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Gabrielle Tana
Gabrielle Tana is a British film producer. Tana and her fellow producers were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film ''Philomena''. Filmography * ''Someone Else's America'' (1995) * ''Animals'' (1998) * '' On the Ropes'' (1999) * ''The Moth'' (2002) * '' The Duchess'' (2008) * ''Coriolanus'' (2011) * ''The Invisible Woman'' (2013) * ''Philomena'' (2013) * ''Run'' (short) (2013) * ''Dancer (Documentary)'' (2016) * '' Mindhorn'' (2016) * ''Ideal Home ''Ideal Home'' is a British home decorating magazine, published monthly (12 times a year) by Future plc Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson (entrepreneur), Chris Anderson. It is listed on ...'' (2018) * '' The White Crow'' (2018) * '' Stan & Ollie'' (2018) * ''My Zoe'' (2018) * '' The Dig'' (2021) * '' Thirteen Lives'' (2022) References External links * British film producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindhorn
''Mindhorn'' is a 2016 British independent comedy film directed by Sean Foley, written by Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby, and executive produced by Steve Coogan and Ridley Scott. It stars Barratt, Farnaby, Essie Davis, Russell Tovey and Andrea Riseborough, with cameo appearances by Kenneth Branagh and Simon Callow as themselves. Barratt plays Richard Thorncroft, a faded television actor drawn into negotiations with a criminal who believes his character Detective Mindhorn is real. Plot Richard Thorncroft is a former television actor, known for playing Detective Bruce Mindhorn, a detective with a cybernetic eye that enables him to see truth (described as an optical lie detector), on the 80s TV show ''Mindhorn''. 25 years later, on the Isle of Man, where the series was filmed, police hunt the escaped lunatic Paul Melly, who's wanted for murder. Melly says he will only speak to Detective Mindhorn, believing Mindhorn is real. Richard is now washed up, making a living advertising em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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British Film Producers
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Thirteen Lives
''Thirteen Lives'' is a 2022 biographical film, biographical survival film, based on the Tham Luang cave rescue, directed and produced by Ron Howard and written by William Nicholson (writer), William Nicholson. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, and Tom Bateman (actor), Tom Bateman. ''Thirteen Lives'' was released in select theaters in the United States on July 29, 2022, by United Artists Releasing, and began streaming on Prime Video on August 5, 2022. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Plot On June 23, 2018, twelve boys of the junior football team "Wild Boars" and their assistant coach Ekkaphon Chanthawong leave practice to explore the Tham Luang cave. When the team fails to arrive at a birthday party organized by their parents, their families head to the caves, only to find them flooded and the boys missing, their bikes left at the entrance. The parents immediately alert emergency services. Royal Thai Navy SEALs, led by Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dig (2021 Film)
''The Dig'' is a 2021 British drama film directed by Simon Stone, based on the 2007 historical novel of the same name by John Preston, which reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. It stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, and Monica Dolan. It had a limited release on 14 January 2021, followed by streaming on Netflix on 29 January 2021. The film received positive reviews from critics and received five nominations for the British Academy Film Awards, including Outstanding British Film. Plot In 1939, Suffolk landowner Edith Pretty hires local self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown to tackle the large burial mounds at her rural estate in Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge. At first, she offers the same money he received from the Ipswich Museum, the agricultural wage, but he says it is inadequate; so she increases her offer by 12% to £2 a week (approximately £120 in 2020), which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan & Ollie
''Stan & Ollie'' is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jon S. Baird. The script, written by Jeff Pope, was inspired by ''Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours'' by A.J. Marriot which chronicled the later years of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy; the film stars Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The film focuses on details of the comedy duo's personal relationship while relating how they embarked on a gruelling music hall tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland during 1953 and struggled to get another film made. The film premiered on 21 October 2018 at the closing night gala of the BFI London Film Festival. It was released in the United States on 28 December 2018 and in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2019. At the 76th Golden Globe Awards, Reilly was nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards the film earned three nominations, including Best British Film and Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Crow
''The White Crow'' is a 2018 biographical drama film written by David Hare and directed by Ralph Fiennes. It chronicles the life and dance career of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, played by Oleg Ivenko. It is inspired by the book ''Rudolf Nureyev: The Life'' by Julie Kavanagh. The title is a reference to his childhood nickname of white crow (with a somewhat similar meaning to "black sheep" in English), because he was unusual. Principal photography was completed in October 2017. It premiered at the 2018 Telluride Film Festival and the 2018 BFI London Film Festival. It also screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Cinemania (Bulgaria) and Febiofest (Czech Republic). Ralph Fiennes received the Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the Tokyo International Film Festival, with the film receiving a Tokyo Grand Prix nomination. ''The White Crow'' was released on 22 March 2019 in the UK (StudioCanal) and on 26 April 2019 in the US (Sony Pictures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ideal Home (film)
''Ideal Home'' is a 2018 American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Steve Coogan, Paul Rudd, Alison Pill, Jake McDorman, and Jack Gore. It premiered at the Mardi Gras Film Festival on February 15, 2018 and was released in the United States on June 29, 2018. Plot Erasmus and Paul are a couple whose life is turned inside out when a ten-year-old boy, Bill, shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus's grandson. Erasmus is a famous chef and Paul is the producer of his cooking show, and they live in a large showplace house in New Mexico. Bill's father, Beau, was the result of a one-time heterosexual encounter, and Erasmus has never met him or Bill. Beau has been jailed on drug charges and instructed Bill to find his grandfather. Erasmus and Paul come to embrace parenthood, although Paul does most of the heavy lifting. Beau attempts to get clean in jail, and tells Erasmus and Paul that he plans to take Bill out of state once he is released. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invisible Woman (2013 Film)
''The Invisible Woman'' is a 2013 British biographical drama film directed by Ralph Fiennes and starring Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas and Tom Hollander. Written by Abi Morgan, and based on the 1990 book of the same name by Claire Tomalin, the film is about the affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, which lasted for thirteen years until his death in 1870. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 31 August 2013, and was released in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2014. The film received a Best Costume Design nomination ( Michael O'Connor) at the 86th Academy Awards. Plot In 1857, forty-five-year-old Charles Dickens notices eighteen-year-old actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan while she is performing at London's Haymarket Theatre. He later casts her, along with her mother and sister Maria, in a performance of Wilkie Collins's '' The Frozen Deep'' at Dickens's Free Trade Hall in Manchester. At a party following the performance, Dickens and Nell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. The Best Picture category is traditionally the final award of the night and is widely considered the most prestigious honor of the ceremony. The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception. There have been 611 films nominated for Best Picture and 97 winners. History Category name changes At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony held in 1929 (for films made in 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coriolanus (film)
''Coriolanus'' is a 2011 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Coriolanus.'' It is directed by and stars Ralph Fiennes as the title character and in his directorial debut, with Gerard Butler as Attius Tullius, Tullus Aufidius, Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia, and Brian Cox (actor), Brian Cox as Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (consul 503 BC), Menenius. It places Shakespeare's original text and plot into a contemporary, pseudo-Balkans, Balkan setting (filmed in Serbia and Montenegro), reminiscent of the Yugoslav Wars. Plot In an unknown Balkan city-state – "a place that calls itself Rome" – riots are in progress after stores of grain are withheld from citizens and civil liberties are reduced due to a war between Rome and neighbouring Volsci. The rioters are particularly angry at Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Caius Martius, a brilliant Roman general whom they blame for the city's problems. During a march, the rioters encounter Martius, who is openly contemptuous and does not h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
