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Francesco Rosi
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Francesco Rosi (15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages. While the topics for his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature, he continued to direct until 1997, his last film being the Primo Levi book adaptation The Truce.
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Vidadi Hasanov
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Vidadi Ismayil oglu Hasanov (born July 16, 1958 , Kirovabad) is an Azerbaijani actor and screenwriter who has worked extensively both in theater and film productions in his country.
Vidadi Hasanov was born on July 16, 1958 in Ganja. After completing his military service in 1979, he began working at the Ganja State Drama Theater named after Jafar Jabbarli. In 1980, he entered the Azerbaijan State Institute of Culture and Arts, majoring in drama and film actor. He participated as an actor in the Institute's Educational Theater.
Hasanov began his career as a teacher at the same university in 1986.
He received an international certificate after completing a scriptwriting course in Tbilisi in 2009 and Moscow in 2010 under the auspices of the European Cinematographers Association.
Hasanov is the artistic director of "M. Teatr Production", in 2016.
On July 31, 2019, he was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of Azerbaijan for his services to the development of Azerbaijani cinema.
On May 7, 2021 and May 10, 2022 he was awarded the Presidential Award. On May 6, 2023, he was awarded a personal recognition from the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for his services to the development of Azerbaijani culture.
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Liz Lytle
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After graduating from the Northwestern University Film Program, Liz landed her first job working on one of the most well known fitness programs in history - P90X. For the following decade she used her skills as the lead editor on the majority of Beachbody’s catalogue - as well as projects with other companies - working with Billy Blanks, Jane Fonda, Bob Harper, among many others! Soon after, she began helping develop the programs themselves, directing content, and producing for herself and many other clients in the live fitness world. She’s been in front of camera, directed, produced and edited thousands of videos over the years. Now she brings her skills of fast-paced promo and music edits to product consulting, pitches, fitness, social media and any live-shot content. Her specialities include bringing out on-camera talent’s natural sparkle and allowing for life to happen in live videos - using her “editor brain” in the moment to be sure it will work in the edit bay! Hobbies include snowboarding, yoga, and interior design.
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Vladimir Kristovskiy
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Vladimir Evgenyevich Kristovskiy is a Russian musician, actor, vocalist and leader of the "Uma2rmaN" band. The younger brother of Sergei Kristovskiy. In 1998, he assembled the punk rock band "View from Above", recorded several songs with the musicians and sent the cassette to record companies, but they invariably refused. Then there was another cassette with three records. With her, the group became the winner of the competition of the newspaper "Live Sound". Then the group broke up. In 2003, together with his brother Sergei, he created the "Uma2rmaN" group. He acted in several films. Columnist for the Infomania program on STS.
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Nadine Tahseeine Bek
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A Syrian actress who studied French literature at the University of Damascus. She is the daughter of Hossam Tahseen Baik and the sister of Rakan Tahseen Baik. Her mother is Romanian. She began acting in the series Levantine Days when she was eleven years old. Among her credits are Soft Thorns, Deer in the Forest of Wolves, and Medium Sugar. Her first directing experience was in 2014 through the short film Roznama, within the framework of her project to support youth cinema. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Almuthanna Days for Arab Short Film Festival in Iraq. She married Syrian violinist Wassim Al Imam.
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Shia LaBeouf
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Shia Saide LaBeouf (born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker. He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which he received Young Artist Award nominations in 2001 and 2002 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003. He made his film debut in The Christmas Path (1998).
In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film Let's Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac (2011), starring American rappers Cage and Kid Cudi.
In 2007, LaBeouf starred in the commercially successful films Disturbia and Surf's Up. The same year he was cast in Michael Bay's science fiction film Transformers as Sam Witwicky, the main protagonist of the series.
Transformers was a box office success and one of the highest-grossing films of 2007. LaBeouf later appeared in its sequels Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), both also box office successes. In 2008, he played Henry "Mutt Williams" Jones III in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
His other credits include the films Holes (2003), Constantine (2005), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Lawless (2012), The Company You Keep (2012), Nymphomaniac (2013), Charlie Countryman (2013), Fury (2014), American Honey (2016), Borg vs McEnroe (2017), Honey Boy (2019), The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), and Pieces of a Woman (2020).
Since 2014, LaBeouf has pursued a variety of public performance art projects with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner.
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Lê Phương
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Lê Phương (born Nguyễn Văn Tiến in Hanoi, 1933 - 14 May 2022) was a Vietnamese writer and screenwriter. He joined the army at the age of 16, and in 1953 participated in route surveying in preparation for the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954). From this experience came his first work, a memoir "Fireproofing" (Thử lửa), which was published in The Cứu Quốc Quân and gained recognition. He became a journalist in 1960 and was often writing about construction workers: "Invincible" (Bất khuất) was his first novel set in a mining area, first published by Labour in 1963. During the 15 years from 1963 to 1978, Lê Phương released approximately seven novels whose specialized subjects vary: from artillery fighters protecting the Hàm Rồng bridge in "Fortress 44" (Pháo đài 44, 1965); geology in "Cô Tan Valley" (Thung lũng Cô Tan, 1973); forestry in "Bach Dan" (Bạch Đàn, 1975) to irrigation in "The Fork of Time" (Ngã ba thời gian, 1978). Lê Phương began working as a screenwriter since 1977. His work in film is not extensive but memorable, the most notable credits including director Long Vân's "Where Love Meets" (Nơi gặp gỡ của tình yêu) and "Saigon Rangers" (Biệt động Sài Gòn, 1982-1986). He also adapted his novel "Invincible" (Bất khuất) for the film "Tornado" (Cơn lốc biển, d. Nguyễn Khắc Lợi). After 1990, Lê Phương transitioned to TV writing and gained recognition for the series "A Tear between Two Centuries" (Giọt nước mắt giữa hai thế kỷ). His wife, screenwriter Trịnh Thanh Nhã, was his cowriter on many of his projects.
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Ryota Bando
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Bando Ryota is a Japanese actor. He is born in New York, USA. He works for Dongyu Club Co., Ltd.
Born in New York, he lived there until he was three years old before moving and growing up in Hokkaido. He attended a school of Steiner education in Hokkaido until he was 18 years old. After starring in a graduation performance, he became an actor by receiving full-scale guidance from a director from Tokyo. In addition, he was also involved in ballroom dancing when he was in high school and has also studied abroad in New Zealand.
After graduating, he wondered if he could work on paintings and photographs as a hobby. So he consulted with Nijiro Murakami, who had the same Steiner education and was recommended to the current office. He was recommended to use his own paintings, photographs, and play in addition to this resume. After sending them an animation video, he was hired.
He made his debut in August of 2018 through the audition for the broadcast of Hana Pilgrimage Special Edition "Doll of Haruko".
He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 122nd Television Drama Academy Awards Winners (Fall 2024) for his role in "Lion no Kakurega".
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Ramakrishna
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Neernalli Ramakrishna, is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Kannada cinema, block buster debut being Babruvahana as lord Krishna alongside the lead double role played by Dr. Rajkumar as Arjuna and Babruvahana, and known for his portrayal of character roles as a lead actor. He was born into the Havyaka Brahmin community in Neernalli, near Sirsi, in the erstwhile North Canara (now Uttara Kannada) region of Karnataka State. In his career spanning over 30 years, he has appeared in over 200 films, mostly Kannada and a handful in Tamil and Telugu cinema; he appeared in a lead role in K. Balachander's Poikkal Kudhirai (1983). A protégé of the renowned filmmaker Puttanna Kanagal, he featured in some of the latter's best works such as Ranganayaki (1981), Maanasa Sarovara and Amrutha Ghalige (1984). Since the 1990s, he has appeared mostly in supporting roles.
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.
Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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