Who directed the Oscar nominated film Mystic River?
"the roles. ""Mystic River"" was well received by critics, with the performances and direction receiving widespread acclaim. The film has an 87% approval rating based on 195 reviews from critics at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. At the website Metacritic, which utilizes a normalized rating system, the film earned a rating of 84/100 (""universal acclaim"") based on 42 reviews. Peter Travers of ""Rolling Stone"" wrote ""Clint Eastwood pours everything he knows about directing into ""Mystic River"". His film sneaks up, messes with your head, and then floors you. You can't shake it. It's that haunting, that hypnotic."" ""The Sun"""
"Lowdown"" (1999), and ""I Am Sam"" (2001). He also received a Directors Guild of America nomination for directing ""Into the Wild"" (2007). Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama ""Mystic River"" (2003) and the biopic ""Milk"" (2008). Penn began his acting career in television, with a brief appearance in episode 112 of ""Little House on the Prairie,"" December 4, 1974, and directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in the drama ""Taps"" (1981), and a diverse"
"Lost River (film) Lost River is a 2014 American fantasy-neo-noir film written, produced, and directed by Ryan Gosling, in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Iain De Caestecker, Matt Smith, Ben Mendelsohn, Barbara Steele, and Eva Mendes. Principal photography began in Detroit on May 6, 2013.<ref name=""http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2013/05/10/how-to-catch-a-monster-directed-by-ryan-gosling-is-filming-on-location-in-detroit-on-friday/""></ref> The film premiered in competition in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and was released in the United States on April 10, 2015. Single mother Billy (Christina Hendricks) lives in a rapidly crumbling Detroit neighborhood with her two sons, the teenage Bones (Iain"
"9th Critics' Choice Awards The 9th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 10, 2004, honoring the finest achievements of 2003 filmmaking. ""' Sean Penn – ""Mystic River"" ""' Charlize Theron – ""Monster"" ""' ""Finding Nemo"" ""' Keisha Castle-Hughes – ""Whale Rider"" ""' Howard Shore – """" ""' Peter Jackson – """" ""' ""Capturing the Friedmans"" ""' ""The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)"" • Canada / France ""' ""Angels in America"" ""' ""A Mighty Wind"" – ""A Mighty Wind"" ""' Tim Robbins – ""Mystic River"" ""' Renée Zellweger – ""Cold Mountain"" ""' ""In America"" – Jim, Kirsten, and Naomi Sheridan"
"9th Critics' Choice Awards The 9th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 10, 2004, honoring the finest achievements of 2003 filmmaking. ""' Sean Penn – ""Mystic River"" ""' Charlize Theron – ""Monster"" ""' ""Finding Nemo"" ""' Keisha Castle-Hughes – ""Whale Rider"" ""' Howard Shore – """" ""' Peter Jackson – """" ""' ""Capturing the Friedmans"" ""' ""The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)"" • Canada / France ""' ""Angels in America"" ""' ""A Mighty Wind"" – ""A Mighty Wind"" ""' Tim Robbins – ""Mystic River"" ""' Renée Zellweger – ""Cold Mountain"" ""' ""In America"" – Jim, Kirsten, and Naomi Sheridan"
"Mystic River Bascule Bridge. The film opened on October 21, 1988, to mostly favorable reviews, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 77% for its VHS release. The film received ""two thumbs up"" from popular film critics Siskel and Ebert, giving particular praise to the three female leads, including Gish, whom Ebert likened to a ""young Katharine Hepburn"". He also noted that the film ""may someday become known for the movie stars it showcased back before they became stars."" On January 13, 2009, ""Mystic Pizza"" and ""Say Anything..."" were released as a double feature on DVD. On April 5, 2011, ""Mystic"
"also be executive producers for whichever project is picked up by HBO. Brian Helgeland Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for ""L.A. Confidential"" (for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), ""Mystic River"", and """". Helgeland also wrote and directed ""42"" (2013), a biopic of Jackie Robinson, and ""Legend"" (2015), about the rise and fall of the infamous London gangsters, the Kray twins. Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Norwegian-born parents Aud-Karin and Thomas Helgeland, and was raised"
"& Mario Bava gifs'"". By 2016, the film had begun to receive a more positive opinion from fans of the surreal fantasy genre. The violent scenes broadcast of the film by FX on February 13, 2017 in Indonesia led to the banning of the channel by Indonesian authority from April 10 to 14, 2017. Lost River (film) Lost River is a 2014 American fantasy-neo-noir film written, produced, and directed by Ryan Gosling, in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Iain De Caestecker, Matt Smith, Ben Mendelsohn, Barbara Steele, and Eva Mendes. Principal photography began in"
"Miloš Forman and Francis Ford Coppola) to have directed two Best Picture winners. At the age of 74, he was the oldest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director to date. Eastwood has directed five actors in Academy Award–winning performances: Gene Hackman in ""Unforgiven"", Tim Robbins and Sean Penn in ""Mystic River"", and Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank in ""Million Dollar Baby"". On August 22, 1984, Eastwood was honored at a ceremony at Grauman's Chinese theater to record his hand and footprints in cement. Eastwood received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1996, and received an honorary degree from"
"Mystic River (novel) Mystic River is a novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2001. It won the 2002 Dilys Award and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 2003. The novel revolves around three boys who grow up as friends in Boston — Dave Boyle, Sean Devine, and Jimmy Marcus. When the story opens, we see Dave abducted by child molesters while he, Sean, and Jimmy are horsing around on a neighborhood street. Dave escapes and returns home days later, emotionally shattered by his experience. The book then moves forward 25 years: Sean has become a homicide"
"Brian Helgeland Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for ""L.A. Confidential"" (for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), ""Mystic River"", and """". Helgeland also wrote and directed ""42"" (2013), a biopic of Jackie Robinson, and ""Legend"" (2015), about the rise and fall of the infamous London gangsters, the Kray twins. Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Norwegian-born parents Aud-Karin and Thomas Helgeland, and was raised in nearby New Bedford, Massachusetts. He majored in English at University of"
"but it's really terrific."" Reportedly, Lehane ""has never wanted to write the screenplays for the films [based on his own books], because he says he has 'no desire to operate on my own child.'"" Lehane's novel ""Mystic River"" was adapted as a film in 2003; also called ""Mystic River"" and directed by Clint Eastwood, it starred Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film). The novel itself was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry"
"also received a special Oscar for sound effects editing (Kay Rose). The River (1984 film) The River is a 1984 American drama film directed by Mark Rydell, written by Robert Dillon and Julian Barry, and stars Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, and Scott Glenn. The film tells the story of a struggling farm family in the Tennessee valley trying to keep its farm from going under in the face of bank foreclosures and floods. The father faces the dilemma of having to work as a strikebreaker in a steel mill to keep his family farm from foreclosure. It was based on"
"Markum for the film), Tim Robbins as Dave, and Kevin Bacon as Sean. Sean Penn won the Best Actor in a Leading Role and Tim Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor for their respective performances. It was also nominated for four other Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Eastwood), Best Supporting Actress (Marcia Gay Harden), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Brian Helgeland). ""Mystic River"" won the 2002 Dilys Award presented by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. The same year, it also won the Massachusetts Book Award. Mystic River (novel) Mystic River is a novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in"
"Belleville"")<br> 3. ""Unknown Pleasures"" (""Rèn xiāo yáo"") 1. ""To Be and to Have"" (""Être et avoir"")<br> 2. ""The Fog of War""<br> 3. ""Spellbound"" 2003 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 38th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2004, honored the best in film for 2003. 1. American Splendor<br> 2. ""Mystic River""<br> 3. ""Lost in Translation"" 1. Clint Eastwood – ""Mystic River""<br> 2. Peter Jackson – """"<br> 3. Sofia Coppola – ""Lost in Translation"" 1. Bill Murray – ""Lost in Translation""<br> 2. Sean Penn – ""Mystic River""<br> 3. Paul Giamatti – ""American Splendor"" 1. Charlize Theron"
"Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama ""Mystic River"" (2003) and the biopic ""Milk"" (2008). Penn began his acting career in television, with a brief appearance in episode 112 of ""Little House on the Prairie,"" December 4, 1974, and directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in the drama ""Taps"" (1981), and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, including ""Fast Times at Ridgemont High"" (1982), Penn garnered critical attention for his roles in"
"2017. Critics praised its screenplay, direction, and the cast's performances (particularly those of Mitchell and Blige) and at the 75th Golden Globe Awards received nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Blige) and Best Original Song (""Mighty River""). At the 90th Academy Awards, the film earned four nominations: Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song for Blige, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography, the latter of which made Rachel Morrison the first woman ever nominated in the category. Blige became the first person to ever be nominated for an acting and song award during the same year. Henry McAllan and his brother"
"Marcia Gay Harden Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed ""Miller's Crossing"". She followed this with roles in films including ""Used People"" (1992), ""The First Wives Club"" (1996), and ""Flubber"" (1997). For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film ""Pollock"", she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She earned another Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in ""Mystic River"" (2003). Other notable film roles include ""American Gun"" (2005), and 2007's ""The Mist"" and ""Into the Wild"". Harden made her"
"River (2015 Canadian film) River is a Canadian thriller film directed by Jamie M. Dagg. It premiered in the Discovery section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Sutherland garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards. The film was chosen as the winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Claude Jutra Award, as the year's best feature film directed by a first-time director. The film stars Rossif Sutherland as John Lake, an American doctor working in Laos. After he intervenes to stop the sexual assault of a young woman, the"
"– ""Shattered Glass""<br> 2. Tim Robbins – ""Mystic River""<br> 3. Alec Baldwin – ""The Cooler"" 1. Patricia Clarkson – ""Pieces of April"" and ""The Station Agent""<br> 2. Maria Bello – ""The Cooler""<br> 3. Shohreh Aghdashloo – ""House of Sand and Fog"" 1. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini – ""American Splendor""<br> 2. Brian Helgeland – ""Mystic River""<br> 3. Craig Lucas – ""The Secret Lives of Dentists"" 1. Russell Boyd – """"<br> 2. Lance Acord – ""Lost in Translation""<br> 3. Harris Savides – ""Elephant"" 1. ""The Man Without a Past"" (""Mies vailla menneisyyttä"")<br> 2. ""The Triplets of Belleville"" (""Les triplettes de"
"Ford Coppola and her grandfather, Carmine's previous wins, her victory in the Original Screenplay category made her the second third-generation Oscar winner in history. At age thirteen, Best Actress nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes became the youngest nominee in that category until being surpassed by Quvenzhané Wallis, who was nine at the time of her nomination, in 2013. With Sean Penn and Tim Robbins's respective wins in the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories, ""Mystic River"" became the fourth film to win both male acting awards. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The"
"Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. Penn won Best Actor and Robbins won Best Supporting Actor, making ""Mystic River"" the first film to win both awards since ""Ben-Hur"" in 1959. Three boys, Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle, play hockey in a Boston street in 1975. Spotting wet concrete, they start writing their names into it when a car pulls up with two men, one pretending to be a police officer and the other a priest. One gets out and berates the boys for their actions, and tells Dave to get into the car. The men"
"The Crimson Rivers The Crimson Rivers () is a 2000 French psychological thriller film starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel. The film, which was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, is based on the best-selling novel ""Les Rivières Pourpres"". Its screenplay was co-written by the book's author, Jean-Christophe Grangé. The film is about two detectives who investigate a series of grisly murders in and around an isolated university campus in the French Alps. With a $14 million budget, the movie went on to gross $60 million from a worldwide theatrical release. Despite its box office success, one of its stars, Vincent Cassel"
"to write on, often looks merely blank"". In early 2013, Gosling announced that he was taking a break from acting, stating, ""I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that."" Gosling's directorial debut ""Lost River"" competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The ""fantasy noir"", written by Gosling, stars Christina Hendricks, Ben Mendelsohn, and Matt Smith. The film received largely unfavorable reviews."
"Steve Miner Stephen C. ""Steve"" Miner (born June 18, 1951) is an American director of film and television, film producer, and a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is notable for his work in the horror genre, including ""Friday the 13th Part 2"", ""Friday the 13th Part III"", ""House"", ""Warlock"", """" and ""Lake Placid."" He has also directed numerous comedy and drama films, as well as episodes of notable television series including ""The Wonder Years, Dawson's Creek"", and ""Smallville."" Miner was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began work in the film industry as a recurring"
"large amount of awards attention, earning BAFTA, Golden Globe Award, and Academy Award nominations. Sheridan made the low-budget horror film ""Vile"". His second feature as director, but third as screenwriter, ""Wind River"", starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2017. The film follows an FBI agent (Olsen) and a veteran game tracker (Renner), investigating a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation. The Weinstein Company had acquired the distribution rights during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but dropped the film prior to the Sundance premiere. However, the company later finalized its deal to"
"River of Death (film) River of Death is a 1989 American action film written and directed by Steve Carver and starring Michael Dudikoff. It is based on the novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. In the nightmarish last days of the Third Reich, a psychotic Nazi scientist (Robert Vaughn) escapes to the impenetrable jungles of the Amazon. Years later, a mysterious incurable disease breaks out among the natives and adventurer John Hamilton (Michael Dudikoff) is hired to lead investigators on a search for the cause. Braving bloodthirsty river pirates, hostile native tribes and headhunting cannibals, Hamilton, guides a"
"wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, Upham's father, Charles Upham, went public with allegations that his daughter was raped by a member of Weinstein's production team at the same Golden Globes ceremony where she was honored, and that other members of Weinstein's team had not only witnessed the rape but had cheered the rapist on. Misty Upham Misty Anne Upham (July 6, 1982 – October 5, 2014) was a Native American actress. She attracted critical acclaim for her performance in the 2008 film ""Frozen River"", for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting"
"""The Hudsucker Proxy"", ""Nothing to Lose"", and ""High Fidelity"". Robbins has also acted in and directed several Actors' Gang theater productions. Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in ""Mystic River"" (2003), as a man traumatized from having been molested as a child. In 2005, he won the 39th annual Man of the Year Pudding Pot Award given by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard. His recent acting roles include a temporarily blind man who is nursed to health by a psychologically wounded young woman in ""The Secret Life of Words"" and an"
"The River Wild The River Wild is a 1994 American adventure thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, Benjamin Bratt, and Joseph Mazzello as Roarke. It is about a family on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two violent criminals in the wilderness. A Boston couple, Gail (Meryl Streep) and Tom Hartman (David Strathairn), are having marital problems, due to his inability to spend time with his family because of his work as an architect. She, a history teacher and former river guide, decides to take their son, Roarke (Joseph"
"received three Academy Award nominations; two for Best Director, for ""The Thin Red Line"" and ""The Tree of Life"", and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for the former film. He was awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival for ""The Thin Red Line"", and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival for ""The Tree of Life"". Terrence Malick Terrence Frederick Malick (; born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood film-making wave with the films ""Badlands"" (1973), about a"
"Western ""Pale Rider"" (1985), the war films ""Where Eagles Dare"" (1968), ""Kelly's Heroes"" (1970), and ""Heartbreak Ridge"" (1986), the action thriller ""In the Line of Fire"" (1993), the romantic drama ""The Bridges of Madison County"" (1995), and the drama ""Gran Torino"" (2008). In addition to directing many of his own star vehicles, Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as the mystery drama ""Mystic River"" (2003) and the war film ""Letters from Iwo Jima"" (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations, the drama ""Changeling"" (2008), and the South African biographical political sports drama ""Invictus"""
"were those for which teamed with director Clint Eastwood, casting fourteen of Eastwood's films and serving as casting executive on two others. In addition, she was casting director for three other films in which Eastwood starred but did not direct, bringing their total number of collaborative works to nineteen. Some of the Eastwood-directed films on which Huffman served as casting director include ""Honkytonk Man"", ""Bird"", ""Unforgiven"", ""Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"", and ""Space Cowboys"". Huffman won her second award from the CSA for her casting of Eastwood's ""Mystic River"", and received her final CSA nomination for casting"