Geoffrey Rush won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a mentally handicapped piano player in which film?
"small roles on television dramas, including a role as a dentist in a 1993 episode of the British television series ""Lovejoy"". He made his breakthrough performance in 1996 with ""Shine"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. That same year, James L. Brooks flew him to Los Angeles to audition for the part of Simon Bishop in ""As Good as It Gets"", and offered him the role, but Rush declined it (it went to Greg Kinnear). In 1998, he appeared in three major films: ""Les Misérables"", ""Elizabeth"", and ""Shakespeare in Love"". He received his second Academy Award"
"BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for a single performance in film for his performance as piano prodigy David Helfgott in ""Shine"" (1996). Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His father was of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, and his mother was of German descent. His parents divorced when he was five, and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in suburban Brisbane. Before he began his"
"Shine (film) Shine is a 1996 Australian biographical drama film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Nicholas Bell, Chris Haywood and Alex Rafalowicz. The screenplay was written by Jan Sardi, and directed by Scott Hicks. The film made its US premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1997, Geoffrey Rush was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 69th Academy Awards for his performance in the lead role."
"he began showing more definite manifestations of schizoaffective disorder. He returned to Perth in 1970. The following year he married Clare Papp, who had four children. He worked as a rehearsal pianist for the Western Australian Opera Company. In 1983, his brother Les Helfgott found him working at a Perth wine bar called Riccardo's. Helfgott was the subject of the 1996 film ""Shine"", which dealt with the pianist's formative years and struggle with mental illness. Helfgott was portrayed by actors Geoffrey Rush (adult), Noah Taylor (teenager) and Alex Rafalowicz (child). His brother Les has described the portrayal of their father"
"""Titanic"", ""A Beautiful Mind"", and the first three films of the Harry Potter franchise. The piano in the opening and closing scenes of ""Forrest Gump"", which features a feather floating in the wind, was played by Randy Kerber. He has been an orchestrator on over 50 films, including work with Academy Award winner James Horner. He worked with Eric Clapton as keyboardist, orchestrator, and conductor on the film ""Rush"" - playing on the Grammy Award-winning song ""Tears in Heaven"". During his career, Randy Kerber has worked with a wide range of artists such as Michael Jackson, Paul Anka, Leonard Cohen,"
"""universal acclaim"". ""Shine"" grossed $35,892,330 in the United States and Canada. The film also grossed $10,187,418 at the box office in Australia. Shine (film) Shine is a 1996 Australian biographical drama film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Nicholas Bell, Chris Haywood and Alex Rafalowicz. The screenplay was written by Jan Sardi, and directed by Scott Hicks. The film made its US premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1997,"
"saving the world; it's about teamwork among people of different religions and nationalities to defeat a common enemy."" The film had both its twentieth anniversary and premiere at a special live-orchestral screening performance at the Royal Albert Hall on September 22, 2016. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the original orchestrator Nicholas Dodd, performed the score live during the film, and the film's composer, David Arnold, was a presenter at the event. ""Independence Day"" was the highest-grossing film of 1996, beating ""Twister"", """" and ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". In the United States, it earned $104.3 million in its opening"
"the Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush, with character voices by Kamahl, John Flaus and Julie Forsythe. In 2004 the film won an Academy Award for Best Short Animation. ""Harvie Krumpet"" has played at over 100 film festivals and won over forty major awards. In 2005 it was named as one of the top 100 animated films of all time by the board of the world's largest animation festival in Annecy, France. Elliot's first feature film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009 and was the first animated film and first Australian film in the festival's"
"positive notice, calling it ""a small picture with a huge heart."" ""Entertainment Weekly"" gave it a ""B+"" grade and said it was a ""quietly quirky movie"" that ""turns genuinely uplifting"". Good Luck (1996 film) Good Luck is a 1996 American film directed by Richard LaBrie starring Gregory Hines and Vincent D'Onofrio as two physically disabled men who come together to challenge themselves out of their unsatisfactory lives. Hines plays a former dental student, Bern Lemley, who had to quit school just before finals because of a car accident that left him in a wheelchair. D'Onofrio plays a former pro football"
"Geoffrey Rush Geoffrey Roy Rush, (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Rush is amongst 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting: an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting (of four nominations), three British Academy Film Awards (of five nominations), two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Rush is the founding President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year. He is also the first actor to win the Academy Award,"
"Hold"" who had a No.1 single in 1981 (& another top 5 hit in 1982). Hicks's late 1983 film clip for their third single ""Shotdown (In Love)"" was also showcased at the U.S. ""Aussie"" Music Festival in Los Angeles, alongside Mondo Rock and INXS videos. He is, however, best known as the screenwriter and director of ""Shine"", the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Geoffrey Rush won the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal as Helfgott, and the film was also nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Armin Mueller-Stahl), Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music,"
"see Carol, who is hesitant, but agrees to try and establish a relationship with him. The film ends with Melvin and Carol walking together. As he opens the door at an early morning pastry shop for Carol, he realizes that he has stepped on a crack in the pavement, but doesn't seem to mind. In 1996, James L. Brooks flew Geoffrey Rush from Sydney to Los Angeles to audition for the part of Simon Bishop, and offered him the role, but Rush declined it. The soundtrack features instrumental pieces composed by Hans Zimmer and songs by various artists. Zimmer's work"
"David Helfgott David Helfgott (born 19 May 1947) is an Australian concert pianist. Helfgott's life inspired the Academy Award-winning film ""Shine"", in which he was portrayed by actors Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor. Helfgott was born in Melbourne to Polish Jewish parents Rachel (née Granek) and Elias Peter Helfgott. He won the state final of the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition six times. The awards he won at the Royal College of Music included the Dannreuther Prize for Best Concerto Performance, for his performance of Rachmaninoff's ""Piano Concerto No. 3"", and the Marmaduke Barton Prize. During his time in London,"
"Harry"" (Jason Alexander)<br> 1994: ""Oleanna"" (Kyra Sedgwick) <br> 1994: ""Marvin's Room"" (Mary Steenburgen, Jane Cecil, Tim Monsion)<br> 1995: ""Staccato"" (Eugene Robert Glazer, Cameron Watson, Sarah MacDonnell, Anthony Russell, Edith Fields)<br> 1995: ""Why We Have a Body"" (Amy Resnick, K. K. Dodds, Shareen Mitchell)<br> 1995: ""Fatty"" <br> 1995: ""Twist of Fate"" (Lisa Raggio, Dan Gerrity, Tia Texada)<br> 1996: ""The Apple Doesn't Fall Far Drom The Tree"" (Directed by Leonard Nimoy --opened Feb 22)<br> 1996: ""Kindertransport"" (Holland Taylor, Kala Savage, Jane Kaczmarek, Elizabeth Hoffman)<br> 1996 ""All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"" (Beth Howland, Robert Mandan, David Naughton, Michael"
"Award for Film Music<br> 1994: ""Backbeat"" – Don Was 1995: ""Braveheart"" – James Horner ‡ 1996: ""The English Patient"" – Gabriel Yared † 1997: ""Romeo + Juliet"" – Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong, and Marius de Vries 1998: ""Elizabeth"" – David Hirschfelder ‡ 1999: ""American Beauty"" – Thomas Newman ‡ 2000: ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"" – Tan Dun † 2001: ""Moulin Rouge!"" – Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries 2002: ""The Hours"" – Philip Glass ‡ 2003: ""Cold Mountain"" – T Bone Burnett and Gabriel Yared ‡ 2004: ""The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)"" – Gustavo Santaolalla"
"tour was the subject of a documentary, ""Hello, I Am David!"" Helfgott and his second wife, Gillian, live in The Promised Land, a valley near Bellingen in New South Wales. David Helfgott David Helfgott (born 19 May 1947) is an Australian concert pianist. Helfgott's life inspired the Academy Award-winning film ""Shine"", in which he was portrayed by actors Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor. Helfgott was born in Melbourne to Polish Jewish parents Rachel (née Granek) and Elias Peter Helfgott. He won the state final of the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition six times. The awards he won at the Royal"
"Crash (1996 film) Crash is a 1996 psychological thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on J. G. Ballard's 1973 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car crashes, a notable form of paraphilia. The film stars James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter, and Rosanna Arquette. The film generated considerable controversy upon its release and opened to mixed and highly divergent reactions from critics. While some praised the film for its daring premise and originality, others criticized its combination of graphic sexuality and"
"the film won six Genie Awards from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, including awards for Cronenberg as director and screenwriter. The film was also nominated in two further categories, including producer. ""Crash"" was also nominated in 1998 for the USA Motion Picture Sound Editors Award. The film won in the category of Best Alternative Adult Feature Film Award at the 1998 Adult Video News Awards. Crash (1996 film) Crash is a 1996 psychological thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on J. G. Ballard's 1973 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a"
"1996 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, and the video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video. While ""Dangerous Minds"" received negative reviews, it was a box office success, grossing US$179.5 million around the globe. Pfeiffer portrayed Sally Atwater in the romantic drama ""Up Close & Personal"" (1996), with Robert Redford. Pfeiffer took the role of Gillian Lewis in ""To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday"" (1996), which was adapted by her husband David Kelley from Michael Brady's play of the same name. Under their Via Rosa Productions header, Pfeiffer and Guinzburg produced the films ""One Fine"
"Raun was diagnosed with a perpetual disability known as classic autism—which, at the time, was classified as a form of childhood schizophrenia—and had mental retardation. Accordingly, ""although advised to institutionalize Raun, his parents...instead created an innovative home-based, child-centered program in an effort to reach [him]."" Subsequently, Raun became typical of neural development and earned his master's degree from Brown University. The film went on to receive the Humanitas Prize award. The therapeutic, distraction play therapy progressed into a teaching model called The Son-Rise Program. By 1983, Bears and Samahria Kaufman founded The Option Institute and the Autism Treatment Center of"
"Crying Game"" (1992) – famous for its shocking twist, ""The Secret Garden"" (1993) – inspired by the walled garden at Great Maytham Hall in Kent, and ""Shadowlands"" (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Minghella's ""The English Patient"" (1996) won nine Academy Awards. BAFTA Award winning films included Danny Boyle's black comedy drama ""Trainspotting"" (1996) featuring heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his circle of friends in Edinburgh, the 1997 comedy ""The Full Monty"" set in Sheffield, and the biographical drama ""Elizabeth"" (1998). Richard Curtis's 1994 film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", starring Hugh Grant in his breakthrough role, set a"
"piano concerto for the film that a blinded World War I veteran (Herbert Marshall) uses as a tone poem to describe the story of the two protagonists to a gathering of people. Webb was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1945 and performed the concerto at the Hollywood Bowl later that year. Marshall, who had lost a leg in World War I, played his blind role with the help of special contact lenses. Dorothy McGuire insisted her character show her plainness with no makeup, ill-fitting clothes and a drab hairstyle. When McGuire was filmed looking appealing"
"– Carl Davis 1982: ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" – John Williams † 1983: ""Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"" – Ryuichi Sakamoto 1984: ""Once Upon a Time in America"" – Ennio Morricone 1985: ""Witness"" – Maurice Jarre ‡ 1986: ""The Mission"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1987: ""The Untouchables"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1988: ""Empire of the Sun"" – John Williams ‡ 1989: ""Dead Poets Society"" – Maurice Jarre 1990: ""Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)"" – Andrea and Ennio Morricone 1991: ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" – Jean-Claude Petit 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – David Hirschfelder Best Score<br> 1993: ""Schindler's List"" – John Williams † Anthony Asquith"
"worldwide, against its $50 million budget. It was the ninth top-grossing film of 1996. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Tom Cruise, with Cuba Gooding Jr. winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film was also nominated for three Golden Globes, with Tom Cruise winning for Best Actor, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, with Cuba Gooding Jr. winning Best Supporting Actor. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a glossy 35-year-old sports agent working for ""Sports Management International"" (SMI). After having a life-altering epiphany about his role as a sports"
"1996, The Sunchaser 1996, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie 1996, In Cold Blood 1996, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday 1996, Last Man Sting 1996, Maximum Risk 1996, Albino Alligator 1996, Fly Away Home 1996, Bound 1996, Bastard Out of Carolina 1996, Alaska 1996, The Fan 1996, Matilda 1996, Kingpin 1996, Multiplicity 1996, The Phantom 1996, Original Gangsters 1996, The Great White Hype 1996, Mrs. Winterbourne 1996, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 1996, If Lucy Fell 1996, Down Periscope 1996, Unforgettable 1996, Adrenalin: Fear The Rush 1996, The Juror 1996 , Bed of Roses 1996 , Ed's Next"
"1996 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 31st National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics on January 5, 1997, honored the best in film for 1996. 1. Breaking the Waves<br> 2. ""Secrets & Lies""<br> 3. ""Dead Man"" 1. Lars von Trier – ""Breaking the Waves""<br> 2. Mike Leigh – ""Secrets & Lies""<br> 3. Jim Jarmusch – ""Dead Man"" 1. Eddie Murphy – ""The Nutty Professor""<br> 2. Vincent D'Onofrio – ""The Whole Wide World""<br> 3. Geoffrey Rush – ""Shine"" 1. Emily Watson – ""Breaking the Waves""<br> 2. Brenda Blethyn – ""Secrets & Lies""<br>"
"than the Drama) category. Charles was set to attend an opening of the completed film, but died of liver disease in June 2004, several months before its premiere. Raised on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles Robinson went blind at the age of seven, shortly after witnessing his younger brother drown. Inspired by a fiercely independent mother who insisted he make his own way in the world, Charles found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the chitlin circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation before exploding onto the worldwide stage when he pioneered"
"the piano, the actor actually playing if possible. The plot concerns the investigation by a neurologist of the condition of a singer who suffers from visual agnosia. According to the liner notes, Morris, Rawlence, and Nyman had to spend much time convincing the real Mrs. P. (whose husband is implied to have been a known name) that they were not proposing a musical (her word) that would trivialize her late husband's situation in order to gain her consent. Rawlence made a film version in 1987. It made brief omissions from the music (most notably the self-referential line, ""That's Nyman! Can't"
"1. Ralph Fiennes – ""Schindler's List""<br> 2. Leonardo DiCaprio – ""What's Eating Gilbert Grape"" and ""This Boy's Life""<br> 2. Tommy Lee Jones – ""The Fugitive"" 1. Madeleine Stowe – ""Short Cuts""<br> 2. Gwyneth Paltrow – ""Flesh and Bone""<br> 3. Jennifer Jason Leigh – ""Short Cuts""<br> 3. Anna Paquin – ""The Piano"" 1. Jane Campion – ""The Piano""<br> 2. John Guare – ""Six Degrees of Separation""<br> 3. Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt – ""Short Cuts"" 1. Janusz Kamiński – ""Schindler's List""<br> 2. Stuart Dryburgh – ""The Piano""<br> 3. Michael Ballhaus – ""The Age of Innocence"" 1. The Story of Qiu Ju"
"Good Luck (1996 film) Good Luck is a 1996 American film directed by Richard LaBrie starring Gregory Hines and Vincent D'Onofrio as two physically disabled men who come together to challenge themselves out of their unsatisfactory lives. Hines plays a former dental student, Bern Lemley, who had to quit school just before finals because of a car accident that left him in a wheelchair. D'Onofrio plays a former pro football player, Ole Olezniak, who was blinded in a freak accident on the field. Before their accidents, Bern had been a tutor for Ole, and, after quitting his post-accident job as"
"the second greatest guitarist in the world. Morton played Hattie, a mute laundress and the love interest of Penn's character. The film was released in September 1999, to wide critical acclaim and moderate success at the box office in the arthouse circuit. George Perry for BBC.com found her to be ""extraordinary"" as an ""adoring mute who suffers [...] She uses her eyes to convey meaning, reviving techniques of silent cinema"". Morton earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role, which was especially notable, considering the fact that she does not utter a single word"
"A man (Geoffrey Rush) wanders through a heavy rainstorm finding his way into a restaurant. The restaurant's employees try to determine if he needs help. Despite his manic mode of speech being difficult to understand, Sylvia learns that his name is David Helfgott and that he is staying at a local hotel. She returns him to the hotel, and despite his attempts to engage her with his musical knowledge and ownership of various musical scores, she leaves. As a child, David (played by Alex Rafalowicz) is growing up in suburban Adelaide, South Australia and competing in a local music competition."
"up to the Asylum and end credits. Piano Quartet in G Minor Opus 25 by Johannes Brahms was definitely not composed for the movie but is the 5th track on the soundtrack album. House on Haunted Hill (1999 film) House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American horror film directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, and Jeffrey Combs. It also includes a cameo appearance by Peter Graves. The plot follows a group of strangers who are invited to a party at an abandoned asylum, where they are offered $1 million each by"