"letting off steam about the difficulties of the job. In 1994, he portrayed American academic Charles Van Doren in ""Quiz Show."" In 1996 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the epic World War II romance ""The English Patient,"" in which he starred with Kristin Scott-Thomas. Fiennes' film work has encompassed a variety of genres, including thrillers (""Spider""), an animated Biblical epic (""The Prince of Egypt""), camp nostalgia (""The Avengers""), romantic comedy (""Maid in Manhattan""), and historical drama (""Sunshine""). In 1999, Fiennes had the title role in ""Onegin,"" a film which he also helped produce. His"
"Labour Camp became internationally known through his depiction by British actor Ralph Fiennes in the film ""Schindler's List"" (1993). In an interview, Fiennes recalled: Fiennes won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His portrayal ranked 15th on American Film Institute's list of the top 50 film villains of all time, the highest ranking for a depiction of a non-fictional person. When Płaszów survivor Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Fiennes on the set of the film, she began to shake uncontrollably, as Fiennes, costumed in full"
"Matter of Time"" (1976). During the course of his career he directed seven different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Spencer Tracy, Gloria Grahame, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley MacLaine and Martha Hyer. Grahame and Quinn won. Minnelli received an Oscar nomination as Best Director for ""An American in Paris"" (1951) and later won the Best Director Oscar for ""Gigi"" (1958). According to Peter Bart in his book ""The Gross"", Minnelli's films having 11 first-place finishes on Variety's opening release box office rankings. He was awarded France's highest civilian honor, Commandeur of the Legion of Honor, only weeks before his"
"rights to the simple title ""Wuthering Heights"" due to the copyright on their 1939 film version of the novel. The film stars Ralph Fiennes as the tortured Heathcliff and Juliette Binoche as the free-spirited Catherine Earnshaw, in a precursor to their later, successful collaboration on ""The English Patient"". The role of Heathcliff opened up doors for Ralph Fiennes to play Amon Goeth in ""Schindler's List"". American director Steven Spielberg claimed he liked Fiennes for Goeth because of his ""dark sexuality."" The film received mostly negative reviews from film critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of"
"1. Ralph Fiennes – ""Schindler's List""<br> 2. Leonardo DiCaprio – ""What's Eating Gilbert Grape"" and ""This Boy's Life""<br> 2. Tommy Lee Jones – ""The Fugitive"" 1. Madeleine Stowe – ""Short Cuts""<br> 2. Gwyneth Paltrow – ""Flesh and Bone""<br> 3. Jennifer Jason Leigh – ""Short Cuts""<br> 3. Anna Paquin – ""The Piano"" 1. Jane Campion – ""The Piano""<br> 2. John Guare – ""Six Degrees of Separation""<br> 3. Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt – ""Short Cuts"" 1. Janusz Kamiński – ""Schindler's List""<br> 2. Stuart Dryburgh – ""The Piano""<br> 3. Michael Ballhaus – ""The Age of Innocence"" 1. The Story of Qiu Ju"
"Best Actor. He and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. His other films include the satire film ""Buffalo Soldiers"" (2001), the science fiction thriller ""Signs"" (2002), the animated film ""Brother Bear"" (2003), the historical drama film ""Hotel Rwanda"" (2004), the psychological thriller ""The Village"" (2004), the documentary ""Earthlings"" (2005), the romantic drama ""Two Lovers"" (2008), the drama ""The Immigrant"" (2013), the romantic science fiction drama ""Her"" (2013), the crime comedy-drama film ""Inherent Vice"" (2014), and the thriller ""You Were Never Really Here"" (2017), for which he won the Cannes"
"to win an Academy Award, surpassing the 431-minute long ""War and Peace,"" which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. Following the five-part documentary's win, new Academy rules barred any ""multi-part or limited series"" from being eligible for documentary categories. With Casey Affleck winning the Oscar for Best Actor, him and his older brother, Ben Affleck, became the 16th pair of siblings to win Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Viola Davis became the first black person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting with her Oscar, Emmy, and"
"got several nominations at the BAFTA awards, including Best Cinematography (Roger Pratt), Best Costume Design (Sandy Powell), Best Film (Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan), Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Ralph Fiennes) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Julianne Moore). Neil Jordan won a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. Neil Jordan was nominated for the Best Director (Motion Picture) Golden Globe and Julianne Moore was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Ralph Fiennes also won the best eyewear award at the GQ Men of 2000 Awards for"
"directed by Anthony Minghella. ""English Patient"" swept the 69th Academy Awards, winning Best Director for Minghella and Best Picture for Zaentz. At the same ceremony, Zaentz also accepted The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement. In 2003, Zaentz was made a Fellow of BAFTA, in recognition of his film career. In 2004–05. Zaentz and partners sold Fantasy Records to independent jazz label Concord Records, and closed the Saul Zaentz Film Center. In 2005–06 Zaentz embarked on a new film project, ""Goya's Ghosts"", centered on events in the life of Spanish painter Francisco Goya, starring Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem,"
"Innocence"" won one award: Best Supporting Actress, Miriam Margolyes. ""Schindler's List"" ""Farewell My Concubine (Ba Wang Bie Ji)"" Anthony Hopkins in ""The Remains of the Day"" Holly Hunter in ""The Piano"" Ralph Fiennes in ""Schindler's List"" Miriam Margolyes in ""The Age of Innocence"" Steven Spielberg - ""Schindler's List"" ""Groundhog Day"" - Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis"" ""Schindler's List"" - Steven Zaillian ""Schindler's List"" - Janusz Kamiński ""The Piano"" - Janet Patterson ""The Fugitive"" - John Leveque, Bruce Stambler, Becky Sullivan, Scott D. Smith, Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Herbick, Frank A. Montaño ""Schindler's List"" - Michael Kahn ""Jurassic Park"" - Dennis"
"Martha Fiennes Martha Maria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 5 February 1964) is an English film director, writer and producer. An award-winning director, Fiennes is best known for her films ""Onegin"" (1999), which starred her elder brother, Ralph, and ""Chromophobia"" (2005). Fiennes made her directorial debut with the film ""Onegin"" – an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel ""Eugene Onegin"", which starred her brother Ralph in the title role. The film received much praise, and she won the Best Director Award at the Tokyo Film Festival and the Best Newcomer at the London Film Critics' Circle. Following ""Onegin"", Fiennes wrote her second"
"and Germany. ""Oscar and Lucinda"" received generally positive reviews from critics, holding a 66/100 on Metacritic and the same approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Oscar and Lucinda (film) Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 British-Australian romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel ""Oscar and Lucinda"" by Peter Carey. In March 1998, the film was nominated at the Academy Awards for the Best Costume Design. As a child living in Australia, Lucinda Leplastrier is given a Prince Rupert's Drop which sparks"
"Sylvester Stallone in the Best Supporting Actor category, while it was the great winner at the recent Black Reel Awards, where it earned a total of five awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Coogler), and Best Actor (for Michael B. Jordan). A number of celebrities including Will Smith, Best Original Song nominee Antony Hegarty, Jussie Smollett, and Spike Lee declared they would boycott this year's Academy Awards ceremony, some of them attending Ryan Coogler's charity event ""Justice for Flint"" instead. Coogler however supported the nominated Sylvester Stallone to stand up for the film, attending the Academy Awards ceremony. The"
"Quentin Tarantino – ""Django Unchained"" Tony Kushner – ""Lincoln"" Wreck-It Ralph Skyfall Daniel Craig – ""Skyfall"" as James Bond Jennifer Lawrence – ""The Hunger Games"" as Katniss Everdeen Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper – ""Silver Linings Playbook"" as Patrizio ""Pat"" Solitano, Jr. Jennifer Lawrence – ""Silver Linings Playbook"" as Tiffany Maxwell Looper ""Amour"" • Austria / France / Germany Searching for Sugar Man Sarah Greenwood (Production Designer) and Katie Spencer (Set Decorator) – ""Anna Karenina"" Claudio Miranda – ""Life of Pi"" Jacqueline Durran – ""Anna Karenina"" William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor – ""Zero Dark Thirty"" Cloud Atlas John Williams –"
"directing ""Apollo 13""); 2000 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing ""Traffic""); 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing ""The Pianist""); and 2012 (Ang Lee won the Oscar for directing ""Life of Pi"" as Ben Affleck was not nominated for directing ""Argo""). This does not count 1948–49, when the DGA used a non-calendar award year (unlike the Academy Awards); both 1948 and 1949 DGA winners competed for the 1949 Academy Award for Best Director, which went to the 1948 DGA winner (Joseph L. Mankiewicz for ""A Letter to Three Wives""). Conversely, sixteen times has the representing film directed by"
"directed by Mike Newell, starring Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter; ""Byzantium"", directed by Neil Jordan, starring Saoirse Ronan; and ""Made in Dagenham"", nominated for three BAFTAs. She also produced the international box office success ""Ladies in Lavender"", starring Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, and co-produced Neil Jordan’s ""The Crying Game"", nominated for six Academy Awards. Her latest films − ""Carol"", written by Phyllis Nagy, directed by Todd Haynes and starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, and ""Youth"", directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel − premiered in main competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Projects"
"""Main article:"" List of awards and nominations received by Ralph Fiennes Ralph Fiennes Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer and director, particularly known for his portrayal of the villainous Lord Voldemort in the ""Harry Potter"" film series. A Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. Fiennes' portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Göth in ""Schindler's List"" (1993) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a"
"(1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Since then, Fiennes has been in a number of notable films, including ""Quiz Show"" (1994), ""Strange Days"" (1995), ""The End of the Affair"" (1999), ""Red Dragon"" (2002), ""Maid in Manhattan"" (2002), ""The Constant Gardener"" (2005), ""In Bruges"" (2008), ""The Reader"" (2008), ""Clash of the Titans"" (2010), ""Great Expectations"" (2012) and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" (2014). He voiced Rameses in ""The Prince of Egypt"" (1998) and Alfred Pennyworth in ""The Lego Batman Movie"" (2017). Fiennes is also known for his roles in"
"thus avoiding religious sensibilities in the finished film. ""As we were exploring the characters, especially Frollo, we certainly found a lot of historical parallels to the type of mania he had: the Confederate South, Nazi Germany, take your pick,"" explained Wise. ""Those things influenced our thinking."" Producer Don Hahn evaluated that one inspiration for Frollo was found in Ralph Fiennes's performance as Amon Goeth in ""Schindler's List"", who murders Jews yet desires his Jewish maid. For the opening sequence, Disney story veteran Burny Mattinson constructed an effective sequence that covered much exposition, although studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg felt something was"
"The English Patient (film) The English Patient is a 1996 British-American romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by Saul Zaentz. The film tells the story of Count László de Almásy, who is burned from a plane crash and tells his past story in flashbacks involving a romantic affair, while he is tended by a nurse. The film was released to critical acclaim, and received 12 nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella, and"
"3. Roger Deakins – ""A Serious Man"" 1. Kathryn Bigelow – ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. Wes Anderson – ""Fantastic Mr. Fox""<br> 3. Quentin Tarantino – ""Inglourious Basterds"" 1. ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. ""Up in the Air""<br> 3. ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"" 1. ""Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)"" • France<br> 2. ""Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos)"" • Spain<br> 3. ""Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick)"" • Sweden 1. ""Of Time and the City""<br> 2. ""Anvil! The Story of Anvil""<br> 3. ""Tyson"" 1. Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche, – ""In the Loop""<br> 2. Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner – ""Up"
"Universal, and Paramount) to win the Best Picture Oscar. ""Rebecca"" was the first American-made film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and the only film from him to win Best Picture. Hitchcock had two films nominated for Best Picture, the other being ""Foreign Correspondent"". Two other directors also had two films in the running this year: Sam Wood (""Our Town"" and ""Kitty Foyle"") and John Ford (""The Long Voyage Home"" and ""The Grapes of Wrath"", which won Best Director). ""Pinocchio"" was the first animated film to take home competitive Oscars, for both Best Original Score and Best Original Song, starting a long"
"the same name. A year later, he fell in love on the movie screen with Helena Bonham Carter in ""Margaret's Museum"", for which he earned a Genie nomination at the 16th Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. After more TV roles and another film, Russell played Ralph Fiennes' father in another critically acclaimed film, ""Oscar and Lucinda"" . Growing recognition of his acting skills then brought him major roles in four major TV miniseries: ""Great Expectations"", ""Oliver Twist"", ""The Railway Children"" and ""The Mists of Avalon"". Standing 6' 6"", Russell is a familiar and"
"Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In the 2000s, Caine appeared in ""Miss Congeniality"" (2000), ""Last Orders"" (2001), ""The Quiet American"" (2002), for which he was Oscar-nominated, and others. Several of Caine's classic films have been remade, including ""The Italian Job"", ""Get Carter"", ""Alfie"" and ""Sleuth"". In the 2007 remake of ""Sleuth"", Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role. Caine is one of the few actors to have played a starring role in two different versions of the same film. In an interview with CNN, Law spoke of"
"and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2004, he received Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and British Academy Film Award nominations for his role in Anthony Minghella's epic war film ""Cold Mountain"" (2003). Law's other notable films include ""Gattaca"" (1997), ""Enemy at the Gates"" (2001), Steven Spielberg's ""A.I. Artificial Intelligence"" (2001), ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), ""Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"" (2004), ""Alfie"" (2004), Mike Nichols' ""Closer"" (2004), ""I Heart Huckabees"" (2004), ""The Holiday"" (2006), Repo Men (2010), ""Contagion"" (2011), Martin Scorsese's ""Hugo"" (2011), Joe Wright's ""Anna Karenina"" (2012),"
"Revenant"", respectively. The Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for both Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards. Only seven times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing ""Oliver!""); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing ""Cabaret""); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing ""Out of Africa"", as Steven Spielberg was not nominated for directing ""The Color Purple""); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing ""Braveheart"", as Ron Howard was not nominated for"
"Philadelphia (film) Philadelphia is a 1993 American drama film and one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, and homophobia. It was written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 66th Academy Awards for his role as Andrew Beckett in the film, while the song ""Streets of Philadelphia"" by Bruce Springsteen won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Nyswaner was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but lost to Jane Campion for ""The Piano"". Andrew"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"co-executive producer of Martin Scorsese's ""Gangs of New York"", and Executive in Charge of Production on Anthony Minghella's ""Cold Mountain"". In October 2005, he was appointed Executive Vice-President, European Production and Development for The Weinstein Company. He was an executive producer of Anthony Minghella's ""Breaking and Entering"", starring Jude Law, and Chris Noonan's ""Miss Potter"", starring Renée Zellweger. He also developed and oversaw production on numerous projects for The Weinstein Company, including ""The Reader"", ""Factory Girl"" and Minghella's final film for television, ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"". He joined Graham King's GK Films in Los Angeles as Co-President of"
"Hannah Minghella his niece; both of whom work in movies. Dominic's son, Dante, appeared on the 2006 Channel 4 programme ""Child Genius"". He read PPE at Merton College, Oxford. His sister Edana Minghella co-wrote 4 episodes of Doc Martin. As a child, Minghella starred in the first film his brother Anthony directed, ""A Little Like Drowning"". Dominic Minghella was producer of the 2012 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel, ""The Scapegoat"", directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Matthew Rhys. Minghella was lead writer and executive producer of the BBC One series ""Robin Hood"" for the first two seasons, overseeing 26"
"husband, Sydney Box, for the 1945 film ""The Seventh Veil"". The Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. Only three other married couples won an Oscar in another category—Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace (for Original Screenplay), Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (for Adapted Screenplay and Picture), and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (for Original Song). In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for ""Fargo""). Francis Ford Coppola (""Patton"", 1970) and Sofia Coppola (""Lost in Translation"", 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win. Preston Sturges"
"Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for ""The Reader."" the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in ""rare and extraordinary circumstance[s]."" Steven Spielberg currently holds the record for most nominations at ten, winning one, while Kathleen Kennedy holds the record for most nominations without a win at eight. Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz tie for the most wins with three each. As for the time when the Oscar was given to production companies instead, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer holds the record with five wins and 40 nominations. The Academy Awards"
"Sam Mendes, the man behind ""American Beauty""). In 2002, he performed at the Royal Court as Griffin in ""The Night Heron"". Two years later, he joined Kevin Spacey for ""24 Hour Plays"" at the Old Vic, a series of productions that were written, rehearsed and performed in a single day. Now internationally known, Winstone was next chosen by Anthony Minghella to play Teague, a sinister Home Guard boss, in the American Civil War drama ""Cold Mountain"". Perhaps inspired by Burke and Oldman, Winstone has now decided to direct and produce his own films, setting up ""Size 9"" and ""Flicks"" production"