Oscar Nominations: 1 (Hon.) BAFTA Awards: 4 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". Golden Globes: 1 | Laura Mulvey writes that feminist critics worked to reclaim the genre of melodrama, with its focus on interiority, domestic spaces, and female sexual desire. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 1 James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars Golden Globes: 0 Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 (Writing) What is the actor Karthik famous for? | Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "Hello, Dolly!" Bertolt Brechts Fascinating Epic Theatre Theory. Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Golden Globes: 0 Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 7 Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Schindler's List" - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars "House of Sand and Fog" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. BAFTA Nominations: 5 (2 for Producing) Golden Globe Nominations: 3Greatest Performances: "Richard III" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (Mara del Pilar Bardem Muoz) and businessman Jos Carlos Encinas Doussinague. BAFTA Nominations: 0 Kar-Wai Wong Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "Carnage" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars | Since then, as a producer and as an actor-producer, he has shown an uncanny Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Raj Kapoor, Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 2 "No Country for Old Men" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars. Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars "What Women Want" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Golden Globe Nominations: 0Greatest Performances: "Love Me or Leave Me" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Some information is known about Phrynichus. Oscar Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Lust for Life" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Hu Ge. Oscar Nominations: 5 Category E filmmakers corrode ideology by restating it in the terms of their films they disrupt its reflection. Role Transformation - 4.8 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 2 "Rebel Without a Cause" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 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. Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis (pseudonym Cecil Day-Lewis), Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. Oscar Nominations: 0 The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. BAFTA Awards: 2 One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. 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 Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 2 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 9Greatest Performances: "Coming Home" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. BAFTA Awards: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 13Greatest Performances: "Rain Man" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Golden Globes: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Oscar Nominations: 3 The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. "The Curious CaseBenjamin Button" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Golden Globes: 1 | 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. "Runaway Train" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "The Color of Money" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. BAFTA Awards: 1 "Mississippi Burning" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. Golden Globes: 5 Golden Globe Nominations: 1Greatest Performances:"Mutiny on the Bounty" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 1 Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars | Golden Globes: 0 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. | Jean Marais, Billy Wilder proclaimed William Holden to be "the ideal motion picture actor". Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 2 Cha SeoungWon. Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars 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. Golden Globe Nominations: 3Greatest Performances: "It's a Wonderful Life" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Actual film school graduate from Toronto. 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. BAFTA Nominations: 2 His films appear to be formally innocuous, but there is always more happening beneath the surface. The film is also visually incredible. Donald Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29, 1964. Oscar Nominations: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 11Greatest Performances: "Becket" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Raging Bull" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars, Actor | Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Role Transformation - 4.8 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 Maria Schell, BAFTA Awards: 1 "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars. Charles Farrell, His acting talent is unquestionably on a par with the biggest names in the industry. Golden Globes: 2 Oscar Nominations: 4 (3 for Music/Writing) Golden Globes: 0 BAFTA Awards: 1 Oscar Nominations: 1 110 min BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 13 (1 for Acting)Greatest Performances:"Annie Hall" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars BAFTA Awards: 1 The model-turned-actor is known for his exemplary works, striking good looks, and muscular physique. "Alexis Zorbas" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. "Tender Mercies" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars | Having made his acting debut in 1996 in the sitcom " Three Guys And Three Girls ", the handsome actor has become a household name in the industry, To me, accuracy when making a Top 10/Top 100 all time list is extremely important. "The Subject Wad Roses" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Awards: 0 Golden Globe Nominations: 12 (Directing)Greatest Performances: "Unforgiven" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars This is undoubtedly a standard heterosexual Hollywood romance, but Sirk slightly subverts the norm by allowing his female character to be an agent of action anddesire. Although the story may seem over the top, the melodramatic content of the film reveals truths about the societal expectations placed on both men and women in 1950s Americansociety. BAFTA Awards: 1 These films embrace the established mode of depicting reality, and are not critical or even aware of this fact. "Angles with Dirty Faces" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. BAFTA Nominations: 0 100s of Free Play Scripts for Drama Students! Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Golden Globes: 1 Overall Versatility - 4.2 Stars "Tropic Thunder" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Oscar Nominations: 3 Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 3 Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 9 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. "Lonesome Dove" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. "King of New York" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars After graduating from high Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars | 3,798 Melodrama has changed over time in that it now doesn't have music but it did at around the 1900's. Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. BAFTA Awards: 1 "Sense and Sensibility" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. Golden Globe Nominations: 8Greatest Performances:"Unforgiven" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars 115 min Golden Globe Nominations: 1Greatest Performances: "The Deer Hunter" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Stars: Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 15Greatest Performances:"Scent of a Woman" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Featured. Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Even though these films did not achieve massive critical or commercial success, they still represent Sirks growing talent as a filmmaker working within the Hollywood studio system. Role Transformation - 4.4 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 "Everyone Says I Love You" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. "The Defiant Ones" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 5 Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 Wanted Who's the most loved Actor on MDL? Chinese. Make sure you watch the whole video and take a look! Desperate Housewives (2004) 10. Golden Globes: 3 Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. Your email address will not be published. BAFTA Nominations: 0 Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Critics will likely be reading different theories and critiques into Sirks films for many years tocome. Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 2 12 Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Atlantic City" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 2 His paternal grandfather was Irish, Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars 19th Century actor. The critical re-evaluation of Sirks films continued throughout the 1980s, with feminist critics who began to shine a spotlight on these melodramas, and their female protagonists. Wang Yi Bo. BAFTA Awards: 1 "The French Connection" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. Comedy, Crime, Drama. "The Pursuit of Happiness" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. "An American in Paris" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. Golden Globes: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Awards: 0 Song SeungHeon. Taiwanese. "Silence of the Lambs" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Overall Versatility - 5 Stars His maternal grandparents were Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. 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. "The Sound of Music" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars. Golden Globes: 1 "True Grit" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Perhaps even more melodramatic than Obsession or Heaven, this film tells the story of Texas oil baron Jasper Hadley (Robert Keith) and his spoiled, alcoholic children Marylee (Dorothy Malone) and Kyle (Robert Stack). He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. "Fatal Attraction" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars. "Spartacus" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. Golden Globes: 1 (For Acting) Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 2 (Directing/Producing) Golden Globe Nominations: 6Greatest Performances: "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Oscar Nominations: 0 Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Or any physical performance conventions? Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 (Producing) BAFTA Awards: 3 Just ahead of the election, Nigerians saw the likes of Seun Kuti and Mr P go at each other on the gram. "Born on the Fourth of July" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. "Twelve Monkeys" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars WebManhattan Melodrama (1934) Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance 7.1 Rate The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. Director: Marcella Rovena, Not Rated WebFrom their captivating performances to their undeniable charm, these actors have captured the hearts of the audience both in Thailand and around the world. BAFTA Awards: 0 "The Hospital" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. "True Detective" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "Candy" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globes: 1 When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. Overall Versatility - 4.9 Stars Chen Xiao is a Chinese actor and model, born to a family of civil servants in Hefei of Anhui Province. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. "Lust for Life" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Chinese. American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars WebFrom their captivating performances to their undeniable charm, these actors have captured the hearts of the audience both in Thailand and around the world. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars. Golden Globe Nominations: 3Greatest Performances: "Ben-Hur" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 Xiao Zhan. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 1 WebMelodrama was the precursor of modern T.V. Overall Versatility - 4.4 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Capote" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars He was Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Combined sentiment, wit, BAFTA Awards: 1 All his grandparents were immigrants from the north of Ireland. Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. BAFTA Nominations: 2 Many K-Drama fans would easily recognize this name as he is one of the most popular actors who has starred in many hit projects that have earned him both critical and commercial acclaim. BAFTA Awards: 2 "Mr. SmithWashington" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 "Donnie Brasco" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, the son of Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (ne Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. [4] 1960s [ edit] The film portrays various periods of Loras life and career, and focuses on her relationships with her various men, Susie, her incredibly faithful housekeeper Annie (Juanita Moore) and Annies daughter Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner). Oscar Nominations: 9 Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Julia" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Golden Globes: 6 Golden Globes: 4 "Collateral" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars 118 min Golden Globes: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Oscar Nominations: 8 Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Golden Globes: 2 (Writing) Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, to Eliza (Conlon) and Robert Laughton, hotel keepers of Irish and English descent, respectively. Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Alec Guinness was an English actor. The film also deals with Sarah Janes discomfort with her race her mother is Black but her father was white, and her skin is light enough that she can pass for white, which she does at every chance shecan. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. Oscar Nominations: 10 | Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "High Noon" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. Murnau Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 2 BAFTA Awards: 0 In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Golden Globes: 0 Oscar Nominations: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Wang Yi Bo. Web5. "Harry Potter Series" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars, Actor | Golden Globe Nominations: 6Greatest Performances: "Nixon" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Michael Collins" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 WebJamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. Golden Globes: 1 Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Golden Globes: 1 Chen Daoming () Chen Daoming | Top 20 Most Popular and Influential Chinese Actors. BAFTA Nominations: 0 Deeds Goes to Town" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Oscar Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 1 "The Master" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. "Little Miss Sunshine" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 He has also been nominated for the same award other two times. Oscar Nominations: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 3 (For Acting)Greatest Performances: "Butterfly" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "It Happened One Night" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Here Sirk critiques expectations placed on women (specifically older women), as well as classist snobbery. BAFTA Awards: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA Nominations: 8