"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"
"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"
"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"
"November 12, 2014, he was bestowed the honor of Freedom of the City by the City of London. In August 2017, he was named the 54th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in ""Street Smart"" (1987), ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), ""The Shawshank Redemption"" (1994), and ""Invictus"" (2009). He has also won a Golden"
"""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"
"Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in ""Street Smart"" (1987), ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), ""The Shawshank Redemption"" (1994), and ""Invictus"" (2009). He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including ""Glory"" (1989), """" (1991), ""Seven"" (1995), ""Deep Impact"" (1998), ""The Sum of All Fears"" (2002), ""Bruce Almighty"" (2003), ""The Dark Knight"
"Ledger – ""The Dark Knight""<br> 3. Josh Brolin – ""Milk"" 1. Hanna Schygulla – ""The Edge of Heaven"" (""Auf der anderen Seite"")<br> 2. Viola Davis – ""Doubt""<br> 3. Penélope Cruz – ""Vicky Cristina Barcelona"" 1. Mike Leigh – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu – ""A Christmas Tale"" (""Un conte de Noël"")<br> 3. Charlie Kaufman – ""Synecdoche, New York"" 1. Anthony Dod Mantle – ""Slumdog Millionaire""<br> 2. Pin Bing Lee – ""Flight of the Red Balloon"" (""Le voyage du ballon rouge"")<br> 3. Wally Pfister – ""The Dark Knight""<br> 4. Yu Lik-wai – ""Still Life"" (""Sanxia haoren"") 1. Man on"
"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"
"White House, which called the interview ""maddening"". Mexican authorities said they were seeking to question Penn over the interview, which had not been approved by either the American or Mexican government. Penn and del Castillo's meeting with Guzmán is under investigation by the Attorney General of Mexico. Penn has appeared in more than 50 films and won many awards during his career as an actor and director. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for ""Mystic River"" (2003) and ""Milk"" (2008), and was nominated three more times in the same category for ""Dead Man Walking"" (1995), ""Sweet and"
"the crime dramas ""At Close Range"" (1986), ""State of Grace"" (1990), and ""Carlito's Way"" (1993). He became known as a prominent leading actor with the drama ""Dead Man Walking"" (1995), for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Penn received another two Oscar nominations for Woody Allen's comedy-drama ""Sweet and Lowdown"" (1999) and the drama ""I Am Sam"" (2001), before winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 for ""Mystic River"" and a second one in 2008 for ""Milk"". He has also won a Best Actor Award"
"Best Picture nominations for ""Milk"" and ""Silver Linings Playbook"". ""American Beauty"", directed by Sam Mendes, won a total of five Oscars, as well as the Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), and Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards. ""Milk"", directed by Gus Van Sant, was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, as well as the PGA's Stanley Kramer Award. ""Silver Linings Playbook"", written and directed by David O. Russell, was nominated for eight Oscars. It was the first film in 31 years to be nominated in all four"
"– ""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"
"2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards The 74th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were announced on 10 December 2008 and presented on 5 January 2009. 1. Sean Penn – ""Milk""<br> 2. Mickey Rourke – ""The Wrestler""<br> 3. Clint Eastwood – ""Gran Torino"" 1. Sally Hawkins – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Melissa Leo – ""Frozen River""<br> 3. Anne Hathaway – ""Rachel Getting Married""<br> 3. Kate Winslet – ""Revolutionary Road"" 1. ""WALL-E""<br> 2. ""Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)"" 1. Anthony Dod Mantle – ""Slumdog Millionaire""<br> 2. Claudio Miranda – ""The Curious Case of Benjamin"
"2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for ""Traffic"" (2000), Clint Eastwood for ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), Ang Lee for ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005), Martin Scorsese for ""The Departed"" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking."
"novel ""Oil!"", titled ""There Will Be Blood"". Day-Lewis received the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (which he dedicated to Heath Ledger, saying that he was inspired by Ledger's acting and calling the actor's performance in ""Brokeback Mountain"" ""unique, perfect""), and a variety of film critics' circle awards for the role. In winning the Best Actor Oscar, Day-Lewis joined Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson as the only"
"Best Actor. He and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. His other films include the satire film ""Buffalo Soldiers"" (2001), the science fiction thriller ""Signs"" (2002), the animated film ""Brother Bear"" (2003), the historical drama film ""Hotel Rwanda"" (2004), the psychological thriller ""The Village"" (2004), the documentary ""Earthlings"" (2005), the romantic drama ""Two Lovers"" (2008), the drama ""The Immigrant"" (2013), the romantic science fiction drama ""Her"" (2013), the crime comedy-drama film ""Inherent Vice"" (2014), and the thriller ""You Were Never Really Here"" (2017), for which he won the Cannes"
"Awards Genie Awards Golden Globe Awards National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Saturn Awards Screen Actors Guild Awards Western Heritage Awards Tom Skerritt Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is known for his film roles in ""M*A*S*H"", ""Alien"", ""Top Gun"", ""A River Runs Through It"", ""Up in Smoke"", and the television series ""Picket Fences"". Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993"
"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"
"(1989), ""There Will Be Blood"" (2007), and ""Lincoln"" (2012), making him the only male actor in history to have three wins in the lead actor category, and one of only three male actors to win three Oscars. He was also nominated in this category for ""In the Name of the Father"" (1993), ""Gangs of New York"" (2002), and ""Phantom Thread"" (2017). He has also won four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. In November 2012, ""Time"" named Day-Lewis the ""World's Greatest Actor"". Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born in Kensington, London,"
"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"""
"Francisco had no idea. It was just a really brief, provincial, localized current events story that the mayor and a city council member in San Francisco were killed. It didn't have much reverberation."" Milk's life has been the subject of a musical theater production; an eponymous opera; a cantata; a children's picture book; a French-language historical novel for young-adult readers; and the biopic ""Milk"", released in 2008 after 15 years in the making. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, and won two Academy Awards for Best"
"Road"" as Grant Faraday. He appears in the series finale of ""Mad Men"" and in ""Cymbeline"" with Ethan Hawke and Ed Harris. He currently has a recurring role on ""Animal Kingdom"" on TNT with Ellen Barkin. Clark resides in Los Angeles. He is not married. Spencer Treat Clark Spencer Treat Clark (born September 24, 1987) is an American actor who has appeared in several films, including ""Gladiator"", ""Mystic River"", and ""Unbreakable"". Clark was born in New York. He is the brother of screenwriter and playwright Eliza Clark. He was educated in Darien, Connecticut, at Hindley Elementary School until he attended"
"wrote that the film was ""a haunting masterpiece and probably [Eastwood's] best film to date"". The film earned $156,822,020 worldwide with $90,135,191 in the United States and $66,686,829 in the international box office, which is significantly higher than the film's $30 million budget. Mystic River (film) Mystic River is a 2003 American mystery drama film directed and scored by Clint Eastwood. It stars Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. The screenplay, written by Brian Helgeland, was based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was produced by"
"3. Jessica Chastain – ""Zero Dark Thirty"" 1. Matthew McConaughey – ""Bernie"" and ""Magic Mike"" <br> 2. Tommy Lee Jones – ""Lincoln"" <br> 3. Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""The Master"" 1. Amy Adams – ""The Master"" <br> 2. Sally Field – ""Lincoln"" <br> 3. Anne Hathaway – ""Les Misérables"" 1. Tony Kushner – ""Lincoln"" <br> 2. Paul Thomas Anderson – ""The Master"" <br> 3. David O. Russell – ""Silver Linings Playbook"" 1. Mihai Mălaimare Jr. – ""The Master"" <br> 2. Roger Deakins – ""Skyfall"" <br> 3. Greig Fraser – ""Zero Dark Thirty"" 1. The Gatekeepers <br> 2. ""This Is Not"
"active in the Screen Actors Guild. In 2002 he was elected first vice president of the Guild in Los Angeles and served in the post for three years. Mike Farrell Michael Joseph Farrell Jr. (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series ""M*A*S*H"" (1975–83). He is also an activist and public speaker for various political causes. Farrell was a producer of ""Patch Adams"" (1998) starring Robin Williams, and starred in the television series ""Providence"" (1999–2002). He appeared as Milton Lang, the father of Victor Lang (John Slattery),"
"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"
"the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. The following year, he starred in the psychological thriller film ""Nocturnal Animals"", alongside Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. His performance as a detective investigating the violent incident garnered him critical acclaim, and was nominated for his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played Col. Richard Strickland in Guillermo del Toro's romantic fantasy film ""The Shape of Water"". The film had its world premiere at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. In 2018, he played the lead"
"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"
"Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008 The winners of the 9th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were announced on January 13, 2009. Best Actor: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" Best Actress: Kate Winslet – ""Revolutionary Road"" and ""The Reader"" Best Director: David Fincher – ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" Best Film: Milk Best Foreign Language Film: The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) • Germany Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" (posthumous) Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt – ""Rachel Getting Married"" Best Actor: ""'Natar Ungalaaq – ""The Necessities of"
"film. The film was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and both Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell were nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, which Farrell won at the 66th Golden Globe Awards ceremony, broadcast on 11 January 2009. McDonagh won the Best Original Screenplay award at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards in February 2009. The film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay award at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, but lost to ""Milk"". In the same year, it won the Best International Film award"
"York Pops since 1989. • Jace Alexander ""(Theater 1980)"" – Television director (""Rescue Me"", ""Burn Notice"", ""Law & Order"") • Philip Seymour Hoffman ""(Theater ’84)"" – Oscar-winning actor (""Capote""), nominated for Best Supporting Actor (""Charlie Wilson's War""), as well as an accomplished stage actor and director. • Dan Futterman ""(Theater ’84)"" – Accomplished actor (""The Birdcage"", ""A Mighty Heart"", TV's ""Judging Amy"") and nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay (""Capote""). • Bennett Miller (Theater ’84) – Film director (""The Cruise"", ""Moneyball"", ""Foxcatcher""), nominated for Best Director (""Capote""). • David Devlin ""(Media Arts ’86)"" – Lighting Director ("""", ""Amistad"", ""Saving Private Ryan"","
"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"
"Im Bashir)""<br> 3. ""Trouble the Water"" 1. Jenny Lumet – ""Rachel Getting Married""<br> 2. Mike Leigh – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 3. Robert D. Siegel – ""The Wrestler"" 1. Josh Brolin – ""Milk""<br> 2. Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight""<br> 3. Robert Downey Jr. – ""Tropic Thunder"" 1. Penélope Cruz – ""Vicky Cristina Barcelona""<br> 2. Viola Davis – ""Doubt""<br> 3. Rosemarie DeWitt – ""Rachel Getting Married""<br> 3. Debra Winger – ""Rachel Getting Married"" 2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards The 74th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were announced on 10 December 2008 and presented"