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Bulworth
''Bulworth'' is a 1998 American political satire black comedy film co-written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty. It co-stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, and Isaiah Washington. The film follows the title character, California Senator Jay Billington Bulworth (Beatty), as he runs for re-election while trying to avoid a hired assassin. The film received generally positive reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay yet narrowly failed to break even on a $30 million budget. However, Beatty was praised for tackling race, poverty, dysfunction in the health care system, and corporate control of the political agenda, with eminent legal scholar Patricia J. Williams noting the film examined "racism's intersection with America's deep, and growing, class divide." Plot Jay Bulworth, a Democratic U.S. Senator from California, faces a primary challenge from a fiery young populist. Once politicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. His career has spanned over six decades, and he has received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. He also received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1999, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2008. Beatty has been nominated for 14 Academy Awards, including four for Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor, four for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, two for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director, three for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Original Screenplay, and one for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for ''Reds (film), Reds'' (1981). He was nominated for his performances as Clyde Barrow in the crime drama ''Bonnie and Clyde (film), Bonnie and Clyde'' (1967), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Oliver Platt
Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is an American actor known for his work on stage and screen. He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmys, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and one Tony Award. Following his acting debut in the 1988 film '' Married to the Mob'', Platt gained prominence for his roles in '' Working Girl'' (1988), '' Flatliners'' (1990), ''Beethoven'' (1992), '' Indecent Proposal'', '' Benny & Joon'', ''The Three Musketeers'' (all 1993), '' A Time to Kill'' (1996), '' The Impostors'', '' Bulworth'', '' Dr. Dolittle'' (all 1998), '' Lake Placid'', '' Three to Tango'', and '' Bicentennial Man'' (all 1999). His other notable credits include '' Gun Shy'', '' Ready to Rumble'' (both 2000), '' Don't Say a Word'' (2001), '' Pieces of April'' (2003), '' Kinsey'' (2004), '' The Ice Harvest'', '' Casanova'' (both 2005), '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008), '' Year One'', ''2012'' (both 2009), '' Please Give'', '' Love & Other Drugs'' (both 2010), and '' X-Men: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry ( ; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant of 1986 and also placing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy ''Boomerang'' (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in ''The Flintstones'' (1994) and ''Bulworth'' (1998) as well as the television film '' Introducing Dorothy Dandridge'' (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Berry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. For her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama ''Monster's Ball'' (2001), Berry became the only African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the first woman of color. Berry took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four installments of the ''X-Men'' film series (2000–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Isaiah Washington
Isaiah Washington IV (born August 3, 1963) is an American actor. Following a series of film appearances, he came to prominence as Dr. Preston Burke in ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2005-2007; 2014) Washington began his career collaborating with director Spike Lee on the films '' Crooklyn'' (1994), '' Clockers'' (1995), ''Girl 6'' (1996), and ''Get on the Bus'' (1996). He also appeared in the films '' Love Jones'' (1997), ''Bulworth'' (1998), ''Out of Sight'' (1998), ''True Crime'' (1999), ''Romeo Must Die'' (2000), ''Exit Wounds'' (2001), ''Ghost Ship'' (2002), and '' Hollywood Homicide'' (2003). In 2005, Washington landed his breakthrough role as Preston Burke on ''Grey's Anatomy''. He was dismissed after the third season due to his usage of a homophobic slur while referring to a cast member, T. R. Knight, although he would return for a guest appearance in 2014. From 2014 to 2018, Washington portrayed Thelonious Jaha on The CW's science fiction television series '' The 100''. In 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone ( , ; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, Orchestration, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 film score, scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest List of film score composers, film composers of all time. He received List of awards and nominations received by Ennio Morricone, numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven , two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion, Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010. His filmography includes more than 70 award-winning films, all of Sergio Leone's films since ''A Fistful of Dollars'', all of Giuseppe Tornatore's films since ''Cinema Paradiso'', Dario Argento's ''Animal Trilogy'', as well as ''The Battle of Algiers'' (1966), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vittorio Storaro
Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940), is an Italian cinematographer widely recognized as one of the best and most influential in cinema history, for his work on numerous classic films including '' The Conformist'' (1970), ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979), and ''The Last Emperor'' (1987). In the course of over fifty years, he has collaborated with directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen, and Carlos Saura. He has received three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for the films ''Apocalypse Now'', '' Reds'' (1981), and ''The Last Emperor'', and is one of three living persons who has won the award three times, the others being Robert Richardson and Emmanuel Lubezki. Early life Storaro was born in Rome. The son of a film projectionist, Storaro began studying photography at the age of 11. He went on to formal cinematography studies at the national Italian film school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, when he was 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Paul Sorvino
Paul Anthony Sorvino (, ; April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an American actor. He often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law. Sorvino was particularly known for his roles as Lucchese crime family ''caporegime'' Paulie Cicero (based on real life gangster Paul Vario) in Martin Scorsese's 1990 gangster film '' Goodfellas'' and as NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the second and third seasons of the TV series ''Law & Order''. He also played a variety of father figures, including Juliet's father in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film ''Romeo + Juliet'', as well as guest appearances as the father of Bruce Willis' character on the TV series '' Moonlighting'' and the father of Jeff Garlin's character on '' The Goldbergs''. He was in additional supporting roles in '' A Touch of Class'' (1973), '' Reds'' (1981, as Louis C. Fraina), '' The Rocketeer'' (1991), '' Nixon'' (1995, as Henry Kissinger), and '' The Cooler'' (2003). Usually cast in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jack Warden
Jack Warden (born John Warden Lebzelter Jr.; September 18, 1920July 19, 2006) was an American actor who worked in film and television. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for ''Shampoo (film), Shampoo'' (1975) and ''Heaven Can Wait (1978 film), Heaven Can Wait'' (1978). He received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA nomination for ''Shampoo'', and won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance in ''Brian's Song'' (1971). Early life Warden was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Laura M. (''née'' Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter, who was an engineer and technician. He was of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and Irish ancestry. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, he was expelled from high school for fighting and eventually fought as a professional boxing, boxer under the name Johnny Costello. He fought in 13 bouts as a welterweight, but earned little money. Military service Warden worked as a nightclub bouncer, tugboat deckhand, and li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Don Cheadle
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (, ; born November 29, 1964) is an American actor. Known for his roles in film and television, he has received List of awards and nominations received by Don Cheadle, multiple accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a Tony Awards, Tony Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, and 11 Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of a few actors to have received List of EGOT winners#Four nominations, nominations for the EGOT. Cheadle's career started with supporting roles in ''Hamburger Hill'' (1987), ''Colors (film), Colors'' (1988), ''Devil in a Blue Dress (film), Devil in a Blue Dress'' (1995), ''Rosewood (film), Rosewood'' (1997), ''Boogie Nights'' (1997), and ''Bulworth'' (1998). He collaborated with director Steven Soderbergh acting in ''Out of Sight (1998 film), Out of Sight'' (1998), ''Traffic (2000 film), Traffic'' (2000), ''The Ocean's Trilogy'' (2001–2007), and ''No Sudde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jeremy Pikser
Jeremy Pikser is an American screenwriter. Pikser is best known for ''Bulworth'' (co-written with Warren Beatty), which was nominated for Academy, Golden Globe and WGA Awards for Best Screenplay and which won the Los Angeles Film Critics' Best Screenplay award for 1998. Pikser got his start working as a "special consultant" and uncredited writer on the film ''Reds'' (a screenplay also co-written by Beatty nominated for an Academy Award). He wrote '' The Lemon Sisters'' and ''War, Inc.'' (co-written with Mark Leyner and John Cusack), which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. He was "supervising writer" for ''Pink Subaru'', which opened at the Turin Film Festival in 2009. Pikser teaches screenwriting at New York University in the Rita and Burton Goldberg department of dramatic writing at the Tisch School of the Arts and at Johns Hopkins University in the Film and Media program at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is the creative director of the Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Academy Award For Best Original Screenplay
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations of pre-existing material. Eligibility Screenplays are eligible if they are not based on "previously published material". The Writer's Branch of the academy determines if a screenplay is adapted or original, based on possible sources in question, interviews given about the film and the film's publicity materials, and sometimes places screenplays in a different category than the Writers Guild of America. For the 75th Academy Awards, ''Gangs of New York'' was nominated as an original screenplay despite being based on the book Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Billy Weber
Billy Weber is an American film editor with several film credits dating from '' Days of Heaven'' (1978). One of Weber's first editing roles was as associate editor (as William Weber) on Terrence Malick's first feature as a director, ''Badlands'' (1973). ''Badlands'' was edited by Robert Estrin; Weber edited Malick's next film '' Days of Heaven'' (1978). When Malick returned to film directing twenty years later with '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998); he once again hired Weber to edit it, along with Leslie Jones and Saar Klein. While Weber did not edit Malick's next film '' The New World'', he was an associate producer on the project. Most recently, Weber was one of five collaborating editors on Malick's fifth feature, '' The Tree of Life'' (2011). Beyond this notable collaboration with Malick, Weber has edited '' Beverly Hills Cop'' (directed by Martin Brest, 1984), ''Top Gun'' (Tony Scott, 1986) and '' Midnight Run'' (Brest, 1988). Weber was nominated for the Academy Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
