For which film at the 2015 Oscar Awards did J K Simmons win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor?
"series ""Gravity Falls"". In the 2014 drama film ""Whiplash"", Simmons played Terence Fletcher, an intensely demanding conductor at the fictional Shaffer Conservatory of Music, who bullies and cajoles his student, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller). The wide acclaim for Simmons's performance included an Academy Award win for Best Supporting Actor. ""Rolling Stone"" said ""Beat the drums for an Oscar for Simmons."" Richard Roeper of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" said ""Simmons delivers one of the most memorable performances of the year."" ""Entertainment Weekly"" summed up the reaction by saying Simmons's performance ""has been universally praised"" and that he was ""a leading contender for"
"Best Supporting Actor."" On January 11, 2015, Simmons won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on February 22, 2015. In January 2015, Simmons was cast in a leading role in the upcoming film """", though he and Michael Keaton later exited the film. Simmons performed a substantial number of voice-over roles alongside his live action work. Several of these have arisen from his J. Jonah Jameson character in Raimi's ""Spider-Man"" films, including voices of two newspaper editors in episodes of the eighteenth season of ""The Simpsons"". While"
"Tenzin in ""The Legend of Korra"" (2012–2014), Stanford Pines in ""Gravity Falls"" (2015–2016), Kai in ""Kung Fu Panda 3"" (2016) and Mayor Lionheart in ""Zootopia"" (2016). He reprised his role as Jameson in various Marvel animated series and video games. He has also appeared in a series of commercials for Farmers Insurance and voices the Yellow M&M. Simmons's performance in ""Whiplash"" (2014) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him more than thirty accolades, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Simmons was born on January 9, 1955, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a suburb"
"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"
"Stephen Fry for the tenth time in the award's history. The ceremony opened with a number ""Stevie"" by a British rock band Kasabian. ""Boyhood"" won three of its five nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Richard Linklater, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Patricia Arquette. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor in a Leading Role for ""The Theory of Everything"", Julianne Moore won Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""Still Alice"", and J. K. Simmons won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ""Whiplash"". ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" won five of its eleven nominations, the most of"
"2015, produced by Broad Green Pictures. The film stars Jeremy Sisto, David Walton, JK Simmons, and Amy Smart. Hong resides in the Hollywood Hills with his close friend, Adam Levine, front man for the Grammy Award-winning pop music group, Maroon 5. During an interview with Howard Stern, actor Jake Gyllenhaal referred to Hong as his best friend, claiming he and singer Adam Levine remain close because they ""share a best friend"". Hong is involved in the non-profit organizations Kiva.org, Won By One to Jamaica, and The Linden Center, a group home facility for emotionally disturbed children in Los Angeles, California."
"Simmons and Michael Keaton were attached to roles however both left due to scheduling difficulties. On July 23, 2015, Brie Larson was cast in the film to play the female lead. On August 5, 2015, it was announced that Corey Hawkins was cast in the film to play a supporting role. On August 6, 2015, ""Deadline Hollywood"" reported that the studio was in early talks with Samuel L. Jackson to replace the role which Simmons vacated, while John C. Reilly was being eyed for Keaton's role, but not offered it yet. Tom Wilkinson was also offered a role in the"
"March 26, 2015. The film grossed $49 million on a production budget of $3.3 million. The film received widespread critical acclaim, with particular praise for Simmons's performance and Chazelle's screenplay. At the 87th Academy Awards, ""Whiplash"" won Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Supporting Actor for Simmons, and was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. Andrew Neiman is a first-year jazz student at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York City. He has been playing drums from a young age, and he aspires to become a world-class drummer like Buddy Rich. Famed conductor Terence Fletcher"
"nine each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22, 2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. ""Birdman"" was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since ""Ordinary People"" (1980). Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming ""Gravity"". At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on ""Gravity"""
"Michael Jai White Michael Jai White (born November 10, 1967) is an American actor and martial artist. He is the first black person to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film ""Spawn"". White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films ""Why Did I Get Married?"" and ""Why Did I Get Married Too?"", and starred as the character on the TBS/OWN comedy-drama television series ""Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse"". White portrayed Jax Briggs in """". He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995"
"CW's television drama film ""Blink"". In 2013, he made a cameo appearance in the music video for Drake's single ""Hold On, We're Going Home"". That same year, Simmons joined the comedy film ""Frank and Cindy"" as GJ Erchternkamp, alongside Rene Russo and Oliver Platt. In 2014, he starred as Jack London in the Discovery Channel miniseries ""Klondike"", the channel's first scripted series, which detailed the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s. In 2015, he co-starred as Jeff Jansen in the thriller film ""The Stanford Prison Experiment"", and in 2016, had the lead role in Kevin Pollak's comedy-drama ""The Late Bloomer""."
"""The Phone Call"", ""Selma"", ""Still Alice"", and ""The Theory of Everything"" with one. The telecast garnered more than 37 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PST (13:30 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor Chris Pine. For the first time, nominations for all 24 competitive categories were announced. ""Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"" and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" tied for the most nominations with"
"57th Academy Awards The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Jack Lemmon presided over the ceremonies. The big winner at the ceremony was Miloš Forman's ""Amadeus"", which had received 11 nominations and won 8 awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. As of the 90th Academy Awards, ""Amadeus"" is the most recent film to receive two lead actor nominations. The winner of Best Supporting Actor was also significant. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian surgeon who survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, won the award for his"
"Gary Oldman; ""Insomnia"" starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank from director Christopher Nolan; ""The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants""; ""P.S. I Love You"" starring Hilary Swank; the critically acclaimed dramatic thriller ""Prisoners"" directed by Denis Villeneuve starring Hugh Jackman and Gyllenhaal; and the family hit ""Dolphin Tale"" starring Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick Jr. Johnson earned an Emmy nomination in 2015 for producing the Alex Gibney directed HBO documentary ""Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All"", an intimate documentary portrait of the singer, actor, father, husband, and philanthropist that attracted more viewers for HBO from the 50+ age bracket"
"earnest and honest, perhaps much like Marnie. The character is eager to help and be involved, and the film carries much of that same spirit: it will try to please you with one thing, but if that doesn’t work, it has another way to make you smile just around the corner. And just like Marnie, it’s hard to resist."" Richard Lawson of ""Vanity Fair"" later named it the best film of 2016. The Meddler The Meddler is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Lorene Scafaria. The film stars Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne and J. K. Simmons. Principal"
"in the episode ""Cue Detective"" episode of the American television series ""The Simpsons"". The episode first aired on 4 October 2015. The film won Academy Awards for Best Special Effects (L. B. Abbott) and Best Song (Leslie Bricusse for ""Talk to the Animals""). It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Art Direction (Art Direction: Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith and Ed Graves; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss), Best Cinematography (Robert L. Surtees), Best Film Editing (Samuel E. Beetley) and (Marjorie Fowler), Best Original Music Score (Leslie Bricusse), Best Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment (Lionel Newman)"
"the best films and performances from the New York Film Festival, topping the Best Narrative Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Performance (Blanchett and Mara), Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography categories. Lachman was awarded the grand prize for Best Cinematography by the Camerimage International Film Festival. The jury stated: In September 2015, The Weinstein Company confirmed that it would campaign for Cate Blanchett as Lead Actress and Rooney Mara as Supporting Actress for the 88th Academy Awards. The film received six Oscar nominations, including Best Actress, and garnered five Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Drama. It received"
"Jack Lemmon John Uhler ""Jack"" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight-time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. He starred in over 60 films, such as ""Some Like It Hot"", ""The Apartment"", ""Mister Roberts"" (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), ""Days of Wine and Roses"", ""The Great Race"", ""Irma la Douce"", ""The Odd Couple"" and its sequel ""The Odd Couple II"" (and other frequent collaborations with ""Odd Couple"" co-star Walter Matthau), ""Save the Tiger"" (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award"
"role, however, went to John Boyega. Plemons had a starring role in the Boston-set mob film ""Black Mass"", starring Johnny Depp, which opened in theaters in September 2015. Also that year, he appeared in the Stephen Frears film about Lance Armstrong, ""The Program"", and the Steven Spielberg film ""Bridge of Spies"". In late 2015, Plemons co-starred in the second season of the TV show ""Fargo"" (which is loosely based on the film of the same name). He portrayed Ed Blumquist, a butcher and the husband of Peggy Blumquist (Kirsten Dunst). For his performance, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy"
"as Jack Simmons in the third season of ""The Cut"". The following year, he guest starred as a waiter named Tom in the ""Sadie J"" episode ""Cherylistic"". In 2012, he had a small role in the drama film ""Not Fade Away"" as a young Mick Jagger. He landed his first notable role in 2014, as Christian Ozera in the satirical horror film ""Vampire Academy"", based on the novel by Richelle Mead. In February 2015, he became known for his appearance in Taylor Swift's music video for her single ""Style"", which was directed by Kyle Newman. On 20 April 2015, it"
"Jean Simmons Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was an English actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's ""well-spoken young starlets"", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Great Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards. Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ""Hamlet"" (1948), and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for ""Guys and Dolls"" (1955). Other notable film appearances included ""Young Bess"" (1953), ""The Robe"" (1953), ""Elmer Gantry"" (1960), ""Spartacus"" (1960), and the"
"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"
"guitarist and fan of the fictional band Sex Bob-omb. In 2011, he was cast in a supporting role for the Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum led comedy ""21 Jump Street"" (2012). The film opened at South by Southwest on March 12, and was released theatrically on March 16, 2012. Also in 2012, Simmons co-starred as the closeted quarterback Brad Hayes, alongside Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller, in the teen drama ""The Perks of Being a Wallflower"". The film is an adaptation of the Stephen Chbosky novel of the same name. In February 2013, he was cast in The"
"Cross – ""Whiplash"" ""Ida"" (Poland) – Paweł Pawlikowski ""Citizenfour"" – Laura Poitras 30th Independent Spirit Awards The 30th Independent Spirit Awards announced its nominees on November 30, 2014. The winners were announced on February 21, 2015. The ceremony was hosted by Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell. Winners are listed first and in bold. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Nightcrawler Land Ho! Michael Keaton – ""Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"" Julianne Moore – ""Still Alice"" J. K. Simmons – ""Whiplash"" Patricia Arquette – ""Boyhood"" Richard Linklater – ""Boyhood"" Dan Gilroy – ""Nightcrawler"" Justin Simien – ""Dear White"
"Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), and Best Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin) categories. ""Inception"" was the only other film to garner multiple awards, winning both the Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer) and Best Cinematography (Wally Pfister) prizes. The other acting awards went to Natalie Portman as Best Actress for ""Black Swan"", Hailee Steinfeld as Best Supporting Actress for ""True Grit"", and Christian Bale as Best Supporting Actor for ""The Fighter"". The remaining film honors went to ""Toy Story 3"" as Best Animated Film, ""Restrepo"" as Best Documentary, and ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" as Best Foreign Language Film. ""We Are Sex Bob-Omb"""
"Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Gyllenhaal received further recognition for roles in ""Zodiac"" (2007), ""Brothers"" (2009), """" (2010), ""Love & Other Drugs"" (2010), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, ""Source Code"" (2011), ""End of Watch"" (2012), ""Prisoners"" and ""Enemy"" (both 2013), ""Nightcrawler"" (2014), ""Southpaw"" (2015), and ""Nocturnal Animals"" (2016), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For ""Nightcrawler"", his performance was widely acclaimed and received rave"
"Jason Bourne in the ""Bourne"" franchise (2002–2016) and as a con man in the ""Ocean's"" trilogy (2001–2007). For his supporting role as the rugby player Francois Pienaar in ""Invictus"" (2009) and his leading role as an astronaut stranded on Mars in ""The Martian"" (2015), Damon received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor, respectively. The latter also won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Damon has received Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Scott Thorson in the biopic ""Behind the Candelabra"" (2013) and for producing the reality series ""Project Greenlight"". He also received an"
"the ""Time Out Film Guide"", Geoff Andrew called the film a ""sensitive but rather dull adaption of Russell Banks' novel [...] the narrative's too unfocused and low-key really to engage the heart or mind."" James Coburn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. Nick Nolte was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a"
"Score for Pemberton. It won two, for both Winslet and Sorkin. On February 14, 2016, Winslet won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Both Fassbender and Winslet received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Steve Jobs (film) Steve Jobs is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from the 2011 book of the same name by Walter Isaacson as well as interviews conducted by Sorkin, the film is structured into three acts which cover 14 years (1984–1998) in the life of personal computing innovator"
"""Don't Look Down"" and ""Hey Baby Doll"", were long-listed for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Original Song. Danny Collins (film) Danny Collins is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his feature directorial debut. Inspired by the true story of folk singer Steve Tilston, the film stars Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, and Christopher Plummer. The film was released in theaters on March 20, 2015. For his performance, Pacino was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards."
"Mica Levi, score London Film Critics Circle Awards 2014 The 35th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2014, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 18 January 2015. Boyhood Leviathan Under the Skin Citizenfour Michael Keaton – ""Birdman"" Julianne Moore – ""Still Alice"" J. K. Simmons – ""Whiplash"" Patricia Arquette – ""Boyhood"" Timothy Spall – ""Mr. Turner"" Rosamund Pike – ""Gone Girl"" and ""What We Did on Our Holiday"" Alex Lawther – ""The Imitation Game"" Richard Linklater – ""Boyhood"" Wes Anderson – ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" Yann Demange – "" '71 "" ""Under"
"the Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 8, 2014. On February 7, 2015, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Margot Robbie and Miles Teller. ""Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"" and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" each won four awards, with the former film earning the Best Picture honor. Other winners include ""Whiplash"" with three and ""American Sniper"", ""Big Hero 6"", ""Boyhood"", ""Citizenfour"", """", ""Feast"", ""Ida"", ""The Imitation Game"", ""Interstellar"","
"released on July 24, 2015, by The Weinstein Company. Mays has been cast as a series regular in FX’s drama pilot Snowfall, about the beginnings of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles in the 80’s. Co-written by John Singleton and Eric Amadio and directed by Singleton, Snowfall is set against the infancy of the epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. Mays will play Leon Simmons, Franklin’s (Damson Idris) best friend since childhood. Malcolm Mays started playing piano at age eleven and is the self-proclaimed writer of music heavily influenced by 90's R&B"