Benicio Del Toro has earned critical accolades throughout his career, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2000 for his role in Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic. He received a second Oscar nomination in 2003 for his work in Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu’s 21 Grams. Del Toro reteamed with Soderbergh to star in the biography of Che […]
Oscar Directors: Passer, Ivan
June 4, 2015 by
Ivan Passer was one of the directors of the Czech New Wave of the 1960s. His acclaimed film, Intimate Lighting, was also made in 1965. He was the co-writer of Milos Forman’s films Loves of a Blonde and The Firemen’s Ball. Like Forman, he emigrated to America after the Russian invasion. In the U.S., he […]
Movie Stars: Meara, Anne–Actress-Comedienne, Wife of Jerry Stiller, Mother of Ben Stiller, Dies at 85
May 25, 2015 by
Anne Meara, the longtime actress and comedienne, wife of Jerry Stiller and the mother of actor-director Ben Stiller, died Saturday. She was 85.
Oscar Roles: Bergman, Ingrid–Murder on the Orient Express–Shortest Winning Role in History?
April 18, 2015 by
Ingrid Bergman became one of the few actresses ever to receive three Oscars when she won her third (and first in the category of Best Supporting Actress) for her performance in Murder on the Orient Express. She had previously won two Best Actress Oscars, for Gaslight in 1944, and for Anastasia in 1956. Director Sidney […]
Cooper, Gary: Influential Directors: Capra, Hathaway, DeMille, and Hawks
April 9, 2015 by
Gary Cooper’s most frequent and favorite director was Henry Hathaway, with whom he made seven pictures, beginning with Now and Forever (1934) and ending with The Garden of Evil (1954).
