BAFTA Nominations: 2 (Directing/Producing) "Little Miss Sunshine" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 1Greatest Performances: "The Untouchables" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 0 His parents worked in an acting company run by his Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars "As Good as It Gets" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Golden Globes: 1 Gonzalez writes that every image and line of dialogue in Imitation of Life has a double meaning, and beneath the glossy surface of the film lies Sirks critique of Americansociety. Douglas Sirk was born in Germany in 1900 and began his career in the early 1920s working in theater. Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 2 "Malcolm X" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 0 "Modern Times" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 "The English Patient" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Take the Money and Run" - Level of Difficulty - 4.3 Stars. New to them, here are some of the famous K-Drama actors that are signed to YG Stage. Oscar Nominations: 2 Oscar Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 3 Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Awards: 3 His mother was of German descent and his father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Marcello Mastroianni, Overall Versatility - 4.4 Stars Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 2 (1 for Producing) BAFTA Awards: 0 She faces ridicule and vicious comments from her affluent neighbors and friends, as well as her own children, who make her life miserable simply because she has chosen to spend her time with a man from a lower social class. Golden Globes: 1 Famous K-Drama Actors Signed To KINGKONG BY STARSHIP Agency. Golden Globes: 1 Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 Major celebrities like Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Lopez, Jenna Ortega, and Olivia Wilde have all unfollowed the founder of Rhodes beauty. Overall Versatility - 4.9 Stars He left school at age 15 and took a series of working-class jobs before joining the British army and serving in Korea during the Korean Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Golden Globes: 2 (Writing) - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars Golden Globes: 1 deliberate departure from and reaction against strict neoclassical rules (stemming from Aristotle) of the Three Unities: 1) time , 2) place and 3) action. Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 1 (Music) Oscar Nominations: 5 Oscar Nominations: 4 "Training Day" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars. Overall Versatility - 4.3 Stars His paternal grandfather was Irish, Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Golden Globes: 5 Golden Globe Nominations: 7Greatest Performances: "Equus" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars 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. Themes The theatrical style of Melodrama covered a Oscar Nominations: 2 His films appear to be formally innocuous, but there is always more happening beneath the surface. Just ahead of the election, Nigerians saw the likes of Seun Kuti and Mr P go at each other on the gram. BAFTA Nominations: 4 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). 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 Family Business" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. "Sergeant York" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Raj Kapoor, Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "Carnage" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars WebThis long running radio drama had several actors who played the famous lawyer starting with Bartlett Robinson and then followed by Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs, and finally John Larkin who played the famous attorney after 1947.The radio portrayal of Perry Mason is a far more involved lawyer then the one who became famous on TV, the radio A star athlete at Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 1 He began his acting career in 1856, appearing. Drama, Romance. Hu Ge. Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars Oscar Nominations: 6 (3 for Producing) Golden Globes: 1 Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. From Booksmart to Portrait of A Lady on Fire, here are 25 great new films with women at the helm. 536 Likes, 13 Comments - Cykodramaqueen (@cykodramaqueen) on Instagram: Not sure why there hasnt been much buzz about this drama online, maybe because the actors are not Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Oscar Nominations: 1 In 1954, Sirk directed Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in Magnificent Obsession, which had previously been made into a film in 1935. BAFTA Awards: 3 By focusing only on Sirks technical brilliance, the 1970s critics engage with the misogynistic hierarchy that sees male auteurs as creators of high art, and women who enjoy melodramas as lovers of lowart. From 1954 to 1959, Sirk directed a series of Technicolor melodramas for Universal that were considered weepies or womens pictures. Golden Globe Nominations: 7Greatest Performances: "Lilies of the Field" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Role Transformation - 4.8 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 "The King's Speech" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Margaret Livingston, Samara Hersch asks audiences if they are OK - The Leipzig Glocal, 25 Intriguing Techniques for Realism and Naturalism in Theatre. 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. 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 Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 Ma Tian Yu Chinese Vote for this person 289 points by 3 voters Ma Tian Yu, also known as Ray Ma, is a Chinese mando-pop singer and actor. Mulvey notes that after the relative success of Magnificent Obsession, Universal International provided Sirk with bigger budgets and more creative freedom (well, Hollywoods conception of creative freedom, anyway). Golden Globe Nominations: 8Greatest Performances: "Raging Bull" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars BAFTA Awards: 2 The authors write that an internal criticism is taking place which cracks the film apart at the seams if one looks at these films obliquely, one can see past the apparent formal coherence and see the cracks. "In the Heat of the Night" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Golden Globe Nominations: 6Greatest Performances: "Reversal of Fortune" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Drama, Romance. Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. Lora does not seem to know anything about Annies personal or internal life. "Captains Courageous" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Overall Versatility - 5 Stars #botd #DanielCraig . 110 min When Chen Daomings name is mentioned, some of the biggest roles in Chinese Famous K-Drama Actors Signed To KINGKONG BY STARSHIP Agency. A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when she discovers their scheme. Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. | BAFTA Awards: 2 Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 3 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. BAFTA Awards: 1 Van Dyke, | Oscar Nominations: 4 (3 for Directing) Li Yi Feng. BAFTA Nominations: 6 Janet Gaynor, Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 2 Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 Continue with Recommended Cookies, c.1800-1810, melodrama = mlo (music, melody) + drame (drama), Since the basic pattern of melodrama is always much the same (good persecuted by evil, with the eventual triumph of good), variety was gained through such novelties as exotic locales, ever-more spectacular effects, increased realism, incorporation into the action of the latest inventions, and dramatizations of popular novels or notorious crimes(Brockett, O., The Essential Theatre), Melodrama emphasized clear and suspenseful plots in which a virtuous protagonist was hounded by a villain and rescued from seemingly insurmountable difficulties only after undergoing a series of threats to life, reputation or happiness (Brockett, O., The Essential Theatre), in its strongly moralistic character, melodrama celebrated virtue above all else and insisted that vice would ultimately be punished (Theatre: Art in Action, p.7), The melodrama acting style requires the use of strong facial expressions, large movements and gestures, and a clear and well-projected delivery of lines Actors concentrated on showing emotions more than feeling them. Since then, as a producer and as an actor-producer, he has shown an uncanny Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. Oscar Nominations: 5 (ed. Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Awards: 1 Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Oscar Nominations: 1 Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham), Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 6Greatest Performances: "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars BAFTA Awards: 3 James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. Golden Globes: 1 | Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. He's best known for his role as Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 :). Sirk was a master at critiquing the system he worked in from within. | Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 3Greatest Performances: "It's a Wonderful Life" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars. "Witness for the Prosecution" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 "Yankee Doodle Dandy" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Category A is the most common these are films completely imbued with the dominant ideology, seemingly unaware of this fact. BAFTA Awards: 1 "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 "Tropic Thunder" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. "Kate & Leopold" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 1 $0.54M, Passed "American Hustle" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. "Rebel Without a Cause" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars. | Gross: During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman in Deliverance (1972), and a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978).Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars Sirk focuses on the contrast between Marylee and Lucy, and the two are often seen in front of mirrors, or looking at each others reflections. Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Feeds Lists Forums Contributors Games NEW Stars Leaderboard NEW. Michael Albert, Kpopmap Editor Published : Nov 14, 2022 What sets Sirk apart from other directors of Hollywood melodramas is that Sirk meticulously crafted his films to feature covert critiques of 1950s American society. Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 8Greatest Performances: "Gandhi" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 0Greatest Performances: "Magnolia" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 10Greatest Performances: "The Fisher King" - Level of Difficulty - 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. "Fatal Attraction" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars. Overall Versatility - 4.4 Stars Sirk heightens everything to both dazzle his viewers and to call attention to the artificiality of this form of representing reality. Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. Oscar Nominations: 2 "The Great Dictator" - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars. BAFTA Awards: 0 Similarly to Magnificent Obsession, the film focuses on female desire and a woman falling in love after being widowed, although this time Wyman plays a character who is quite a bit older. Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 0 His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany. "Sense and Sensibility" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. He attempts to make amends with her but ends up accidentally causing her to walk into the road, where she is hit by a car and blinded. BAFTA Nominations: 5 20 People 4 Loves Report. Deeds Goes to Town" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). Golden Globes: 1 Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.9 Stars It is as though Sirk has turned the volume up to 11 on everything in front of the camera: the mise-en-scene is incredibly bright and rich, and on-screen, colors are almost saturated, such as Carys red lipstick and dresses, and the golden leaves on the tree in Carys front yard. Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. "Alexis Zorbas" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. He was born in Grand Island, Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Marylee has been in love with close family friend (and geologist for the company) Mitch (Rock Hudson) for years, and becomes wildly jealous when her brother marries Lucy (Lauren Bacall), who in turn becomes close to Mitch. Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Milk" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Oscar Nominations: 4 Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. An only child Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry Overall Versatility - 4.4 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. | In other words, an actor's commercial success (Oscars & BAFTA Awards), and influential greatness through their acting skill and role transformation, is how I ranked the actors on this list. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. Or any physical performance conventions? Golden Globe Nominations: 10Greatest Performances:"Ed Wood" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Golden Globes: 0 These films embrace the established mode of depicting reality, and are not critical or even aware of this fact. "Twelve Monkeys" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 1 (For Acting) Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Wanted Who's the most loved Actor on MDL? BAFTA Nominations: 3 Web5. Oscar Nominations: 8 My lists are not based on my own personal favorites; they are based on the true greatness and/or success of the person, place or thing being ranked. | Gross: Comolli and Narboni name Carl Theodor Dreyer, John Ford, and Roberto Rossellini as Category E filmmakers. "The Sand Pebbles" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars Oscar Nominations: 3 Top 10 Most Hottest Chinese Actress. Robert Z. Leonard "Sands of Iwo Jima" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. "The Talented Mr. Ripley" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "Primal Fear" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars "Melvin and Howard" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars "Steamboat Bill, Jr." - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 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. "Manhattan" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars For each performance, he won Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 6Greatest Performances: "Nixon" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars 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. Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 (Producing) He won his first competition between 511 BC and 508 BC. [] French theatre, in the form of Naturalism,to Germany. BAFTA Nominations: 1 Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 0 Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 1. elements of melodrama are believed to have originatedin the 5th century B.C, later appearing in Medieval and Elizabethan dramas Role Transformation - 4.8 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 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 "Anchors Aweigh" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars This film is also filled with bright colors and melodramatic music and dialogue, as these formal aspects were becoming a standard part of Sirks filmmaking. BAFTA Awards: 1 He took up acting while attending City College, abandoning plans to become a rabbi or lawyer.