Who was the British Director of the film 'American Beauty'?
"53rd British Academy Film Awards The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999. Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (""The Talented Mr. Ripley"") and Maggie Smith (""Tea with Mussolini"") won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Pedro Almodóvar, director of ""Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)"", won"
"representative announced on 15 March 2010 that ""they separated earlier this year"". The couple were divorced in 2011. Mendes married trumpeter Alison Balsom in January 2017, their daughter Phoebe Mendes was born in September 2017. Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director best known for directing the drama film ""American Beauty"" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), and the ""James Bond"" films ""Skyfall"" (2012) and ""Spectre"" (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the"
"American Beauty (1927 film) American Beauty is a lost 1927 American silent film romantic drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. This film was directed by Richard Wallace and starred Billie Dove. It is based on a short story ""American Beauty"" by Wallace Irwin. Walter McGrail and Margaret Livingston are also in the cast. Billy Dove stars as the title character, Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named Claverhouse asks her to marry, but she values love more than wealth, and she sacrifices everything for another man, who is less wealthy,"
"Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director best known for directing the drama film ""American Beauty"" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), and the ""James Bond"" films ""Skyfall"" (2012) and ""Spectre"" (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals ""Cabaret"" (1994), ""Oliver!"" (1994), ""Company"" (1995), and """" (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2013). In 2000 Mendes was appointed"
"Jerry Booth. A number of scenes require Millicent to disrobe except for her underthings. The actress, Billy Dove, is known for her love affair with Howard Hughes. American Beauty (1927 film) American Beauty is a lost 1927 American silent film romantic drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. This film was directed by Richard Wallace and starred Billie Dove. It is based on a short story ""American Beauty"" by Wallace Irwin. Walter McGrail and Margaret Livingston are also in the cast. Billy Dove stars as the title character, Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of"
"The director and release date of each film are indicated in parenthesis. In addition to winning the BAFTA, the editors of ""American Beauty"" were also nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award, the Online Film Critics Society Award and the Satellite Award. Christopher Greenbury Christopher Greenbury (September 24, 1951 – January 4, 2007) was an English film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1979's ""The Muppet Movie"". With Tariq Anwar, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for ""American Beauty"" (1999), which he was"
"Eternal Beauty Eternal Beauty is an upcoming American-British drama romance film, written and directed by Craig Roberts. It stars Sally Hawkins, David Thewlis, Billie Piper, Penelope Wilton, Alice Lowe and Robert Aramayo. In December 2017, it was announced Sally Hawkins had been cast in the film, with Craig Roberts directing from a screenplay he wrote. Cliff Edge Pictures will produce the film. In February 2018, Alice Lowe and David Thewlis joined the cast of the film. Adrian Bate will produce the film, while Mary Burke, Adam Partridge, Meroë Candy, and Paul Higgins will executive produce the film, under their Cliff"
"Beauty (1998 film) Beauty is an American television film starring Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan and Hal Holbrook based on Susan Wilson's 1997 novel. It aired on CBS on October 25, 1998. The ""beauty"" is talented painter Alix Miller (Turner). Her father, Alexander (Holbrook), is scheduled to go to the isolated Crompton mansion in New Hampshire to paint a family portrait of the mysterious, reclusive author Lee Crompton (Sheridan), but he falls ill and cannot. Alix decides to take his place. Much to her shock, Lee is horribly disfigured from a disease called acromegaly. Still, she has an obligation and so"
"the BAFTA Film Award for Best Directing. ""East Is East"" was voted Best British Film. ""'Kevin Spacey - ""American Beauty"" ""'Annette Bening - ""American Beauty"" """"'American Beauty"" """"'Sleepy Hollow"" ""'Pedro Almodóvar - ""All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)"" """"'American Beauty"" """"'American Beauty"" """"'East Is East"" (10 Things I Hate About You) """"'All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)"" ""American Beauty"" - Thomas Newman """"'Topsy-Turvy"" """"'Sleepy Hollow"" """"'The End of the Affair"" (Mickey Blue Eyes) - Neil Jordan """"'Being John Malkovich"" (Three Seasons) - Charlie Kaufman """"'The Matrix"" ""'Jude Law - ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" ""'Maggie Smith -"
"Christopher Greenbury Christopher Greenbury (September 24, 1951 – January 4, 2007) was an English film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1979's ""The Muppet Movie"". With Tariq Anwar, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for ""American Beauty"" (1999), which he was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing. ""American Beauty"" is a serious drama, but in general Greenbury edited comedy films, including six directed by the Farrelly brothers commencing with 1994's ""Dumb and Dumber"". Greenbury was a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Based on Greenbury's filmography at the Internet Database."
"York. The cast included Bernadette Peters as Rose, Tammy Blanchard as Louise and John Dossett as Herbie. Mendes also directed the 2014 Olivier Award-nominated stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"". Mendes directed Jez Butterworth's ""The Ferryman"" for the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2017, of which he won an Olivier Award for best director. In 1999 Mendes made his film directorial debut with ""American Beauty"", starring Kevin Spacey. The film grossed $356.3 million worldwide. The film won the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Picture. Mendes won the Golden"
"Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Spacey), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. At the 53rd British Academy Film Awards, ""American Beauty"" won six of the 14 awards for which it was nominated: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress (Bening), Best Cinematography, Best Film Music and Best Editing. In 2000, the Publicists Guild of America recognized DreamWorks for the best film publicity campaign. In September 2008, ""Empire"" named ""American Beauty"" the 96th ""Greatest Movie of All Time"" after a poll of 10,000 readers, 150 filmmakers, and 50 film critics, the fourth-highest ranked movie from 1999 (behind ""Fight Club"", ""The Matrix"","
"goes on with the painting. But as time goes on, they finds themselves increasingly drawn romantically to each other, despite the enigmatic Lee's own fears. Beauty (1998 film) Beauty is an American television film starring Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan and Hal Holbrook based on Susan Wilson's 1997 novel. It aired on CBS on October 25, 1998. The ""beauty"" is talented painter Alix Miller (Turner). Her father, Alexander (Holbrook), is scheduled to go to the isolated Crompton mansion in New Hampshire to paint a family portrait of the mysterious, reclusive author Lee Crompton (Sheridan), but he falls ill and cannot. Alix"
"""American Beauty"" to the fledgling DreamWorks studio, which bought the script for $250,000, outbidding several other production bodies. DreamWorks financed the $15 million production and served as its North American distributor. ""American Beauty"" marked theater director Mendes' film debut; courted after his successful productions of the musicals ""Oliver!"" and ""Cabaret"", Mendes was only given the job after 20 others were considered and several A-list directors turned down the opportunity. Spacey was Mendes' first choice for the role of Lester, though DreamWorks urged him to consider better-known actors; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes"
"Black Beauty (1971 film) Black Beauty is a 1971 British drama film, based on the Anna Sewell novel of the same name. This movie is the fourth feature film adaptation of Anna Sewell's story. The movie was directed by James Hill. Lionel Bart provided the rousing score. The film's cast includes Walter Slezak, Mark Lester, Uschi Glas, Patrick Mower and John Nettleton. Black Beauty is a stallion who, as a foal in England c 1856, is born in front of a boy named Joe to whom it is given by his father. He is taken by a brutal squire, who"
"Beautiful Joe (film) Beautiful Joe is a 2000 American-British film written and directed by Stephen Metcalfe. It stars Sharon Stone and Billy Connolly, with supporting roles by Ian Holm, Dann Florek, and Gil Bellows. A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob may end his life faster than cancer. Joe (Billy Connolly) is a regular guy who runs a flower shop and has never had much in the way of good luck. Things seem to be grim for Joe when he's diagnosed with a brain tumor, but a bit of good fortune appears on the horizon when he"
"""Tea with Mussolini"" (Los lobos de Washington) """"'The Matrix"" Winners Losers (minimum two nominations) 53rd British Academy Film Awards The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999. Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (""The Talented Mr. Ripley"") and Maggie Smith (""Tea with Mussolini"") won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and"
"the box office. Audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore gave ""American Beauty"" a ""B+"" grade on average. The theater count hit a high of 1,528 at the end of the month, before a gradual decline. Following ""American Beauty""s wins at the 57th Golden Globe Awards, DreamWorks re-expanded the theater presence from a low of 7 in mid-February, to a high of 1,990 in March. The film ended its North American theatrical run on June 4, 2000, having grossed $130.1 million. ""American Beauty"" had its European premiere at the London Film Festival on November 18, 1999; in January 2000,"
"American Beauty (soundtrack) American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1999 film starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening. The soundtrack album was produced by Chris Douridas, Sam Mendes, and Michael Ostin, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media in the year 2000, the first year to offer this award. The soundtrack features two excerpts from , composed by Thomas Newman, which won several awards. Elliott Smith's cover of the Beatles song ""Because"" was the featured over the end"
"The Great American Beauty Contest The Great American Beauty Contest is a 1973 American satirical comedy-drama TV film, starring JoAnna Cameron and featuring Eleanor Parker, Robert Cummings, Louis Jourdan and Farrah Fawcett in an early film appearance. It was directed by Robert Day and was originally shown on the ABC TV network in the United States on February 13, 1973. ""It's turning out to be great camp,"" said Aaron Spelling during filming. Allmovie characterizes the film as ""An unsubtle but effective TV-movie satire of the 'Miss America' syndrome"", and calls the belly dance performed by Farrah Fawcett ""endearingly ridiculous."" The"
"Beauty and the Beast (1962 film) Beauty and the Beast is a 1962 American romantic fantasy film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Joyce Taylor and Mark Damon. It is based on the 18th century fairy tale ""Beauty and the Beast"" written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and features title creature make-up by the legendary Jack Pierce. Shot in Technicolor and distributed by United Artists, the film is the first English language live action screen adaptation of the fairy tale story. Edward Small, the film's executive producer, described it as a ""fairytale for everybody - no messages, no menace."""
"Beauty and the Beast (1962 film) Beauty and the Beast is a 1962 American romantic fantasy film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Joyce Taylor and Mark Damon. It is based on the 18th century fairy tale ""Beauty and the Beast"" written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and features title creature make-up by the legendary Jack Pierce. Shot in Technicolor and distributed by United Artists, the film is the first English language live action screen adaptation of the fairy tale story. Edward Small, the film's executive producer, described it as a ""fairytale for everybody - no messages, no menace."""
"Collateral Beauty Collateral Beauty is a 2016 American drama film directed by David Frankel and written by Allan Loeb. The film stars an ensemble cast of Will Smith, Edward Norton, Keira Knightley, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris, Jacob Latimore, Kate Winslet, and Helen Mirren. It follows a man who copes with his daughter's death by writing letters to time, death, and love. The film premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival on December 13, 2016, and was released in the United States on December 16, 2016. It was panned by critics, although it grossed $88 million worldwide against its net $36"
"keen on the more well-known directors because he believed their involvement would increase the budget and lead DreamWorks to become ""nervous about the content"". Nevertheless, the studio offered the film to Mike Nichols and Robert Zemeckis; neither accepted. In the same year, Mendes (then a theater director) revived the musical ""Cabaret"" in New York with fellow director Rob Marshall. Beth Swofford of the Creative Artists Agency arranged meetings for Mendes with studio figures in Los Angeles to see if film direction was a possibility. Mendes came across ""American Beauty"" in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew"
"about Angela in a rose-petal bath, the steam was real, save for in the overhead shot. To position the camera, a hole had to be cut in the ceiling, through which the steam escaped; it was instead added digitally. ""American Beauty"" was edited by Christopher Greenbury and Tariq Anwar; Greenbury began in the position, but had to leave halfway through post-production because of a scheduling conflict with ""Me, Myself and Irene"" (2000) (in which Chris Cooper also starred). Mendes and an assistant edited the film for 10 days between the appointments. Mendes realized during editing that the film was different"
"Black Beauty (1994 film) Black Beauty is a 1994 American film adaptation of Anna Sewell's novel by the same name directed by Caroline Thompson in her directorial debut. The film stars Andrew Knott, Sean Bean and David Thewlis. The film is also treated as an autobiography of the horse Black Beauty as in the original novel, and is narrated by Alan Cumming as the voice of the 'Black Beauty'. This is the fifth feature film adaptation of the 1877 classic novel by Anna Sewell. Black Beauty (voiced by Alan Cumming; played by Docs Keepin Time) narrates his own story. He"
"Beauty and the Devil La Beauté du diable (literally ""the beauty of the devil""; originally released in the UK and USA as Beauty and the Devil) is a 1950 Franco-Italian fantasy film drama directed by René Clair. A tragicomedy with allegorical meaning, set in the early 19th century, it is about an ageing alchemist who is given the chance to be eternally young by the devil Mephistopheles. The film was nominated or Best Film at the 1951 BAFTA Awards and won two awards at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists with a Silver Ribbon Best Actor award going to"
"Beauty and the Boss Beauty and the Boss is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Marian Marsh, David Manners and Warren William. It was based on a Hungarian play by Ladislas Fodor about a secretary who eventually marries her boss. An English language adaptation of the play by Benn Levy, entitled ""A Church Mouse"", opened in London in early May, 1931. Another English language adaptation by Frederic and Fanny Hatton, also called ""A Church Mouse"", opened in New York on 12 October 1931. In 1934 Warner Brothers' British subsidiary remade the story"
"Fatal Beauty Fatal Beauty is a 1987 American action comedy thriller film directed by veteran horror director Tom Holland (""Fright Night"" and ""Child's Play"") and starring Whoopi Goldberg as detective Rita Rizzoli and Sam Elliott. The screenplay was written by Hilary Henkin and Dean Riesner. The original music score was composed by Harold Faltermeyer, of ""Top Gun"" fame. The film was marketed with the tagline """"An earthquake is about to hit L.A. It's called Detective Rita Rizzoli."""" Detective Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) an undercover narcotics police officer, stages an undercover buy with drug dealer Tito Delgadillo. During the bust she"
"Black Beauty (1946 film) Black Beauty is a 1946 American drama film directed by Max Nosseck and based on Anna Sewell's novel of the same name. The story picks up in 1880s England, when Duchess, the mare of a widower, a country squire, called Wendon (Charles Evans) is about to foal. He has forbidden his adolescent daughter Anne (Mona Freeman) to watch, but the girl sneaks into the stables and watches anyway. Anne gets the colt on her birthday and because of its colour she names it Black Beauty. Anne grows very affectionate towards the horse as they grow up"
"""American Beauty"", to set up displays of the film in the communities' bookstores, and to arrange a question-and-answer session with Mendes for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Dale Olson advised the studio to advertise in free publications that circulated in Beverly Hills—home to many voters—in addition to major newspapers. Olson arranged to screen ""American Beauty"" to about 1,000 members of the Actors Fund of America, as many participating actors were also voters. Bruce Feldman took writer Alan Ball to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where Ball attended a private dinner in honor of Anthony Hopkins, meeting"
"American Beauty (Ferber novel) American Beauty is a 1931 novel by American author Edna Ferber first published by Doubleday Doran. Set in the Housatonic region of Connecticut, the story, spanning the years 1700 to 1930, relates the steady decline of the Oakes family and their property, as well as their tense relations with Polish immigrants. The title comes from a line within the book. According to the story, Christopher Wren, who helped design the Oakes family mansion, said Connecticut has ""a kind of American beauty,"" resembling Kent but possessing larger and higher landscapes. True Baldwin, a millionaire, unnerved by the"
"Stealing Beauty Stealing Beauty (; ) is a 1996 drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Liv Tyler, Joseph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, and Rachel Weisz. Written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot, the film is about a nineteen-year-old American woman who travels to a lush Tuscan villa near Siena to stay with family friends of her poet mother, who recently died. The film was an international co-production between France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and was actress Liv Tyler's first leading film role. ""Stealing Beauty"" premiered in Italy in March 1996, and was officially selected"