During his nearly 50-year career, English actor David Threlfall has received a single Primetime Emmy nomination for his supporting performance on the 1982 limited series “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.” He appeared in all four parts of this filmed stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1839 book as Smike, a simple young man who the titular hero takes on as a traveling companion. The program was nominated for a total of seven Emmys in 1983 and ultimately won the top prize of Best Limited Series.
Threlfall was 10 weeks away from turning 30 when he picked up his Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor bid. This made him the fourth youngest man to ever contend for the award, and he now ranks 10th on the list almost four decades later. Four of the nine younger actors were added to the group after 2015, and three earned their nominations before turning 18. The one who...
Threlfall was 10 weeks away from turning 30 when he picked up his Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor bid. This made him the fourth youngest man to ever contend for the award, and he now ranks 10th on the list almost four decades later. Four of the nine younger actors were added to the group after 2015, and three earned their nominations before turning 18. The one who...
- 9/9/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
During his nearly 50-year career, English actor David Threlfall has received a single Primetime Emmy nomination for his supporting performance on the 1982 limited series “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.” He appeared in all four parts of this filmed stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1839 book as Smike, a simple young man who the titular hero takes on as a traveling companion. The program was nominated for a total of seven Emmys in 1983 and ultimately won the top prize of Best Limited Series.
Threlfall was 10 weeks away from turning 30 when he picked up his Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor bid. This made him the fourth youngest man to ever contend for the award, and he now ranks 10th on the list almost four decades later. Four of the nine younger actors were added to the group after 2015, and three earned their nominations before turning 18. The one who...
Threlfall was 10 weeks away from turning 30 when he picked up his Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor bid. This made him the fourth youngest man to ever contend for the award, and he now ranks 10th on the list almost four decades later. Four of the nine younger actors were added to the group after 2015, and three earned their nominations before turning 18. The one who...
- 9/9/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Since 1980, Ed Asner has held the record for most Primetime Emmy wins by a male actor, having triumphed three times for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” twice for “Lou Grant,” and once each for “Rich Man, Poor Man” and “Roots.” With 10 additional bids to his name, he also ranks as one of the most-nominated performers in Emmy history, having earned recognition in seven different categories. Throughout the later part of his career, he frequently played roles on Christmas-themed TV programs, including half a dozen appearances as Santa Claus.
Three decades after his “Roots” victory, Asner received a second Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor nomination for “The Christmas Card,” in which he plays the father of a woman who falls in love with a soldier who received the titular card from her while in Afghanistan. At 77, he was the eighth oldest nominee in the category’s history, and now ranks two spots lower.
Three decades after his “Roots” victory, Asner received a second Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor nomination for “The Christmas Card,” in which he plays the father of a woman who falls in love with a soldier who received the titular card from her while in Afghanistan. At 77, he was the eighth oldest nominee in the category’s history, and now ranks two spots lower.
- 9/8/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Since 1980, Ed Asner has held the record for most Primetime Emmy wins by a male actor, having triumphed three times for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” twice for “Lou Grant,” and once each for “Rich Man, Poor Man” and “Roots.” With 10 additional bids to his name, he also ranks as one of the most-nominated performers in Emmy history, having earned recognition in seven different categories. Throughout the later part of his career, he frequently played roles on Christmas-themed TV programs, including half a dozen appearances as Santa Claus.
Three decades after his “Roots” victory, Asner received a second Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor nomination for “The Christmas Card,” in which he plays the father of a woman who falls in love with a soldier who received the titular card from her while in Afghanistan. At 77, he was the eighth oldest nominee in the category’s history, and now ranks two spots lower.
Three decades after his “Roots” victory, Asner received a second Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor nomination for “The Christmas Card,” in which he plays the father of a woman who falls in love with a soldier who received the titular card from her while in Afghanistan. At 77, he was the eighth oldest nominee in the category’s history, and now ranks two spots lower.
- 9/8/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
History was made at the 2004 Emmys when “Angels in America” won all seven major awards for which it was eligible, becoming the first limited series to do so. Included in its haul were two lead acting trophies for Meryl Streep and Al Pacino as well as a pair of supporting ones for Mary-Louise Parker and Jeffrey Wright. Streep already had an Emmy to her name for “Holocaust” (1978) and Parker had previously been nominated for “The West Wing,” but the two men had never been recognized by the TV academy before.
Wright’s main “Angels in America” role was that of a wise and weary nurse named Belize, but he also filled in as mysterious inveigler Mr. Lies and as an angelic council member representing Europa. At 38, he was initially the eighth youngest man to ever bring home the gold in his category and now sits in 10th place.
Since 1964, a...
Wright’s main “Angels in America” role was that of a wise and weary nurse named Belize, but he also filled in as mysterious inveigler Mr. Lies and as an angelic council member representing Europa. At 38, he was initially the eighth youngest man to ever bring home the gold in his category and now sits in 10th place.
Since 1964, a...
- 8/7/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
The Bradford International Film Festival is typically an underground-friendly fest. This year appears to be no exception with two very special experimental film retrospectives, as well as a few modern underground-type flicks.
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Slavomir Rawicz never actually made the epic trek described in his classic book The Long Walk, but Peter Weir's movie version is utterly convincing
My generation growing up during second world war and the early years of the cold war first learnt to hate the Germans and Japanese, then to discover that our believed wartime allies from the Soviet Union were just as bad and the benevolent, paternal Stalin was as monstrous as Hitler.
There was a literature at our disposal during the postwar decade to help us understand that change, significantly Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty- Four, and the symposium The God That Failed written by former communists. To these were added in the mid-1950s an international bestseller, The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz, a Polish army officer captured by Russians in September 1939 when Germany and the Soviet Union carved up his country,...
My generation growing up during second world war and the early years of the cold war first learnt to hate the Germans and Japanese, then to discover that our believed wartime allies from the Soviet Union were just as bad and the benevolent, paternal Stalin was as monstrous as Hitler.
There was a literature at our disposal during the postwar decade to help us understand that change, significantly Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty- Four, and the symposium The God That Failed written by former communists. To these were added in the mid-1950s an international bestseller, The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz, a Polish army officer captured by Russians in September 1939 when Germany and the Soviet Union carved up his country,...
- 12/26/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The zeitgeist is all about joining in – in video games, theatre, TV. But are we losing the ability to sit still?
The great Hollywood film of the summer, Christopher Nolan's Inception, is still an old-fashioned item of narrative art. You, the audience member, sit down in a cinema seat; you watch and listen from beginning to end; you get up and leave. The film doesn't ask you to make choices, push buttons, answer questions, vote or to make a fool of yourself.
Behind Nolan's traditional storyteller's direction of your consciousness for 148 minutes, though, Inception makes more than a nod to the realm of the participatory form that is its great rival, the video game.
The story, about a team of dream designers trying to secretly alter a dreamer's ideas, is a model of video game society. Substitute "video game" for "dream" and the film still makes sense. The dream...
The great Hollywood film of the summer, Christopher Nolan's Inception, is still an old-fashioned item of narrative art. You, the audience member, sit down in a cinema seat; you watch and listen from beginning to end; you get up and leave. The film doesn't ask you to make choices, push buttons, answer questions, vote or to make a fool of yourself.
Behind Nolan's traditional storyteller's direction of your consciousness for 148 minutes, though, Inception makes more than a nod to the realm of the participatory form that is its great rival, the video game.
The story, about a team of dream designers trying to secretly alter a dreamer's ideas, is a model of video game society. Substitute "video game" for "dream" and the film still makes sense. The dream...
- 8/21/2010
- by James Meek
- The Guardian - Film News
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