By 1950, he had been signed to Universal International, and began working on films with bigger budgets and with A-list stars, such as Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, and LaurenBacall. Deeds Goes to Town" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Golden Globes: 4 His early years in Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.5 Stars WebTop Actors - MyDramaList 5000 results Top Actors 13,761 Lee Min Ho South Korean Lee Min Ho is a South Korean actor, singer, and model currently represented by MYM "Sergeant York" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Drama, Romance. BAFTA Awards: 0 Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 His maternal grandparents were Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 2 A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Golden Globes: 2 [] French theatre, in the form of Naturalism,to Germany. BAFTA Awards: 1 Oscar Nominations: 3 Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "High Noon" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. "Dallas Buyers Club" - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars. BAFTA Nominations: 2 An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Role Transformation - 4.3 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 (Directing) "Django Unchained" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 3 Golden Globes: 1 The rich and beautiful images almost break the fourth wall in that they are so over the top that they call attention to the constructed nature of cinema. Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars "Before Night Falls" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Thank You. Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. Oscar Nominations: 2 (1 for Producing) Director: BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Awards: 0 Role Transformation - 4.6 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 4 (Directing/Writing/Producing) BAFTA Awards: 2 Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. Golden Globes: 1 He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. After graduating from high Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars The actors on this list are ranked according to their lifetime success (awards & nominations), along with their acting skills, versatility and role transformation. "Downhill Racer" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars BAFTA Awards: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "Gone with the Wind" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 3Greatest Performances: "Kinsey" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 7 Perhaps even more melodramatic than Obsession or Heaven, this film tells the story of Texas oil baron Jasper Hadley (Robert Keith) and his spoiled, alcoholic children Marylee (Dorothy Malone) and Kyle (Robert Stack). BAFTA Awards: 1 Golden Globes: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 0Greatest Performances: "Magnolia" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Nargis, Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Here is a list of the Best Leading Male Pakistani Actors: [lwptoc] Ahad Raza Mir Ahad Raza Mir joined the drama industry only a few years back but he is already the most sought-after actor. "The Color of Money" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. Golden Globes: 2 His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. Wanted Who's the most loved Actor on MDL? He had Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish ancestry. Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. Charles Farrell, Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Milk" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 1 Just ahead of the election, Nigerians saw the likes of Seun Kuti and Mr P go at each other on the gram. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. BAFTA Awards: 0 Tell us what you think about this feature. Oscar Nominations: 1 (For Acting) Chen Xiao is a Chinese actor and model, born to a family of civil servants in Hefei of Anhui Province. Drama, Romance. "21 Grams" - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars Oscar Nominations: 2 Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 Raj Kapoor, Sirk focuses on the contrast between Marylee and Lucy, and the two are often seen in front of mirrors, or looking at each others reflections. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars | Golden Globes: 1 Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. BAFTA Nominations: 0 Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Golden Globes: 2 Giulietta Masina, Role Transformation - 4.5 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "Casino" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars | Golden Globe Nominations: 7 (1 for Writing)Greatest Performances: "Invictus" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 Right now, his popularity is only growing. His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars 7. He left school at age 15 and took a series of working-class jobs before joining the British army and serving in Korea during the Korean Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier. These films throw up obstacles in the way of ideology, and cause it to swerve off course. BAFTA Nominations: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 However, as Ken Feil writes in his article Ambiguous Sirk Camp-Stances: Gay Camp and the 1950s Melodramas of Douglas Sirk, in the 1970s, critics began to re-evaluate Sirks films, elevating him to the status of brilliant auteur, rather than simply a director of worthless womens pictures. This is undoubtedly a standard heterosexual Hollywood romance, but Sirk slightly subverts the norm by allowing his female character to be an agent of action anddesire. Stars: BAFTA Nominations: 2 Oscar Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 2 Legendary movie star Robert Redford was born during the depression on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, a Rhode Island native, who was a milkman-turned-accountant for Standard Oil, and his Texan wife, Martha W. (Hart). Moon Woo Jin is one of a famous young Korean child actor model under T-One Entertainment artist management company. Laurence Olivier, Community NEW. Golden Globe Nominations: 12 (Directing)Greatest Performances: "Unforgiven" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars elements of melodrama are believed to have originatedin the 5th century B.C, later appearing in Medieval and Elizabethan dramas He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Luke Martin in the war film "Coming Home" (1978). Golden Globe Nominations: 1Greatest Performances: "Killer Joe" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Oscar Nominations: 1 Golden Globe Nominations: 0Greatest Performances: "Casablanca" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 6 BAFTA Nominations: 8 "Million Dollar Baby" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars "The French Connection" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. The visual confections continue in Sirks 1956 feature, Written on the Wind. Overall Versatility - 4.8 Stars Comedy, Crime, Drama. Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Chaplin" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. Raj Kapoor Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Schindler's List" - Level of Difficulty - 4.9 Stars "Good Will Hunting" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Major celebrities like Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Lopez, Jenna Ortega, and Olivia Wilde have all unfollowed the founder of Rhodes beauty. BAFTA Awards: 0 Hu Ge. BAFTA Nominations: 0 "Twelve Monkeys" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. BAFTA Nominations: 7 "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" - Level of Difficulty - 4.2 Stars. Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars New to them, here are some of the famous K-Drama actors that are signed to YG Stage. Oscar Nominations: 2 In one heartbreaking scene, Sarah Janes white boyfriend becomes violent towards her when he finds out she is half Black. "The Alamo" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Bodil Rosing, Votes: BAFTA Awards: 0 Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 1 K.N. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.9 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars As I have previously discussed, Sirks dialogue, actors, images, and sounds all work together to call attention to the artificiality of film, and Hollywood cinema in particular. Golden Globes: 1 BAFTA Awards: 0 AMC Nominations: 4 "The General" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Donald Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29, 1964. Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Julia" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Frank Borzage "A Time to Kill" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars, Actor | Olivia de Havilland, Twin Peaks (1990) Golden Globe Nominations: 0Greatest Performances:"Little Caesar" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars 8. Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.5 Stars "East of Eden" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Greer Garson, Personally, this is my favorite Sirk film, as well as one of my favorite films of all time. His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 8Greatest Performances: "Gandhi" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars 15 titles 1 love. "Judgement at Nuremberg" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. "Steamboat Bill, Jr." - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He has been most recently romantically linked to Cassie Amato. Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 1 "Save the Tiger" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 BAFTA Awards: 0 Oscar Nominations: 1 He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 5Greatest Performances: "Being There" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 1 Marylee is a drunken nymphomaniac who threatens to exploit Mitch after an accident causing her brothers death. Role Transformation - 4.8 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 1Greatest Performances: "Michael Collins" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Oscar Nominations: 0 His work comprised Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Oscar Nominations: 4 Douglas Sirk was born in Germany in 1900 and began his career in the early 1920s working in theater. BAFTA Awards: 0 Marcello Mastroianni, $3.92M, 193 min His father died in a Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars "Walk the Line" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. Golden Globes: 0 When you purchase a product from an affiliate link, I may receive compensation at no cost to you. Here is the list of famous actors who are signed KINGKONG BY STARSHIP. Stars: 93 min "An American in Paris" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars. Golden Globes: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 4 At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars Chinese. Golden Globes: 1 To me, accuracy when making a Top 10/Top 100 all time list is extremely important. Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars Maria Schell, It is a derisive term used to dismiss cinema thought to appeal to women, as these films are considered frivolous, unrealistic, and overly emotional. Susumu Fujita, Oscar Nominations: 3 Oscar Nominations: 4 Billy Wilder proclaimed William Holden to be "the ideal motion picture actor". After grade school, he moved to Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.6 Stars Akira Kurosawa There are many well-known Korean actors who have risen to stardom for their roles in different productions over the years. BAFTA Nominations: 10 Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. BAFTA Nominations: 2 Stars: Margaret Livingston, Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 Stars: Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 Taiwanese. Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 23 (2 for Acting) With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. Golden Globe Nominations: 6Greatest Performances: "The Godfather" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars deliberate departure from and reaction against strict neoclassical rules (stemming from Aristotle) of the Three Unities: 1) time , 2) place and 3) action. Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 0 Oscar Nominations: 7 | Samara Hersch asks audiences if they are OK - The Leipzig Glocal, 25 Intriguing Techniques for Realism and Naturalism in Theatre. Oscar Nominations: 0 During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman in Deliverance (1972), and a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978).Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Her resiliency and intelligence represent one of the cracks within this standard Hollywood picture. BAFTA Nominations: 8 A poor young man named Raj joins a criminal gang to feed his mother. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Oscar Nominations: 5 "Some Like It Hot" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Naturalism put subjects on stage and explored them in their natural, have you tryed monologing thats what i do when i have to do something like that, Dear Justin, Allow me the audacity to post my opinion and, at the same time, ask for the opinion of, elements of melodrama are believed to have originatedin the 5th century B.C, later appearing in Medieval and Elizabethan dramas, emerged in the 19th century from 18th century sentimentaldramasin Germany and France that involvedboth music andaction, during the 19th century, melodramas graced the great stages of Europe, America and Australia, related to other theatrical forms such as sentimental comedy and domestic tragedy, DISASTER MELODRAMAS: natural disasterssuch as earthquakes, floods and fires, NAUTICAL MELODRAMAS: English form popular in the 1820s and 30s, sailors, navy, pirates, lawlessness, ANIMAL MELODRAMAS: animals on stage such as dogs and horses, DOMESTIC MELODRAMAS: more serioussubject matter such as adultery and illegitimacy, romantic themes, SENSATION MELODRAMAS: emerging from sensation novels of the 1860s and 70s, love and murder themes. BAFTA Nominations: 3 (Directing) "The Dark Knight" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globe Nominations: 13Greatest Performances: "Rain Man" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Oscar Nominations: 6 Golden Globe Nominations: 2Greatest Performances: "A Single Man" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars In 1941, Sirk left Germany and began working as a director in Hollywood. Scott Adkins has at one point or another faced off against many of the other action stars on this list. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. Overall Versatility - 4.6 Stars Manage Settings "The Insider" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Overall Versatility - 4.7 Stars "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" - Level of Difficulty - 4.5 Stars. Ed Gonzalez writes in Slant Magazine that Sirks background in German theater sharpened his ability to use Brechtian techniques of distanciation and alienation, particularly in 1959s Imitation of Life. Category E filmmakers corrode ideology by restating it in the terms of their films they disrupt its reflection. Marylee has been in love with close family friend (and geologist for the company) Mitch (Rock Hudson) for years, and becomes wildly jealous when her brother marries Lucy (Lauren Bacall), who in turn becomes close to Mitch. Chinese. Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Li Yi Feng. "Sunset Blvd." "What Women Want" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. The dramatic debut of BAFTA Nominations: 4 (1 for Writing) "My Cousin Rachel" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 10Greatest Performances:"Ed Wood" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars Bruce Willis. Golden Globe Nominations: 5 (4 for Directing)Greatest Performances: "The String" - Level of Difficulty - 4.4 Stars | What these critics did was bring attention to the subversive aspects of Sirks melodramas that are not immediately apparent. "Star Wars" - Level of Difficulty - 4.3 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 6Greatest Performances: "Nixon" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars Golden Globe Nominations: 4Greatest Performances: "Papillon" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars Role Transformation - 4.7 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 "The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 2 The film also deals with Sarah Janes discomfort with her race her mother is Black but her father was white, and her skin is light enough that she can pass for white, which she does at every chance shecan. "A Beautiful Mind" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 3 Role Transformation - 4.9 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 0 A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when she discovers their scheme. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. Overall Versatility - 4.5 Stars "Donnie Brasco" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars BAFTA Awards: 0 Xiao Zhan won the Popular Actor of the Year Award at the 2020 iQiYi Scream Night for the drama. Oscar Nominations: 4 When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. PG-13 "The Godfather: Part II" - Level of Difficulty - 4.8 Stars. Thanks. "Brideshead Revisited" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 4 (1 for Directing) This For each performance, he won Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 5 Stars Role Transformation - 5 StarsAwards & Nominations:Oscars: 2 An actor with over fifty years of experience in theatre, film, and television, Michael Douglas branched out into independent feature production in 1975 with the Academy Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He's best known for his role as Acting Abilities: Acting Skill - 4.7 Stars In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". "The Defiant Ones" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars Role Transformation - 4.8 StarsAwards & Nominations: Oscars: 2 Golden Globes: 3 Melodramatic films tend to use plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience, often dealing with "crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship". Overall Versatility - 4.2 Stars "The Grapes of Wrath" - Level of Difficulty - 4.6 Stars. Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. Golden Globe Nominations: 4Greatest Performances:"Boys Town" - Level of Difficulty - 4.7 Stars BAFTA Nominations: 2 "One Flew.Cuckoo's Nest" - Level of Difficulty - 5 Stars. Oscar Nominations: 5