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Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award For Best Breakthrough Performance
The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough Performance or Best Youth Performance is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) is a group of film critics based in Washington, D.C., and founded in 2002. WAFCA is composed of nearly 50 D.C.-based film critics from internet, print, radio, and television. Annually, the .... Winners 2000s 2010s 2020s Notes {{WAFCA Awards Chron Breakthrough Performance, Best ...
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Ellar Coltrane
Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon (born August 27, 1994) is an American actor. They are best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film '' Boyhood'', for which they won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Life and career Coltrane was born in Austin, Texas, to Genevieve (née Kinney), an equine-assisted therapist for autistic people, and Bruce Salmon, a musician. Their parents divorced when they were nine, and their mother subsequently remarried. Coltrane's half-sister, Evelyn, was born when they were eleven. In 2001, at age six, Coltrane was cast by filmmaker Richard Linklater to play the title character of sorts of the film '' Boyhood''; Linklater wanted to make an unprecedented film that would show a boy's coming of age, but with the actors growing up or aging on screen. Coltrane and other members of the cast were filmed intermittently for several days at a time between May 2002 and August 2013, by the time they turned 19; there were ...
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Minari (film)
''Minari'' ( ko, 미나리 , ) is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, the plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who try to make it in the rural United States during the 1980s. ''Minari'' had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020, winning both the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. It began a one-week virtual release on December 11, 2020, and was released theatrically and via virtual cinema on February 12, 2021, by A24. The film received critical acclaim, with many declaring it one of the best films of 2020. It earned six nominations at the 93rd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Yeun), and Best Supporting Actress (Youn), with Youn winning for her performance, ...
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Alan Kim
Alan Sun Kim (born April 23, 2012) is an American child actor, widely known for his critically acclaimed role in the drama film ''Minari'', for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Early life Kim was born in Chicago but moved with his parents to Irvine, California. He spoke Korean language, Korean as his first language and has a first degree black belt in taekwondo. Acting career At age 7, Kim was cast as David Yi in the 2020 film Minari (film), ''Minari'', for which he won the 2021 Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer, Best Young Performer and was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA British Academy Film Awards, award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, becoming one of the category's youngest nominees. Before ''Minari'', the only "acting" he had done was in an ad for Pottery Barn Kids. In January 2021, it was an ...
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Jojo Rabbit
''Jojo Rabbit'' is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, adapted from Christine Leunens's 2008 book ''Caging Skies''. Roman Griffin Davis portrays the title character, Johannes "Jojo" Betzler, a ten-year-old Hitler Youth member who finds out that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. He must then question his beliefs while dealing with the intervention of his imaginary friend (Waititi), a fanciful version of Adolf Hitler with a comedic stance on the politics of the war. The film also stars Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, and Alfie Allen. Waititi wrote the screenplay in 2011, a year after his mother described the premise of ''Caging Skies''. He rewrote the first draft, which as a rough adaptation of the dark-toned source material did not contain much comedy; it was also in the rewritten version that Adolf's character was included. Waititi recalled the pitching process as exhausting. In 2 ...
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Roman Griffin Davis
Roman Griffin Davis (born 5 March 2007) is a British actor. He is best known for his title role in the film ''Jojo Rabbit'' (2019), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe. Early life and career Roman Griffin Davis was born on 5 March 2007 in London. He is the son of cinematographer Ben Davis (cinematographer), Ben Davis and writer-director Camille Griffin. He lives with his parents and brothers, twins Gilby and Hardy, in East Sussex. He went to school at Cumnor House, Sussex, until 2020. Davis made his acting debut in the 2019 satirical black comedy film ''Jojo Rabbit'' directed by Taika Waititi. His twin brothers are also in the film as Deutsches Jungvolk, Hitler Youth clones. Davis was nominated for six awards for his performance in ''Jojo Rabbit'' and won two, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough ...
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Eighth Grade (film)
''Eighth Grade'' is a 2018 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Bo Burnham. It stars Elsie Fisher as Kayla, a middle school teenager who struggles with anxiety but strives to gain social acceptance from her peers during their final week of eighth grade. To cope, she publishes video blogs as a self-styled motivational advice-giver, though spends much of her time obsessing over social media. This frustrates Kayla's otherwise supportive father (Josh Hamilton), whom she alienates despite his wish to be present in her life as her sole parent. The film is Burnham's feature-length debut as a writer and director. He began the screenplay in 2014 to reflect on his own anxiety and panic attacks during his career as a comedian. Deciding to convey his experience through Kayla, he also wanted to explore how her generation copes with mental illness, grows up with the presence of social media, navigates sexuality and consent, relates to their parents and develops the ...
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Elsie Fisher
Elsie Fisher (born April 3, 2003) is an American actress. She is known for her starring role in Bo Burnham's comedy-drama film '' Eighth Grade'' (2018), for which she earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Fisher is also known for voicing animated characters such as Agnes in '' Despicable Me'' (2010) and ''Despicable Me 2'' (2013), Masha in ''Masha and the Bear'' (2009–2012) and Parker Needler in ''The Addams Family'' (2019). Life and career Fisher was born in Riverside, California, on April 3, 2003. She began her career at age six, appearing in a 2009 episode of the NBC supernatural drama series ''Medium''. From 2009 to 2012, she voiced Masha for the English dub of the Russian animated children's series ''Masha and the Bear''. Fisher gained further recognition for voicing Agnes in the animated comedy film '' Despicable Me'' (2010) and its sequel ''Despicable Me 2'' (2013). However, she did not participate in the ...
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The Florida Project
''The Florida Project'' is a 2017 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Sean Baker and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch. It stars Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, and Caleb Landry Jones, and was the first film appearance for many of the cast members. The slice of life plot focuses on the summertime adventures of a six-year-old girl who lives with her unemployed single mother in a budget motel in Kissimmee, Florida. Their struggle to make ends meet and stave off homelessness takes place in an environment dominated by the nearby Walt Disney World, which was code named "The Florida Project" during its early planning stages. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States by A24 on October 6, 2017. It was acclaimed by critics, who lauded Baker's direction and the performances, particularly those of Dafoe, Prince, and Vinaite. For the ...
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Brooklynn Prince
Brooklynn Prince (born May 4, 2010) is an American child actress widely known for her critically acclaimed role in the 2017 film ''The Florida Project'', for which she won the Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. She has since starred in the horror film '' The Turning'' and the streaming television series '' Home Before Dark.'' Career Prince's parents, including her acting coach mother, began her career at age two, as she appeared in print and screen advertisements for Parenting, Chuck E. Cheese's, and Visit Orlando, among others. In 2017, she starred in ''The Florida Project'', for which she received critical praise. Director Sean Baker has said that Brooklynn was the Spanky in his take on the '' Little Rascals''. She has since taken leading roles in '' The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'' and ''The Angry Birds Movie 2''. In 2020, Prince starred in the horror film '' The Turning''. She headlined the Apple TV+ Apple TV is a digital media player and micr ...
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Manchester By The Sea (film)
''Manchester by the Sea'' is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan that stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. Centered around the themes of depression, guilt, grief, responsibility, dysfunctional families, and post-traumatic stress disorder, the plot follows a depressed and grief-stricken man who was accidentally responsible for the deaths of his three children and must care for his teenage nephew after the death of his brother. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2016, and was picked up by Amazon Studios for distribution. ''Manchester by the Sea'' was filmed during March and April 2015 in the eponymous Massachusetts town and other towns in the state, such as Beverly, Essex, Gloucester, Swampscott, Lynn, Middleton, Tewksbury, and Salem. It began a limited release on November 18, 2016, before a wide release on December 16, 2016. It grossed $79million worldwide against a budget of ...
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Lucas Hedges
Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor. A son of filmmaker Peter Hedges, he studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Hedges began his acting career with a supporting role in Wes Anderson's comedy-drama ''Moonrise Kingdom'' (2012). He had his breakthrough in 2016 playing a sardonic teenager in Kenneth Lonergan's drama '' Manchester by the Sea'', which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hedges then starred as an aggressive youth in an off-Broadway production of ''Yen'' and had supporting roles in the coming-of-age film '' Lady Bird'' and the drama ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' in 2017. In 2018, Hedges played the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in ''Boy Erased'', which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama. He also made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lonergan's drama ''The Waverly Gallery'' in the s ...
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