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Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born 30 November 1969) is a German-Swiss filmmaker. He is best known for directing the feature films ''Monster's Ball'', ''Finding Neverland (film), Finding Neverland'', ''Stranger than Fiction (2006 film), Stranger than Fiction'', ''Quantum of Solace'', ''World War Z (film), World War Z'', and ''Christopher Robin (film), Christopher Robin'', and has directed numerous television commercials as well. He is a BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award nominee. Life and career Forster was born on 30 November 1969 in Au (today Illertissen), in the Neu-Ulm (district), Neu-Ulm district of Bavaria, West Germany. His parents, a German doctor and a Swiss architect, moved to Switzerland when Forster was 9 years old. He spent his adolescence in Davos, a winter resort in eastern Switzerland, and at the international boarding school Institut Montana Zugerberg in central Switzerland. In 1990, when he was 20 years old, Forster moved to New York City, New York, in the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illertissen
Illertissen () is a Town#Germany, town in the Neu-Ulm (district), district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria. It is situated approximately 20 km south from Ulm nearby the river Iller. Coat of arms The coat of arms lent by Erhard Vöhlin in the year 1530 shows an upright standing lion in red, covered by a black bar with three "P"s in silver capital letters. They stand for ''Pugnamus pro pace'' (from the Latin), meaning ''For peace we fight'' (''not'' "Pugnamus pro Papa" which means "For the Pope we fight" as has been erroneously suggested.) History The oldest evidence of settlement in Illertissen goes back to the beginning of the 6th century A.D. The first documented mention, with the name "Tussa", was in the year 954. That was on the occasion of the reconciliation by Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg and the then bishop of Chur, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, King Otto I, and his son Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, Duke Liudolf of Swabia. The occasion was a military alliance at Lechfeld, with the goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational Christianity, non-denominational all-male institution near New York City Hall, City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education. The university moved in 1833 and has maintained its main campus in Greenwich Village surrounding Washington Square Park. Since then, the university has added an engineering school in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center and graduate schools throughout Manhattan. NYU is one of the largest private universities in the United States by enrollment, with a total of 51,848 enrolled students in 2021. It is one of the most applied-to schools in the country and admissions are considered selective. NYU's main campus in New York City is organized into ten undergraduate schools, including the New York University College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Globe Awards
The Golden Globe Awards are awards presented for excellence in both international film and television. It is an annual Awards ceremony, award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists and professionals and their work. The ceremony is normally held every January, and has been a major part of the film industry's Film awards seasons, awards season, which culminates each year in the Academy Awards. The eligibility period for Golden Globes corresponds from January 1 through December 31. The Golden Globes were not televised in 1969–1972, 1979, and 2022. The 2008 ceremony was canceled due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Currently, the Golden Globes Awards are owned and operated by Dick Clark Productions, following its sale by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on June 12, 2023. History The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondent Association (HFCA) by Los Angeles–based foreign journalists seeking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Combs
Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Diddy, and formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, and record executive. Born in Harlem and raised in Mount Vernon, New York, Mount Vernon, Combs worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his own record label, Bad Boy Records in 1993. He is credited with the discovery and development of musical artists including Mary J. Blige, Usher (musician), Usher and the Notorious B.I.G., for whom he served as manager and hype man. Combs's debut studio album, ''No Way Out (Puff Daddy album), No Way Out'' (1997), peaked atop the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and has sold over 7 million copies in the US. Two of its singles, "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100—the latter was the first hip hop music, hip hop song to debut atop the chart. With a feature on "Mo Money Mo Problems", Combs became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. He is known for his character actor roles in film and television and received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is best known for his role as the patriarch Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom '' Everybody Loves Raymond'' from 1996 to 2005. For his role he received seven nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. For his role as Clyde Bruckman in the Fox science-fiction drama ''The X-Files'' in 1996 he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. On film, he starred as the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof '' Young Frankenstein'' (1974). He won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts in '' Joe'' (1970), '' The Candidate'' (1972), '' The Friends of Eddie Coyle'' (1973), ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), '' F.I.S.T.'' (1978) and '' Where the Buffalo Roam'' (1980). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, he moved to the United States in 1998 to further develop his film career. His work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres, including ''10 Things I Hate About You'' (1999), ''The Patriot (2000 film), The Patriot'' (2000), ''A Knight's Tale'' (2001), ''Monster's Ball'' (2001), ''Casanova (2005 film), Casanova'' (2005), ''Lords of Dogtown'' (2005), ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005), ''Candy (2006 film), Candy'' (2006), ''I'm Not There'' (2007), ''The Dark Knight'' (2008), and ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'' (2009), the latter two of which were posthumously released. He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director. For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Ang Lee's ''Brokeback Mountain,'' he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, BAFTA Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer and songwriter. He received international attention after writing, directing and starring in the independent film, independent Drama (film and television), drama film ''Sling Blade'' (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. For his role in ''A Simple Plan (film), A Simple Plan'' (1998) he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Thornton is also known for his film roles in ''One False Move'' (1992), ''Tombstone (film), Tombstone'' (1993), ''Dead Man'' (1995), ''U Turn (1997 film), U Turn'' (1997), ''Primary Colors (film), Primary Colors'' (1998), ''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'' (1998), ''Monster's Ball'' (2001), ''The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film), The Man Who Wasn't There'' (2001), ''Intolerable Cruelty'' (2003), ''Bad Santa'' (2003) and ''Friday Night Lights (film), Friday Night Lig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Row
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists. In the United States, after an individual is found guilty of a capital offense in states where execution is a legal penalty, the judge will give the jury the option of imposing a death sentence or life imprisonment unparoled. It is then up to the jury to decide whether to give the death sentence; this usually has to be a unanimous decision. If the jury agrees on death, the defendant will remain on death row during appeal and ''habeas corpus'' procedures, which may continue for several decades. Opponents of capital punishment claim that a prisoner's isolation and uncertainty over their fate constitute a form of psychological a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Oscars are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in the film industry. The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929. The 2nd Academy Awards, second ceremony, in 1930, was the first one broadcast by radio. The 25th Academy Awards, 1953 ceremony was the first one televised. It is the oldest of the EGOT, four major annual American entertainment awards. Its counterparts—the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. The festival was established in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival. The festival moved to nearby Park City, Utah, in 1981 and was renamed the US Film and Video Festival. It was renamed the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. From its inception through 2025, the festival took place every January in Utah. In March 2025, it was ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything Put Together
''Everything Put Together'' is a 2000 drama film directed by Marc Forster starring Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullally and Louis Ferreira. The story focuses on a Californian couple expecting a child and their group of friends who are confronted with the tragedy of a big loss. The film premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and later received a limited theatrical release in North America on November 2, 2001. Plot Angie and Russ, a couple in an affluent California suburb, are expecting a baby. The couple excitedly prepares for impending parenthood by celebrating with their closest friends, including Angie's girlfriends Judith and Barbie, both of whom are also expecting. Angie and Russ’ bliss is abruptly shattered with an unexpected loss when their newborn succumbs to SIDS. As Angie spirals into depression from her grief, she finds herself ostracized by Judith and Barbie, who assume she wants solitude to deal with the loss. Cast *Radha Mitchell as Angie *Megan Mullally as Barbie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
