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1997 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
The 23rd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1997, were voted on in December 1997. Winners *Best Picture: **''L.A. Confidential'' **Runner-up: '' The Sweet Hereafter'' *Best Director: **Curtis Hanson – ''L.A. Confidential'' **Runner-up: Atom Egoyan – '' The Sweet Hereafter'' *Best Actor: **Robert Duvall – ''The Apostle'' **Runner-up: Jack Nicholson – ''As Good as It Gets'' *Best Actress: **Helena Bonham Carter – ''The Wings of the Dove'' **Runner-up: Jodie Foster – ''Contact'' *Best Supporting Actor: **Burt Reynolds – ''Boogie Nights'' **Runner-up: Kevin Spacey – ''L.A. Confidential'' *Best Supporting Actress: **Julianne Moore – ''Boogie Nights'' **Runner-up: Gloria Stuart – ''Titanic'' *Best Screenplay: **Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland – ''L.A. Confidential'' **Runner-up: Kevin Smith – ''Chasing Amy'' *Best Cinematography: **Dante Spinotti – ''L.A. Confidential'' **Runner-up: Paul Sarossy – '' The Sweet Hereafter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
The 22nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1996, were given in December 1996. Winners *Best Picture: **'' Secrets & Lies'' **Runner-up: '' Fargo'' *Best Director: **Mike Leigh – '' Secrets & Lies'' **Runner-up: Joel Coen – '' Fargo'' *Best Actor: **Geoffrey Rush – ''Shine'' **Runner-up: Eddie Murphy – ''The Nutty Professor'' *Best Actress: **Brenda Blethyn – '' Secrets & Lies'' **Runner-up: Frances McDormand – '' Fargo'' *Best Supporting Actor: **Edward Norton – ''Everyone Says I Love You'', ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' and '' Primal Fear'' **Runner-up: Armin Mueller-Stahl – ''Shine'' *Best Supporting Actress: **Barbara Hershey – ''The Portrait of a Lady'' **Runner-up: Courtney Love – ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' *Best Screenplay: **Joel and Ethan Coen – '' Fargo'' **Runner-up: Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci – ''Big Night'' *Best Cinematography (tie): **Chris Menges – ''Michael Collins'' **John Seale – ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles before gaining a leading man status in film and television. Spacey has received various accolades for his performances on stage and screen including two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received nominations for a Grammy Award as well as twelve Primetime Emmy Awards. Spacey received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999, and was named an honorary Commander and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2010 and 2015, respectively. His first film roles were Mike Nichols's ''Heartburn'' (1986) and ''Working Girl'' (1988). He continued to act in independent films such as '' Glengarry Glen Ross'' (1992) and ''Swimming with Sharks'' (1994). Spacey gained prominence for his villainous roles in 1995 crime thriller films ''Seven'' and ''The Usual Suspects'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Horner
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American composer. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner's first film score was in 1979 for '' The Lady in Red'', but he did not establish himself as an eminent film composer until his work on the 1982 film '' Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''. His score for James Cameron's ''Titanic'' is the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's ''Avatar''. Horner also scored other notable films including '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' (1984), ''The Name of the Rose'' (1986), ''Aliens'' (1986), Willow (1988), ''Field of Dreams'' (1989), ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'' (1989), ''The Rocketeer'' (1991), '' Braveheart'' (1995), ''The Mask of Zorro'' (1998), '' Deep Impact'' (1998), '' A Beautiful Mind'' (2001) and ''The Amazing Spider-Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kundun
''Kundun'' is a 1997 American epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet. Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, a grandnephew of the Dalai Lama, stars as the adult Dalai Lama, while Tencho Gyalpo, a niece of the Dalai Lama, appears as the Dalai Lama's mother. "Kundun" (སྐུ་མདུན་ in Tibetan), meaning "presence", is a title by which the Dalai Lama is addressed. ''Kundun'' was released only a few months after ''Seven Years in Tibet'', sharing the latter's location and its depiction of the Dalai Lama at several stages of his youth, though ''Kundun'' covers a period three times longer. It is the final film to be released before Melissa Mathison's death in 2015, although her final project, ''The BFG'', was released posthumously. Plot The film has a linear chronology with events spanning from 1937 to 1959; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped evolve stylistically. Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written fifteen operas, numerous chamber operas and musical theatre works, fourteen symphony, symphonies, twelve concertos, nine string quartets and various other chamber music, and several film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for an Academy Award. Life and work 1937–1964: Beginnings, early education and influences Philip Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 31, 1937, the son of Ida (née Gouline) and Benjamin Charles Glass. His family were Lithuanian Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannine Oppewall
Jeannine Claudia Oppewall (born November 28, 1946) is an American film art director. She has worked on more than 30 movies in such roles as production designer, set decorator and set designer, and has four Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction for ''L.A. Confidential'', '' Pleasantville'', '' Seabiscuit'' and '' The Good Shepherd''. Many of her film sets represented different time periods within the 20th century, including the 1930s (''Seabiscuit)'', the 1950s (''L.A. Confidential'' and ''Pleasantville)'', and from the 1960s ('' The Big Easy'', ''The Bridges of Madison County'' and ''Catch Me If You Can).'' Biography Early life Jeannine Oppewall was born on November 28, 1946 and was raised in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, with a Calvinist upbringing. Her father was a tool and die maker Garrett Oppewall and her mother was Eva Boutiler. According to ''The New York Times'', Oppewall was determined to be "the family intellectual." Oppewall attended and graduated from Calvin Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lamont
Peter Curtis Lamont (12 November 1929 – 18 December 2020) was a British set decorator, art director, and production designer most noted for his collaborations with filmmaker James Cameron, and for working on eighteen ''James Bond'' films, from '' Goldfinger'' (1964) to '' Casino Royale'' (2006). The only ''Bond'' film that he did not work on during that period was ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' (1997), as he was working on Cameron's ''Titanic'' (1997) at the time. He also worked extensively as a set dresser on the Carry On series in the 1960s. Throughout his near 60-year career, Lamont was nominated for four Academy Awards for his work on ''Fiddler on the Roof'' (1971), '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977), ''Aliens'' (1986), and ''Titanic'' (1997), winning for the latter film. His memoir, ''The Man With the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films'', was published in 2016. James Bond series Draftsman *'' Goldfinger'' (1964) (uncredited) Set decorator *'' Thunderball'' (1965) (un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sarossy
Paul Sarossy, , , (born April 24, 1963) is a Canadian cinematographer and film director. He is known for his collaborations with director Atom Egoyan, serving as his director of photography on twelve feature films ('' Speaking Parts'', ''The Adjuster'', ''Exotica'', '' The Sweet Hereafter'', '' Felicia's Journey,'' '' Ararat'', ''Where the Truth Lies'', '' Adoration'', ''Chloe, Devil's Knot, The Captive'' & ''Remember'').Paul Sarossy CSC/BSC ''Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers''. He has won five for Best Achievement in Cinematography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Spinotti
Dante Spinotti, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 22 August 1943) is an Italian cinematographer and a member of the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is known for his collaborations with directors Michael Mann, Michael Apted, Deon Taylor, and Brett Ratner, and is frequently credited with helping to pioneer the use of high-definition digital video in cinematography. He is a BAFTA Award recipient and two-time Academy Award nominee (for ''L.A. Confidential'' and ''The Insider''). Biography Spinotti was born in Tolmezzo, near the Austrian border. He began experimenting with still photography at the age of 11 with a camera given to him by his uncle, a cinematographer and director specializing in documentaries and newsreels. He worked as a camera operator on documentaries for much of his early career. Among the more notable films he has worked on are ''The Last of the Mohicans'', ''Heat'', and ''L.A. Confidential''. Spinotti also was the cinematographer for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chasing Amy
''Chasing Amy'' is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, and Jason Lee. The film is about a male comic artist (Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian woman (Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Lee). It is the third film in Smith's View Askewniverse series. The film was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early film by a friend of Smith's. In Guinevere Turner's ''Go Fish'', one of the lesbian characters imagines her friends passing judgment on her for "selling out" by sleeping with a man. Smith was dating Adams at the time he was writing the script, which was also partly inspired by her. The film received mostly positive reviews, praising the humor, performances and Kevin Smith's direction. The film won two awards at the 1998 Independent Spirit Awards (Best Screenplay for Smith and Best Supporting Actor for Lee). Characters from the film would go on to appear in later A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, comic book writer, author, YouTuber, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film ''Clerks'' (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, characters who also appeared in Smith's later films ''Mallrats'' (1995), ''Chasing Amy'' (1997), ''Dogma'' (1999), ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' (2001), ''Clerks II'' (2006), ''Jay and Silent Bob Reboot'' (2019), and ''Clerks III'' (2022) which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the "View Askewniverse", named after Smith's production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier. Since 2011, Smith has mostly made horror films, including ''Red State'' (2011) and the "comedy horror films" ''Tus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Helgeland
Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for the films ''L.A. Confidential'' and ''Mystic River''. He also wrote and directed the films '' 42'', a biopic of Jackie Robinson, and ''Legend'', about the rise and fall of the infamous London gangsters the Kray twins. His work on ''L.A. Confidential'' earned him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early life Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Norwegian-born parents Aud-Karin and Thomas Helgeland, and was raised in nearby New Bedford, Massachusetts. He majored in English at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth before following his father's work fishing scallop. One cold winter day in 1985 made Helgeland consider another job, after finding a book about film schools. Helgeland eventually settled on a career in film, considering his love for movies. He applied for the film school at Loyola Marymount Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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