriend. In 1997's ""Chasing Amy"", Adams played the lead role of Alyssa Jones, a lesbian who falls in love with a man, played by Ben Affleck. Later, Smith would describe ""Chasing Amy"" as a ""sort of penance/valentine"" and a ""thank-you homage"" to Adams. In addition to her acting work on the film, Adams wrote and performed the song ""Alive"" for the film's soundtrack. Adams' performance in ""Chasing Amy"" earned her both the 1997 Chicago Film Critics Award and Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for"
"3. Debra Winger – ""The Sheltering Sky"" and ""Everybody Wins"" 1. Bruce Davison – ""Longtime Companion""<br> 2. Joe Pesci – ""Goodfellas""<br> 3. Al Pacino – ""Dick Tracy""<br> 3. John Turturro – ""Miller's Crossing"" 1. Annette Bening – ""The Grifters""<br> 2. Uma Thurman – ""Henry & June"" and ""Where the Heart Is""<br> 3. Dianne Wiest – ""Edward Scissorhands"" 1. Charles Burnett – ""To Sleep with Anger""<br> 2. Tom Stoppard – ""The Russia House""<br> 3. Donald E. Westlake – ""The Grifters"" 1. Peter Suschitzky – ""Where the Heart Is""<br> 2. Ian Baker – ""The Russia House""<br> 3. Philippe Rousselot – ""Henry &"
"– """" ""' Ben Kingsley – ""Sexy Beast"" ""' Jennifer Connelly – ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' James Franco – ""James Dean"" ""' Judy Davis – """" 7th Critics' Choice Awards The 7th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 11, 2002, honoring the finest achievements of 2001 filmmaking. ""' Russell Crowe – ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' Sissy Spacek – ""In the Bedroom"" ""' ""Shrek"" ""' ""Gosford Park"" ""' Dakota Fanning – ""I Am Sam"" ""' Howard Shore – """" ""' Ron Howard – ""A Beautiful Mind"" (TIE) ""' Baz Luhrmann – ""Moulin Rouge!"" (TIE) ""' ""Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's"
"Mamie Gummer Mary Willa ""Mamie"" Gummer (born August 3, 1983) is an American actress. She starred in the title role of The CW series ""Emily Owens, M.D."" (2012–13), and played the recurring role of Nancy Crozier on ""The Good Wife"" (2010–15) and its spin-off, ""The Good Fight"" (2018). She has also appeared in the films ""Evening"" (2007), ""Side Effects"" (2013), ""Cake"" (2014), and ""Ricki and the Flash"" (2015). She was nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for the original production of ""Ugly Lies the Bone"". Gummer was born in New York City, New"
"Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day)<br> 2004 Barry Levinson (Sleepers, Toys)<br> 2003 Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon, Cool Hand Luke)<br> 2002 Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You, The Fisher King)<br> 2001 Lawrence Kasdan (Return of the Jedi, Raiders of the Lost Ark)<br> 2000 Paul Mazursky (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, An Unmarried Woman)<br> 1999 James L. Brooks (The Simpsons, As Good as It Gets)<br> 1998 Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)<br> 1997 Buck Henry (The Graduate, Catch-22)<br> 1996 Bill Wittliff (Legends of the Fall, The Perfect Storm)<br> 1995 Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies) 2017 Keenen Ivory Wayans"
"""Twister"" Fairuza Balk vs. Robin Tunney – ""The Craft"" 1997 MTV Movie Awards The 1997 MTV Movie Awards were held on June 10, 1997, and hosted by Mike Myers. Performers included Jewel, Bush, and En Vogue. This year also eliminated the categories of ""Most Desirable Female"" and ""Most Desirable Male."" Scream"" Tom Cruise – ""Jerry Maguire"" Claire Danes – ""Romeo + Juliet"" Matthew McConaughey – ""A Time To Kill"" Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery – ""The Rock"" Jim Carrey – ""The Cable Guy"" Jim Carrey – ""The Cable Guy"" Bush — ""Machinehead"" (from ""Fear"") Vivica A. Fox and Will Smith"
"assassin and his sister Joan as his assistant, with Dan Aykroyd in a supporting role. Grosse Pointe Blank Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American crime comedy film directed by George Armitage, and starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd. Cusack plays a hitman who returns to his hometown to attend a high school reunion. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $31,070,412. Hitman Martin Blank finds himself depressed and disillusioned with his work. Grocer, his chief rival, is attempting to incorporate the hitman business but Martin refuses to join, putting the two at odds."
"dansu?"") • Japan<br> 3. ""Irma Vep"" • France Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1997 The 18th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best films of 1997. The awards were given on 14 December 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Helena Bonham Carter – ""The Wings of the Dove""<br> 2. Katrin Cartlidge – ""Career Girls""<br> 3. Tilda Swinton – ""Female Perversions"" 1. Kevin Spacey – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Burt Reynolds – ""Boogie Nights""<br> 3. Robert Downey Jr. – ""One Night Stand"" 1. Sarah Polley – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 2. Joan Cusack –"
"1997, and ""The Lady in the Van"" in 1999. Due to the international success of the ""Harry Potter"" movies, she is now widely known for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall, opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the title role. She has appeared in seven of the eight films in the series from 2001 to 2011. She and Radcliffe had worked together previously in the 1999 BBC television adaptation of ""David Copperfield"", in which she played Betsey Trotwood and received a BAFTA TV Award nomination. She received her sixth Academy Award nomination for the 2001 film ""Gosford Park"", directed by Robert Altman, and won"
"100, based on 23 critics, indicating ""mixed or average reviews"". Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (film) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a 1997 American crime drama film based on John Berendt's 1994 novel of the same name, directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack. It follows the story of an antiques dealer on trial for the murder of a male prostitute. The panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey): self-made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant, and"
"theory of ""emancipation"" and ""stultification"" in the present tense. The 1997 drama film ""Good Will Hunting"" follows the story of autodidact Will Hunting, played by Matt Damon. Hunting demonstrates his breadth and depth of knowledge throughout the film but especially to his therapist and in a heated discussion in a Harvard bar. One of the main characters in ""The Elegance of the Hedgehog"" (2006), by Muriel Barbery, is an autodidact. The story is told from the viewpoint of Renee, a middle-aged autodidact concierge in a Paris upscale apartment house and Paloma, a 12-year-old daughter of one of the tenants who"
"Actor at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Robin Wright received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role at the 4th Screen Actors Guild Awards. She's So Lovely She's So Lovely is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by John Cassavetes. At the time of its release, it received special attention because, eight years after his death, it was the first (and still only) posthumous film to feature previously unreleased material from John Cassavetes. The film stars Sean Penn and John Travolta as the respective men who bid for the"
"3"", ""Miss Undercover 2"", ""V-for Vendetta"", ""Aviator"", ""Alexander"", ""Ocean's Twelve"", ""Collateral"", ""Finding Nemo"", ""Lord of the Rings – Return of the King"", ""Troy"", ""Kill Bill 2"", ... etc. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Oliver Stone, Marylin Manson, Will Smith, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Jackson, Liv Tyler, Tom Hanks, ... etc. ""CeBIT"", ""AIDA"", ""GC – Games Convention"", ""Stanford Eagle"", ""Leaders Club Germany Award"", ""Minnie Driver CD Presentation"", ""Priscilla Presley CD Presentation"", ""The Sound"
"Dina Meyer Dina Meyer (born December 22, 1968) is an American film and television actress. She began her career appearing in a recurring role on the Fox teen drama series ""Beverly Hills, 90210"" (1993–94), before landing a female leading role opposite Keanu Reeves in the 1995 film ""Johnny Mnemonic"". Meyer has had starring roles in films ""Dragonheart"" (1996), ""Starship Troopers"" (1997), ""Bats"" (1999), ""D-Tox"" (2002), and """" (2002). She played Detective Allison Kerry in the ""Saw"" film franchise. On television, Meyer starred as Barbara Gordon/Oracle/Batgirl in the short-lived The WB series ""Birds of Prey"" (2002–03), and well as was regular"
"Runner"" (1982) with Sean Young, ""Blue Velvet"" (1986) with Isabella Rossellini, ""Basic Instinct"" (1992) with Sharon Stone, ""Damage"" (1992) with Juliette Binoche"", The Last Seduction"" (1994) with Linda Fiorentino, ""To Die For"" (1995) with Nicole Kidman, ""Space Jam"" (1996) with Kath Soucie, ""Lost Highway"" (1997) with Patricia Arquette, ""Cowboy Bebop"" (1998) with Wendee Lee, ""Devil in the Flesh"" (1998) and ""Jawbreaker"" (1999), both with Rose McGowan, ""Original Sin"" (2001) with Angelina Jolie, ""Femme Fatale"" (2002) with Rebecca Romijn, and ""Jennifer's Body"" (2009), with Megan Fox. In 2013, Tania Raymonde played the title role in """". In 2014, Eva Green portrayed"
"with such events."" Minnie Driver was nominated for the award for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries at the 4th Critics' Choice Television Awards (the award was won by Jessica Lange for """") and for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. During post-production, Hanish turned to Kickstarter to raise additional funds to cover music, post-production sound and color-correction. This crowdsourcing effort raised more than the requested amount. Minnie Driver stated on the ""CBS Sunday Morning"" show (June 8, 2014) that more than 700 families of stillborn children contributed to the crowdsourcing."