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6th Youth In Film Awards
The 6th Youth in Film Awards ceremony (now known as the Young Artist Awards), presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television and dance for the 1983–1984 season, and took place on December 2, 1984, in Hollywood, California. Established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Youth in Film Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater and music. Categories ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. Best Young Performer in a Motion Picture Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture: Musical, Comedy, Adventure or Drama ★ Noah Hathaway – ''The NeverEnding Story'' (Warner Bros) *Peter Billingsley – '' A Christmas Story'' (MGM/UA) *Anthony Michael Hall – ''Sixteen Candles'' (Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, California
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'', and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area. Daeida Wilcox, who donated land to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Harris (actor)
Richard R. Harris (born March 13, 1969), better known by his nickname, Ross Harris, is an American actor, artist, and musician. Biography Acting career Born in Ventura, California, Harris began acting at age six. He appeared in over 100 commercials in the 1970s. In 1979, at the age of 10, Ross landed the role of Joey in the classic comedy feature film ''Airplane!'', notably in a scene with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Graves. Ross went on to co-star in the Academy Award-nominated drama '' Testament'' as well as roles on ''The Love Boat'', ''CHiPs'', ''Little House on the Prairie'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''T.J. Hooker'', and many more. In March 1985, he replaced Chad Lowe in the starring role on the NBC sitcom '' Spencer'', which was retooled following Lowe's sudden departure; it returned under the new title ''Under One Roof''. Harris also appeared, as "Ross Angeles", on MTV's '' Jackass'', in the "Big Wheel Craze" segment, alongside friend Dave England. Music, photography, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Eastwood
Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972) is an American actress. After three uncredited roles between 1980 and 1997, she appeared as Mandy, the love interest of John Cusack in ''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'' (1997). Early life Eastwood was born on May 22, 1972, in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Margaret Neville Johnson and actor-director Clint Eastwood. She has a brother, Kyle, and six known paternal half-siblings: Laurie, Kimber, Scott, Kathryn, Francesca, and Morgan. Eastwood attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. In 1990, aged 18, Eastwood enrolled at UC Santa Barbara to study acting; she did not graduate. Career Eastwood landed some professional acting roles during her childhood and preadolescent years, making an uncredited movie debut at the age of seven in ''Bronco Billy'' (1980). Her acting in the 1984 thriller ''Tightrope'' earned her a Young Artist Award nomination. She has also worked as a runwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irreconcilable Differences
''Irreconcilable Differences'' is a 1984 American comedy-drama film starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and Drew Barrymore. The film was a minor box-office success, making over $12 million. For their performances, both Long and Barrymore were nominated for Golden Globe Awards. Plot Casey Brodsky has decided to divorce her parents and have her nanny, Maria Hernandez, appointed as Casey's legal guardian. It results in media attention, and her parents, Albert and Lucy Brodsky, are both brought out of their respective self-absorbed lives and made to testify in court about their personal lives. At a truck stop in Indiana on the night of January 20th, 1973, film professor Albert Brodsky is hitchhiking across the country, where he gets picked up by Lucy van Patten, a woman who has ambitions of writing books, particularly for children, but her fiancé "Bink", a gruff Navy man, represses her, and she is depressed about being relegated to the life of a military wife. Through getting to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Barrymore
Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, director, producer, talk show host and author. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and seven Emmy Awards. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004. Barrymore achieved fame as a child actress with her 1982 role in '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial''. Following a highly publicized childhood marked by drug and alcohol abuse, she released an autobiography ''Little Girl Lost''. She starred in a string of successful films during the 1990s and 2000s, including ''Charlie's Angels'', ''Never Been Kissed'', '' Poison Ivy'', ''Boys on the Side'', '' Mad Love'', ''Batman Forever'', ''Scream'' and ''Ever After''. Barrymore starred with Adam Sandler in several films, including ''The Wedding Singer'', '' 50 First Dates'' and '' Blended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixteen Candles
''Sixteen Candles'' is a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. Written and directed by John Hughes in his directorial debut, it was the first in a string of films Hughes would direct centering on teenage life. The film was a box office success, earning $23.6 million against a $6.5 million budget, and launched Ringwald to fame. Plot In suburban Chicago, high school sophomore Samantha "Sam" Baker is hopeful her 16th birthday is the beginning of a great new year, but is shocked when her family forgets the occasion because her older, beautiful, self-absorbed sister Ginny is getting married the next day. At school, Sam fills out a friend's sex quiz where she reveals her crush on senior Jake Ryan. Meanwhile, Jake, having noticed Sam's looks at him, asks his friend Rock about her. Rock dismisses her as an immature child, but Jake says he is frustrated by his girlfriend Caroline's partying ways. On the bus ride ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Ringwald
Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. She was cast in her first major role as Molly in the NBC sitcom '' The Facts of Life'' (1979–80) after a casting director saw her playing an orphan in a stage production of the musical ''Annie''. She and several other members of the original ''Facts of Life'' cast were let go when the show was reworked by the network. She subsequently made her motion-picture debut as Miranda in the independent film ''Tempest'' (1982), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. Ringwald is known for her collaborations with filmmaker John Hughes. She established herself as a teen icon after appearing in the successful Hughes films ''Sixteen Candles'' (1984), ''The Breakfast Club'' (1985), and ''Pretty in Pink'' (1986). She later starred in '' The Pick-up Artist'' (1987), '' Fresh Horses'' (1988), and '' For Keeps'' (1988). She starred in many films in the 1990s, most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Artist Award For Best Leading Young Actress In A Feature Film
The Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film is one of the Young Artist Awards presented annually by the Young Artist Association to recognize a young actress under the age of 21, who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. In its early years, the award was also known as the Youth in Film Award for Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture, as well as by numerous other variations to its title over the years, however, the spirit of the award has remained essentially the same since its inception. Winners are selected by secret ballot of the 125 members of the Young Artist Association as well as former Youth in Film Award/Young Artist Award winners. History Throughout the past 34 years, accounting for ties, category splits, and repeat winners, the Young Artist Association has presented a total of 44 "Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film" awards to 40 different actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloak & Dagger (1984 Film)
''Cloak & Dagger'' is a 1984 American spy adventure film directed by Richard Franklin, and starring Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, and Michael Murphy. It was written by Tom Holland and based on a Cornell Woolrich short story, "The Boy Cried Murder", which had been filmed as '' The Window'' (1949). It was originally released in a double feature with ''The Last Starfighter'' on July 13, 1984, and was released separately on August 10, 1984. The film grossed $9.7 million in the United States. Thomas was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Actor. Plot Davey Osborne is an 11-year-old boy living in San Antonio, Texas. His father, Hal, is a military air traffic controller, who has problems relating to his son. Davey imagines the fantasy world of ''Cloak & Dagger'', an espionage role-playing video game existing between fiction and reality. Davey befriends Kim Gardener, a girl living nearby. Davey reveres Jack Flack, the game's main character, who he imagines as a more dashing ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Thomas
Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had a lead role in the film '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. Thomas also had roles in '' Cloak & Dagger'' (1984), ''Fire in the Sky'' (1993), '' Legends of the Fall'' (1994), '' Suicide Kings'' (1997), '' All the Pretty Horses'' (2000), ''Gangs of New York'' (2002), '' 11:14'' (2003), and '' Dear John'' (2010). Thomas was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for his role in the television film '' Indictment: The McMartin Trial'' (1997). More recently, Thomas collaborated with filmmaker Mike Flanagan, appearing in the films '' Ouija: Origin of Evil'' (2016), ''Gerald's Game'' (2017) and '' Doctor Sleep'' (2019) as well as the television series ''The Haunting of Hill House'' (2018) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barret Oliver
Barret Spencer Oliver (born August 24, 1973) is an American photographer and a former child actor. He is best known for his role as Bastian Balthazar Bux in the film adaptation of Michael Ende's novel ''The Neverending Story'', followed by roles in '' D.A.R.Y.L.'', '' Cocoon'', and '' Cocoon: The Return''. Career Oliver had minor roles in television and film, until starring as Bastian in the 1984 movie ''The NeverEnding Story''. Subsequently, he was cast as the lead in Tim Burton's short film '' Frankenweenie'' and as the cyborg "Daryl" in the 1985 film '' D.A.R.Y.L.'', a part for which he won a Saturn Award. His last role in a feature film was Willie Saravian in Paul Bartel's 1989 ensemble comedy ''Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills''. Later Oliver became a printer and photographer, specializing in nineteenth-century processes such as collodion and Woodburytype A Woodburytype is both a printing process and the print that it produces. In technical terms, the proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stone Boy (film)
''The Stone Boy'' is a 1984 American drama film directed by Christopher Cain and starring Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley, Linda Hamilton, Dean Cain and Jason Presson. It is based on the 1957 short story " The Stone Boy" by American author Gina Berriault. Plot The Hillerman family copes with the aftermath of the death of one of their children in a hunting accident. Cast * Robert Duvall ... Joe Hillerman * Jason Presson ... Arnold Hillerman * Glenn Close ... Ruth Hillerman * Susan Blackstone ... Nora Hillerman * Dean Cain ... Eugene Hillerman * Frederic Forrest ... Andy Jansen * Cindy Fisher ... Amalie * Gail Youngs ... Lu Jansen * Wilford Brimley ... George Jansen * Mary Ellen Trainor ... Doris Simms * Linda Hamilton ... Eva Crescent Moon Lady * Tom Waits ... Petrified man at carnival ( cameo) Production Principal photography began on June 28, 1983. Filming took place in and around the area of Cascade, Montana wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
