Which part does Matt Damon play in the film 'Invictus'?
"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"
"Invictus (film) Invictus is a 2009 American-South African biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The story is based on the John Carlin book ""Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation"" about the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The Springboks were not expected to perform well, the team having only recently returned to high-level international competition following the dismantling of apartheid—the country was hosting the World Cup, thus earning an automatic entry. Freeman and Damon play, respectively, South African President"
"""True Grit"" (2010), and the science fiction films ""Elysium"" (2013) and ""The Martian"" (2015). In the latter, which earned over $630 million to become his highest-grossing release, Damon played a botanist stranded on Mars, for which he received an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. With box office receipts of over $3 billion in North America, Damon ranks among Hollywood's most commercially successful actors. Matt Damon filmography Matt Damon is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He made his screen debut with a minor role in the 1988 film ""Mystic Pizza"". After appearing in a"
"generally positive reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 76% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 237 reviews, with an average score of 6.6/10. The website's critical consensus is: ""Delivered with typically stately precision from director Clint Eastwood, ""Invictus"" may not be rousing enough for some viewers, but Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman inhabit their real-life characters with admirable conviction."" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating ""generally favorable reviews"". Critic David Ansen wrote: Anthony Peckham's sturdy, functional screenplay, based on John Carlin's"
"Matt Damon filmography Matt Damon is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He made his screen debut with a minor role in the 1988 film ""Mystic Pizza"". After appearing in a series of supporting parts in much of the 1990s, Damon was cast by Francis Ford Coppola as the lead of the 1997 legal drama ""The Rainmaker"". His breakthrough came later that year when he played the title role of an unrecognized genius in ""Good Will Hunting"", a drama which he also co-wrote with Ben Affleck. They won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Damon was nominated for"
"Matt Damon as a conjoined twin who pursues his dream of becoming a Hollywood actor in spite of his joined brother's desire for a different kind of life. In 2005, he starred in the black comedy ""The Matador"" with Pierce Brosnan and voiced Phineas T. Ratchet in the computer-animated film ""Robots"". Kinnear co-starred with Steve Carell in the Oscar-winning comedy-drama ""Little Miss Sunshine"" in 2006, and with Mark Wahlberg in ""Invincible"", based on the true story of a bartender who tries out for the Philadelphia Eagles football team. He also appeared in ""Fast Food Nation"", playing a fast food executive"
"While Keanu Reeves and Harrison Ford both had major roles in action science fiction films (""The Matrix"" and ""Blade Runner"", respectively), they later branched out into a number of other action genres, such as action-adventure films. American actor Matt Damon, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his sensitive portrayal of a math genius working as a janitor in ""Good Will Hunting"", later morphed into an action hero with the car-chase-and-gunfire-filled ""Jason Bourne"" franchise. Same thing happened to star Tom Cruise, who turned into a mature action star with the , ""Jack Reacher"", and other films. Leonardo DiCaprio is"
"Matt Damon Matthew Paige Damon (; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter. He is ranked among ""Forbes"" magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Damon has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, from five nominations, two Golden Globe Awards, from eight nominations, and has been nominated for three British Academy Film Awards and six Emmy Awards. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Damon began his acting career by appearing in high school theater productions. He made his professional acting debut in the film ""Mystic Pizza"" (1988)."
"Matt Damon as well as a nomination from the Detroit Film Critics Society. Damon was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. The Informant! The Informant! is a 2009 American biographical-comedy-crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Written by Scott Z. Burns, the film stars Matt Damon as the titular informant named Mark Whitacre, as well as Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. It depicts Whitacre's involvement as a whistle blower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s as described in the 2000 nonfiction book"
"Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2016, Plemons starred in the film ""Other People"". In 2017, he appeared in the Doug Liman thriller film ""American Made"" (released on September 29). Plemons also received a 2018 Emmy nomination (Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie) for his role as villainous programmer Robert Daly in the ""Black Mirror"" episode ""USS Callister"". Plemons has long been noted for his resemblance to actors Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman. One of his first film roles, at age 12, was playing the younger version of Damon's character"
"including the United Nations Association Film Festival and Philadelphia International Film Festival. The film was produced by Calegari and Eggers, and directed and produced by filmmaker Vanessa Roth. The film is narrated by actor Matt Damon with music composed by San Francisco musician Thao Nguyen. In 2008, Calegari was appointed by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to the San Francisco Arts Commission. She served on the board of Learning Points Associates, and as an advisor to the George Lucas Education Foundation. In 2014, Calegari gave a TEDx talk at Santa Catalina School on the importance of valuing teachers. In 2015,"
"The film was co-produced and directed by Doug Liman and adapted for the screen by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. Although Robert Ludlum died in 2001, he is credited as an executive producer alongside Frank Marshall. Universal Pictures released the film to theatres in the United States on June 14, 2002, and it received a positive critical and public reaction. In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an unconscious American (Matt Damon) floating adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. They tend to his wounds, and when the man wakes, they find he suffers from dissociative amnesia. He"
"comfortable. At the Salvatore house, Damon (Ian Somerhalder), Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen), Matt (Zach Roerig), Caroline (Candice Accola), Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Elena have a drinking game celebrating Katherine's upcoming death, naming the worst things she has ever done to them. Stefan walks in, asking them to stop because they are being insensitive. He instead drinks to the survivor Katherine rather than the evil one. Matt goes to get more liquor when Nadia shows up and knocks him down. She then goes back to the house where everyone is gathered and tells them that she found a way to save"
"Begins"" (2005), ""The Dark Knight"" (2008), and ""The Dark Knight Rises"" (2012). During that time, Freeman also appeared in ""The Bucket List"" (2007) opposite Jack Nicholson, ""Wanted"" (2008) with Angelina Jolie, and ""Invictus"" (2009) with Matt Damon. In 2011, Freeman received the AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Two years later he starred in action thriller ""Olympus Has Fallen"" (2013), science fiction film ""Oblivion"" (2013), caper ""Now You See Me"" (2013), and comedy ""Last Vegas"". In 2014, Freeman appeared in the science fiction films ""Transcendence"" and ""Lucy"". Freeman has also narrated several documentaries and television series, including"
"Michael Pitt Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor, model and musician. Pitt is known in film for his roles in Bernardo Bertolucci's ""The Dreamers"" (2003), Gus Van Sant's ""Last Days"" (2005), Michael Haneke's ""Funny Games"" (2007) and M. Night Shyamalan's ""The Village"" (2004), and in television for his roles as Henry Parker in the teen drama ""Dawson's Creek"", Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series ""Boardwalk Empire"" and Mason Verger in the NBC series ""Hannibal"". He has also appeared in the films ""Hedwig and the Angry Inch"" (2001), ""Bully"" (2001), ""Silk"" (2007), ""Seven Psychopaths"" (2012), ""I"
"regard to who in the United States is tasked with the responsibility of fighting wars. Damon is a supporter of the Democratic Party, and has made several critical attacks against Republican Party figures, but has also expressed his disillusionment with the policies of President Barack Obama. In 2012, Damon, Ben Affleck, and John Krasinski hosted a fundraiser for Democratic Senate nominee Elizabeth Warren. Damon had a working relationship with the Obama administration, primarily due to his friendship with former Harvard roommate and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Obama, Jason Furman. In 2010, Matt Damon narrated the"
"with Matt's face turning into an ass. During Kimmel's 2016 post-Oscar special, Ben Affleck wore a very large coat for his appearance, and Damon emerged from the coat for the interview. However, he was removed from the studio by an enraged Kimmel, who then moved on to interview Affleck. Later, Damon appeared in a sketch about the movie that Affleck stars in, "","" reprising his role as astronaut Mark Watney. When Kimmel hosted the 89th Academy Awards on February 26, 2017, he renewed his feud with Damon, first in a skit harshly criticizing Damon's film ""We Bought a Zoo"", having"
"heard reciting ""Invictus"" again. The film is based on the book ""Playing the Enemy: Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation"" by John Carlin. The filmmakers met with Carlin for a week in his Barcelona home, discussing how to transform the book into a screenplay. Filming began in March 2009 in Cape Town. Primary filming in South Africa was completed in May 2009. Morgan Freeman was the first actor to be cast, as Mandela. Matt Damon was then cast as team captain François, despite being significantly smaller than him and much smaller than members of the current Springbok squad."
"different than people look today"", adding to this end that he cast partly based on wanting the cast ""to match the faces I saw on the newsreels."" Before filming began, several of the film's stars, including Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Hanks, endured ten days of ""boot camp"" training led by Marine veteran Dale Dye and Warriors, Inc., a California company that specializes in training actors for realistic military portrayals. Matt Damon was intentionally not brought into the camp, to make the rest of the group feel resentment towards the character."
"a neophyte lawyer played by Matt Damon. His last film of 1997 was ""Boys Will Be Boys"", a family comedy directed by Dom DeLuise. The following year, Voight had the lead role in the television film ""The Fixer"", in which he played Jack Killoran, a lawyer who crosses ethical lines in order to ""fix"" things for his wealthy clients. A near-fatal accident awakens his dormant conscience and Killoran soon runs afoul of his former clients. He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1998 political thriller, ""Enemy of the State,"" in which Voight played Will Smith's character's stalwart antagonist"
"by Damon's dedication to method acting that he offered him the leading role in ""The Rainmaker"" (1997). Steven Spielberg was also impressed by his performance, but thought he was too skinny and discounted him from casting considerations for ""Saving Private Ryan"" until he met Damon during the filming of ""Good Will Hunting"", by which time he was back at his normal weight. The film opened #3 at the box office behind ""Independence Day"" and ""Phenomenon"" The film received mostly positive reviews. As of January 14, 2013, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 85% of critics gave the film"
"The face of young private Ryan (played by actor Matt Damon) is slowly morphed back to an older private Ryan (played by Harrison Young), while at the same time the background is dissolved from a besieged city during World War 2, into a graveyard set in the modern day; there is no doubt in the audience's mind about the two men being one and the same. An overlapping sound is usually a sound effect or speech that continues briefly from one shot into the next. Overlapping sound may be a sound advance, where a speech or sound effect in an"
"that garnered Damon the most recognition or awards include: Matt Damon Matthew Paige Damon (; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter. He is ranked among ""Forbes"" magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Damon has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, from five nominations, two Golden Globe Awards, from eight nominations, and has been nominated for three British Academy Film Awards and six Emmy Awards. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Damon began his acting career by appearing in high school theater productions. He made his"
"janitor could show such facility with matrices applied this way. Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film, directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Stellan Skarsgård. Written by Affleck and Damon, the film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor. Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend, and himself,"
"and the 2016 long form Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Damon won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was nominated for several awards including the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. In 2035, the crew of the Ares III mission to Mars is exploring Acidalia Planitia on Martian solar day (sol) 18 of their 31-sol expedition. A strong dust storm threatens to topple their Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), forcing them to abort their mission."
"Contagion (film) Contagion is a 2011 American medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle. The plot of ""Contagion"" concerns the spread of a virus transmitted by fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and finally the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. To follow several interacting plot lines, the film makes use of the multi-narrative ""hyperlink cinema"""
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"and played the minor role of scientist Dr. Mann, in Christopher Nolan's ""Interstellar"". In 2014, Damon appeared as a celebrity correspondent for ""Years of Living Dangerously"". He played the main character, astronaut Mark Watney, in Ridley Scott's ""The Martian"" (2015), based on Andy Weir's best-selling novel of the same name, a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Having not returned for the fourth film in the ""Bourne"" film series, Damon reprised his role in 2016's ""Jason Bourne"", reuniting with Paul"
"He came to prominence in 1997, when he wrote and starred in ""Good Will Hunting,"" alongside Ben Affleck, which won them the Academy and Golden Globe awards for Best Screenplay and earned Damon a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He continued to garner praise from critics for his roles as the eponymous character in ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998), the antihero in ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), a fallen angel in ""Dogma"" (1999), an energy analyst in ""Syriana"" (2005), and a corrupt Irish-American police officer in ""The Departed"" (2006). Damon is also known for his starring roles as"
"Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore; Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert; Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes; Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan; Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett and Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood, who is still under contract. Within the first three episodes, four new characters were introduced: Nadia, a girl with a mission of revenge who has traveled around the world, Jesse, an upper-class boy who goes to college, Actors Olga Fonda and Kendrick Sampson were cast in the roles of Nadia and Jesse, respectively. On August 2, 2013, it was announced that Janina Gavankar will play Tessa. The Vampire"
"and received a score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes and ambivalent reception from critics. He has appeared as a guest star in an episode of ""Arthur"", titled ""The Making of Arthur"", as himself. During season 5 of ""30 Rock"", he appeared as guest star in the role of Liz Lemon's boyfriend in the episodes ""I Do Do"", ""The Fabian Strategy"", ""Live Show"", and ""Double-edged Sword"". Damon's 2010 projects included Clint Eastwood's ""Hereafter"" and the Coen brothers' remake of the 1969 John Wayne-starring Western ""True Grit"". In 2011, he starred in ""The Adjustment Bureau"", ""Contagion"", and ""We Bought a Zoo"". In"
"Best Actor. He followed it by playing the title roles of a soldier in Steven Spielberg's war drama ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998) and of the criminal Tom Ripley in the thriller ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), both of which gained critical and commercial success. A production company he formed in 2000 with Affleck and Sean Bailey, named LivePlanet, produced ""Project Greenlight"" (2001–05, 2015), a television series that helps newcomers develop their first film. Damon has served as the executive producer of a number of projects directed by winners of the show. Damon's profile continued to expand in the 2000s, as"
"at the 33rd Young Artist Awards, Austin was nominated for his performance in ""A Gifted Man"" and won for his performance in ""One Life to Live"". In 2018, Austin graduated from Princeton University with honors and a Bachelor of Science Engineering degree in Computer Scienc (BSE) and a Finance certificate. He was also inducted into Sigma Xi, the National Scientific Research Honors Society. Austin Williams Austin Williams (born November 13, 1996) is an American soap opera actor. In 2005, Austin was cast in the film ""The Good Shepherd"", which starred Matt Damon, as the young version of Damon's character Edward"