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The Big Short (film)
''The Big Short'' is a 2015 American Biographical film, biographical comedy drama film, directed by Adam McKay, and co-written by McKay and Charles Randolph. Based on the 2010 The Big Short, book of the same name by Michael Lewis, it shows how the 2008 financial crisis was triggered by the 2000s United States housing bubble, United States housing bubble. The film stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt, with John Magaro, Finn Wittrock, Hamish Linklater, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong (actor), Jeremy Strong, and Marisa Tomei in supporting roles. To explain financial instruments, the film features cameo appearances by actress Margot Robbie, chef Anthony Bourdain, singer-songwriter Selena Gomez, economist Richard Thaler, and others who break the fourth wall to explain concepts such as Subprime lending, subprime mortgages and Synthetic CDO, synthetic collateralized debt obligations. Several of the film's characters directly address the audience, most frequently Gos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam McKay
Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. McKay began his career as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL'') from 1995 to 2001. After leaving ''SNL'', McKay co-wrote with comedian Will Ferrell on his comedy films '' Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy'' (2004), '' Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'' (2006), and ''The Other Guys'' (2010). Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced many television series and films, with McKay himself co-producing their website Funny or Die through their company, Gary Sanchez Productions. McKay began venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s. He wrote and directed the satirical films '' The Big Short'' (2015), ''Vice'' (2018), and '' Don't Look Up'' (2021). McKay won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and a Critics' Choice Award for adapting the screenplay of ''The Big Short''. In 2019, McKay founded the production company Hyperobject Industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the History of cinema in the United States, motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees. Leadership The institute is composed of leaders from the film, entertainment, business, and academic communities. The board of trustees is chaired by Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Kathleen Kennedy and the board of directors chaired by Robert A. Daly guide the organization, which is led by President (corporate title), President and CEO, film historian Bob Gazzale. Prior leaders were founding director George Stevens Jr. (from the organization's inception in 1967 until 1980) and Jean Picker Firstenberg (from 1980 to 2007). History The American Film Institute was founded by a 1965 presidential mandate announced in the White House Rose Garden, Rose Garden of the White House by Lyndon B. Johnson—to establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameo Appearance
A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake) or renowned people making uncredited appearances. Short appearances by celebrities, film directors, politicians, athletes or musicians are common. A crew member of the movie or show playing a minor role can be referred to as a cameo role as well, such as director Alfred Hitchcock who made frequent cameo appearances in his films. Concept Originally, in the 1920s, a "cameo role" meant "a small character part that stands out from the other minor parts". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' connects this with the meaning "a short literary sketch or portrait", which is based on the lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Instrument
Financial instruments are monetary contracts between parties. They can be created, traded, modified and settled. They can be cash (currency), evidence of an ownership, interest in an entity or a contractual right to receive or deliver in the form of currency (forex); debt ( bonds, loans); equity ( shares); or derivatives ( options, futures, forwards). International Accounting Standards IAS 32 and 39 define a financial instrument as "any contract that gives rise to a financial asset of one entity and a financial liability or equity instrument of another entity". Financial instruments may be categorized by " asset class" depending on whether they are foreign exchange-based (reflecting foreign exchange instruments and transactions), equity-based (reflecting ownership of the issuing entity) or debt-based (reflecting a loan the investor has made to the issuing entity). If the instrument is debt it can be further categorized into short-term (less than one year) or long-term. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei ( , ; born December 4, 1964) is an American actress. She gained prominence for her comedic performance in '' My Cousin Vinny'' (1992), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received further nominations in the category for '' In the Bedroom'' (2001) and '' The Wrestler'' (2008). Her early appearances were in the soap opera ''As the World Turns'' (1983–1985) and the first season of the sitcom '' A Different World'' (1987). Tomei's other notable films include ''Chaplin'' (1992), ' (1994), '' What Women Want'' (2000), ''Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' (2007), '' Wild Hogs'' (2007), '' The Wrestler'' (2008), '' The Ides of March'' (2011), '' Crazy, Stupid, Love'' (2011), '' Parental Guidance'' (2012), '' The Big Short'' (2015), and '' The King of Staten Island'' (2020). She also portrayed May Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from '' Captain America: Civil War'' (2016) to '' Spider-Man: No Way Home'' (2021). Tomei was a fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Strong (actor)
Jeremy Strong (born December 25, 1978) is an American actor. Known for his intense method acting style in roles across both stage and screen, he has received List of awards and nominations received by Jeremy Strong, various accolades, including a Tony Awards, Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Awards, Academy Award and British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Award. In 2022, Strong was featured on ''Time (magazine), Time'' list of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world. A graduate of Yale University, Strong continued his acting studies at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. His first off-Broadway performance was as a distraught soldier in the John Patrick Shanley play ''Defiance (play), Defiance'' in 2006, with his Broadway debut being in the role of Richard Rich in the 2008 revival of the Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafe Spall
Rafe Joseph Spall ( ; born 10 March 1983) is an English actor. Spall has appeared in films including '' Kidulthood'' (2006), '' A Good Year'' (2006), ''Hot Fuzz'' (2007), '' One Day'' (2011), ''Anonymous'' (2011), ''Prometheus'' (2012), '' Life of Pi'' (2012), '' The World's End'' (2013), ''The Big Short'' (2015), '' The BFG'' (2016), '' The Ritual'' (2017), and '' Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'' (2018). Spall played the title role of Pete Griffiths in '' Pete versus Life'' from 2010–2011, and has portrayed characters on the TV series '' The Shadow Line'' and ''Black Mirror''. Spall also appeared in the ''Men in Black'' spin-off film '' Men in Black: International'' (2019). Since May 2020, Spall has starred in the Apple TV+ comedy series '' Trying''. Early life Rafe Joseph Spall was born on 10 March 1983 at 12 Dunstan's Road in East Dulwich, London, the second of three children of Shane (''née'' Baker) and actor Timothy Spall. Named after the protagonist in ''The Knight of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Linklater
Hamish Linklater (born July 7, 1976) is an American actor and playwright. He is known for playing Matthew Kimble in '' The New Adventures of Old Christine'' (2006–2010), Andrew Keanelly in '' The Crazy Ones'' (2013–2014), and Clark Debussy in '' Legion'' (2017–2019). He is the son of dramatic vocal trainer Kristin Linklater. In 2021, he starred as Father Paul in the horror miniseries ''Midnight Mass,'' for which he received high critical acclaim. He voices Bruce Wayne/Batman in the animated series '' Batman: Caped Crusader''. Early life Linklater was born in New York City, New York. His mother, Kristin Linklater, was a Scottish-born Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Acting Division at Columbia University and a teacher of vocal technique while his father, James Lincoln Cormeny, was an actor and stage builder. A single mother, she raised her son partly in the Berkshires, where she was a founder of the Shakespeare & Company drama troupe. Her son took on her surname. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finn Wittrock
Peter L. Wittrock Jr. (born October 28, 1984), known professionally as Finn Wittrock, is an American actor who began his career in guest roles on several television shows. He made his film debut in 2004, in '' Halloweentown High'' before returning to films in the 2010 film '' Twelve''. After studying theater at The Juilliard School, he was a regular in the soap opera A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originat ... ''All My Children'' from 2009 to 2011, while performing in several theatrical productions. In 2011, he performed in playwright Tony Kushner's Off-Broadway play ''The Illusion (play), The Illusion'' and made his Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in 2012 as Happy Loman in the revival of Arthur Miller's play ''Death of a Salesman'', directed by Mike Nichols. In 2014, he gai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Magaro
John Robert Magaro (born February 16, 1983) is an American actor. He has acted in the films '' Not Fade Away'' (2012), '' The Big Short'' (2015), '' Carol'' (2015), ''Overlord'' (2018), '' First Cow'' (2019), '' Showing Up'' (2022), ''The Mistress'' (2022), and '' Past Lives'' (2023). He has also acted in the Netflix series '' Orange Is the New Black'' (2015–2019) and ''The Umbrella Academy'' (2019) and the Amazon series '' Crisis in Six Scenes'' (2016). He made his Broadway debut as Earl Williams, the escaped convict, in the revival of '' The Front Page'' in 2016. Early life Magaro was born February 16, 1983, in Akron, Ohio, the son of Wendy and James Magaro, and grew up in nearby Munroe Falls. His father is of Italian descent and his mother is Jewish; his parents were teachers. While attending school within the Stow-Munroe Falls City School District, Magaro began acting in local theater, including shows at the Cleveland Play House and the Kent State Porthouse Theatre at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s United States Housing Bubble
The 2000s United States housing bubble or house price boom or 2000s housing cycle was a sharp run up and subsequent collapse of house asset prices affecting over half of the U.S. states. In many regions a real estate bubble, it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis. It led to a severe economic recession, with millions becoming unemployed and many busines .... Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 and 2007, and reached new lows in 2011. On December 30, 2008, the Case–Shiller index, Case–Shiller home price index reported the largest price drop in its history. The credit crisis resulting from the bursting of the housing bubble is an important cause of the Great Recession in the United States. Increased foreclosure rates in 2006–2007 among U.S. homeowners led to a Subprime mortgage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Financial Crisis
The 2008 financial crisis, also known as the global financial crisis (GFC), was a major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States. The causes of the 2008 crisis included excessive speculation on housing values by both homeowners and financial institutions that led to the 2000s United States housing bubble, exacerbated by predatory lending for subprime mortgages and deficiencies in regulation. Cash out refinancings had fueled an increase in consumption that could no longer be sustained when home prices declined. The first phase of the crisis was the subprime mortgage crisis, which began in early 2007, as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) tied to U.S. real estate, and a vast web of Derivative (finance), derivatives linked to those MBS, collapsed in value. A liquidity crisis spread to global institutions by mid-2007 and climaxed with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, which triggered a stock market crash and bank runs in several countries. The crisis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
