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14th Critics' Choice Awards
The 14th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 8, 2009, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, honoring the finest achievements of 2008 filmmaking. The nominees were announced on December 9, 2008. Winners and nominees Best Picture Made for Television ''John Adams'' *''Coco Chanel'' *'' Recount'' Joel Siegel Award Richard Gere Richard Tiffany Gere ( ; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began appearing in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in ''Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film), Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' (1977) and a starring role in ''Days of Hea ... Statistics References External linksCritics’ Choice Movie Awards Winners (Archive) for 14th-19th Awards {{DEFAULTSORT:Critics' Choice Awards, 14 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2008 film awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slumdog Millionaire
''Slumdog Millionaire'' is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel '' Q & A'' (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup. It narrates the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai. Starring Dev Patel in his film debut as Jamal, and filmed in India, it was directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson, with Loveleen Tandan credited as co-director. As a contestant on '' Kaun Banega Crorepati'', a Hindi Indian version of '' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', Jamal surprises everyone by answering every question correctly so far, winning ($USD210,000, equivalent to around $300,000 in 2023), and he is one question away from winning the grand prize of ($USD420,000, equivalent to around $590,000 in 2023). Accused of cheating, he recounts his life story to the police, illustrating how he was able to answer each question. After its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and later screenings at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WALL-E
''WALL-E'' (stylized with an interpunct as ''WALL·E'') is a 2008 American animated Romance film, romantic science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris (film producer), Jim Morris, and written by Stanton and Jim Reardon, based on a story by Stanton and Pete Docter. It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, and Sigourney Weaver, with Fred Willard in a live-action role. The film follows a solitary robot named WALL-E (character), WALL-E on a Future of Earth, future, Planetary habitability, uninhabitable, deserted Earth in 2805, left to clean up garbage. He is visited by a robot called EVE sent from the starship ''Axiom'', with whom he falls in love and pursues across the galaxy. After directing ''Finding Nemo'', Stanton felt Pixar had created believable simulations of underwater physics and was willing to direct a film set lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Langella
Frank A. Langella Jr. (; born January 1, 1938) is an American actor. He eschewed the career of a traditional film star by making the stage the focal point of his career, appearing frequently on Broadway. He has received four Tony Awards (out of seven nominations) as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Langella made his Broadway debut in the 1966 play '' Yerma''. He since established himself as Broadway star winning four Tony Awards, his first two for Best Featured Actor in a Play playing intellectual lizard in Edward Albee's '' Seascape'' (1975), and a wealthy and cruel landowner in Ivan Turgenev's '' Fortune's Fool'' (2002) and Best Actor in a Play for his roles as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's '' Frost/Nixon'' (2007), an elderly man suffering from Alzheimers in Florian Zeller's '' The Father'' (2016). He was also Tony-nominated for '' Dracula'' (1978), '' Match'' (2004), and '' Man and Boy'' (2012). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Kowalski
Walter Kowalski is a fictional character portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the 2008 American film ''Gran Torino''. Walt is depicted as an irritable and prejudiced Korean War veteran whose aging Metro Detroit neighborhood has become home to Hmong immigrants and is plagued with gang violence. The character of Walt and Eastwood's performance have garnered positive reception. Character overview Walt is introduced as an elderly Polish-American whose wife of 50 years dies, leaving him alone in his Rust Belt neighborhood of Highland Park, Michigan. Adhering to conservative values and openly prejudiced, he dislikes that his neighborhood has become home to poor immigrants. Adding to his isolation, Walt is retired and does not have a close relationship with his family. His only companions are fellow members of the VFW and his elderly labrador retriever, Daisy. A handyman, Walt spends his days maintaining his property. He is a heavy drinker and tobacco user; often seen drinking Pabst Blue Rib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gran Torino
''Gran Torino'' is a 2008 American drama film directed, produced by and starring Clint Eastwood. It features a significant Hmong American cast, a first for mainstream American films. The score was composed by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens, with Jamie Cullum and Clint Eastwood providing the lead track. Set in Highland Park, Michigan, the story follows Walt Kowalski, a recently widowed Korean War veteran alienated from his family. When Kowalski's neighbor Thao Vang Lor is pressured by his cousin into stealing Walt's prized Ford Torino for his initiation into a gang, Walt thwarts the theft and develops a relationship with the boy and his family. ''Gran Torino'' opened with a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 12, 2008, before expanding wide on January 9, 2009. It grossed $270 million worldwide, making it Eastwood's second highest-grossing film to date. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, noting Eastwood's direction and per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western (genre), Western TV series ''Rawhide (TV series), Rawhide'', Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's ''Dollars Trilogy'' of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Dirty Harry (character), Harry Callahan in the five ''Dirty Harry (film series), Dirty Harry'' films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy ''Every Which Way but Loose'' (1978) and its action comedy sequel ''Any Which Way You Can'' (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns ''Hang 'Em High'' (1968), ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'' (1976) and ''Pale Rider'' (1985), the action-wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Pitt
William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. In a Brad Pitt filmography, film career spanning more than thirty years, Pitt has received list of awards and nominations received by Brad Pitt, numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Films in which he has appeared in have grossed over $8.8billion worldwide. Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the Ridley Scott road film ''Thelma & Louise'' (1991). Pitt emerged as a star taking on leading man roles in films such as the drama ''A River Runs Through It (film), A River Runs Through It'' (1992), the western ''Legends of the Fall'' (1994), the horror film ''Interview with the Vampire (film), Interview with the Vampire'' (1994), the crime thriller ''Seven (1995 film), Seven'' (1995), and the cult film ''Fight Club'' (1999). Pitt found greater commercial success starring in Steven Sod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in New York. He acknowledged his homosexuality in adolescence but secretly pursued sexual relationships well into adulthood. The counterculture of the 1960s caused him to shed many of his conservative views about individual freedom and sexual expression. Milk moved to San Francisco in 1972 and opened a camera store. Although he held an assortment of jobs and frequently changed addresses, he settled in the Castro, a neighborhood that was experiencing a mass immigration of gay men and lesbians. He ran for city supervisor in 1973, but the existing gay political establishment resisted him. Milk's campaign was compared to theater due to his personality, earning media attention and votes, although not enough to be elected. He campaigned again in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director. He is known for his intense leading man roles in film. List of awards and nominations received by Sean Penn, His accolades include two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three BAFTA Film Awards. He received an Honorary César in 2015. Penn made his feature film debut in the drama ''Taps (film), Taps'' (1981), before taking roles in ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982), ''Bad Boys (1983 film), Bad Boys'' (1983), and ''At Close Range'' (1986). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for playing a grieving father in ''Mystic River (film), Mystic River'' (2003) and the gay rights activist Harvey Milk in ''Milk (2008 American film), Milk'' (2008). He was nominated for Academy Awards for his roles in ''Dead Man Walking (film), Dead Man Walking'' (1995), ''Sweet and Lowdown'' (1999) and ''I Am Sam'' (2001). Penn's other credits include ''Casual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor. Howard started his career as a child actor before transitioning to directing films. Over his six-decade career, Howard has received List of awards and nominations received by Ron Howard, multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in film and television. Howard first came to prominence as a child actor, acting in several television series before gaining national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show), Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith) in the sitcom ''The Andy Griffith Show'' from 1960 through 1968. During this time, he also appeared in the musical film ''The Music Man (1962 film), The Music Man'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Van Sant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American filmmaker, photographer, painter, and musician. He has earned acclaim as an independent film, independent auteur. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures. His early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. He made his feature-length directorial debut film ''Mala Noche'' (1985). He earned acclaim for a string of independent films such as the crime drama ''Drugstore Cowboy'' (1989), the adventure film ''My Own Private Idaho'' (1991), and the black comedy ''To Die For'' (1995). He earned Academy Award for Best Director nominations for the drama ''Good Will Hunting'' (1997), and the biographical film ''Milk (2008 American film), Milk'' (2008), both of which also received Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture nominations. Van Sant directed the psychological drama ''Elephant (2003 film), Elephant'' (2003), a film based on the Columbine High School massac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. Often described as one of the preeminent directors of his generation, David Fincher filmography, his films, of which most are psychological thrillers, have collectively grossed over $2.1 billion worldwide and have received List of awards and nominations received by David Fincher, numerous accolades, including three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. He has also received four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Fincher co-founded the production company Propaganda Films in 1986. He directed numerous music videos for the company, including Madonna's "Express Yourself (Madonna song), Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue (Madonna song), Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction. He received two Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Grammy Awards for Best Music Video for "Love Is Strong" (1994) by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
