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San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF) is an American film festival held in San Luis Obispo, California. It is a six-day annual event, showcasing contemporary and classic film screenings at the historic Fremont Theater, the Palm Theatre, and other venues in Atascadero, Paso Robles, and the neighboring seaside towns of Avila Beach and Pismo Beach. The current festival includes three competitions, the George Sidney Independent Film Competition, the Central Coast Filmmakers Showcase, and the Young Filmmakers of Tomorrow Competition. The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival was founded by Mary A. Harris, a local attorney who was inspired to bring a film festival to San Luis Obispo after attending festivals in Telluride and Los Angeles. The inaugural Festival was launched in 1993 with the support of a special grant from the City of San Luis Obispo, along with the key involvement of Jim Dee and the Palm Theatre. The Festival began with a focus on classic an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
San Luis Obispo, California
; ; ; Chumashan languages, Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area in the north and Greater Los Angeles in the south. The population was 47,063 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. San Luis Obispo was founded by the Spanish in 1772, when Junípero Serra, Saint Junípero Serra established Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. The town grew steadily through the Mexican period before a rapid expansion of San Luis Obispo following the American Conquest of California. San Luis Obispo is a popular tourist destination, known for its historic architecture, California wine, vineyards, and hospitality, as well as for being home to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. History The earliest human inhabitants of the local area were the Chumash people. One of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women-in-prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films '' Coffy'' (1973) and '' Foxy Brown'' (1974); her other major films during this period included '' The Big Doll House'' (1971), '' Women in Cages'' (1971), '' The Big Bird Cage'' (1972), '' Black Mama White Mama'' (1973), '' Scream Blacula Scream'' (1973), '' The Arena'' (1974), '' Sheba, Baby'' (1975), '' Bucktown'' (1975) and '' Friday Foster'' (1975). She portrayed the title character in Quentin Tarantino's crime film '' Jackie Brown'' (1997), ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Tony Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 readers' poll by ''Empire'', he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi, where he began acting in school plays. He studied theater arts in Los Angeles and appeared in stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's television series '' The Electric Company.'' Freeman then appeared in the Shakespearean plays '' Coriolanus'' and ''Julius Caesar'', the former of which earned him an Obie Award. In 1978, he was nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James Cromwell
James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American actor. Known for his extensive work as a character actor, he has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for '' Babe'' (1995). Other notable roles include in '' Star Trek: First Contact'' (1996), '' L.A. Confidential'' (1997), '' Deep Impact'' (1998), '' The Green Mile'' (1999), ''Space Cowboys'' (2000), '' The Longest Yard'' (2005) '' The Queen'' (2006), '' W.'' (2008), '' Secretariat'' (2010), '' The Artist'' (2011), '' Still Mine'' (2012), '' The Promise'' (2016), ''Marshall'' (2017), '' Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'' (2018), and ''Emperor'' (2020)."Canadian Screen Awards raises the star wattage" . '' |
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison (July 21, 1926 – January 20, 2024) was a Canadian filmmaker. He was known for directing films which addressed topical Social issue, social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences. Among numerous other accolades, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades, for ''In the Heat of the Night (film), In the Heat of the Night'' (1967), ''Fiddler on the Roof (film), Fiddler on the Roof'' (1971), and ''Moonstruck'' (1987). He was nominated for an additional four Oscars, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, and won a BAFTA Award. He received the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 71st Academy Awards, 1999. Born and raised in Toronto, Jewison began his career at CBC Television in the 1950s, moving to the United States later in the decade to work at NBC. He made his feature film de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, both for acting and screenwriting, and a two-time Golden Globe Award winner for his acting. He was a member of the Fonda acting family, as the son of actor Henry Fonda, the brother of actress and activist Jane Fonda, and the father of actress Bridget Fonda. Fonda began his career on stage, winning a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Theatre World Award for his performance in the play '' Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole''. He became a prominent figure in the counterculture of the 1960s, starring in and co-writing the film '' Easy Rider'' (1969), which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He then made his directorial debut with the Revisionist Western film '' The Hired Hand'' (1971), in which he also starred. During the following decade, he established himself as an action star, appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor. He first became known for portraying Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's ''if....'' (1968), a role he later reprised in ''O Lucky Man!'' (1973) and ''Britannia Hospital'' (1982). His performance in ''if....'' prompted Stanley Kubrick to cast him as Alex (A Clockwork Orange), Alex in ''A Clockwork Orange (film), A Clockwork Orange'' (1971), the role for which McDowell became best known. McDowell's other notable film credits include ''The Raging Moon'' (1971), ''Voyage of the Damned'' (1976), ''Time After Time (1979 film), Time After Time'' (1979), ''Caligula (film), Caligula'' (1979), ''Cat People (1982 film), Cat People'' (1982), ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''The Caller (1987 film), The Caller'' (1987), ''Star Trek Generations'' (1994), ''Tank Girl (film), Tank Girl'' (1995), ''Mr. Magoo (film), Mr. Magoo'' (1997), ''I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003 film), I'll Sleep When I'm Dead'' (2003), ''The Company (fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor, filmmaker and musician. In a career spanning seven decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for six Emmy Awards. Arkin performed in the sketch comedy group The Second City before acting on the Broadway stage, starring as David Kolowitz in the Joseph Stein play '' Enter Laughing'' in 1963, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He returned to Broadway acting in the comedic play '' Luv'' (1964), and directed Neil Simon's '' The Sunshine Boys'' (1971), for which he received a Tony Award nomination. Arkin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a foul-mouthed grandfather in ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (2006). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in '' The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming'' (1966), ''The Heart is a Lonely Hunter'' (1968), and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Greg Kinnear
Gregory Buck Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an American actor and former talk show host. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in '' As Good as It Gets'' (1997). Kinnear has appeared in many popular films, including '' Sabrina'' (1995), '' You've Got Mail'' (1998), '' Nurse Betty'' (2000), '' Someone like You'' (2001), '' We Were Soldiers'', '' Auto Focus'' (both 2002), '' Stuck on You'' (2003), ''Robots'' (2005), ''Little Miss Sunshine,'' '' Invincible'' (both 2006), ''Green Zone'', '' The Last Song'' (both 2010), '' Heaven Is for Real'' (2014), and '' Misbehaviour'' (2020). His television roles include ''Friends'', ''Talk Soup'', '' Modern Family'', '' House of Cards'', '' Rake'', and the miniseries '' The Stand'' (2020). Kinnear portrayed John F. Kennedy in '' The Kennedys'' (2011), and Joe Biden in ''Confirmation'' (2016). Early life Kinnear was born on June 17, 1963, in Logansport, Indiana, to Suzanne (''née'' Buck), a homemaker, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Richard Taylor (filmmaker)
Sir Richard Leslie Taylor (born 8 February 1965) is the founder, creative director and head of New Zealand film Theatrical property, prop and special effects company Wētā Workshop. Early life Taylor was born in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, Cheadle, Cheshire, England, on 8 February 1965, and emigrated as a child to New Zealand, where his family lived at Te Hihi, and later the Auckland suburb of Patumahoe. He was naturalised as a New Zealand citizen in 1974. Taylor studied at Wesley College, Paerata, and then became a graduate of the former Wellington Polytechnic. Career Peter Jackson, Taylor and his company created all of the Theatrical property, props, costumes, prosthetics, miniatures and weaponry for Jackson's epic The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy. For his work on the three films, he shared in winning four Academy Awards. This included two for ''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' in Academy Award for Best Makeup an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Hawkes (actor)
John Hawkes is an American actor. He is the recipient of two Independent Spirit Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award. Hawkes is known for his roles in the films ''Winter's Bone'' (2010) and ''The Sessions (2012 film), The Sessions'' (2012), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, respectively. Some of his other film credits include ''From Dusk till Dawn'' (1996), ''The Perfect Storm (film), The Perfect Storm'' (2000), ''Me and You and Everyone We Know'' (2005), ''American Gangster (film), American Gangster'' (2007), ''Martha Marcy May Marlene'' (2011), ''Lincoln (film), Lincoln'' (2012) and ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' (2017). He has also appeared in many television series, notably ''Deadwood (TV series), Deadwood'' (2004–2006) and ''Eastbound & Down'' (2009–2013), as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor. He is known for his Leading actor, leading man roles in film and television. In a career spanning over seven decades, he has received List of awards and nominations received by Jeff Bridges, various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe, in addition to nominations for three BAFTA Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2019, he was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award. Born into a prominent acting family, Bridges appeared on the television series ''Sea Hunt'' (1958–1960) alongside his father, Lloyd Bridges, Lloyd, and brother, Beau Bridges, Beau. He made his feature film debut in the drama ''Halls of Anger'' (1970), and starred in ''The Last Picture Show'' (1971), which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. As a leading man, he starred in the adventure film ''King Kong (1976 film), King Kong'' (1976); science fiction film ''Tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
