Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 "Edward Scissorhands" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. They divided films into a number of categories, based on their relationship to the dominant ideology of Hollywood/America as a whole. Golden Globe Nominations: 3Greatest Performances: "Ray" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars BAFTA Awards: 1 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" BAFTA Awards: 2 Oscar Nominations: 4 Oscar Nominations: 2 His father died in a Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Feil notes that these auteurist critics such as Andrew Sarris of Screen magazine focused on Sirks camerawork and editing, ignoring the female-centric stories and identifying only with the straight, white male director. Richard Basehart, He has also been nominated for the same award other two times. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet (Gunderson), a Norwegian immigrant, and James Thomas Mitchum, a shipyard/railroad worker. Stars: The dramatic debut of Director: BAFTA Nominations: 5 Overall Versatility - 4.9 Stars One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.9 Stars "The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars See the disclosure page for more, Read More Stimulus Images for Drama: FantasyContinue, Read More Elements of Drama: SoundContinue, Read More Brechts Epic Theatre Conventions (Pt.2)Continue, Read More Elements of Drama: ConflictContinue, Your email address will not be published. Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Mary Boland, Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Martin Sheen is one of America's most celebrated, colorful, and accomplished actors. "Gentleman's Agreement" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII. Overall Versatility - 5 Stars His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Murnau German playwright Bertolt Brecht believed actors should call attention to the theatricality of their performances, so that audiences would be emotionally removed and more likely to be critical of what they are seeing. Deeds Goes to Town" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Gonzalez writes that Sirk brings attention to white Americas difficulty in relating to Black people specifically Black women, in this case. BAFTA Nominations: 4 He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. Of course Sirk, a white male, cannot understand the experience of being a Black woman, but he clearly believed it was important to call attention to white Americas issues with race. Golden Globes: 0 Oscar Nominations: 1 Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. He's best known for his role as Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars These films embrace the established mode of depicting reality, and are not critical or even aware of this fact. Golden Globes: 1 "The Sand Pebbles" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:AMC Awards: 0 Spencer Tracy was the second son born on April 5, 1900, to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. BAFTA Nominations: 4 (1 for Writing) BAFTA Nominations: 5 However, as Ken Feil writes in his article Ambiguous Sirk Camp-Stances: Gay Camp and the 1950s Melodramas of Douglas Sirk, in the 1970s, critics began to re-evaluate Sirks films, elevating him to the status of brilliant auteur, rather than simply a director of worthless womens pictures. BAFTA Awards: 0 William Powell, He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Role Transformation - 4.8 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 "Little Dorrit" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Sirk was a master at critiquing the system he worked in from within. BAFTA Nominations: 2 Oscar Nominations: 1 He was born in Grand Island, Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 11Greatest Performances: "Becket" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Oscar Nominations: 4 "Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. BAFTA Nominations: 4 Oscar Nominations: 6 (3 for Producing) Stars: "Take the Money and Run" - Level of Difficulty - 4.3 Stars. Golden Globes: 0 He was born William Franklin Beedle Jr., one of three sons to a high school English teacher, Mary Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. BAFTA Awards: 0 PENALTY: that suffered by the wicked character for his evil ways in a last-minute reversal of fortune(Clausen, codifiedgestures (specific gestures for certain reactions, recognised by the audience), dramatic tableau (brief freezes for dramatic effect to increase emotion), stereotypical stock characters remained the same throughout the plot, never developing, HERO: male, brave, moral, handsome, reliable (status = middle class +), HEROINE:female, innocent, beautiful, vulnerable (status = middle class +), VILLAIN: male, immoral, evil, greedy, dishonest, sly, corrupt (status = middle class +), VILLAINS ACCOMPLICE: male, useless, cowardly helper, sidekick, comic relief (status = lower class), FAITHFUL SERVANT: heros loyal servant, does dirty work, sometimes provides comic relief though not very funny (status = lower class), MAIDSERVANT: female, heroinesloyal servant, flirtatious (status = lower class), highly emotional vocal and facial expression, yet otherscholars argue a more inward acting style, key plot elements occurred on stage before the audience, spectacles (earthquakes, train crashes, explosions, burning buildings), moving panoramas (huge scenic backdrops) were an early 19th century invention thatgave the impression of a horse race, for example, 100+ plays byRen Charles Guilbert de Pixrcourt. Taiwanese. British actor Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England. BAFTA Nominations: 0 Oscar Nominations: 3 "Sunday Bloody Sunday - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Oscar Nominations: 2 Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 (Writing) The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars melodrama, in Western theatre, sentimental drama with an improbable plot that concerns the vicissitudes suffered by the virtuous at the hands of the villainous but ends happily with virtue triumphant. The TikToker also shared a photo of a young Hailey Bieber, whichhas to be seen. Golden Globe Nominations: 8Greatest Performances:"Unforgiven" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Oscar Nominations: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 Sort By: Author's Order. Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 1 Alec Guinness was an English actor. | Director: Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (then called Iowa College). Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Eventually she breaks things off with Ron, but only when her daughter claims it would ruin her life for her mother to marry a younger, poorer man. "The African Queen" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. Robards was raised mostly in Los Angeles. Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars BAFTA Awards: 1 Melodramatic films tend to use plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience, often dealing with "crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship". In 1922, he directed his first production an adaptation of Hermann Bossdorfs Stationmaster Death, and from then on he became one of the most respected theater directors in Weimar Germany. "My Cousin Rachel" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Shine" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 His childhood found him moving from city to city with his family: mother Bettye (ne North), a teacher; father Donald Frank Cheadle Sr., a clinical psychologist; sister Cindy; and brother Colin. Golden Globes: 4 His father was of Irish descent and his mother was of Irish and German ancestry.Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 7Greatest Performances: "Lilies of the Field" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Mr. SmithWashington" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. Oscar Nominations: 8 When you purchase a product from an affiliate link, I may receive compensation at no cost to you. Some information is known about Phrynichus. originally, the stage action was accompanied by musical numbers, later a musical score, music enhancedthe stage action, tension, emotional tone, and suspense of the plot, comprised a series of incidents or episodes, moral tone with good triumphing over evil, Until the 1820s: somewhat exotic, far away settings, sometimes supernatural elements, During the 1820s: more familiar settings and subject matter, During the 1830s: elevated tone, gentlemanly melodramas, PROVOCATION: the initial cause for setting the action in motion; very often it is the jealousy or greed of a wicked character, PANGS: the sufferings of the good and innocent characters who are in conflict with the evil. Golden Globes: 1 John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. "Love with the Proper Stranger" - Level of Difficulty - 4.2 Stars. "The Master" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 3Greatest Performances: "Champion" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 3 This Technicolor drama tells the story of Helen Phillips (Wyman), whose husband dies of a heart attack due to the reckless actions of a local rich man named Bob Merrick (Hudson). "Good Will Hunting" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. "Chimes at Midnight" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Golden Globe Nominations: 15Greatest Performances:"Scent of a Woman" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 2 Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 8 (1 for Producing) BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Awards: 1 Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars | While attending Marquette Academy, he and classmate Pat O'Brien quit school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars For example, Kyle is driven to drink and behave angrily and abusively because he cannot get Lucy pregnant. Oscar Nominations: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Gladiator" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Golden Globes: 1 | BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 7Greatest Performances: "Equus" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Both boys popped up, without Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.9 Stars He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars