How many academy awards has the actor who starred in Cheers and the Hunger Games been nominated for
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The Hunger Games (film) The Hunger Games is a 2012 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. It is the first installment in "The Hunger Games" film series and was produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, with a screenplay by Ross, Collins, and Billy Ray. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. The story takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem, which is divided into 12 districts, where a boy and a girl from each district, between the ages of 12 and 18 must take part in The Hunger Games, a televised annual event in which the "tributes" of each district, are required to fight to the death, until there is only one survivor. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to take her younger sister's place. With her district's male tribute, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), Katniss travels to the Capitol to train for the Hunger Games under the guidance of former victor Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson).
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Woody Harrelson Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor, activist, and playwright. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee and has won one Emmy Award out of seven nominations. His breakout role came in 1985, joining the television sitcom "Cheers" as bartender Woody Boyd, for which he earned five Emmy Award nominations (one win). Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in "White Men Can't Jump", one-handed bowler Roy Munson in "Kingpin", Haymitch Abernathy in "The Hunger Games" film series, Pepper Lewis in "The Cowboy Way", Tallahassee in "Zombieland", serial killer Mickey Knox in "Natural Born Killers", magazine publisher Larry Flynt in "The People vs. Larry Flynt", country singer Dusty in "A Prairie Home Companion", and magician/mentalist Merritt McKinney in "Now You See Me" and the Colonel in "War for the Planet of the Apes".
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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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Robert Patrick Robert Hammond Patrick Jr. (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayals of villainous characters. He is a Saturn Award winner with four nominations.
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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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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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Vilmos Zsigmond filmography Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, also formerly credited as William Zsigmond, was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Cinematography ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "The Deer Hunter", "The River", and "The Black Dahlia"), winning once for his work on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". He also won two American Society of Cinematographers Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, and one British Academy Film Award.
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Samuel L. Jackson filmography Samuel L. Jackson is an American actor and film producer. In 2009, the collective total of all box office receipts for films that Jackson has starred in (including minor roles and cameos) is the highest of any on-screen actor. As of December 2015, Jackson appeared in over one hundred films with a worldwide box office gross of approximately $16 billion to date. Jackson's film career started in 1972 with a role in the film "Together for Days". Over the next nineteen years Jackson was cast in multiple films as minor characters up until his breakthrough role as Gator, a crack addict, in the 1991 Spike Lee film "Jungle Fever", for which he won a special jury prize for best supporting actor at the Cannes International Film Festival.
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Orlando Bloom Bloom subsequently established himself as a leading man in Hollywood films such as Balian de Ibelin in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005) and "Elizabethtown" (2005). He made his professional stage debut in West End's "In Celebration" at the Duke of York's Theatre in London in 2007 and starred in a Broadway adaption of "Romeo and Juliet" in 2013. In 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2015 he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.
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Chris Jenkins (sound engineer) Chris Jenkins is an American sound engineer. He has won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for two others in the same category. He has worked on more than 150 films since 1979.
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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture. As of 2016, Denzel Washington has the most wins with 5 and nominations with 13. Chiwetel Ejiofor is also a multiple winner in this category with 2 wins. Both Bernie Mac and Jamie Foxx were the only recipients of the Outstanding Actor awards in Musical/Comedy and Drama.
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Denzel Washington on screen and stage Denzel Washington is an American actor who made his feature film debut in "Carbon Copy" (1981). In 1982, Washington made his first appearance in the medical drama "St. Elsewhere" as Dr. Philip Chandler. The role proved to be the breakthrough in his career. He starred as Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the drama "A Soldier's Story" (1984). The film was an adaptation of the Off-Broadway play "A Soldier's Play" (1981–1983) in which Washington had earlier portrayed the same character. In 1987, he played Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid activist in the Richard Attenborough-directed drama "Cry Freedom", for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later, Washington won the award for playing Trip, a former slave-turned-soldier in Civil War film "Glory" (1989). In 1990, he played the title character in the play "The Tragedy of Richard III", and starred in Spike Lee's comedy-drama "Mo' Better Blues". Washington received the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival, for playing the eponymous civil rights activist in Lee's "Malcolm X" (1992).
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20th Empire Awards The 20th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Jameson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine "Empire", honored the best films of 2014 and took place on 29 March 2015 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England. During the ceremony, "Empire" presented Empire Awards in 12 categories as well as three honorary awards. Irish actor James Nesbitt hosted the show for the second consecutive year. The awards were sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey for the seventh consecutive year.
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Laura Linney Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. She has also been nominated for three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards.
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Dan Hewitt Owens Dan Hewitt Owens (born July 5, 1947) is an American actor. He has had a film and TV career spanning five decades mostly in supporting roles. He has worked with many renowned directors, including David O. Russell, David Gordon Green, Jon Turteltaub, Felix Enriquez Alcala and Gilles Paquet-Brenner.
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Morgan Freeman on screen and stage American actor and director Morgan Freeman has had a prolific career on film, television and on the stage. His film debut was as an uncredited character in the Sidney Lumet–directed drama "The Pawnbroker" in 1964. Freeman also made his stage debut in the same year by appearing in the musical "Hello, Dolly!" He followed this with further stage appearances in "The Niggerlovers" (1967), "The Dozens" (1969), "Exhibition" (1969), and the musical "Purlie" (1970–71). He played various characters on the children's television series "The Electric Company" (1971–77). Freeman subsequently appeared in the films "Teachers" in 1984, and "Marie" in 1985 before making his breakthrough with 1987's "Street Smart". His role earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later he appeared in war film "Glory" (1989), and starred as Hoke Coleburn in the comedy-drama "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989). Freeman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in the latter and also earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Colin Firth Colin Andrew Firth, (born 10 September 1960) is a an English actor. He has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firth's most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in "The King's Speech", a performance that earned him an Oscar and multiple worldwide best actor awards.
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Rick Kline Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on more than 220 films since 1978.
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Lucas Hedges Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films "Moonrise Kingdom", "Kill the Messenger" and "Manchester by the Sea", which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
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Michael Douglas on stage and screen American actor and producer Michael Douglas began his film career with a brief uncredited role in "Cast a Giant Shadow" (1966). In the same year he played a small role in the play "Bedford Forrest". His performance in "Hail, Hero!" (1969) earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer. He won the 1971 Theatre World Award for "Pinkville". During 1972–76, he played the lead role in the TV series "The Streets of San Francisco". In 1975, Douglas produced "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Golden Globe for Best Picture and BAFTA Award for Best Film.
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Barry Corbin Leonard Barrie Corbin, known as Barry Corbin (born October 16, 1940), is an American actor with more than 100 film, television, and video game credits.
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Charles Noland Charles Noland is an American actor, appearing in over 100 different films and television episodes, including "Blow" and "Wayne's World". He was a supporting character on the"The West Wing" for 7 Seasons. While there, he received 2 "Honors for Contribution to the Drama, The West Wing" from the Primetime Emmy Awards. He also had a supporting role on "ER" for 2 seasons. He received 2 "Honors for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series" from the Screen Actors Guild.