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Peter Jackson Wins Top Directors Guild Award

Film-maker Peter Jackson has scooped the top Directors Guild Award for his Lord Of The Rings trilogy, boosting his hopes of an Oscar win.

Although Jackson is the first director ever to be nominated for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize three years in a row, his work on final chapter The Return Of The King marks the first time he has won the prestigious award.

Jackson has already collected Best Director at the Golden Globes and the movie won Best Drama there - and Return Of The King goes into this month’s Academy Awards with a staggering 11 nominations. Read the rest of this entry »

Italian director said that Meryl Streep was very ugly to star in King Kong

Meryl Strew glorious actress of stage, film and television, one of the most decorated actresses of all time. His first professional performance was in the play The Playboy of Seville in 1971. His first film was in Julia (1977), featuring renowned Jane Fonda and Vanessa Red grave .

He has worked with people as famous as Robert De Niro , Dustin Hoffman and many more, the award has is more important than who won an Oscar for his performance in Kramer vs. Kramer Read the rest of this entry »

“Auf und Davon” romantic comedy directed Christopher Waltz

All evil, we enjoyed the SS Col. Hans Linda. Without guilt, I admit I have enjoyed most of this merciless murderer that the antihero Raines, another murderer, “and I think my dislike of Pitt little effect on this trial. His composition teacher is credited, more than a Tarantino from the script, an unknown Austrian actor [...]

Chameleons of the fourth power

A bland topic, almost without importance, the Director Federico “Biyuya Gonzalez (35) he takes the juice to a kind of” journalistic ghetto, “comprised of about 20 people working whose essence is to attend as event, toast or kindness is present. These are the famous “parsley”, a name they have earned, because they are at every [...]

Gene Kelly

(born August 23, 1912, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 2, 1996, Beverly Hills, California) American dancer, actor, choreographer, and motion picture director whose athletic style of dancing, combined with classical ballet technique, transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public’s conception of male dancers.

Roman Polanski

Director, actor. Born Raimund Polanski, on August 18, 1933, in Paris, France. At the age of three, Polanski moved with his family to his father’s native city of Krakow, Poland. In 1941, his parents were imprisoned in various Nazi concentration camps, where his mother eventually died in Auschwitz. In order to escape deportation, Polanski lived [...]

Lee Strasberg

Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He cofounded, with director Harold Clurman, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as “America’s first true theatrical collective”. In 1951, he became director of the non-profit Actors Studio, in New York City, considered “the nation’s most [...]

James Cameron

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator and Titanic. To date, his directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$1.1 billion domestically, unadjusted for inflation. After several feature films, Cameron turned his focus to documentary filmmaking and the co-development of the [...]

Franklin Schaffner

Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920 - July 2, 1989) was an American film director.
Early life:
The son of missionaries, Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in that country. He returned to the United States and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was active in drama.

James Ivory

(born June 7, 1928, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.) U.S. film director. While directing a documentary on India in the 1960s, he met a local producer, Ismail N. Merchant (b. 1936), beginning cinema’s longest-lasting partnership. They made several films written by Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala before their first international success, Shakespeare Wallah (1965).