Kaui Hart Hemmings debut novel The Descendants was adapted into a movie starring what actor who has received three Golden Globe and two Academy Awards?
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Kaui Hart Hemmings Kaui Hart Hemmings is an American writer who was born and raised in Hawaii. She attended Colorado College and graduated in 1998. Her debut novel "The Descendants" was adapted by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash into the highly acclaimed 2011 American film "The Descendants", starring George Clooney.
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George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, activist, businessman, and philanthropist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in "Syriana" (2006) and the other for co-producing "Argo" (2012).
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Ben Kingsley Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 40 years. He has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is known for his starring role as Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film "Gandhi", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films "Schindler's List" (1993), "Twelfth Night" (1996), "Sexy Beast" (2000), "House of Sand and Fog" (2003), "Lucky Number Slevin" (2006), "Shutter Island" (2010), "" (2010), "Hugo" (2011), "Iron Man 3" (2013), "The Boxtrolls" (2014), and "The Jungle Book" (2016)
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The Descendants The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. The screenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash is based on the novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, and Robert Forster, and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States on November 18, 2011 after being screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Forrest Compton Forrest Compton (born September 15, 1925) is an American actor. He is known for portraying attorney Mike Karr, the central character on the long-running soap opera" The Edge of Night", on which he appeared from 1970-1984, and battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Edward Gray on the 1960s sitcom "Gomer Pyle, USMC". He had a recurring role in 1959-1960 in the NBC series "The Troubleshooters" with Keenan Wynn, Bob Mathias, and Chet Allen. His other television credits include "The Twilight Zone", "77 Sunset Strip", "My Three Sons", "Mayberry RFD", "Mannix", "Hogan's Heroes", "That Girl", "Another World", "Loving", "One Life to Live", "As the World Turns" and "Ed". He also portrayed President Flynn in the 1991 Christopher Walken film "McBain". Married to the former Jeanne Sementini on September 28, 1975, Compton has not acted since 2002.
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Eli Wallach credits The following is the filmography and credits for American actor Eli Wallach. He started acting in 1945 and is known for his film roles as Calvera in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), Tuco in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966), Napoleon in "The Adventures of Gerard" (1970), Cotton Weinberger in "The Two Jakes" (1990), Don Altobello in "The Godfather Part III" (1990), Donald Fallon in "The Associate" (1996), Arthur Abbott in "The Holiday" (2006), Noah Dietrich in "The Hoax" (2007), and Julie Steinhardt in "" (2010), which was the last film he appeared in before retiring in 2010.
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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
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Tom Cruise filmography Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama "Endless Love". Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy "Risky Business" (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 1986, Cruise played a fighter pilot in the Tony Scott-directed action drama "Top Gun" (the highest-grossing film that year), and also starred opposite Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama "The Color of Money". Two years later he played opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama "Rain Man" (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama "Cocktail" (1988). In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year. His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989). For his performance Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Thomas Doherty (actor) Thomas Doherty (born April 21, 1995) is a Scottish actor, best known for his roles as Harry Hook in Disney's "Descendants 2" and as Sean in the British musical drama sitcom, "The Lodge". In 2017, it was announced that Doherty would play the role of Zander in Michael Damian's film, High Strung: Free Dance.
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Joaquin Phoenix Joaquín Rafael Phoenix ( ; born Joaquín Rafael Bottom; October 28, 1974), known formerly as Leaf Phoenix, is an American actor, producer, music video director, musician, and activist. For his work as an artist, Phoenix has received a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Academy Award nominations.
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Michael Rapaport Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor, podcast host, director, and comedian. He has appeared in over sixty films since the early 1990s. His best known television roles include "Boston Public", "Friends", "The War at Home", "Prison Break", "Justified", and "Atypical" (2017). Some of his notable film roles include "True Romance" (1993), "Higher Learning" (1995), "Cop Land" (1997), "Deep Blue Sea" (1999), "The 6th Day" (2000), "Dr. Dolittle 2" (2001), "Big Fan" (2009), and "The Heat" (2013). He also directed the documentary "" (2011).
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Frederic Forrest Frederic Fenimore Forrest, Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is a retired American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in the 1979 musical drama "The Rose". He also portrayed Chef in the epic war film "Apocalypse Now" released the same year.
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Ed O'Neill Edward Leonard "Ed" O'Neill (born April 12, 1946) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Al Bundy on the Fox Network sitcom "Married... with Children", for which he was nominated for two Golden Globes; and playing patriarch Jay Pritchett on the award-winning ABC sitcom "Modern Family", a role for which he has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and won four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Tom Cruise Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards. He started his career at age 19 in the film "Endless Love".
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Kieran Culkin Kieran Kyle Culkin (born September 30, 1982) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, acting alongside his older brother Macaulay in the "Home Alone" franchise (19901992) before going on to feature in films including the 1991 film "Father of the Bride" and its 1995 sequel, "My Summer Story" (1994), the sequel to "A Christmas Story", "The Mighty" (1998), "She's All That", "The Cider House Rules" (1999), "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" (2002), "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010), and "Movie 43". His breakout role in "Igby Goes Down" (2002) received critical acclaim and he was nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe Award, as well as winning a Critics' Choice Movie Award and Satellite Award. He has also acted on-stage, most notably in several productions of the Kenneth Lonergan play "This Is Our Youth". In 2015, he portrayed Rye Gerhardt in the second season of the critically acclaimed FX series "Fargo".
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Deliverance Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The film is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the film as the Sheriff. The screenplay was written by Dickey and an uncredited Boorman. It was a critical success, earning three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe nominations.
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Lee Min-ho (actor, born 1987) Lee Min-ho (, born June 22, 1987) is a South Korean actor and singer. He first gained widespread fame in Korea and parts of Asia with his role as Gu Jun-pyo in "Boys Over Flowers" in 2009. The role won him a Best New Actor award at the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards. He is noted for his leading roles in "City Hunter" (2011), "The Heirs" (2013) and "The Legend of the Blue Sea" (2016). The success of Lee's television dramas throughout Asia established him as a top Hallyu star. Lee starred in his first leading role in film with "Gangnam Blues" (2015), followed by his first China-produced film "Bounty Hunters" (2016).
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The Forbidden Legend Sex &amp; Chopsticks 2 The Forbidden Legend Sex & Chopsticks 2 () is a 2009 Hong Kong sex film and sequel to "The Forbidden Legend Sex & Chopsticks", adapted from Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng's classical novel "The Golden Lotus". It was produced by Wong Jing and directed by Qian Wenqi. The film stars Oscar Lam wai-kin, Hayakawa Serina, Wakana Hikaru, and Kaera Uehara.
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Terrence Howard Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor and singer. Having his first major roles in the 1995 films "Dead Presidents" and "Mr. Holland's Opus", Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of television and cinema roles between 2004 and 2006. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Hustle & Flow". Howard has had prominent roles in many other movies including "Winnie", "Ray", "Lackawanna Blues", "Crash", " Four Brothers", "Get Rich or Die Tryin'", "Idlewild", "August Rush", "The Brave One" and "Prisoners". Howard played James Rhodes in the first "Iron Man" and its video game adaptation, but he was replaced by Don Cheadle for the future films. He currently stars as the lead character Lucious Lyon in the television series "Empire". His debut album, "Shine Through It", was released in September 2008.
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Jessica Lange Jessica Phyllis Lange ( ; born April 20, 1949) is an American actress who has received worldwide acclaim for her work in film, theater, and television. The recipient of several awards, including two Academy Awards, one Tony Award, three Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Dorian Awards; in 1998, "Entertainment Weekly" listed Lange among the 25 Greatest Actresses of the 1990s. In 2016, Lange became the twenty-second thespian in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
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Matthew McConaughey filmography Matthew McConaughey is an American actor who made his breakthrough by starring in the Richard Linklater-directed coming of age comedy "Dazed and Confused" in 1993. His first lead role was in the 1996 film adaptation of the John Grisham novel "A Time to Kill". The following year, McConaughey played the lawyer Roger Sherman Baldwin opposite Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins in the Steven Spielberg-directed historical drama "Amistad", and also starred opposite Jodie Foster in the Robert Zemeckis-directed science fiction drama "Contact". In 1998, he appeared in the Linklater-directed comedy-drama "The Newton Boys". During the 2000s, McConaughey was typecast as a romantic comedy lead in the films "The Wedding Planner" (2001), "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" (2003), "Failure to Launch" (2006), and "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" (2009).