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Rodney Rothman
Rodney Rothman is an American filmmaker and author. He is known for his work on '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' (2019) (which served as his feature directorial debut), '' Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping'' (2016), ''22 Jump Street'' (2014), '' Forgetting Sarah Marshall'' (2008), and '' Get Him to the Greek'' (2010), as well as being part of the writing staff of the shows '' Undeclared'' and '' Late Show with David Letterman''. He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. Rothman is the author of the best-selling nonfiction humor book ''Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement''. His writing has also appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' GQ'', ''The New York Times'', '' The New York Times Magazine'', and '' McSweeney's Quarterly''. His piece "My Fake Job" was included in '' The Best American Nonrequired Reading''. His work on ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con is a comic book convention and multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, at the San Diego Convention Center. Founded in 1970, originally showcasing primarily comic books and science fiction/fantasy media, Comic-Con has grown to include a large range of popular culture, pop culture and entertainment elements across virtually all genres. According to ''Forbes'', Comic-Con is the "largest convention of its kind in the world". Since 2010, Comic-Con has filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with over 130,000 attendees. Comic-Con is home to the Eisner Awards, which recognizes creative achievement in American comic books, often referred to as the comic industry's equivalent to the Academy Awards. San Diego Comic Convention, Trade name, doing business as Comic-Con International, is the corporate name of the public-benefit nonprofit corporation behind Comic-Con. The corporation also organizes WonderCon, an annual convention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Awards
The Annie Awards are accolades which the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood, has presented each year since 1972 to recognize excellence in animation shown in American cinema and television. Originally designed to celebrate lifetime or career contributions to animation, the award has been given to individual works since 1992. Membership in ASIFA-Hollywood is divided into three main categories: General Member (for professionals), Patron (for enthusiasts of animation), and Student Member. Members in each category pay a fee to belong to the branch. Selected professional members of the branch are permitted to vote to decide the awards. The 48th and 49th Annie Awards ceremonies were held virtually on April 16, 2021, and March 12, 2022, respectively, due to the then ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. History In 1972, June Foray first conceived the idea of awards for excellence in the field of animation. With the approval of ASIFA-Hollywo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junji Ito
is a Japanese horror manga artist. Some of his most notable works include ''Tomie'', a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness; ''Uzumaki'', a three-volume series about a town cursed by spirals; and ''Gyo'', a two-volume story in which fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria called "the death stench." His other works include ''The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection'', a collection of his many short stories, and ''Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu'', a self-parody about him and his wife living in a house with two cats. Ito's work has developed a substantial cult following, and Ito has been called an iconic horror manga artist. His manga has been adapted to both film and anime television series, including the Tomie (film series), ''Tomie'' film series and both the ''Junji Ito Collection'' and ''Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre'' anime anthology series. Life and career Junji Ito was born on July 31, 1963, in Sakashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Williams
Errick Miron (born Errick Lynne Williams Jr.; May 21, 1977), known professionally as Ricky Williams, is an American former professional football running back who played for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and one season in the Canadian Football League (CFL). After playing baseball and football at Patrick Henry High School, he played college football for the Texas Longhorns, where he was a two-time unanimous All-American and won the 1998 Heisman Trophy. He broke the NCAA Division I-A records for career rushing yards and all-purpose yards during his senior season. He played minor league baseball in the Philadelphia Phillies farm system for four seasons during college. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015. He was selected by the New Orleans Saints fifth overall in the 1999 NFL draft after a blockbuster trade and spent three seasons with the team before he was traded to the Miami Dolphins in 2002. He played for the Dolphins for two sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as ''Wired (magazine), Wired''. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project ''The Mongoliad''. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020. Early life Born on October 31, 1959, in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and scienti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finneas O'Connell
Finneas Baird O'Connell (born July 30, 1997), also known mononymously by his first name (sometimes stylized in all caps), is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, he has written and produced music for various artists, most notably for his younger sister, Billie Eilish, and is credited on all of her projects. For his work with Billie Eilish, he has won 10 Grammy Awards among 21 total nominations, including nominations for the Big Four (Grammy Awards), Big Four categories. He made history as the youngest act to win the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category. He has won Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year twice in a row, Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell ( ; born December 18, 2001) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes (song), Ocean Eyes", written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. In 2017, she released her debut extended play (EP), ''Don't Smile at Me''. Commercially successful, it reached the top 15 of record charts in numerous countries, including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Eilish's debut studio album, ''When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?'' (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and UK Albums Chart and was one of the year's best-selling albums. Its single "Bad Guy (Billie Eilish song), Bad Guy" became the first by an artist born in the 21st century to top the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and be certified Diamond (RIAA certification), Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Curry
Wardell Stephen Curry II ( ; born March 14, 1988) is an American professional basketball player and point guard for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Chef Curry", he is widely regarded as the greatest Jump shot (basketball), shooter of all time and is Three-point revolution#2010s: The Stephen Curry effect, credited with revolutionizing the sport by inspiring teams and players at all levels to utilize the Three-point field goal, three-point shot more prominently.Multiple sources: * * * * He is a four-time List of NBA champions, NBA champion, a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player, NBA Finals MVP, and a two-time NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player, NBA All-Star Game MVP. He is also a two-time List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders, NBA scoring champion, an eleven-time List of NBA All-Stars, NBA All-Star, and an eleven-time All-NBA Team selection (i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM or MGM Studios) is an American Film production, film and television production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was founded on April 17, 1924, and has been owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon since 2022. MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures into one company. It hired a number of well-known actors as contract players—its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"—and soon became Hollywood's most prestigious filmmaking company, producing popular musical films and winning many Academy Awards. MGM also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of ''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Lord And Christopher Miller
Philip Anderson Lord (born July 12, 1975) and Christopher Robert Miller (born September 23, 1975) are an American filmmaking and acting duo. Their films are known for subversion of genre and detailed visual sensation, spanning various styles of live-action and animation. They are the co-creators, co-stars, and co-heads of the adult animated sitcom '' Clone High'' (2002–2003, 2023–2024), and the writers and directors of the animated films '' Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' (2009) and '' The Lego Movie'' (2014), as well as the directors of the live-action comedy film '' 21 Jump Street'' (2012) and its sequel, ''22 Jump Street'' (2014). Lord and Miller are best known for working on the film series for '' Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'', '' The Lego Movie'' and ''Spider-Verse'', which won them the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' (2018) and a nomination for the aforementioned award for producing the sequel, '' Spider-Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ramsey
Peter A. Ramsey (born December 23, 1962) is an American illustrator, storyboard artist, and filmmaker. He is best known for directing DreamWorks Animation's '' Rise of the Guardians'' (2012), becoming the first African American to direct a computer-animated film and the second to direct a major American animated film ( Bruce W. Smith was the first African-American director with Paramount Pictures' '' Bebe's Kids'' 992, and co-directing Sony Pictures Animation's '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' (2018). For ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', he became the first African American to be nominated for and win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Early life Ramsey grew up in the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles, and graduated in 1980 from Palisades High School. He studied painting at University of California, Los Angeles for two years before enrolling in film classes at Los Angeles City College. He was raised Catholic. Career His first job in Hollywood was pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Persichetti
Robert Persichetti Jr. (born September 28, 1970) is an American filmmaker, animator, and storyboard artist. He is best known for co-directing the film '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Career In November 2014, Persichetti was announced to be developing a film based on the Playmobil toys, and in September 2015 plans by French studio Wild Bunch were announced for him to make his feature directorial debut with the film, though this fell apart with them as he was trying to make a pitch to Sony. As the project with Playmobil played out, in December 2015, Persichetti joined the production of '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse''. Kristine Belson, the head of Sony Pictures Animation, reached out to him, and he joined after reading a 40-page script treatment. This served as Persichetti's introduction to Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and at that point Lord had a "loose first act" he was working on, with a full draft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
