"of a Woman"" (1992), ""Boogie Nights"" (1997), ""Happiness"" (1998), ""Patch Adams"" (1998), ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998), ""Magnolia"" (1999), ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), ""Almost Famous"" (2000), ""Punch-Drunk Love"" (2002), and ""Along Came Polly"" (2004). He began to occasionally play leading roles, and for his portrayal of the author Truman Capote in ""Capote"" (2005), won multiple accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hoffman's profile continued to grow, and he received three more Oscar nominations for his supporting work as a brutally frank CIA officer in ""Charlie Wilson's War"" (2007), a priest accused of pedophilia in ""Doubt"" (2008), and the"
"career, starring in ten and directing 19 stage productions (predominantly in New York). He received three Tony Award nominations for his Broadway performances: two for Best Leading Actor, in ""True West"" (2000) and ""Death of a Salesman"" (2012), and one for Best Featured Actor in ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" (2003). Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, director, and producer. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles – typically lowlifes, eccentrics, bullies, and misfits – Hoffman acted in many films from the early 1990s until his death"
"Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, director, and producer. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles – typically lowlifes, eccentrics, bullies, and misfits – Hoffman acted in many films from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. Drawn to theater as a teenager, Hoffman studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He began his screen career in a 1991 episode of ""Law & Order"" and started to appear in films in 1992. He gained recognition for his supporting work, notably in ""Scent"
"Dustin Hoffman Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director. Hoffman is best known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. He is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award), four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Genie Award. Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999 and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012. Hoffman first drew critical praise for starring in the play, ""Eh?"", for which he won a Theatre World Award and"
"Hoffman (1985, Golden Globe and Emmy awards), Warren Mitchell (1996) and Dennehy (2000, Golden Globe and SAG awards and Emmy nomination). Fredric March won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama at the 9th Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor at the 24th Academy Awards and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Foreign) at the 6th British Academy Film Awards. Brian Dennehy won Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play at the 53rd Tony Awards in 1999, while Philip Seymour Hoffman was nominated for the same"
"11th Critics' Choice Awards The 11th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 9, 2006, honoring the finest achievements of 2005 filmmaking. ""' Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Capote"" ""' Reese Witherspoon – ""Walk the Line"" ""' ""Crash"" ""' ""The 40-Year-Old Virgin"" ""' John Williams – ""Memoirs of a Geisha"" ""' Ang Lee – ""Brokeback Mountain"" ""' ""March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur)"" ""' ""Kung Fu Hustle (Kung fu)"" • China / Hong Kong ""' ""Brokeback Mountain"" ""' ""Into the West"" ""' ""Hustle & Flow"" – ""Hustle & Flow"" ""Walk the Line"" ""' Paul Giamatti – ""Cinderella Man"" ""'"
"me."" ""Capote"" was released to great acclaim, particularly regarding Hoffman's performance. Many critics commented that the role was designed to win awards, and indeed Hoffman received an Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, and various other critics' awards. In 2006, ""Premiere"" listed his role in ""Capote"" as the 35th-greatest movie performance of all time. After the film, several commentators began to describe Hoffman as one of the finest, most ambitious actors of his generation. Hoffman received his only Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his supporting role in the HBO miniseries ""Empire Falls"" (2005), about life in a New"
"people, Thomas Edward Seymour, Mike Aransky and Phil Guerette jointly for ""Land of College Prophets"", and Elza Kephart for ""Graveyard Alive"", which also won for Best Editing. ""And I Lived"" won for Best Supporting Actor (Josue Rivera), and Best Music Score (Matt Tyson and Gary Judge). Maggie Ross won Best Actress for ""Rock and Roll Eulogy"", and Debbie Rochon won Best Supporting Actress for ""Scream of the Decapitated"". Michael Legge won Best Screenplay for ""Democrazy"". Phil Hall received a Special Achievement Award for his work supporting independent film as a publicist and film writer. The 2006 guest of honor was"
"Academy Awards, winning five : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Hoffman), Best Supporting Actress (for Streep), and Best Adapted Screenplay. Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin Henry) by himself. Ted and Billy initially resent one another as Ted no longer has time to carry his increased"
"Fur), comedy icon Harold Ramis (Stripes, Caddyshack, Animal House, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day), Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums), Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), Michelle Monaghan (Gone Baby Gone), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Tim Daly (Wings), Jeremy Davies (Lost), Olivia Wilde (House, Tron: Legacy), Hayden Panettiere (Heroes), Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland, Adventureland), Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill), Adrian Grenier (Entourage), Zach Braff (Scrubs, Garden State), Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), Josh Lucas (Sweet Home Alabama), Kate Bosworth (Win a Date with Tad Hamilton), Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), Fred Schepisi (Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation), Allison Janney (The West Wing, Juno), and Tate"
"role with a fierce integrity, never sending out signals for our sympathy because he knows that Mahowny is oblivious to our presence."" However, some critics believed that in his self-effacing performance, Hoffman refused to conform to expectations of a typical movie character and that the movie suffered as a result. Stephanie Zacharek considered him to be a ""character who squirms right out of our grasp"", and despite being the movie's anchor, he's ""such a vaporous one, he leaves ""us"" feeling adrift"". Asked whether Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal matched with the real Brian Molony, journalist Gary Ross replied, ""Remarkably so. They"
"purchased by Greenestreet Films, and was released in 2009. He taught graduate screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Gordy Hoffman Gordon Richard ""Gordy"" Hoffman (born ) is an American screenwriter and director. Hoffman is the older brother of American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. His mother, Marilyn O'Connor (née Loucks), a native of Waterloo, New York, is a family court judge and lawyer. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, is a former Xerox executive. He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, in addition to his late brother Philip. His parents divorced in 1976. In 2002, he wrote the screenplay for"
"won two awards for Choice TV Actor - Drama/Action Adventure and Choice TV Chemistry with Rachel Bilson who played Summer Roberts. In 2006, he won again the Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor - Drama/Action Adventure. In 2009, he was voted the ""Best Son"" in ""Zap2it"" first poll of the best television characters in the 2000s. For his portrayal of Seth, Brody earned several Teen Choice Awards throughout the show's run. Seth Cohen Seth Ezekiel Cohen is a fictional character on the FOX television series ""The O.C."", portrayed by Adam Brody. Seth is one of the ""core four"" characters"
"Night"", ""The Thomas Crown Affair"", and ""Operation Dumbo Drop"". He had a tiny part in Oliver Stone's ""Natural Born Killers"" that was eventually cut. He held the lead role in two television series, ""The Job"" and ""Rescue Me"", and he co-created the latter, in which he played Tommy Gavin, a New York City firefighter dealing with alcoholism, family dysfunction and other issues in post-9/11 New York City. He received Emmy Award nominations in 2006 and 2007 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for ""Rescue Me"", and in 2008 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie"
"6th Golden Satellite Awards The 6th Golden Satellite Awards were given on January 19, 2002 at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Mary Pickford Award – Karl Malden Special Achievement Award – Meir Fenigstein Outstanding New Talent – Dakota Fanning / Rupert Grint ""' Brian Cox – ""L.I.E."" ""' Ewan McGregor – ""Moulin Rouge!"" ""' Sissy Spacek – ""In the Bedroom"" ""' Nicole Kidman – ""Moulin Rouge!"" ""' ""Moulin Rouge!"" ""' ""The Man Who Wasn't There"" – Roger Deakins ""' ""Moulin Rouge!"" – Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie ""' Baz Luhrmann – ""Moulin Rouge!"" ""' ""In Cane for"
"Online Film Critics Society Awards 2000 The 4th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2000, were given on 2 January 2001. Almost Famous Darren Aronofsky – ""Requiem for a Dream"" Tom Hanks – ""Cast Away"" Ellen Burstyn – ""Requiem for a Dream"" Benicio del Toro – ""Traffic"" <br> Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Almost Famous"" Kate Hudson – ""Almost Famous"" ""Almost Famous"" – Cameron Crowe Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Filth and the Fury ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" – Peter Pau ""Requiem for a Dream"" – Jay Rabinowitz Almost Famous<br> State and Main ""Requiem for a"
"the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In addition, it won four Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress in a Drama (MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Nicholson), and Best Screenplay (Brooks). Widowed Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) keeps several suitors at arm's length, focusing instead on her close, but controlling, relationship with daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Anxious to escape her mother, Emma marries young college professor Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels) over her mother's objections, moves away, and has three children. Despite their frequent spats and difficulty getting along, Emma and Aurora have a tie between them that cannot be"
"of Mirth""<br> 3. Ellen Burstyn – ""Requiem for a Dream"" 1. Benicio del Toro – ""Traffic""<br> 2. Fred Willard – ""Best in Show""<br> 3. Willem Dafoe – ""Shadow of the Vampire"" 1. Elaine May – ""Small Time Crooks""<br> 2. Frances McDormand – ""Almost Famous"" and ""Wonder Boys""<br> 3. Marcia Gay Harden – ""Pollock"" 1. Kenneth Lonergan – ""You Can Count On Me""<br> 2. Steve Kloves – ""Wonder Boys""<br> 3. Stephen Gaghan – ""Traffic"" 1. Agnès Godard – ""Beau Travail""<br> 2. Peter Pau – ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (""Wo hu cang long"")<br> 2. Steven Soderbergh – ""Traffic"" 1. The Life and"
"Amy Adams – ""Junebug"" (TIE) ""' Michelle Williams – ""Brokeback Mountain"" (TIE) ""' Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco – ""Crash"" ""' Freddie Highmore – ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" ""' Dakota Fanning – ""War of the Worlds"" 11th Critics' Choice Awards The 11th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 9, 2006, honoring the finest achievements of 2005 filmmaking. ""' Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Capote"" ""' Reese Witherspoon – ""Walk the Line"" ""' ""Crash"" ""' ""The 40-Year-Old Virgin"" ""' John Williams – ""Memoirs of a Geisha"" ""' Ang Lee – ""Brokeback Mountain"" ""' ""March of the Penguins (La marche de"
"and John C. Reilly contributed the funding. The version that was released was Anderson's and the acclaim from the film launched his career. The story concerns Sydney Brown (Hall), an experienced gambler who takes John Finnegan (Reilly) under his wing, while John becomes romantically involved with a troubled waitress (Paltrow). The film also featured Philip Seymour Hoffman as an arrogant gambler, beginning a five-film collaboration between the pair. In his review of the film, ""Chicago Sun-Times"" critic Roger Ebert wrote, ""Movies like ""Hard Eight"" remind me of what original, compelling characters the movies can sometimes give us."" Anderson began working"
"of President Barack Obama.<ref name=""http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Obama-Receives-a-Celebrity-Endorsement-at-FSU-173577571.html""></ref> Jason Alexander Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known by his stage name Jason Alexander, is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and director. Alexander is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series ""Seinfeld"". Other well-known roles include Phillip Stuckey in the film ""Pretty Woman"" (1990) and the title character in the animated series ""Duckman"" (1994–1997). Alexander has had an active career on stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including ""Jerome Robbins' Broadway"" in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Leading Actor in a Musical."
"these sessions. This time around, Reilly wanted to do something different and told Anderson that he was ""always cast as these heavies or these semi-retarded child men. Can't you give me something I can relate to, like falling in love with a girl?"" Anderson also wanted to make Reilly a romantic lead because it was something different that the actor had not done before. For Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anderson wanted him to play a ""really simple, uncomplicated, caring character"". The actor described his character as someone who ""really takes pride in the fact that every day he's dealing with life"
"James Franco James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, and college instructor. For his role in ""127 Hours"" (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for his roles in live-action films, such as Sam Raimi's ""Spider-Man"" trilogy (2002–2007); ""Milk"" (2008); ""Pineapple Express"" (2008); ""Eat, Pray, Love"" (2010); ""Rise of the Planet of the Apes"" (2011); ""Spring Breakers"" (2012); ""Oz the Great and Powerful"" (2013); ""This Is the End"" (2013); and ""The"" ""Disaster"" ""Artist"" (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He is known"
"""Capote"" as Truman Capote 2006: Forest Whitaker – ""The Last King of Scotland"" as Idi Amin 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview 2008: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" as Harvey Milk 2009: George Clooney – ""Up in the Air"" as Ryan Bingham 2010: James Franco – ""127 Hours"" as Aron Ralston 2011: George Clooney – ""The Descendants"" as Matt King 2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln 2013: Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" as Ron Woodroof 2014: Michael Keaton – ""Birdman"" as Riggan Thomson 2015: Leonardo DiCaprio – ""The Revenant"" as Hugh Glass 2016:"
"terrorist who taunts seven geniuses into solving the world's problems in one night. He went on to a leading role in the action/thriller film ""Splinter"" (2006) with Edward James Olmos. The next year, television network VH1 aired a six-episode reality TV series called ""Shooting Sizemore"" (2007), depicting the actor's life as he struggled to regain his career in the midst of battling long-standing addictions to methamphetamine and heroin. The series also covered an ongoing legal appeal of his conviction for an assault of former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. In the same year, the actor starred in the Indie drama film"
"Golden Globe and the Satellite Award for Best Drama Series. ""24"" was nominated in categories for acting, directing, writing, editing, sound, music score, and stunt coordination. The American Film Institute included ""24"" in its 2005 list of 10 Television Programs of the Year. The series received 68 Emmy nominations, with 20 wins. It received nominations for Outstanding Drama Series at the Primetime Emmys in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and won the award in 2006. Kiefer Sutherland received nominations in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2009 (for ""24: Redemption"") and won in 2006. Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran won for"
"by Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia; Adams features as an innocent nun embroiled in the conflict. Shanley initially approached Natalie Portman for the part, but offered Adams the role after finding her innocent, yet intelligent, persona similar to that of Ingrid Bergman. Adams identified with her character's ability to find the best in people; she described her collaboration with Streep and Hoffman as a ""master class"" in acting. Writing for the ""Houston Chronicle"", Amy Biancolli commented that Adams ""sparks with distressed compassion"", and Ann Hornaday opined that she ""exudes just the right wide-eyed innocence"". Adams was nominated for an Academy"
"get frustrated with the love stories, along came 'Lisa's Substitute': the biggest, huggiest, warmest and fuzziest of them all."" Mr. Bergstrom was modeled on the physical appearance of Mike Reiss, a longtime writer and producer on the show. American actor Dustin Hoffman provided the voice of Mr. Bergstrom. Hoffman was not sure if he wanted to be identified with a cartoon show at the time, like many early guest stars on ""The Simpsons"", and therefore used the pseudonym Sam Etic in the closing credits. Sam Etic is a play on the word semitic, alluding to the fact that both Hoffman"
"in the 2004 comedy ""Meet the Fockers"", a sequel to ""Meet the Parents"" (2000). Hoffman won the 2005 MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance. In 2005, he voiced a horse in ""Racing Stripes"", and appeared in cameo roles in Andy García's ""The Lost City"" and on the final episode of HBO sitcom ""Curb Your Enthusiasm""s fifth season. Hoffman appeared in ""Stranger than Fiction"" (2006), played the perfumer Giuseppe Baldini in Tom Tykwer's film """" (also 2006), and had a cameo in the same year's ""The Holiday"". In 2007, he was featured in an advertising campaign for Australian telecommunications company"
"Dream"" – Clint Mansell Fight Club Fight Club Fight Club Björk – ""Dancer in the Dark"" Online Film Critics Society Awards 2000 The 4th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2000, were given on 2 January 2001. Almost Famous Darren Aronofsky – ""Requiem for a Dream"" Tom Hanks – ""Cast Away"" Ellen Burstyn – ""Requiem for a Dream"" Benicio del Toro – ""Traffic"" <br> Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Almost Famous"" Kate Hudson – ""Almost Famous"" ""Almost Famous"" – Cameron Crowe Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Filth and the Fury ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" – Peter"
"25-year history to screen in the coveted opening night slot. The 92-minute film was made in Elliot's hometown of Melbourne and took five years to complete at a cost of 8.3 million Australian dollars. The project required a crew of over 120 people and a team of six animators who shot continuously for 57 weeks. For the narration, Elliot employed the services of the iconic comedian and stage performer Barry Humphries. Max is voiced by Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary by Toni Collette and Damian by Eric Bana. Molly Meldrum and Renee Geyer provided cameo voices. Elliot was"
"– ""Forrest Gump"" 1995: Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson – ""Leaving Las Vegas"" 1996: Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott – ""Shine"" 1997: Peter Fonda as Ulysses ""Ulee"" Jackson – ""Ulee's Gold"" 1998: Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank – ""The Truman Show"" 1999: Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham – ""American Beauty"" 2000: Russell Crowe – ""Gladiator"" as Maximus Decimus Meridius 2001: Russell Crowe – ""A Beautiful Mind"" as John Nash 2002: Jack Nicholson – ""About Schmidt"" as Warren Schmidt 2003: Sean Penn – ""Mystic River"" as Jimmy Markum 2004: Paul Giamatti – ""Sideways"" as Miles Raymond 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman –"
"Larry Sanders Show)<br> 2003 Tom Fontana (The Jury, Oz)<br> 2002 Darren Star (Sex and the City, Beverly Hills, 90210)<br> 2001 Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties, Spin City)<br> 2000 David Chase (Northern Exposure, The Sopranos) 2017 Walter Hill (Alien), (The Warriors) <br> 2016 Paul Feig (Ghostbusters), (The Heat)<br> 2015 John Singleton (Four Brothers), (2 Fast 2 Furious), (Shaft)<br> 2013 Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs),(Philadelphia)<br> 2012 Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead, The Green Mile)<br> 2011 John Lasseter (Up, Tangled, Toy Story)<br> 2010 Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Grindhouse)<br> 2009 Ron Howard (The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind)<br> 2008"