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John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. His twelve Oscar nominations make him the second most nominated actor of all time, behind only Meryl Streep, and tied with Katharine Hepburn.
Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets. He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three). Nicholson is well known for playing villainous roles such as Jack Torrance in The Shining, Frank Costello in The Departed, and the Joker in 1989's Batman, among many other roles.
Nicholson is one of only two actors who have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s; the other is Michael Caine. He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Passenger, The Shining, Reds, Terms of Endearment, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, The Departed and Anger Management .
Patton Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice actor known for roles such as Spencer Olchin in the popular sitcom The King of Queens, and voicing Remy from the film Ratatouille and Thrasher from the Cartoon Network original series Robotomy.
Oswalt was born January 17, 1969 in Portsmouth, Virginia, to Carla and Larry J. Oswalt, a career United States Marine Corps officer. He was named after George S. Patton. While a military brat, he later lived in Ohio and Tustin, California, before settling in Sterling, Virginia. He is a 1987 graduate of Broad Run High School in Ashburn, Virginia and later attended the College of William and Mary, where he majored in English and was initiated into the Alpha Theta Chapter of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity.[citation needed]
Oswalt first began performing standup comedy in the late 1980s or early 1990s, by his own reckoning. After writing for MADtv and starring in his own 1996 comedy special for HBO, he went on to garner notable roles in films and television shows. His most prominent and long-running role was as Spence Olchin on The King of Queens. His first starring film role was as the voice of Remy, the lead character in the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille. He has also appeared in smaller roles in such films as Magnolia and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. He lent his voice as in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a caller on the WTCR show "The Tight End Zone", and was the voice of a caller on "Chatterbox" on LCFR in the game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. He was also the voice of a reporter on "New World Order", a radio show on VCPR in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. He supposedly lent his voice as Randall Tugman in the zombie game Dead Rising 2, although he denies this. The character Randall Tugman is credited to have been voiced by John Murphy.
Wesley Wales Mortimer "Wes" Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials. He was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums and a 2010 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Fantastic Mr. Fox. His films employ similar aesthetics, using a deliberate, methodical cinematography, with mostly primary colors. His soundtracks feature folk and early rock music, in particular classic British rock. Anderson's films combine dry humor with poignant portrayals of flawed characters – often a mix of the wealthy and the working class. He is also known for working with many of the same actors and crew on varying projects.
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom opened the Cannes Film Festival 2012.
Actors: Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Ron Roggé (actor), Musetta Vander (actress), Peter Holden (actor), Sara Branscum (miscellaneous crew), Mario E. Garcia (actor), Steven C. Miller (producer), Steven C. Miller (director), William Clevinger (producer), Steven C. Miller (editor), Nikki Griffin (actress), Griffin Kohout (actor), Ambre Wrigley (costume designer), Bryan Rasmussen (actor), Gattlin Griffith (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Suzanne Serwatuk (actress), Sean Mathieson (actor), Robert L. Duncan (actor), Gregor Phillips (composer), Seyhan Demir (actor), Odessa Bennett (actress), Jocelyn Ott (actress), John Parlett (actor), Kristal Yee (actress), Quinton Barr (actor), Dexter Gregoire (producer), Meredith Grantier (actress), Dexter Gregoire (actor), Alexandra Francis (actress), Adam Stewart (actor),
Plot: Sam Evans, a thirty-something coffee shop owner, is shocked to discover that his long lost father Robert wants to rekindle a relationship with him after abandoning him and his mother thirty-one years previous. Their journey begins at the local pool circuit level, playing a doubles tournament in a bar. This soon escalates as Sam finds himself proving his love for his father after a terminal illness renders his father incapacitated and unable to compete in the World Pool tournament, a high-stakes and well-known nationwide tournament, a tournament his father was never able to win. It is written as a high stakes drama with numerous attempts at comic relief. It takes us on an emotional roller coaster with the ultimate goal defining what it truly means to be a family.
Keywords: father-son-relationship, independent-filmActors: Stephen Moyer (actor), Gareth Neame (producer), Nick Bartlett (actor), Helene Oosthuizen (miscellaneous crew), Gary Raymond (actor), Mark Womack (actor), Catherine Creed (editor), Justin Salinger (actor), Ben Bartlett (composer), Peter Polycarpou (actor), Richard Godfrey (miscellaneous crew), David Richards (director), Andrew Wood (producer), Amanda Douge (actress), Nicholas Sidi (actor),
Plot: On the same day Jimmy Collins is released from prison, he discovers that he has a remarkable psychic-ability. He gets visions when he touches people or their belongings. He sees what they see and feels what they feel. His main goal is to rebuild the relationship with his daughter Amy who lives with his ex-wife and her new husband. Jimmy wants to return to the normal life he lived before he ended up behind bars, accused of assaulting the man who attacked and nearly killed his wife at the time.
Keywords: baby, brain-tumor, cctv, cemetery, coffin, death-of-friend, dream, ex-convict, ex-husband-ex-wife-relationship, false-accusationActors: April Telek (actress), Roger Bellon (composer), Stanley M. Brooks (producer), Jerry Wasserman (actor), Daniel Roebuck (actor), Venus Terzo (actress), Sam Vincent (actor), Adrian Hough (actor), Ryan Robbins (actor), David Richmond-Peck (actor), Peter Bryant (actor), Tyler Labine (actor), David Lewis (actor), Bridget Durnford (editor), Matt Dorff (producer),
Plot: It's 1970's Hollywood and a future movie star was on the horizon and looking for his big break. His name is Robin Williams and he's an up and coming comic on the Los Angeles comedy circuit. While on the other end of town, producer Garry Marshall and partner Harvey Severson have developed a new show called Mork & Mindy, that's a spinoff to their previous hit show "Happy Days". It's in their meeting with Williams that they have found the ideal actor to play Mork. But as the show slowly turns into a hit, the story of what happened behind the camera unfolds as a young comic is suddenly handed everything he ever wanted very quickly, which affected his personal life as well as those in it. Set against the backdrop of Mork & Mindy, this is a story about a show's rise to number one, it's struggles on the production, and the rising star of Robin Williams.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, television-showActors: Daniel Hogg (writer), Daniel Hogg (editor), Daniel Hogg (actor), Daniel Hogg (director), Graham Robinson (actor), Evan Roberts (actor), Tim Dotchin (actor), Craig Battle (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Jim Piddock (actor), Sylvester Stallone (actor), Eric Idle (actor), Norman Jewison (actor), Larry King (actor), Ryan O'Neal (actor), Robert Evans (actor), Tony Devon (actor), Jackie Chan (actor), Coolio (actor), Chuck D. (actor), Billy Barty (actor), Harvey Weinstein (actor), Stephen Tobolowsky (actor),
Plot: Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee.
Keywords: amazing-grace-the-hymn, box-office-flop, cameo, celebrity, character-name-in-title, director, fake-documentary, film-director, film-industry, film-producerActors: Royston Morley (producer), Ian Thompson (actor), Charles Cork (actor), Paul Harrison (director), Allan Prior (writer), David Fisher (miscellaneous crew), Eiko Nakamura (actress), Tony Boncza (actor), Finnuala O'Shannon (actress), Dawn Perllman (actress), Steven O'Shea (actor), Cleon Spencer (actor), Craig McFarlane (actor), Hazel Clyne (actress), Kevin Sullivan (actor),
Genres: Family,Actors: Frank Brownlee (actor), William S. Hart (actor), Bob Kortman (actor), Myrtle Stedman (actress), Lambert Hillyer (writer), Lambert Hillyer (director), Georgie Stone (actor), Richard Headrick (actor), Will Jim Hatton (actor), Olin Lyman (writer), May Wilmoth (writer),
Genres: Drama, Romance,