"Dead Man Walking (film) Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the non-fiction book of the same name. Sister Helen Prejean (Sarandon) establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet (Penn) – based on real-life murderers Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie – a prisoner on death row in Louisiana, acting as his spiritual adviser after carrying on correspondence with him. Matthew Poncelet has been in prison for six years, awaiting his execution after being sentenced to death for"
"of the CBS sitcom ""Alice"" as Jolene Hunnicutt until the series ended in 1985. Weston later said that her role in ""Alice"" hindered her film career. Although she had initially rejected the role, she admitted that ""the money became so phenomenal that I just had to do it."" In later years, Weston acted in independent films and stage productions. She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her role as Mary Beth Percy in the 1995 crime drama film, ""Dead Man Walking"" opposite Susan Sarandon. She also received her Tony Award nomination for her performance"
"inmates on Death Row and witnessed several more executions. She served as National Chairperson of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty from 1993 to 1995. She published ""Dead Man Walking"" (1993), an account of her relationship with Sonnier and other inmates on death row, and the factors related to her growing opposition to the death penalty. The book was adapted for a 1995 feature film of the same name; she was portrayed by Susan Sarandon. Her book was also adapted as an opera, first produced in 2000; and as a play. For her book, she drew from her"
"1995 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 30th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1996, honored the best filmmaking of 1995. 1. Babe<br> 2. ""Crumb""<br> 3. ""Safe"" 1. Mike Figgis – ""Leaving Las Vegas""<br> 2. Todd Haynes – ""Safe""<br> 3. Walter Hill – ""Wild Bill"" 1. Nicolas Cage – ""Leaving Las Vegas""<br> 2. Sean Penn – ""Dead Man Walking""<br> 3. Jeff Bridges – ""Wild Bill""<br> 3. Morgan Freeman – ""Seven"" 1. Elisabeth Shue – ""Leaving Las Vegas""<br> 2. Jennifer Jason Leigh – ""Georgia""<br> 3. Meryl Streep – ""The Bridges of Madison County"" 1. Don Cheadle"
"her best-selling book, ""Dead Man Walking"" (1993), based on her experiences with two convicts on Death Row for whom she served as spiritual adviser before their executions. In her book, she explored the effects of the death penalty on everyone involved. The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. It was also adapted as an opera, first produced in 2000 by the San Francisco Opera. Helen Prejean was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Augusta Mae (née Bourg; 1911–1993), a nurse, and Louis Sebastian Prejean (1893–1974), a lawyer."
"received one for best screenplay. At the 46th Berlin International Film Festival, Penn won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. Robbins dedicated the movie to his paternal grandparents, Lee Robbins and Thelma Bledsoe, in gratitude for his college tuition. ""Dead Man Walking"" debuted on December 29, 1995, in the United States. With a budget of $11 million, the film grossed $39,387,284 domestically and $43,701,011 internationally, for a total of $83,088,295 worldwide. In 2002, Tim Robbins, who adapted the book for the film, also wrote a stage version of ""Dead Man Walking"". It has also been adapted as an opera by"
"during the awards ceremony on March 27, 1995. For only the second time in Oscar history, three of the four acting winners were previous winners. The 11th ceremony held in 1939 previously accomplished this feat. Best Actor winner Tom Hanks became the fifth performer to win consecutive acting Oscars and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category since Spencer Tracy won for his performances in ""Captains Courageous"" and ""Boys Town"". He also was the sixth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Supporting Actress winner Dianne Wiest became the first person to win two acting Oscars for"
"World Apart"" (1970–71). In 1974, she co-starred as a young Zelda Fitzgerald surrogate in the TV movie ""F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'"" and in 1975, she starred in the popular cult film ""The Rocky Horror Picture Show"". She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for ""Atlantic City"" (1980), ""Thelma & Louise"" (1991), ""Lorenzo's Oil"" (1992), and ""The Client"" (1994), before winning for ""Dead Man Walking"" (1995). She has also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""The Client"", and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for"
"To Die For To Die For is a 1995 criminal comedy-drama film, made in a mockumentary format, directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Buck Henry, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard, which in turn was inspired by the story of Pamela Smart. It stars Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, and Joaquin Phoenix. Major supporting roles feature Illeana Douglas, Wayne Knight, Casey Affleck, Kurtwood Smith, Dan Hedaya, and Alison Folland. Kidman was nominated for a BAFTA and won a Golden Globe Award and a Best Actress Award at the 1st Empire Awards for her performance."
"The Walking Dead (1995 film) The Walking Dead is a 1995 war film written and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II starring Allen Payne, Joe Morton and Eddie Griffin. The film depicts the lives of five Marines who are all assigned to rescue a group of POW during the Vietnam War in 1972. It opened to poor reviews and low box office receipts. Previews billed it as ""the black experience in Vietnam"". The box-office gross was over $6,000,000.00. In 1972 North Vietnam, short-timer Marines are dispatched by helicopter to conduct their last mission: to evacuate the survivors from a POW"
"charts. The Walking Dead (1995 film) The Walking Dead is a 1995 war film written and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II starring Allen Payne, Joe Morton and Eddie Griffin. The film depicts the lives of five Marines who are all assigned to rescue a group of POW during the Vietnam War in 1972. It opened to poor reviews and low box office receipts. Previews billed it as ""the black experience in Vietnam"". The box-office gross was over $6,000,000.00. In 1972 North Vietnam, short-timer Marines are dispatched by helicopter to conduct their last mission: to evacuate the survivors from a"
"The Quick and the Dead (1995 film) The Quick and the Dead is a 1995 American western film directed by Sam Raimi, and starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. The screenplay was written by Simon Moore but includes contributions from Joss Whedon. The story focuses on ""The Lady"" (Stone), a gunfighter who rides into the frontier town of Redemption, controlled by John Herod (Hackman). The Lady joins a deadly dueling competition in an attempt to exact revenge for her father's death. Simon Moore's script was purchased by Sony Pictures Entertainment in May 1993, and actress Sharon"
"Celia Weston Celia Weston (born December 14, 1951) is an American character actress. Weston received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in ""Dead Man Walking"" (1995), and also had supporting roles in more than 40 movies, including ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), ""In the Bedroom"" (2001), ""Hulk"" (2003), and ""The Village"" (2004). On television, she is best known for her role as Jolene Hunnicutt in the CBS sitcom ""Alice"" (1981–85). Weston began her career on stage, making her Broadway debut in 1979. After a recurring role on the ABC daytime soap opera, ""Ryan's Hope"", she joined the cast"
"the film was ""thoroughly enjoyable"" and ""as polished and as surprising as any good mystery drama can provide"". The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1995 film) The Man Who Wouldn't Die is a 1995 action mystery film by director Bill Condon. The film, which aired as a movie of the week during the May Sweeps in 1995, stars Roger Moore, Nancy Allen and Malcolm McDowell. Internationally, it received either a theatrical or direct-to-video release. In ""The Man Who Wouldn't Die"" art imitates life for Thomas Grace (Roger Moore), a famous British ex-novelist who wrote a series of acclaimed crime stories featuring"
"illness, at Louisiana State Prison . He is buried in the prison cemetery. Sister Helen Prejean published a book, ""Dead Man Walking"" (1993), about her relationship with Elmo Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie, another inmate on Death Row whom she counseled. The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name directed by Tim Robbins and starring Susan Sarandon as Sister Prejean and Sean Penn as Matthew Poncelett, an amalgam of Sonnier and Willie. Her book was also adapted as an opera of the same name, first produced in 2000 by the San Francisco Opera. Elmo Patrick Sonnier"
"The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1995 film) The Man Who Wouldn't Die is a 1995 action mystery film by director Bill Condon. The film, which aired as a movie of the week during the May Sweeps in 1995, stars Roger Moore, Nancy Allen and Malcolm McDowell. Internationally, it received either a theatrical or direct-to-video release. In ""The Man Who Wouldn't Die"" art imitates life for Thomas Grace (Roger Moore), a famous British ex-novelist who wrote a series of acclaimed crime stories featuring a villain patterned after real-life criminal Bernard Drake (Malcolm McDowell). Now living in America, Grace works as a"
"Dead Man Dead Man is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne, Mili Avital and Robert Mitchum (in his final film role). The film, dubbed a ""Psychedelic Western"" by its director, includes twisted and surreal elements of the Western genre. The film is shot entirely in monochrome. Neil Young composed the guitar-dominated soundtrack with portions he improvised while watching the movie footage. It has been considered by many to be a premier postmodern Western. It"
"in the United States, making it the most watched Oscars telecast since the 55th Academy Awards in 1983. The nominees for the 67th Academy Awards were announced on February 14, 1995, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Arthur Hiller, the president of the Academy, and actress Angela Bassett. ""Forrest Gump"" earned the most nominations with thirteen. It was the most nominated film since 1966's ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" and the fifth film to earn that many nominations. ""Bullets over Broadway"", ""The Shawshank Redemption"", ""Pulp Fiction"" tied for second with seven each. The winners were announced"
"for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record, with four (all for Best Actress). Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German"
"Emmy Awards. A Streetcar Named Desire (1995 film) A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1995 made-for-television drama film directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, John Goodman and Diane Lane that first aired on CBS Television. Based on the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, it follows a 1951 adaptation starring Marlon Brando and a 1984 television adaptation. The film was adapted from a 1992 Broadway revival of the play, also starring Baldwin and Lange. In 1996, Jessica Lange won a Best Actress Golden Globe for her performance in this film. It was nominated for several other awards"
"""Thelma & Louise"" (1991), ""Lorenzo's Oil"" (1992), and ""The Client"" (1994), finally winning in 1995 for ""Dead Man Walking"". She was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1994. Additionally, she has received eight Golden Globe nominations, including for ""White Palace"" (1990), ""Stepmom"" (1998), ""Igby Goes Down"" (2002), and ""Bernard and Doris"" (2007). Her other movies include ""Little Women"" (1994), ""Anywhere but Here"" (1999), ""Cradle Will Rock"" (1999), ""The Banger Sisters"" (2002), ""Shall We Dance"" (2004), ""Alfie"" (2004), ""Romance & Cigarettes"" (2005), ""Elizabethtown"" (2005), and ""Enchanted"" (2007). Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of ""The Simpsons"", once as herself"
"Angeles Times"" wrote that “Leigh’s exceptional performance tears you apart… we’ve never seen anything like it before”, adding that """"Georgia"" is not an easy film, but in the American independent arena, it outperforms everything in sight.” It was also voted one of 1995’s 10 best films by ""Interview"", ""New York Post"", ""Detroit Free Press"", ""Los Angeles Daily News"" and ABC Radio Network. Jennifer Jason Leigh was voted the year’s Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and at the Montreal World Film Festival, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and was widely predicted to receive her first Oscar"
"Sonequa Martin-Green Sonequa Martin-Green (born March 21, 1985) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her television role as Sasha Williams on ""The Walking Dead"", a role she played from 2012 to 2017. Before that, she had starred in several independent films before gaining her first recurring role as Courtney Wells on ""The Good Wife"". Later, she had recurring roles as Tamara in ""Once Upon a Time"" and Rhonda in ""New Girl"". She currently plays the lead role as Michael Burnham in the web television series """". Martin-Green was born in Russellville, Alabama. She has one"
"Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, the Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and the Sant Jordi Award for Best Actress. She also came in second place for the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. In 1995, she followed her victory with further critically lauded performances in ""Losing Isaiah"", opposite Halle Berry, and ""Rob Roy"", with Liam Neeson. That same year, Lange reprised her role as Blanche DuBois in a CBS television adaptation"
"one for Best Female Performance and the other for Most Desirable Female. She reprised the character, Sarah Connor, for the theme park attraction """". In 1990, Hamilton was chosen by ""People Magazine"" as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. Following the success of the ""Terminator"" series, she hosted ""Saturday Night Live"". She returned to television in ""A Mother's Prayer"" (1995) playing a mother who lost her husband and is diagnosed with AIDS. For her performance in the film, which co-starred Kate Nelligan and Bruce Dern, Hamilton was awarded a CableACE Award for best dramatic performance and"
"translated or subtitled, for the exclusive understanding of members of those nations, including several in-jokes aimed at Native American viewers. The Native character was also played by an Indigenous American actor, Gary Farmer, who is a Cayuga. The film was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. In its theatrical release, ""Dead Man"" earned $1,037,847 on a budget of $9 million. Then, it was the most expensive of Jarmusch's films, due, in part, to the costs of ensuring accurate period detail. Critical responses were mixed to positive. Roger Ebert gave the film one-and-a-half stars (out of four stars maximum), noting"
"during a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 6, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Sharon Stone. ""Unforgiven"" won four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman. Al Pacino and Emma Thompson won lead acting honors for ""Scent of a Woman"" and ""Howards End"", respectively. Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for ""My Cousin Vinny"". The telecast garnered 45.7 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 65th Academy Awards were announced on February 17, 1993, at the Samuel"
"aged 96 from pneumonia following a short illness. Joyce Redman Joyce Olivia Redman (9 December 1915 – 10 May 2012) was an Anglo-Irish actress. She received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the 1963 film ""Tom Jones"" and the 1965 film ""Othello"". Joyce Redman was born in Northumberland and grew up in County Mayo, Ireland. She was born into an Anglo-Irish family, and educated by a private governess in Ireland, along with her three sisters. She trained in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her acting roles were primarily in the"
"for her performance in Robert Altman's film ""Ready to Wear"" (1994), co-starring Julia Roberts. In 1994, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California Walk of Stars was dedicated to her. In ""Grumpier Old Men"" (1995), Loren played a ""femme fatale"" opposite Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, and Ann-Margret. The film was a box-office success and became Loren's biggest US hit in years. At the 20th Moscow International Film Festival in 1997, she was awarded an Honorable Prize for contribution to cinema. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Loren among the greatest female stars of Golden Age of Hollywood"
"least try to look interested, they can't sustain a show that has lost its best asset — a twisted joy in its own trashiness."" The series won the People's Choice Award in 1993 for 'Favorite New TV Dramatic Series'. Heather Locklear was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama for her role as Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place, in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996. Laura Leighton was nominated in 1995 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series for her role as Sydney Andrews. In May 1994,"
"Journey (1995 film) Journey is a 1995 American Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television drama film directed by Tom McLoughlin and starring Jason Robards, Brenda Fricker and Meg Tilly. The film aired on CBS on December 10, 1995. Jason Robards and Brenda Fricker starring as grandparents Marcus and Lottie who pick-up the pieces left behind by their restless daughter Min (Meg Tilly). When Min deserted her children and the family farm, her son Journey (Max Pomeranc) has nothing left but confusion. Despite gentle wisdom and help from his older sister Cat (Eliza Dushku), Journey cannot understand why his beloved family doesn't"
"Sea"" (1994), ""John Gabriel Borkman"" (2008) and ""The Chalk Garden"" (2009), before winning the 2015 Olivier Award for Best Actress for ""Taken at Midnight"". Her film appearances include ""Clockwise"" (1986), ""Cry Freedom"" (1987), ""Calendar Girls"" (2003), ""Shaun of the Dead"" (2004), ""Match Point"" (2005), ""Pride & Prejudice"" (2005), ""The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"" (2012), ""The Girl"" (2012) and ""The BFG"" (2016). Wilton was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of Alice Travers, a tap dancer and former actress, and Clifford William Wilton, a businessman. She is a niece of actors Bill Travers and Linden Travers. Her maternal"
"1995 Cannes Film Festival The 48th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 1995. The Palme d'Or went to ""Underground"" by Emir Kusturica. The festival opened with ""La Cité des enfants perdus"", directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and closed with ""The Quick and the Dead"", directed by Sam Raimi. Carole Bouquet was the mistress of ceremonies. The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 1995 Official Selection: The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1995 Camera d'Or: The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: The following films"