"- ""Billy Elliot"" Greg Brenman and Jonathan Finn - ""Billy Elliot"" London Film Critics Circle Awards 2000 The 21st London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2000, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 15 February 2001. ""Being John Malkovich"" ""Billy Elliot"" ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" • Taiwan/Hong Kong/United States/China Spike Jonze - ""Being John Malkovich"" Stephen Daldry - ""Billy Elliot"" Charlie Kaufman - ""Being John Malkovich"" Christopher Nolan - ""Memento"" Russell Crowe - ""Gladiator"" and ""The Insider Julia Roberts - ""Erin Brockovich"" Jim Broadbent - ""Topsy-Turvy"" Julie Walters - ""Billy Elliot"" Albert Finney"
"and Stephen Mangan were also in final talks to join the film, and Patrick Malahide and Barbara Leigh-Hunt were added to the cast, playing the Royal Ballet School principals. On 17 June 1999, Neil North and Lee Williams joined the cast of the film, playing the Royal Ballet School tutors. ""Billy Elliot"" was originally released at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival under the title ""Dancer"". It was later decided to re-title the film ""Billy Elliot"" to avoid confusion with ""Dancer In The Dark"", another film at Cannes that year. ""Billy Elliot"" was theatrically released on 29 September 2000 by Universal"
"Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer. It is set in North East England during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike. It was produced by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn, music composed by Stephen Warbeck, co-produced by BBC Films, Tiger Aspect Pictures and Working Title Films, distributed by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the negative stereotype of the male ballet dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner"
"Lee Hall (playwright) Lee Hall (born 20 September 1966) is an English playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2000 film ""Billy Elliot"". Hall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, in 1966, the son of a house painter and decorator and a housewife. He was educated at Benfield School in Walkergate. As a youth he went to Wallsend Young People's Theatre along with Deka Walmsley and Trevor Fox who later appeared in both ""Billy Elliot"" and ""The Pitmen Painters"". He went to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature and was taught by the"
"Hamlet (2000 film) Hamlet, also known as Hamlet 2000, is a 2000 American drama film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, Kyle MacLachlan co-stars as Uncle Claudius, with Diane Venora as Gertrude, Liev Schreiber as Laertes, Julia Stiles as Ophelia, Steve Zahn as Rosencrantz, Bill Murray as Polonius, and Sam Shepard as Hamlet's father. In this version of ""Hamlet"", Claudius ""king"", of ""Denmark Corporation"", having taken over the firm by killing his brother, Hamlet's father. This"
"Corey Snide Corey Snide (born December 19, 1993) is an American actor and dancer best known for his performance as Billy in ""Billy Elliot the Musical"" based on the hit film ""Billy Elliot"". Snide is a graduate of Colonie Central High School (class of 2011), and of Juilliard (class of 2015). He began dancing at the age of three and was trained in ""Tap"", ""Jazz"", ""Ballet"", ""Street"" and ""Contemporary"" at ""Eleanor's School of the Dance"". Snide has competed in dance competitions across the United States and won many titles and awards in the category of 13 and under. He represented"
"Guru""... is a grindingly conventional comedy that insists on tying up its subplots in pretty ribbons and bows."" The Guru (2002 film) The Guru is a 2002 British-French-American sex comedy film written by Tracey Jackson and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer. The film centers on a dance teacher who comes to America from India to pursue a normal career but incidentally stumbles into a brief but high-profile career as a sex guru, a career based on a philosophy he learns from a pornographic actress. The film stars Jimi Mistry as the eponymous character, Heather Graham as the actress he"
"Playing Mona Lisa Playing Mona Lisa is a 2000 comedy film directed by Matthew Huffman and starring Alicia Witt, Harvey Fierstein, Johnny Galecki, Elliott Gould, Marlo Thomas, Molly Hagan and Brooke Langton. It is based on a play by Marni Freedman. Everything goes wrong all at once in gifted 23-year-old pianist Claire Goldstein's life. San Francisco has an earthquake, she loses her apartment, her boyfriend Jeremy dumps her and she misses out on an important piano competition. Claire is forced to move home with her parents (Marlo Thomas, Elliott Gould), where sister Jenine (Molly Hagan) is busy planning a wedding."
"The Guru (2002 film) The Guru is a 2002 British-French-American sex comedy film written by Tracey Jackson and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer. The film centers on a dance teacher who comes to America from India to pursue a normal career but incidentally stumbles into a brief but high-profile career as a sex guru, a career based on a philosophy he learns from a pornographic actress. The film stars Jimi Mistry as the eponymous character, Heather Graham as the actress he learns from, and Marisa Tomei, who helps him reach his guru status among her socialite New York City"
"Kathryn. His father, John Bell, a toolmaker, left before Jamie was born. Bell began his involvement with dance after he accompanied his sister to her ballet lessons. In 1999, he was chosen from a field of over 2,000 boys for the role of Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old boy who dismays his working-class widowed father and elder brother by taking up ballet. He also appeared in ""Close and True"", an ITV legal drama shown in 2000, which starred Robson Green, James Bolam and Susan Jameson. Bell served as Honorary Jury President of the 2001 Giffoni Film Festival. In 2002, he appeared"
"A Time for Dancing A Time for Dancing is a 2000 American drama film directed by Peter Gilbert and starring Larisa Oleynik, Shiri Appleby and Peter Coyote. It is an adaptation based on the novel of the same name by Davida Wills Hurwin. Sam Russell (Shiri Appleby) tells the story of her best friend Jules Michaels (Larisa Oleynik). They met at the age of 6 in a dance class. Over the years they become best friends. Sam dances, but Jules is a true dancer, with true passion towards it and views it as important as life itself. Unfortunately, her passion"
"at the Victoria Palace Theatre on the West End. Many of the film's crew took part in the stage production, including director Stephen Daldry and choreographer Peter Darling. The musical received positive notices and ran for over 4,000 performances before closing in April 2016. Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer. It is set in North East England during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike. It was produced by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn, music composed by Stephen Warbeck, co-produced by BBC Films, Tiger Aspect Pictures and Working Title"
"54th British Academy Film Awards The 54th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 25 February 2001 and honoured the best films of 2000. Ridley Scott's Gladiator won Best Film, while Ang Lee won Best Director for ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"". ""Billy Elliot"" was voted Best British Film of 2000, and the film's lead actor, Jamie Bell, won Best Actor in a Leading Role. In addition, Julia Roberts won Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in ""Erin Brockovich"", Benicio del Toro won Best"
"the Love-ins, the Screw Ups: The Sixties"". Other projects in the pipeline include a biopic of Elton John called ""Rocketman"", a stage musical adaptation of Pink Floyd's ""The Wall"" and a film adaptation of George Orwell's ""Down and Out In Paris and London"". Hall married film director Beeban Kidron (Baroness Kidron) in 2003, who was the initial director of ""Hippie Hippie Shake"". Lee Hall (playwright) Lee Hall (born 20 September 1966) is an English playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2000 film ""Billy Elliot"". Hall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, in 1966, the"
"Dance Alliance) Nationals scored him a four year college scholarship to Marymount Manhattan College. In March 2011, Snide was accepted into Juilliard, from which he graduated in 2015. In July 2016, Snide started playing the understudy/alternate for the roles of ""Coricopat"" and ""Mistoffelees"" in the Broadway revival of the musical show Cats. In middle school, he was in a few school plays including one with students such as Jill Lambert. Corey Snide Corey Snide (born December 19, 1993) is an American actor and dancer best known for his performance as Billy in ""Billy Elliot the Musical"" based on the hit"
"The Gift (2000 film) The Gift is a 2000 American supernatural thriller film directed by Sam Raimi, written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson, and based on the alleged psychic experiences of Thornton's mother. The film centers on Annie (Cate Blanchett) becoming involved in a murder case as a result of acquiring knowledge about the crime through extrasensory perception. The cast also includes Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, and Greg Kinnear. In the town of Brixton, Georgia, widow Annie Wilson is the resident fortune-teller. Jessica King, the fiancée of local school teacher, Wayne Collins, disappears. Annie"
"Class of 1999 II: The Substitute Class of 1999 II: The Substitute is a 1993 direct-to-video film about a new teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students all are affiliated with gangs, drugs, and violence. It was directed by stunt expert Spiro Razatos and starred Sasha Mitchell as renegade teacher John Bolen. The movie is a sequel to ""Class of 1999"" but does not contain many story links to that movie except inserted footage from flashback sequences and a vague reference to previous happenings in the plot. John Bolen is the new substitute teacher at a local high"
"his classroom, making him disliked but respected. Twenty years pass and he becomes the senior master. He is disappointed in not receiving an appointment as a housemaster within the school for the following year. However, the new German teacher, Max Staefel (Paul Henreid), saves him from despair by inviting him to share a walking holiday to his native Austria. While mountain-climbing, Chipping encounters Kathy Ellis (Greer Garson), a feisty English suffragette who is on a cycling holiday with a friend. They meet again in Vienna where she persuades him to dance to the Blue Danube Waltz. This piece of music"
"Mower the youngest ever winner of this award. Mower also obtained a Critics' Cirle Award the same month for Best Newcomer. Liam Mower Liam Mower (born 30 May 1992 in Kingston upon Hull, England) is an English actor and dancer. Best known for his talent for ballet, he was one of the three boys who shared the lead role in the original London cast of ""Billy Elliot the Musical"". He is currently employed by Matthew Bourne and has appeared in his production of ""Swan Lake"", ""The Nutcracker"" and ""The Car Men"". Mower is from Kingston upon Hull. His father is"
"1. Frances McDormand – ""Almost Famous"" and ""Wonder Boys""<br> 2. Julie Walters – ""Billy Elliot""<br> 3. Madeline Kahn – ""Judy Berlin"" 1. Cameron Crowe – ""Almost Famous""<br> 2. Edward Yang – ""Yi Yi""<br> 3. Steven Soderbergh – ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic""<br> 3. Michael Winterbottom – ""The Claim"" and ""Wonderland"" 1. Cameron Crowe – ""Almost Famous""<br> 1. Steve Kloves – ""Wonder Boys""<br> 3. Mike White – ""Chuck & Buck"" 1. Peter Pau – ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long"")<br> 2. Agnès Godard – ""Beau Travail""<br> 3. Alwin H. Kuchler – ""The Claim""<br> 3. Matthew Libatique – ""Tigerland"" and ""Requiem"
"Dani (Demi Lovato) and Elliott ""Starchild"" Gilbert (Adam Lambert) disagree over the choice of venue, but are convinced by how Kurt envisions their first performance, in which they sing ""Into the Groove"". The school board visits McKinley ahead of the inspection to discuss with Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) the possibility of becoming full-time Principal, to which she agrees. She develops a crush on Superintendent Bob Harris (Christopher Cousins), and is disappointed to find out he thinks she is a man. Sue confides in Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter) that she changed her more feminine appearance and adopted her trademark tracksuits when"
"making $2.3 million USD in its opening weekend. The film suffered a 59% decline in box office earnings the following week, descending to #17. Gossip (2000 American film) Gossip is a 2000 American teen psychological thriller film directed by Davis Guggenheim and featuring an ensemble cast including James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, and Kate Hudson. The film takes place on a college campus in the Northeastern United States. Derrick Webb (James Marsden), Cathy Jones (Lena Headey), and Travis (Norman Reedus) are students as well as roommates. They all take a Communications class with Professor Goodwin (Eric Bogosian), in which"
"went on to co-star with Max Beesley in ""The Match"" (1999; released on video in USA in 2001) before landing his international breakthrough part as the father of a young boy who wants to become a ballet dancer in ""Billy Elliot"" (2000). Lewis delivered a multi-layered turn as a man coping with grief over the death of his wife, a violent strike that threatens his livelihood and the struggles of raising two sons. The actor rounded out his banner year teaming with Irish actor Sean McGinley in ""What Where"", a 12-minute short film of Samuel Beckett's play, and supporting Michael"
"Kiril Kulish Kiril Jacob Kulish (born February 16, 1994) is an American actor, dancer, and singer who is best known for portraying the title role in the original American production of ""Billy Elliot the Musical"". Kulish was born in San Diego, California on February 16, 1994. His parents, Raisa Kulish and KIrk Kulish are immigrants from the Ukraine. His older brother, Victor, is a singer/songwriter and recording engineer, and his older sister Beata is a TV/film producer. He grew up speaking Russian, Ukrainian, and English. He started studying ballet at age five and ballroom dancing at age 8. He studied"
"Kiril Kulish Kiril Jacob Kulish (born February 16, 1994) is an American actor, dancer, and singer who is best known for portraying the title role in the original American production of ""Billy Elliot the Musical"". Kulish was born in San Diego, California on February 16, 1994. His parents, Raisa Kulish and KIrk Kulish are immigrants from the Ukraine. His older brother, Victor, is a singer/songwriter and recording engineer, and his older sister Beata is a TV/film producer. He grew up speaking Russian, Ukrainian, and English. He started studying ballet at age five and ballroom dancing at age 8. He studied"
"Teaching Mrs. Tingle Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a 1999 American dark comedy-thriller film. The directing debut of the film's screenwriter Kevin Williamson, it follows a trio of seniors who must prove their innocence to their vindictive history teacher, who accuses them of cheating on their exams. Williamson originally shelved the script, before the success of his later projects, including ""Dawson's Creek"", ""Scream"", and its first sequel. Following this, the script was eventually picked up. The film stars Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlan, Barry Watson, and Jeffrey Tambor, and was released on August 20, 1999. It was originally titled ""Killing"
"the character Bruno Martelli, an introverted musical genius. Gene Anthony Ray who portrayed Leroy Johnson, a tough hood from the projects with a natural talent for dance who muscles his way into an audition and wins. In the film, Leroy is also illiterate, but this was not addressed in the television series. Albert Hague who played teacher Benjamin Shorofsky, a German music teacher who constantly battled with Bruno Martelli over music styles. And the final cast member from the film was Debbie Allen who played dance instructor Lydia Grant. Although Lydia only appeared briefly in the movie, her character was"
"a Golden Globe. She received a second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in the 2000 film ""Billy Elliot"", which also won her a BAFTA. Her other film credits include ""Personal Services"", ""Prick Up Your Ears"" (both 1987), ""Buster"" (1988), ""Stepping Out"" (1991), ""Sister My Sister"" (1994), ""Girls' Night"", ""Titanic Town"" (both 1998), ""Calendar Girls"" (2003), ""Wah-Wah"" (2005), ""Driving Lessons"" (2006), ""Becoming Jane"" (2007), ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008) and its sequel (2018), ""Brave"" (2012), ""Paddington"" (2014) and its sequel (2017), ""Effie Gray"" (2014), ""Brooklyn"" (2015), ""Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool"" (2017), and ""Mary Poppins"
"Gossip (2000 American film) Gossip is a 2000 American teen psychological thriller film directed by Davis Guggenheim and featuring an ensemble cast including James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, and Kate Hudson. The film takes place on a college campus in the Northeastern United States. Derrick Webb (James Marsden), Cathy Jones (Lena Headey), and Travis (Norman Reedus) are students as well as roommates. They all take a Communications class with Professor Goodwin (Eric Bogosian), in which the subject of gossip is brought up. For their final project, the three students decide to start a rumor and track and see the"
"dancers (Amanda Schull, Ethan Stiefel, Sascha Radetsky, and Julie Kent), one is a professional figure skater (Ilia Kulik), one had ballet training (Zoe Saldana), and two were actors with no ballet training (Susan May Pratt and Shakiem Evans). Body doubles were used for many of the major dance sequences, and students from the School of American Ballet (including now-retired NYCB principal dancer Janie Taylor and current principal Jared Angle) filled the classrooms of ABA and corps in the workshop ballets. There subplot in which Cooper attracts the financial support of a flirtatious wealthy female philanthropist is mentioned in an August"
"Gym Teacher: The Movie Gym Teacher: The Movie is a 2008 Nickelodeon Original Movie. It stars Christopher Meloni, Nathan Kress, Amy Sedaris, David Alan Grier and Chelah Horsdal. It premiered on September 12, 2008. David ""Dave"" Stewie (Christopher Meloni) is a middle school PE teacher who sees a forthcoming award as a way to redeem himself of his greatest regret, a failure to make the 1988 US Olympic Team. Meanwhile, Roland Waffle (Nathan Kress) is a new transfer student who is completely non-athletic and wears a helmet at all times due to his mother worrying he will get hurt. Abigail"
"Jamie Bell Andrew James Matfin Bell (born 14 March 1986) is an English actor and dancer. He rose to prominence for his debut role in ""Billy Elliot"" (2000), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He is also known for his roles in the films ""King Kong"" (2005), ""Jumper"" (2008), ""The Adventures of Tintin"" (2011), ""Snowpiercer"" (2013), and ""Fantastic Four"" (2015), as well as starring as Abraham Woodhull in the television series """" (2014). Bell was born in Billingham, England, where he grew up with his mother, Eileen (""née"" Matfin), and elder sister,"
"Dancing at the Blue Iguana Dancing at the Blue Iguana is an American drama film, released in 2000, directed by Michael Radford about the lives of strippers in an adult club. The film was based on an improvisational workshop involving the lead actors. It explores the intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at a San Fernando Valley strip club, the Blue Iguana, and the difficulties in their lives. Angel (Daryl Hannah) wishes for a baby of her own or a foster child to take care of, but her messy, dysfunctional existence makes this an impossible dream. Jo (Jennifer"