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A supporting actor is an actor who performs a role in a play or film below that of the leading actor(s), and above that of a bit part. In recognition of important nature of this work, the theater and film industries give separate awards to the best supporting actors and actresses.
These range from minor roles to principal players and are often pivotal or vital to the story as in a best friend, love interest, sidekick (such as Robin in the Batman series), or antagonist (such as the villain). They are sometimes but not necessarily character roles. In earlier times, these could often be ethnic stereotypes. A supporting actor should usually not upstage the starring or main actor or actress. The title of the role is usually specific to the performance; that is, a person may be a supporting actor in one film and the lead in another.
In television, the term day player is used to refer to most performers with supporting speaking roles hired on a daily basis without long-term contracts.
This is a list of awards for supporting actor. These are accolades given by a group of film or television professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. Most awards for supporting actors are gender-specific.
Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and producer. She won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the original production of King Hedley II, and the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rose Maxon in the revival of Fences. In 2014, she began starring as Annalise Keating on the ABC drama How to Get Away with Murder, and in 2015 she became the first African American woman, as well as the first black woman of any nationality, to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The role also won her a SAG Award in 2015 and 2016. In 2012, she was listed by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
After graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993, Davis began her career on stage and won an Obie Award in 1999 for her performance as Ruby McCollum in Everybody's Ruby. In 2008, performance as Mrs. Miller in the film Doubt earned her several nominations, including the Golden Globe, SAG Award, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her lead role as Aibileen Clark in the film The Help (2011), she received nominations for the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won a SAG Award. Her other films include Far from Heaven (2002), Antwone Fisher (2003), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), Get on Up (2014) and the upcoming Suicide Squad (2016).
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The Academy Awards, or "Oscars", is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognise excellence in cinematic achievements in the film industry as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname "Oscar". The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
The awards ceremony was first broadcast to radio in 1930 and televised in 1953. It is now seen live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Oscars is the oldest entertainment awards ceremony; its equivalents, the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theatre, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording, are modeled after the Academy Awards.
The 88th Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 and hosted by Chris Rock. A total of 2,947 Oscars have been awarded since the inception of the award through the 87th. The 88th awards ceremony has become the target of a potential boycott, based on critics' perception that its all-white acting nominee list reflects bias. In response, the Academy has initiated "historic" changes in membership by the year 2020.
Actors: Kole Coward (actor), Charlie Morgan Patton (actress), Charlie Morgan Patton (writer), Charlie Morgan Patton (director), Cat Sims (actress), Kyle McCoy (actor), Noah Davidson (actor), Katherine Blake (actress), Alex Onea'l (actor), Erin Nicole Webster (actress), Kaela Sams (producer), Griffin Hankins (actor), Mary Margaret Bosquez (editor), Matt Johnston (editor), Kelsey Lesseig (actress),
Plot: What happens behind closed doors where big deals are signed is a mystery to most, but this comical tale of two cleaning ladies who go above and beyond is where the story begins! All the network executives problems are solved when two cleaning ladies decide to work their magic and cast teenagers across the networks for all the new pilots. And, the fun begins!
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Kole Coward (actor), Charlie Morgan Patton (actress), Charlie Morgan Patton (writer), Charlie Morgan Patton (director), Cat Sims (actress), Kyle McCoy (actor), Noah Davidson (actor), Katherine Blake (actress), Alex Onea'l (actor), Erin Nicole Webster (actress), Kaela Sams (producer), Griffin Hankins (actor), Mary Margaret Bosquez (editor), Matt Johnston (editor), Kelsey Lesseig (actress),
Plot: What happens behind closed doors where big deals are signed is a mystery to most, but this comical tale of two cleaning ladies who go above and beyond is where the story begins! All the network executives problems are solved when two cleaning ladies decide to work their magic and cast teenagers across the networks for all the new pilots. And, the fun begins!
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Marleen Maathuis (actress), Leon van Waas (actor), Erik R. Huijing (composer), Vincent Pronk (producer), Vincent Pronk (actor), Erik R. Huijing (writer), Erik R. Huijing (actor), Stijn Bouma (actor), Ron van Lemmeren (actor), Venna Boekkooi (actress), Jeroen de Nie (actor), Paul Oscar Kanter (actor), Paul Oscar Kanter (director), Ysbrand Bosma (editor), Berdi Schouten (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,Actors: Joyce Kirkconnell (actress), Joyce Kirkconnell (producer), Joyce Kirkconnell (writer), Joyce Kirkconnell (director), Queennette Rae Kirkconnell (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: James Higgins (editor), James Higgins (director), James Higgins (producer), James Higgins (writer), Sophy Leng (actress), Monica Veth (actress), Mark Dwinell (composer), Joseph Darensbourg (composer),
Plot: Gangs, addiction, and alienation... where is the love? American culture becomes a dark dream-scape in these three short stories about young Khmer women struggling to keep their identities alive. Living in the shadows of their Cambodian traditions takes on a surreal life of its own as they try to reconcile the conflicts of coming of age in two very different worlds.
Genres: Mystery, Short,Actors: Betty E. Box (actress), Jett Steiger (director), Jett Steiger (writer), Trey Hock (producer), Ed Yonaitis (editor), Victoria Mauch (miscellaneous crew), Manuel Valdivia (miscellaneous crew), Ginger Curl (actress), Judy DuBose (actress), Ashley McEneny (actress), Matt Harfield (actor), Michael Verruto (producer), Amanda Hall (actress), Claudia Covington (producer), Albert Curl (actor),
Plot: Howard Fairchild is dead. For the past few weeks his widow, Phoebe, has been consumed with funeral logistics. Her sad and empty house has been all but destroyed by grieving friends and family. In an effort to put the past behind her, and begin a new chapter in her life, she starts to clean. After having polished every piece of brass in the house, she still feels empty. Phoebe's feelings are revealed slowly in a series of telephone messages left on her absentee daughters answering machine. There is one room in the house that has been left untouched by Phoebe's furious cleaning, Howard's study. Fueled by an uncontrollable desire to start fresh, Phoebe starts to look through Howard's things. As she digs deeper she realizes that Howard was not the dull retiree that she married, but instead a passionate artist and engineer obsessed with human flight. As her search for the truth continues Phoebe finds a key that will unlock all her husbands' secret projects.
Keywords: fictionActors: Al Sutton (actor), Al Sutton (producer), Al Sutton (writer), Al Sutton (writer), Al Sutton (composer), Damian Kolodiy (editor), Francesca Rizzo (director), Francesca Rizzo (editor), Maegan Ochoa (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Douglas Roth (producer), Mary Trosclair (actress), Christy Farias (costume designer), Susan Adrianson (miscellaneous crew), Colleen Vollberg (actress), Diedre Brennan (actress),
Plot: A composer, Les, feels compelled to explain his motives for the apparent murder of his wife, Lisa. Through a description of his fears, and obsessions, we learn something about the infantile male psyche, and its relevance to misogyny.
Keywords: independent-film, misogyny, womenActors: Missi Pyle (actress), Jon Baker (miscellaneous crew), Steve Christian (producer), Alicia Silverstone (actress), Bill Nighy (actor), Sophie Okonedo (actress), Mickey Rourke (actor), Ewan McGregor (actor), Robbie Coltrane (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Jimmy Carr (actor), Damian Lewis (actor), Andy Serkis (actor), Matt Curtis (miscellaneous crew), Josef Brandmaier (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.
Keywords: 14-year-old, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, armored-car, assassin, based-on-novel, box-office-flop, british, british-secret-service, car, chaseActors: Lincoln Hoppe (actor), Aaron Lee Syrett (miscellaneous crew), Merrill B. Jenson (composer), Rick Macy (actor), Peter Holden (actor), Wynn Hougaard (editor), Jeremy Hoop (actor), Tayva Patch (actress), Bernie Diamond (producer), Bernie Diamond (actor), Chris Clark (actor), Michael Buster (actor), Michael Buster (writer), Katherine Disque (actress), Mollee Gray (actress),
Plot: Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with the support of her father Jenny leaves her small Mormon town in Utah and heads to New York in pursuit of her dream. Jenny soon finds herself financially broke and spiritually lost in her new surroundings. She quickly makes friends with Paul Taylor, a witty Mormon student filmmaker who finds Jenny's ambitious dream to be the subject for his next film project. Keeping her mind diligently focused on dance proves harder than she expected as she finds herself falling in love with David Schrader, a dark and mysterious New York musician. As their relationship builds Jenny starts to struggle in her religious beliefs and her new lifestyle. Paul's true romantic feelings soon surface and Jenny finds things to be a little more than she can handle. Her scholarship and her dreams are on the line and Jenny takes an emotional roller coaster ride on the path to work it out. Jenny must fight to earn her scholarship and try to find a balance between the man of her faith and the man of her dreams.
Keywords: boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, dancer, dancing, independent-film, latter-day-saints, lds-film, mormon, mormonism, new-york-city, utahActors: Mirco Garrone (editor), Stéphane Freiss (actor), Pino Donaggio (composer), Michele Placido (actor), Tony Sperandeo (actor), Fabio Conversi (writer), Fabio Conversi (director), Alessandro Lai (costume designer), Paola Chicarella (miscellaneous crew), Maurizio Nicolosi (actor), Bianca Guaccero (actress), Anna Maria Petrova (actress), Francesco Pamphili (producer), Vito Zagarrio (writer), Lorenzo Crespi (actor),
Genres: Drama,Mark Rylance presents Viola Davis with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Fences" at the 89th Oscars® in 2017.
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J.K. Simmons presenting Alicia Vikander with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "The Danish Girl" at the 88th Oscars® in 2016.
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Viola Davis gives #Oscars acceptance speech after winning Best Supporting Acress: "I became an artist, and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life." http://abcn.ws/2mtILYt SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://www.youtube.com/ABCNews/ Watch More on http://abcnews.go.com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc GOOD MORNING AMERICA'S HOMEPAGE: https://gma.yahoo.com/
Robin Williams presenting Mo'Nique with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Precious" at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards®.
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Montage of stills from films that won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (from 1936 to the present).
Mark Rylance presents Viola Davis with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Fences" at the 89th Oscars® in 2017.
from Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey to Emma Stone - Birdman
J.K. Simmons presenting Alicia Vikander with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "The Danish Girl" at the 88th Oscars® in 2016.
Viola Davis “Fences", Best Supporting Actress - Oscars 2017 | Full Backstage Interview
Christoph Waltz presenting Lupita Nyong'o with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "12 Years a Slave" at the 86th Oscars® in 2014.
Jared Leto presenting Patricia Arquette with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Boyhood" at the 87th Oscars® in 2015.
Viola Davis gives #Oscars acceptance speech after winning Best Supporting Acress: "I became an artist, and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life." http://abcn.ws/2mtILYt SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://www.youtube.com/ABCNews/ Watch More on http://abcnews.go.com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc GOOD MORNING AMERICA'S HOMEPAGE: https://gma.yahoo.com/
Robin Williams presenting Mo'Nique with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Precious" at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards®.
More Celebrity News ►► http://bit.ly/SubClevverNews Viola Davis takes home the award for best supporting actress at The 2017 Oscars. Viola is making history this award show season. Up against some stiff competition, Viola won her FIRST Oscar up against Octavia Spencer for her work in Hidden Figures, Naomie Harris for Moonlight, Nicole Kidman for her work in Lion and four-time nominee Michelle Williams for Manchester by the Sea. Being recognized of course for her work in Fences alongside Denzel Washington Viola didn’t leave a dry eye in the house when it came to her speech. She then said: "Here's to August Wilson who exhumed and exalted the ordinary people." Davis won for her portrayal of a mother determined to hold her family together despite the rages of her husband. The Oscar win c...
Montage of stills from films that won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (from 1936 to the present).
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Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress and model. Born in Los Angeles to parents working in show business, Stewart began her acting career in 1997 with uncredited roles and a minor character appearance in several films. She gained notice in 2002 for playing Jodie Foster's daughter in the thriller Panic Room, which garnered her a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Feature Film. She went on to star in Speak (2004), Catch That Kid (2004), Zathura (2005), and Into The Wild (2007), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received widespread recognition in 2008 for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–12), which grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide. Stewart has appeared in a wide variety of films, ...
She's an American producer and actress of stage, screen, and television. Her film breakthrough came in 2008 when her supporting role in the drama Doubt earned her several nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2012, she was listed by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She's Viola Davis and here's my take on her Top 10 Rules for Success. $$$$ CHECK OUT MY BOOK $$$$ Some used the ideas in this book to build multi-billion-dollar businesses. I'll give you the simple-yet-powerful formula that they used (and you can) to realize your dreams. Get yours. http://www.evancarmichael.com/oneword/ .:;$ JOIN MY #BELIEVE NEWSLETTER $;:. This is the best way to have entrepreneur gold delivered to your inbox, and to be inspired, encourag...
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