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Not to be confused with Nicholas Jackson
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 .
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger left his homeland for the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work comprised nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). In addition to acting, he produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, Ledger won the 2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the 2006 "Best Actor" award from the Australian Film Institute and was nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the 2006 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Posthumously he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film I'm Not There, which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Dylan's life and persona. Ledger received numerous accolades for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously, the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Actors: Rachel Cox (actress), Alex Donnolo (actor), Sali Sayler (actress), Pavel Skorn (actor), Cameron Duckett (actor), Brenton Casey (editor), Brenton Casey (actor), Julie Rich (miscellaneous crew), Devon Graves (actor), Nich Witham (actor), Joshua Nicholson (director), Victoria Gatts (actress), Caden Butera (miscellaneous crew), Robert Lind (actor), Joshua Nicholson (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Joshua Ravetch (miscellaneous crew), Jonnie Hurn (producer), Travis Stevens (producer), Jonnie Hurn (actor), Kevin Gates (director), Kevin Gates (writer), Sarah Townsend (miscellaneous crew), Rob Oldfield (actor), Rufus Graham (actor), Mark Tehnsuko (editor), Rob Weston (producer), Rob Weston (producer), Drew Cullingham (editor), Michael Bartlett (director), Alix Wilton Regan (actress),
Plot: Three months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead. In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human race.
Keywords: post-apocalypse, zombie, zombie-apocalypseActors: Cindy Thoennessen (editor), Eric Gross (producer), Eric Gross (producer), Eric Gross (writer), Eric Gross (director), Chris Grabher (actor), Marti Cooney (actress), Lynn Badia (producer), Tony Burns (producer), David Scance (composer),
Genres: Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Short, Short,Actors: Pavel Kríz (actor), Dana Morávková (actress), Lori Wyant (actress), Milos Smídmajer (producer), Sean Fuller (actor), Paul Meade (actor), Julia D'Orazio (actress), Jennifer Chamberlain (actress), Deborah Michaels (actress), Eric Stunzi (writer), Tim Addison (actor), David Clark (actor), Eric Stunzi (director), Tim Addison (producer), Lindsey East (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Yoram Globus (producer), James Hong (actor), Misha Segal (composer), Menahem Golan (producer), T.J. Castronovo (actor), Dale Ishimoto (actor), Sam Firstenberg (director), John LaMotta (actor), Jay Rasumny (actor), Shô Kosugi (actor), Randy Mulkey (actor), Ron Foster (actor), Steven Lambert (actor), Udi Harpaz (composer), Earl W. Smith (actor),
Plot: The body of a sexy aerobics instructor is invaded by the evil spirit of a dying ninja. At first, changes in her behavior is limited to having strange interactions with an arcade game, doing sexy things with V8 juice, and being attracted to an unusually hairy police officer. But soon enough, she's systematically killing, ninja-style, the officers responsible for the ninja's death, and can only be stopped by another ninja!
Keywords: b-movie, blood, blood-spatter, bo-staff, brawl, chase, chop-socky, cult-film, curse, deathActors: George Wyner (actor), William Sackheim (writer), Sam Wanamaker (actor), John Hillerman (actor), Logan Ramsey (actor), William Sackheim (producer), Ted Gehring (actor), Gary Busey (actor), Don Calfa (actor), Michael Bell (actor), John Beck (actor), Judd Hirsch (actor), Dennis Burkley (actor), Frank Morriss (editor), John Badham (director),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Patrick Wymark (actor), Shelagh Fraser (actress), Kenneth Edwards (actor), Johnny Gregory (composer), William Lyon Brown (actor), Cyril Coke (director), Annette Kerr (actress), Sandra Payne (actress), Philippa Gail (actress), Penelope Bartley (actress), Antony Kearey (producer), Christopher Page (actor), Paul Lee (writer), Paul Marklew (actor), Amber Kammer (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Basil Dean (producer), Basil Dean (writer), Amy Veness (actress), Jack Vyvian (actor), Patrick Barr (actor), Edward Rigby (actor), John Stuart (actor), Queenie Leonard (actress), Frank Atkinson (actor), Mike Johnson (actor), Frederick Leister (actor), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Laurence Hanray (actor), Austin Melford (writer), Anthony Kimmins (writer),
Genres: Musical,Actors: George A. Cooper (director), Aubrey Mather (actor), D.J. Williams (actor), Julius Hagen (producer), H. Fowler Mear (writer), Judy Kelly (actress), John Garrick (actor), John Garrick (actor), Martin Walker (actor), Albert Whelan (actor), Evelyn Balfour (writer),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Carl Pierson (editor), Tommy Coats (actor), Gordon De Main (actor), Dick Dickinson (actor), Phil Dunham (actor), Earl Dwire (actor), George 'Gabby' Hayes (actor), Bob Kortman (actor), Tom London (actor), Theodore Lorch (actor), Rex Bell (actor), Arthur Thalasso (actor), Lloyd Whitlock (actor), Cecilia Parker (actress), Trem Carr (producer),
Plot: A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe go to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.
Genres: Western,