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Nashville (film)
''Nashville'' is a 1975 American musical comedy drama film directed and produced by Robert Altman. The film follows various people involved in the country and gospel music industry in Nashville, Tennessee, over the five-day period leading up to a gala concert for a populist outsider running for president on the Replacement Party ticket. ''Nashville'' is often noted for its scope; the film contains 24 main characters, an hour's worth of musical numbers, and multiple storylines. Its large ensemble cast includes David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Timothy Brown, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert DoQui, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield, Henry Gibson, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Harris, David Hayward, Michael Murphy, Allan F. Nicholls, Dave Peel, Cristina Raines, Bert Remsen, Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles, and Keenan Wynn. The screenplay for ''Nashville'' was written by Altman's frequent collaborator Joan Tewkesbury, ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and satire, satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts. Over his career he received several awards including an Academy Honorary Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for seven competitive Academy Awards. Altman was nominated for five Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Awards for Best Director for the war comedy ''M*A*S*H (film), M*A*S*H'' (1970), the musical film ''Nashville (film), Nashville'' (1975), the satire, Hollywood satire ''The Player (1992 film), The Player'' (1992), the dark comedy ''Short Cuts'' (1993), and the murder mystery ''Gosford Park'' (2001). He is also known for directing ''Brewster McCloud'' (1970), ''McCabe & Mrs. Miller'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Murphy (actor)
Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is a multi-award-winning American film, television and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including politicians, executives, administrators, clerics, doctors, law enforcement agents, and lawyers. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director Robert Altman, having appeared in twelve (film, TV series and miniseries) productions directed by Altman in a period spanning from 1963 to 2004, including his leading titular role in the acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning HBO cable miniseries '' Tanner '88''. He had roles in the films '' M*A*S*H'' (1970), '' Brewster McCloud'' (1970), '' McCabe and Mrs. Miller'' (1971), '' What's Up, Doc?'' (1972), '' Phase IV'' (1974), ''Nashville'' (1975), '' The Front'' (1976), '' An Unmarried Woman'' (1978), '' The Class of Miss MacMichael'' (1978), ''Manhattan'' (1979), '' Strange Behavior'' (1981), '' The Year of Living Dangerously'' (1983 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Board Of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organization, non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, Trailer (promotion), trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom. It has a statutory requirement to classify all video works released on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray (including Blu-ray 3D, 3D and Ultra HD Blu-ray, 4K UHD formats), and, to a lesser extent, some video games under the Video Recordings Act 1984. The BBFC was also the designated regulator for the UK age-verification, UK age-verification scheme, which was abandoned before being implemented. History and overview The BBFC was established in 1912 as the British Board of Film Censors, under the aegis of the Incorporated Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the flagship namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global. It is the sixth-oldest film studio in the world, the second-oldest film studio in the United States (behind Universal Pictures), and the sole member of the Major film studio, "Big Five" film studios located within the city limits of Los Angeles. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 24 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 1967, the number of stars was reduced to 22 and their hidden meaning was dropped. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California. The most commercially successful film franchises from Paramount Pictu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Motion Pictures
The American Broadcasting Company has formed a number of production companies since its formation in 1943 and under various parent companies and owners up until the present day under ownership by the Walt Disney Company. ABC Film Syndication, or ABC Films, was ABC's syndication distribution arm from 1953 to 1971 when the FCC passed the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules (best known simply as the ''fin-syn rules''). As a result, ABC Films was sold to 5 of its former executives and changed name to Worldvision Enterprises. ABC's current primary production company is 20th Television. A number of production companies were formed under Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises, Capital Cities/ABC Video Productions (both were reorganized and absorbed into ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group, which changed name to Disney Media Distribution in 2011 and currently Disney Platform Distribution since 2020 upon Capital Cities/ABC's merger with Disney), Ultra Entertainment, the Hemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lohmann
Paul Fritz Lohmann (5 February 1926 – 10 December 1995) was a cinematographer. In 1976, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Special for '' Eleanor and Franklin'', an award he shared with Edward R. Brown. Filmography *'' Coffy'' (1973) *'' California Split'' (1974) *'' Trilogy of Terror'' (1975) *''Nashville'' (1975) *'' Silent Movie'' (1976) *'' High Anxiety'' (1977) *'' Time After Time'' (1979) *'' Mommie Dearest'' (1981) *'' Looker'' (1981) *'' Masada'' (1981) *''Endangered Species'' (1982) *'' The Dollmaker'' (1984) *''Lust in the Dust ''Lust in the Dust'' is a 1985 American Western (genre), Western comedy film directed by Paul Bartel, written by Philip John Taylor, and starring: Tab Hunter, Divine (actor), Divine, Lainie Kazan and Cesar Romero. Plot Dance-hall girl Rosie Ve ...'' (1985) References 1926 births 1995 deaths People from New York City Primetime Emmy Award winners American cinemat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Baskin
Aaron Richard Baskin (born December 1, 1948)''Harlan Daily Enterprise'"Actor's Songs Do Not Please Nashville Set"/ref> is an American film composer and producer, best known as the musical director and producer of the Academy Award winning soundtrack for the Robert Altman film ''Nashville'', and other creative film scores in the 1970s and 1980s. He eventually became a film director, directing music videos for Barbra Streisand, Rod Stewart, Elton John, and many others, as well as feature films. He produced Elton John's concert special, ''Elton John Live at the Greek Theatre'', with Ray Cooper. Collaborating again, he wrote and directed Elton John's music video for Disney's ''The Lion King'', " The Circle of Life". In the mid-1990's, he was a pioneer of streaming video, and co-founded Intertainer, the first broadband video-on-demand program service in the U.S. While chairman of that company, he co-authored key patents and technology fundamental to streaming video that are widely used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hal Phillips
Thomas Hal Phillips (October 11, 1922 – April 3, 2007) was an American novelist, actor and screenwriter. Biography Early life Phillips was born on October 11, 1922, on a farm between Corinth, Mississippi, Corinth and Kossuth, Mississippi, Kossuth in Alcorn County, Mississippi, Alcorn County, northeastern Mississippi. He was one of five sons and a daughter born to William Thomas Phillips, a farmer of English descent, and Ollie Fare Phillips, a schoolteacher with Scottish and Irish ancestry. The family moved in the 1940s to Kossuth so that the children might gain a better education. After schooling in Kossuth, Phillips attended Hinds Community College, Hinds Junior College. Phillips served in the United States Navy in the Mediterranean during World War II, after obtaining a degree in social science from Mississippi State University in 1943. After the war, he used the G.I. Bill to finance a master's degree in writing at the University of Alabama, which resulted in a thesis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keenan Wynn
Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor. His expressive face was his wikt:stock-in-trade, stock-in-trade; though he rarely carried the leading actor, lead role, he had prominent billing in most of his film and television roles. Early life Wynn was born on July 27, 1916, in New York City, the son of vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn and his wife, the former Hilda Keenan. He took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway theatre, Broadway actors to star in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood. His father was Jewish American, Jewish and his mother was of Irish Catholics, Irish Catholic background. Ed Wynn encouraged his son to become an actor, and to join The Lambs, The Lambs Club, which he did in 1937. Career Theatre and radio Wynn began his career as a stage actor. He appeared in several plays on Broadway, including ''Remember the Day'' (1935), ''Black Widow' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Welles
Gwen Welles (born Gwen Goldberg, March 4, 1951 – October 13, 1993) was an American actress. Early years Gwen Welles was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as Gwen Goldberg. She was the daughter of clothing designer Rebecca Welles and Barton Goldberg; her sisters were Elizabeth (Betsy) Goldberg Welles and Lori Yarom. Welles attended Vassar College. When she was 17, she worked as a dress saleswoman. Career Welles's film debut was in ''A Safe Place'' (1971). In the early 1970s, she acted in two films for Roger Vadim during three years that she spent in France. She may be best remembered for her portrayal of untalented singer Sueleen Gay in Robert Altman's 1975 film ''Nashville'', for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, for Best Supporting Actress. Welles also appeared in Altman's '' California Split'' (1974), as well as several films directed by Henry Jaglom, including ''New Year's Day'' (1989) and ''Eating'' (1990). Personal life Welles was an advocate of yoga, usua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career to acting across stage and screen. In a career spanning over fifty years, Tomlin has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, two Tony Awards, and a nomination for an Academy Award. She was also awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2017. Tomlin started her career as a stand-up comedian as well as performing off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was on the variety show ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' from 1969 until 1973. Her signature role, which was written by her then-partner (now wife) Jane Wagner, was in the show '' The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe'', which opened on Broadway in 1985 and earned Tomlin the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
