The BAFTA award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer is presented annually at the British Academy Film Awards in London. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. The Outstanding Debut award recognises the work of writers, directors and producers whose first films have been released in cinemas during the award's qualification window. It is presented in honour of screenwriter and producer Carl Foreman. ^[1]

Jury Process[link]

Unlike many of the other BAFTA awards - which are decided by a membership vote - the Outstanding Debut award's nominees and winner are decided by a jury of industry experts who view and consider eligible films over the course of the year. The jury can choose to nominate any combination of debut writer, director or producer involved in a film. ^[1]

The jury in 2011 was composed of Peter Bradshaw, Jane Goldman, Asif Kapadia, Ann Scott, Peter Straughan, Joe Utichi, Lesley Walker, James Watkins and Stephen Woolley. The jury chair was Simon Relph. ^[2]

History[link]

The first version of the award was established by the Foreman Williams Jones Foundation in 1991. Scholarships were awarded to promising British students to study film-making in the United States.

The present version of the award was initiated by the Foundation in 1997 and was conducted jointly by the Foundation and by BAFTA until 2009. It was established to encourage British filmmaking by recognising the most promising British newcomer in the selected disciplines of screenwriting, producing or directing (or in more than one of these disciplines). The first award of the present version was made in respect of 1998. In 2009, the name of the award was changed and it is now solely administered by BAFTA. The award continues to be presented in honour of Carl Foreman.

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer[link]

• 2011 - Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine (director); Diarmid Scrimshaw (producer)
  • Attack the Block – Joe Cornish (director)
  • Black Pond – Tom Kingsley (director); Will Sharpe (director); Sarah Brocklehurst (producer)
  • Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes (director)
  • Submarine – Richard Ayoade (director)

• 2010 - Four Lions - Chris Morris (writer/director)
  • The Arbor – Clio Barnard (director); Tracy O’Riordan (producer)
  • Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy (director); Jaimie D’Cruz (producer)
  • Monsters – Gareth Edwards (writer/director)
  • Skeletons – Nick Whitfield (writer/director)

• 2009 - Moon - Duncan Jones (writer/director)
  • Mugabe and the White African – Lucy Bailey (director); Andrew Thompson (director); Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock (producer); David Pearson (producer)
  • Shifty – Eran Creevy (writer/director)
  • Exam – Stuart Hazeldine (writer/director/producer)
  • Nowhere Boy – Sam Taylor-Wood (director)

The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Writer, Director or Producer in their First Feature Film[link]

• 2006 - Red Road - Andrea Arnold
  • Black Sun – Gary Tarn
  • Pierrepoint – Christine Langan
  • London to Brighton – Paul Andrew Williams
  • Rollin' with the Nines – Julian Gilbey

• 2005 - Pride & Prejudice - Joe Wright
  • Everything – Richard Hawkins
  • Festival – Annie Griffin
  • Shooting Dogs – David Belton
  • Tsotsi – Peter Fudakowski

• 2004 - A Way of Life - Amma Asante
  • AfterLife – Andrea Gibb
  • Dear Frankie – Shona Auerbach
  • Layer Cake – Matthew Vaughn
  • Shaun of the Dead – Nira Park

• 2003 - Kiss of Life - Emily Young
  • American Cousins – Sergio Casci
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring – Peter Webber
  • To Kill a King – Jenny Mayhew

• 2002 - The Warrior - Asif Kapadia
  • AKA – Duncan Roy
  • Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry – Simon Bent
  • Lost in La Mancha – Lucy Darwin

• 2001 - Jump Tomorrow - Joel Hopkins Nicola Usborne
  • Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes
  • Late Night Shopping – Jack Lothian
  • The Parole Officer – Steve Coogan Henry Normal
  • South West 9 – Richard Parry
  • Strictly Sinatra – Ruth Kenley-Letts

• 2000 - Last Resort - Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Billy Elliot – Stephen Daldry
  • Billy Elliot – Lee Hall
  • Saving Grace – Mark Crowdy
  • Some Voices – Simon Cellan Jones

• 1999 - Ratcatcher - Lynne Ramsay
  • East Is East – Ayub Khan-Din
  • Human Traffic – Justin Kerrigan
  • Waking Ned – Kirk Jones

• 1998 - Love and Death on Long Island - Richard Kwietniowski
  • The Governess – Sandra Goldbacher
  • Twenty Four Seven – Shane Meadows
  • Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels – Matthew Vaughn

Best Leading Newcomer[link]

• 1984 - The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor
  • The Hit – Tim Roth
  • Cal – John Lynch
  • Another Country – Rupert Everett

• 1983 - Another Time, Another Place - Phyllis Logan
  • Educating Rita – Julie Walters
  • Heat and Dust – Greta Scacchi
  • Sophie's Choice – Kevin Kline

• 1982 - Gandhi - Ben Kingsley
  • Body Heat – Kathleen Turner
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Drew Barrymore
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Henry Thomas

• 1981 - Raging Bull - Joe Pesci
  • Ordinary People – Timothy Hutton
  • Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer – Mephisto

• 1980 - My Brilliant Career - Judy Davis
  • Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Sonia Braga
  • Gregory's Girl – John Gordon Sinclair
  • Urban Cowboy – Debra Winger

• 1979 - Breaking Away - Dennis Christopher and The Buddy Holly Story - Gary Busey
  • Sigourney Weaver - Alien
  • Ray Winstone - That Summer

• 1978 - Superman - Christopher Reeve
  • Melanie Mayron - Girlfriends
  • Mary Beth Hurt - Interiors
  • Brad Davis - Midnight Express

• 1977 - The Lacemaker - Isabelle Huppert

• 1976 - Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone - Jodie Foster

• 1975 - Lenny - Valerie Perrine

• 1974 - Mahler - Georgina Hale

• 1973 - The Hireling - Peter Egan

• 1972 - Cabaret - Joel Grey

• 1971 - The Go-Between - Dominic Guard

• 1970 - Kes - Dai Bradley

• 1969 - Midnight Cowboy - Jon Voight

• 1968 - The Graduate - Dustin Hoffman

• 1967 - Bonnie and Clyde - Michael J. Pollard and Faye Dunaway

• 1966 - Alfie - Vivien Merchant

• 1965 - Four in the Morning - Judi Dench

• 1964 - Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews

• 1963 - The Servant - James Fox

• 1962 - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Tom Courtenay

• 1961 - A Taste of Honey - Rita Tushingham

• 1960 - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Albert Finney

• 1959 - Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills

• 1958 - Orders to Kill - Paul Massie

• 1957 - Brothers in Law - Eric Barker

• 1956 - Baby Doll - Eli Wallach

• 1955 - That Lady - Paul Scofield

• 1954 - The Young Lovers - David Kossoff

• 1953 - Trouble in Store - Norman Wisdom

• 1952 - Limelight - Claire Bloom

Notes[link]

British Academy Film Awards
65th British Academy Film Awards
Awarded for	The best in film
Country	United Kingdom
First awarded	1947
Official website	bafta.org

The British Academy Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is the British counterpart of the Oscars.^[1][2][3] As of 2008, it has taken place in the Royal Opera House, having taken over from the flagship Odeon cinema on Leicester Square. The 65th British Academy Film Awards took place on 12 February 2012.

History[link]

BAFTA was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others. In 1958, the Academy merged with The Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form The Society of Film and Television, which eventually became The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1976.

BAFTA's stated charitable remit is to "support, develop and promote the art forms of the moving image, by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public". In addition to high profile awards ceremonies BAFTA runs a year-round programme of educational events including film screenings and tribute evenings. BAFTA is supported by a membership of around 6,000 people from the film, television and video game industries.

The Academy's awards are in the form of a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, which was commissioned by the Guild of Television Producers in 1955.

Annual ceremony[link]

The location for the 2008 ceremony.

The ceremony used to take place in April or May, but from 2002 onwards it takes place in February in order to precede the Oscars. The awards are mostly open to all nationalities, though there is an award for Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Producer or Director. The Short Film and Short Animation awards are also only for UK films.

The Awards ceremony is broadcast on British television, usually the day after it has taken place. It is mostly broadcast on BBC One.

Location[link]

As of 2008 the ceremonies take place at the Royal Opera House, previously it had taken place (since 2000) in the flagship Odeon cinema on Leicester Square.

British Academy Awards of Merit[link]

Film

• BAFTA Award for Best Film (since 1948)
• BAFTA Award for Best British Film (since 1948)
• BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Film (since 1948)
• BAFTA Award for Best Short Film (since 1980)
• BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film (since 2006)
• BAFTA Award for Best Documentary (1948-1989, 2012)

Crew

Retired awards[link]

• BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay (awarded 1969-1983)
• BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay (awarded 1955-1968)

British Academy Special Awards[link]

• BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award (since 1971)
• Orange Rising Star Award (since 2006)

See also[link]

• British Academy Television Awards
• BAFTA Scotland
• BAFTA Cymru

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site at BAFTA.org
• BAFTA Awards database
• Museum of Broadcast Communications: BAFTA
• IMDB: BAFTA
• BAFTA Awards (British Academy Film Awards) on PIX

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Eli Wallach
From the trailer for Baby Doll (1956)
Born	(1915-12-07) December 7, 1915 (age 96) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Residence	East Hampton, New York
Nationality	American
Education	University of Texas at Austin
Alma mater	Neighborhood Playhouse
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1945–present
Home town	New York City, New York
Spouse	Anne Jackson (1948–present)
Children	3
Family	A.O. Scott (Great Nephew)
Awards	BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, Honorary Academy Award
Signature

Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, television and stage actor who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. Among his most famous roles are Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Calvera in The Magnificent Seven. Other portrayals include Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Cotton Weinberger in The Two Jakes, and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday. He has remained active well into his nineties, with roles in recent movies such as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Ghost Writer.

Wallach has received BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards and Emmy Awards for his work. He received an Honorary Academy Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards, presented on November 13, 2010.

Early life[link]

Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 166 Union St., the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Bertha (née Schorr) and Abraham Wallach. They were the only Jewish family in an otherwise predominantly Italian American neighborhood.^[1][2][3] His parents owned "Bertha's", a candy store.^[4] Wallach graduated in 1936 from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in history^[5] and in 1938 received a masters degree in education from the City College of New York.^[6][7] He gained his first Method experience at the Neighborhood Playhouse. While attending the University of Texas Wallach performed in a play with fellow students Ann Sheridan and Walter Cronkite.^[8]

Wallach served as a United States Army staff sergeant in a military hospital in Hawaii during World War II. He was soon sent to Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Abilene, Texas, to train as a medical administrative officer. He graduated as a Second Lieutenant and was sent to Madison Barracks in upstate New York. He was promptly shipped to Casablanca and, later in the war, to France. It was there that a superior discovered his acting history and asked him to form a show for the patients. He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army. In the comedic play, Wallach and the other men clowned around as various dictators, with Wallach portraying Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany.

Career[link]

Wallach took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator. Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo. Additional theater credits include Mister Roberts, The Teahouse of the August Moon, Camino Real, Major Barbara, Luv, and Staircase, co-starring Milo O'Shea, which was a serious depiction of an aging homosexual couple. He also played a role in a tour of Antony and Cleopatra, produced by the actress Katharine Cornell in 1946.^[9] He last starred on stage as the title character in Visiting Mr. Green.

Wallach's film debut was in Elia Kazan's controversial Baby Doll, and he went on to a prolific career in films, although rarely in a starring role. Other early films include The Lineup, The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven (he portrayed the Mexican bandit Calvera), Lord Jim as the General, a comic role in How to Steal a Million (the latter two with Peter O'Toole), and perhaps most famously, as Tuco (the 'Ugly') in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. After the latter's success, Wallach appeared in several other "Spaghetti Westerns", including Ace High with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

Wallach is central to one of the most infamous show business legends. In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the movie From Here to Eternity but was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began. Sinatra went on to win an Oscar for the performance and revived his career. Sinatra used pressure from his underworld connections to get the part. That inspired a similar incident depicted in the classic 1972 film The Godfather. To spare Sinatra embarrassment, Wallach says he turned down the role to appear in a Tennessee Williams play: "Whenever Sinatra saw me, he’d say, 'Hello, you crazy actor!'"^[2]

In 2006, Wallach made a guest appearance on the NBC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, playing a former writer who was blacklisted in the 1950s. His character was a writer on The Philco Comedy Hour, a show that aired on a fictional NBS network. This is a reference to The Philco Television Playhouse, in several episodes of which Wallach actually appeared in 1955. Wallach earned a 2007 Emmy nomination for his work on the show.

Before accepting a role as a villain in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda called Wallach and asked "What the hell does he [Leone] know about the West?" Wallach assured Fonda he would be pleasantly surprised if he accepted the role. After the film's success, Fonda called Wallach back to thank him.

Wallach and Leone, though having built a good relationship during shooting The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, had a falling-out later on. Leone had asked Wallach to play a role in his upcoming film, A Fistful of Dynamite, but the actor explained he had a scheduling conflict. After much pleading Wallach finally relented and turned down the other offer and waited for Leone to raise enough Hollywood money for the picture. However, the studio Leone went to had an actor, Rod Steiger, with one more picture in his studio contract and the studio announced that Leone would have to use him if they were to put up any financing. Leone then called to apologize to Wallach, who remained dumbstruck on the other end of the line. After even refusing to give Wallach a token payment for losing out on two jobs, the actor said, "I'll sue you"—to which Leone replied, "Get in line", and slammed down the phone. In his autobiography, Wallach relates the incident as regrettably being the final time the two spoke to one another. On February 27, 2011, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his contribution to the film industry.

Wallach played Mr. Freeze in the 1960s Batman television series. He wrote in his autobiography that he received more fan mail about his role as Mr. Freeze than about all of his other roles combined.

Personal life[link]

Wallach and Jackson in 2010

Eli Wallach has been married to stage actress Anne Jackson (born 1926) since March 5, 1948, and they have three children: Peter (born 1951), Roberta (born 1955) Katherine (born 1958): Roberta had an acting experience as a mentally disturbed teenager in Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

In 2005, Wallach released his autobiography The Good, the Bad and Me: In My Anecdotage. In this tome, Wallach wrote about his most famous role as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, commenting that he did not realize he was going to be "blessed" with that title until he saw the film. He remarked that it was an honor to work with Clint Eastwood, whom he praised for his professionalism. Wallach also mentioned that director Sergio Leone was notoriously careless regarding the safety of his actors during dangerous scenes. It was during filming that Wallach accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had carelessly placed next to his soda bottle. He spat it out immediately, but was furious because his vocal cords could have been damaged if he had swallowed any of it. Leone gave him some milk to wash his mouth out with and apologized for the incident, but also commented that accidents do happen.^[10]

Wallach lost sight in his left eye as the result of a stroke. According to his autobiography, the incident occurred "some years ago".

A. O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, is his great-nephew.^[11]

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Baby Doll (1956) The Lineup (1958) Seven Thieves (1960) The Magnificent Seven (1960) The Misfits (1961) Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) The Victors (1963) Act One (1963) The Moon-Spinners (1964) Kisses for My President (1964) Lord Jim (1965) Genghis Khan (1965) The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966) How to Steal a Million (1966) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The Tiger Makes Out (1967) (also producer) Ace High (1968) How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968) A Lovely Way to Die (1968) The Brain (1969) Mackenna's Gold (1969) The Adventures of Gerard (1970) The Angel Levine (1970) The People Next Door (1970) Zigzag (1970) Romance of a Horsethief (1971) Long Live Your Death (1971) A Cold Night's Death (1972)(TV) Stateline Motel (1972) Cinderella Liberty (1973) Crazy Joe (1974) The Dream Factory (1975) Shoot First... Ask Questions Later (1975) L'chaim: To Life (1975) Eye of the Cat (1976) Plot of Fear (1976) Independence (1976) The Domino Principle (1976) The Sentinel (1977) The Deep (1977) Winter Kills (1977) (Released in 1979) Nasty Habits (1977) Movie Movie (1977) Girlfriends (1978) Little Italy (1978) Circle of Iron (1978) Firepower (1979) The Hunter (1980) The Salamander (1981) Sam's Son (1984) Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1985) Tough Guys (1986) The Impossible Spy (1987)(TV) Hollywood Uncensored (1987) Nuts (1987) Funny (1989) The Two Jakes (1990) The Godfather: Part III Don Altobello (1990) Article 99 (1992) Mistress (1992) (Made in 1987) Night and the City (1992) Honey Sweet Love (1994) Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (1995) (narrator) Two Much (1996) The Associate (1996) Larry's Visit (1996) The Devil's Twilight [1998] Uninvited (1999) Keeping the Faith (2000) Cinerama Adventure (2002) Advice and Dissent (2002) The Root (2003) Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) Mystic River (2003) King of the Corner (2004) A Taste of Jupiter (2005) The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005) (voice) The Easter Egg Adventure (2005) (narrator) The Holiday (2006) Pola Negri: Life is a Dream in Cinema (2006) (as himself) The Hoax (2007) Constantine's Sword (2007) The War (2007) Mama's Boy (2007) Liszt For President (2008) The Toe Tactic (2008) Tickling Leo (2009) New York, I Love You (2009) The Ghost Writer (2010) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) Television[link] The Philco Television Playhouse - The Beautiful Bequest (1949) Lights Out - Rappaccini's Daughter (1951) Studio One - Stan The Killer (1952) Armstrong Circle Theater - The Portrait (1952) The Web - Deadlock (1952) The Philco Television Playhouse - The Baby (1953) Goodyear Television Playhouse - The Brownstone (1953) Kraft Television Theater - Delicate Story (1954) The Philco Television Playhouse - Shadow of the Champ (1955) The Philco Television Playhouse - The Outsiders (1955) The Kaiser Aluminum Hour - A Fragile Affair (1956) Studio One - The Man Who Wasn't Himself (1957) Hallmark Hall of Fame - The Lark (1957) The Seven Lively Arts - The World of Nick Adams (1957) Climax - Albert Anastasia, His Life & Death (1958) Suspicion - The Death of Paul Dane (1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse - My Father The Fool (1958) Shirley Temple's Storybook Theater - The Emperor's New Clothes (1958) Hallmark Hall of Fame - The Gift of the Magi (1958) Where Is Thy Brother (1958) Playhouse 90 - The Plot To Kill Stalin (1958) The Dupont Show of the Month - I Don Quixote (1959) Playhouse 90 - The Blue Men (1959) Playhouse 90 - For Whom The Bell Tolls (Parts 1 & 2) (1959) Play of the Week - Lullaby (1960) Naked City - A Death of Princes (1960) Naked City - A Run For The Money (1962) The Dick Powell Show - Tomorrow, The Man (1962) CBS Playhouse - Dear Friends (1967) Batman - Ice-Spy (1967) Batman - The Duo Defy (1967) The Typists (1971) The Young Lawyers - Legal Maneuvre (1971) A Cold Night's Death (1972) (TVM) Indict and Convict (1973) (TVM) Paradise Lost (1974) Great Mysteries - Compliments of the Season (1974) Kojak - A Question of Answers (1975) 20 Shades of Pink (1976) Seventh Avenue (1977) The Pirate (1978) Fugitive Family (1980) The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1980)(TVM) Skokie (1981)(TVM) Tales of the Unexpected - Shatterproof (1981) The Wall (1982) The Executioner's Song (1982) Anatomy of an Illness (1983) (TVM) Christopher Columbus (1985) Our Family Honor (1985) (TVM) Our Family Honor (1985–86) (Series) Embassy (1985) (TVM) Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985) (TVM) Rocket to the Moon (1986) (TVM) Something In Common (1986) (TVM) Highway to Heaven - To Bind The Wounds (1986) The Impossible Spy (1987) (TVM) Highway To Heaven - A Father's Faith (1987) World's Beyond - The Black Tomb (1987) Murder She Wrote - A Very Good Year For Murder (1988) Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Kandinsky's Vault (1988) CBS Schoolbreak Special - A Matter of Conscience (1989) Vendetta : Secrets of a Mafia Bride (1991) (TVM) L.A Law - There Goes The Judge (1991) Legacy of Lies (1992) (TVM) Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes (1992) Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems (1992) Law & Order - The Working Stiff (1992) Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (1992) (TVM) Vendetta 2 - The New Mafia (1993) (TVM) Tribeca - Stepping Back (1993) Naked City - Justice With A Bullet (1998) (TVM) The Bookfair Murders (2000)(TVM) 100 Center Street - Kids : Part 1 (2001) The Education of Max Bickford - I Never Schlunged My Father (2002) The Education of Max Bickford - Genesis (2002) The Education of Max Bickford - One More Time (2002) Monday Night Mayhem (2002) (TVM) Veritas: The Quest - The Name of God (2003) Whoopi - American Woman (2003) E.R - A Boy Falling Out of the Sky (2003) Stroker and Hoop - I Saw Stroker Killing Santa (2005) Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - The Wrap Party (2006) The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) (PBS) (Voice) Nurse Jackie (2009) References[link] ^ http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49253/ ^ a b "Eli Wallach Knows His Lines" - Forward.com ^ "Eli Wallach Biography (1915-)". Filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/80/Eli-Wallach.html. Retrieved 2011-01-02.  ^ "Full text of "The Player A Profile Of An Art"". Archive.org. http://www.archive.org/stream/playeraprofileof002609mbp/playeraprofileof002609mbp_djvu.txt. Retrieved 2011-01-02.  ^ "Alumni in the News: Eli Wallach to receive lifetime achievement award", Alumni and Friends, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin ^ "Marian Seldes, Eli Wallach to Receive CCNY Alumni Finley Award", Newswire, City College of New York, October 19, 2010 ^ "Biography: Eli Wallach", The New York Times ^ [1] - imdb.com ^ Mosel, "Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell ^ Wallach, Eli. (2006): The Good, the Bad and Me: In My Anecdotage (Harvest Books, Fort Washington, PA) ISBN 978-0-15-603169-1, p. 255 ^ Scott, A. O. (November 4, 2010). "Eli Wallach, From Brooklyn to Honorary Oscar". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/movies/07wallach.html.  External links[link] Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Eli Wallach Eli Wallach at the Internet Broadway Database Eli Wallach at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Eli Wallach at the Internet Movie Database The Bookwrap video interviews The short film The Actor As Citizen (1998) is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more] v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Drama Series (1959–1975) Dennis Weaver (1959) Roddy McDowall (1961) Albert Paulsen (1964) James Daly (1966) Eli Wallach (1967) Milburn Stone (1968) James Brolin (1970) David Burns (1971) Jack Warden (1972) Scott Jacoby (1973) Michael Moriarty (1974) Will Geer (1975) Complete list (1959–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025) v t e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (1949–1975) Arthur Kennedy (1949) Eli Wallach (1951) John Cromwell (1952) John Williams (1953) John Kerr (1954) Francis L. Sullivan (1955) Ed Begley (1956) Frank Conroy (1957) Henry Jones (1958) Charlie Ruggles (1959) Roddy McDowall (1960) Martin Gabel (1961) Walter Matthau (1962) Alan Arkin (1963) Hume Cronyn (1964) Jack Albertson (1965) Patrick Magee (1966) Ian Holm (1967) James Patterson (1968) Al Pacino (1969) Ken Howard (1970) Paul Sand (1971) Vincent Gardenia (1972) John Lithgow (1973) Ed Flanders (1974) Frank Langella (1975) Complete list (1949–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025) Persondata Name Wallach, Eli Alternative names Wallach, Ely Short description American actor Date of birth 1915-12-07 Place of birth Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Date of death Place of death

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Faye Dunaway
Dunaway at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Baby Mama
Born	Dorothy Faye Dunaway (1941-01-14) January 14, 1941 (age 71) Bascom, Florida, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1962 - present
Spouse	Peter Wolf (1974–1979) Terry O'Neill (1983–1987)
Partner	Marcello Mastroianni (1968-1970)[citation needed]

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1976 film Network. She was previously nominated for Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Chinatown (1974). She has starred in a variety of other successful films, including The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Three Days of the Condor (1975), and Mommie Dearest (1981).

Early life[link]

Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April (née Smith), a housewife, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career non-commissioned officer in the United States Army.^[1] She is of Scots-Irish, English, and German descent.^[2][3][4] She attended the University of Florida,^[5] Florida State University,^[6] and Boston University, but graduated from the University of Florida in theater. In 1962, Dunaway joined the American National Theater and Academy.

Career[link]

Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Her first screen role was in 1967 in The Happening. In 1967, she was in Hurry Sundown; that same year, she gained the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde opposite Warren Beatty, which earned her an Oscar nomination. She also starred in 1968 with Steve McQueen in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair (and had a small role in the 1999 remake with the same title with Pierce Brosnan).

Dunaway at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

In the 1970s, she starred in such films as Three Days of the Condor, Little Big Man, Chinatown, The Three/Four Musketeers, Eyes of Laura Mars, and Network, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress as the scheming TV executive Diana Christensen. She worked with such leading men as Dustin Hoffman, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Duvall.

In the 1980s, although her performances did not waver, the parts grew less compelling.^{[citation needed]} Dunaway would later blame Mommie Dearest (1981) for ruining her career as a leading lady.^{[citation needed]} She received a Razzie Award for Worst Actress, and the critics despised the film, although it grossed a moderate $19 million in its first release and was one of the top 30 grossing films of the year. In 1987, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Barfly with Mickey Rourke. In the 1980s, Dunaway worked alongside legendary actress Bette Davis. During a 1988 appearance on The Johnny Carson Show, the latter emphatically stated that she would never work with Dunaway again. In a later movie, Don Juan DeMarco (1995), Dunaway co-starred with Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando.

Dunaway starred in the 1986 made-for-television movie Beverly Hills Madam opposite Melody Anderson, Donna Dixon, Terry Farrell and Robin Givens. She had earlier turned down the role of Sable Colby on The Colbys, the Aaron Spelling spin-off of the nighttime soap Dynasty.^[7] In 1993, Dunaway briefly starred in a sitcom with Robert Urich, It Had to Be You.^[8] She also starred in Arizona Dream in 1993. Dunaway won an Emmy for a 1994 role as a murderer in "It's All in the Game," an episode of the long-running mystery series Columbo.

In 1996, she toured nationally with the stage play Master Class. The story about opera singer Maria Callas was well received. Dunaway bought the rights to the Terrence McNally play for possible film development.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, she turned down Requiem for a Dream^[9] and appeared in The Yards. In 2006, Dunaway played a character named Lois O'Neill in season six, episode 13 of the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, titled "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye". She served as a judge on the 2005 reality show The Starlet, which sought, American Idol-style, to find the next young actress with the potential to become a major star. In the spring of 2007, the direct-to-DVD movie release of Rain, based on the novel by V. C. Andrews and starring Dunaway, was released. In 2009, Dunaway starred in the film The Bait, by Polish film director and producer Dariusz Zawiślak. The Bait is a contemporary version of a drama Balladyna, by Polish 19th - century poet Juliusz Słowacki.^{[citation needed]}

On October 2, 1996, Dunaway was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.^[10]

Personal life[link]

Dunaway at Fashion for Relief 2007

Dunaway has been married twice, from 1974 to 1979 to Peter Wolf, the lead singer of the rock group The J. Geils Band,^{[citation needed]} and from 1984 to 1987 to Terry O'Neill, a British photographer.^[11] She and O'Neill have one child, Liam O'Neill (born 1980). In 2003, despite Dunaway's earlier claims that she had given birth to Liam, Terry claims that Liam was adopted.^[11]

Dunaway is an adult convert to Roman Catholicism.^[12]

In August, 2011, Dunaway was sued for eviction by the landlord of her rent stabilized apartment on East 78th Street in Manhattan. The suit alleged that she was not actually residing in the apartment but rather lived in California. Rent stabilization rules require tenants to live in the apartment they are renting as a primary residence, not as a second home. If Dunaway were to leave the apartment, rented by her on August 1, 1994, the landlord could receive more than double the $1,048.72 per month rent paid by Dunaway.^[13] In a voice message to the New York Times, Dunaway said that she had not been evicted, but had chosen to leave the apartment because of its condition and that she had been spending less time in New York.^[14]

Filmography[link]

Guest appearances[link]

Dunaway and Mirosław Baka during production of Balladyna

• Grey's Anatomy - Season 5, Episode 16 "An Honest Mistake" as Dr. Margaret Campbell (2009)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye" January 26, 2006 as Lois O'Neill
• Alias "The Abduction" (2002); "A Higher Echelon" (2003); "The Getaway" (2003), as Ariana Kane
• Soul Food - Season 3, Episode 1 - "Tonight at Noon" (2002)
• Road to Avonlea - Season 6, Episode 76 - "What a Tangled Web We Weave" (1995)
• Columbo: It's All in the Game (1993), as Lauren Staton

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Faye Dunaway

• Faye Dunaway at the Internet Movie Database
• Faye Dunaway at the Internet Broadway Database
• Faye Dunaway at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Faye Dunaway at Yahoo! Movies
• Interview with The Guardian

Ali G
F2F
Portrayed by	Sacha Baron Cohen
Duration	1996–1997 (F2F) 1998–2000 (The Eleven O'Clock Show) 2000, 2003–04 (Da Ali G Show) 2002 (Ali G Indahouse)
First appearance	F2F
Created by	Sacha Baron Cohen
Profile
Occupation	Interviewer, Singer, Rapper, Junglist
Residence	Staines
Relationships Parents Tina (mother) Sibling(s) Rory Romances Julie (fiancee) Grandparents Nana Aunts and uncles Jamal Derrick

Ali G (born Alistair Leslie Graham) is a satirical fictional character created and performed by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Originally appearing on Channel 4's Eleven O'Clock show, as the title character of Channel 4's Da Ali G Show in 2000 and on HBO in 2003–2004, he is also the title character of the film Ali G Indahouse. Cohen's character Ali G, along with Borat and Brüno, has been retired.^[1]

Development of the character[link]

The character of Ali G is a stereotype of a white suburban male from Staines (now Staines-upon-Thames) who imitates rap culture as well as urban British and Jamaican culture, particularly through hip hop, reggae, drum and bass and jungle music. Ali G was part of a group called Berkshire Massif, and he ran and grew up in an area of Slough called Langley (both actual locations in the UK). He also lived part of his life in Staines. Baron Cohen has stated that BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood was an influence on the development of the Ali G character – Westwood hosts Radio 1's Rap Show and speaks in a faux Multicultural London English and Hip-Hop dialect. Ali G's middle class credentials mirror Westwood's: the latter was brought up in Lowestoft, Suffolk as a bishop's son.^[2]

Prior to Ali G's appearance on The Eleven O'Clock Show, Baron Cohen had portrayed a similar character named MC Jocelyn Cheadle-Hume on a show he presented called F2F, which ran on a satellite channel called Talk TV (owned by Granada Television). While chatting to a group of skateboarders, in character, Baron Cohen realised that people could be led to believe the character was real, and filmed a number of segments which were ordered off air by London Weekend Television.^[2]

History and appearances[link]

Ali G, a boorish, uneducated, faux-streetwise poseur with a deeply stereotypical view of the world, first came to prominence on Channel 4's The Eleven O'Clock Show as the "voice of da yoof" in 1998.^[3] He interviewed various public figures in the United Kingdom, always either embarrassing his interviewee by displaying a mixture of uninformed political incorrectness, or getting the interview 'victim' to agree to some breathtaking inaccuracy or insult. His key saying is "booyakasha".

Other examples of his bold interviewing style include getting Lindsay Urwin, the Bishop of Horsham, to admit that God created the Universe, and then asked him, "And since then, [God]'s just chilled?" Ali G asked the Bishop about God's appearance, to which the Bishop replied, "Well, he's sort of Jesus-shaped." During an interview with James Ferman (former director of the British Board of Film Classification), Ali G asks whether his made-up vulgarities would restrict a film to an over-18 audience, and suggests that film censorship be performed by younger persons who understand contemporary slang. In a interview with the Chairman of the Arts Council of England Gerry Robinson Ali G first question was: "Why is it that everything you fund is so crap?"

Ali G was in a series of ads for the 2005–06 NBA season, in which he used his brand of off-kilter journalism to interview various NBA stars. The spots were directed by Spike Lee.

Ali G was also featured in the music video "Music" by Madonna as her limo driver.

Background[link]

Ali G is a fictional gang member of the "West Staines Massif", who currently lives with his grandmother in a semi-detached house at 36 Cherry Blossom Close, in the heart of the "Staines Ghetto". He was educated at what he calls "da Matthew Arnold Skool"; the Matthew Arnold School is a real secondary school. He also has a short stint at Vanguard College Preparatory School.

Staines, a working-class commuter town to the west of London, is far different from the inner city ghetto that Ali G claims. In the same comic vein, he also makes reference to other similar working-class towns in the area, such as Egham, Langley and Englefield Green. Despite the incongruous nature of his home town, he purports to exemplify inner city culture. Ali's "real" name is later revealed to be Alistair Leslie Graham (revealed in the eponymous film).

Ali G speaks a comical patois in keeping with his delusions of being black of Jamaican ancestry and peppered with such catchphrases as "Aight" (alright), "Booyakasha", "Big up Yaself", "Wagwaan", "West Side", "Batty Boy" "Respek" (respect), "For Real", "Poonani", "Check It" and "Keep It Real". His trademark hand gesture closely resembles the "dip snap".

Family[link]

Ali was born on a Council Estate to mother Tina. He has an older sister and an older brother. He has a younger sister and other younger siblings. When Ali was fifteen he went to live with his grandmother when his mother had another baby and there was no room for him and his older brother and sister, who went to live with their father. Ali's baby brothers are called Rory, Jamie and Guy.

Criticisms of the character[link]

Although Baron Cohen has repeatedly stated that the Ali G character is a parody of suburban, privileged youth 'acting black', numerous commentators have opined that the force of the humour is derived from stereotypes of blacks, not poser whites. According to this view of the character, the suburban background written into Ali G's character serves as a false alibi.^[4][5][6]

The comedian Felix Dexter has said that he appreciated the humour of an innocent confronting an expert with neither understanding the other, but that 'I feel that a lot of the humour is laughing at black street culture and it is being celebrated because it allows the liberal middle classes to laugh at that culture in a safe context where they can retain their sense of political correctness.^[7]

Notable people interviewed by Ali G[link]

• Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, former astronaut, and the second man to walk on the moon. (Ali G also called him "Buzz Lightyear").
• Alex Alonso, author, professor and founder of Streetgangs.com
• David Beckham, football player and his wife Victoria Beckham, a member of the Spice Girls.
• Tony Benn, former British Labour MP, chairman and cabinet minister
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali,^[8] former Secretary General of the United Nations, mistakenly called 'Boutros Boutros Boutros Ghali by Ali-G. Boutros-Ghali clearly went so far as to participate in some of Ali G's notorious word games and providing the epilogue to the episode where, at Ali G's bidding, he tells youth viewers to 'enjoy the music of Bob Marley'. In response to Ali G's perceived ignorance, Boutros-Ghali provides a detailed explanation about why Disneyland is not represented in the United Nations, and reveals which foreign languages sound comical to his ear. The interview appeared on the War episode of the Da Ali G Show.^[9]
• Rhodes Boyson, former British Conservative education minister, who agreed with Ali G that metric system should not be taught in school because 'one deals in quarters and eighths of ounces'
• Pat Buchanan, American political commentator and former presidential candidate who began laughing uncontrollably when he realized he was being fooled
• Noam Chomsky, MIT professor and linguist
• Jarvis Cocker, Pulp singer
• Linda Cohn, ESPN anchor
• Gaz Coombes, Supergrass singer
• Paul Daniels, magician
• James X. Dempsey, privacy guru and Vice President for Public Policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology
• Sam Donaldson, veteran journalist
• Mohamed Al-Fayed, former owner of Harrods and current owner of Fulham FC
• Marlin Fitzwater, former White House Press Secretary, who ended the interview after calling Ali G an idiot.
• Jerome Friedman, MIT Professor of physics and 1990 Nobel Prize winner
• John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and public intellectual
• Daryl Gates, former Los Angeles Police Chief (He was referred to as "Bill Gates" by Ali G).
• Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
• Leanna Heart, adult film star
• Neil Hamilton, former Conservative politician
• Kent Hovind, evangelist and Young Earth creationist
• Glenn Hubbard, former professional baseball player
• Reed Irvine, founder of Accuracy in Media
• Jenna Jameson, adult film star
• Ernie Johnson, Jr., sports broadcaster
• Steve Kerr, former American professional basketball player who, according to Ali G, works on "TMT"; Kerr is a basketball analyst with U.S. cable network TNT.
• C. Everett Koop, former US Surgeon General
• James Lipton, host of Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio
• John McCain, United States Senator from Arizona and 2000/2008 Presidential Candidate
• Ralph Nader, consumer activist and former US presidential candidate for the Green Party
• Thomas J. Pickard, former FBI Director
• Gail Porter, television presenter
• Sue Ramsey, Irish politician, Sinn Féin
• Sally Jessy Raphaël, former talk show host, (who congratulated him for 'being himself')
• Andy Rooney, of the CBS programme 60 Minutes, who furiously ended his interview abruptly
• Charles Schultze, former Chief Economic Advisor to President Jimmy Carter^[10]
• Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor and Air Force General
• Tomasz Starzewski, fashion designer
• Dick Thornburgh, former U.S. Attorney General
• Donald Trump, real estate developer, who walks off dismissively around one minute into the interview
• Stansfield Turner, former Director Central Intelligence Agency
• Lindsay Urwin, the Bishop of Horsham
• Gore Vidal, author and essayist, (whom Ali G mistook for Vidal Sassoon)
• Christine Todd Whitman, former New Jersey governor and United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ administrator
• Kobe Bryant, NBA basketball player (whom he asks about the number of springs in a basketball)
• Sammy Wilson, Northern Irish politician, Democratic Unionist Party
• Naomi Wolf, author and feminist
• Professional basketball players Steve Nash (who was an award winning player "MP3" according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English being Canadian), Ben Wallace (who he accuses of "playa-hating"), Shaquille O'Neal (who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society), Tim Duncan (who he tried to get a pair of free sneakers from), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade (who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to "hang with mah man Shaquille O'Neal"), Richard Jefferson (whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

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