Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Hoffman has received numerous honors including the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1997, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human".
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is a 1996 romantic crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. It is a modernized adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the title roles of two teenagers who fall in love, despite their being members of feuding families. Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino and Diane Venora also star in supporting roles. It is the third major film version of the play, following a 1936 film and a 1968 film.
Anjelica Huston is an American actress, author, director, producer and former fashion model. She is the daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. After reluctantly making her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the 1970s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early 1980s, and, subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance in Prizzi's Honor (1985), also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress, joining both John and Walter Huston in this recognition.
Thomas Lee Holland is an American screenwriter, actor, and director best known for his work in the horror film genre, penning the 1983 sequel to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, directing and co-writing the first entry in the long-running Child's Play franchise, and writing and directing the cult vampire film Fright Night. He also directed the Stephen King adaptations The Langoliers and Thinner. He is a two-time Saturn Award recipient. Holland made the jump into children’s literature in 2018 when he co-wrote How to Scare a Monster with fellow writer Dustin Warburton. He can easily be confused with actor Tom Holland of the same name.
Richard Dale Jenkins is an American actor and comedian. He began his career in theater at the Trinity Repertory Company and made his film debut in 1974. He has worked steadily in film and television since the 1980s, mostly in supporting roles. His first major role did not come until the early 2000s, when he played deceased patriarch Nathaniel Fisher on the HBO funeral drama series Six Feet Under (2001–2005). He is also known for his roles in the films Burn After Reading (2008), Step Brothers (2008), Let Me In (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), The Cabin in the Woods (2012), The Shape of Water (2017), The Last Shift (2020), and The Humans (2021).
The Evening Standard British Film Awards were established in 1973 by London's Evening Standard newspaper. The Standard Awards is the only ceremony "dedicated to British and Irish talent," judged by a panel of "top UK critics." Each ceremony honours films from the previous year.
Brent Carver was a Canadian actor who was best known for his performances on Broadway in Parade as Leo Frank and Kiss of the Spider Woman as Molina, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1993.
Lenny Von Dohlen Jr. was an American television, film, and stage actor. With a 40-year career that primarily featured work in independent films and guest appearances on numerous prominent series, he was probably best known for his performance as architect Miles Harding in the film Electric Dreams (1984), the title role as a steelworker's son opposite Karl Malden in Billy Galvin (1986), and as the orchid-loving agoraphobe Harold Smith in the television series Twin Peaks and its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
John Leslie Nuzzo was an American pornographic film actor-director-producer. Usually credited under the name John Leslie, he also worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including John Leslie Dupre, Frederick Watson, and Lenny Lovely.
Richard Pacheco is an American former pornographic film and video actor, writer and director who retired from the X-rated business in the mid-1980s.
Talk Dirty to Me Part III is a 1984 pornographic film and a spoof on the mainstream film Splash and is the second sequel to the original 1980 film Talk Dirty to Me. John Leslie had the lead role, playing "Jack", a character he had played in the first two installments of the Talk Dirty to Me series. Other cast members include Amber Lynn, Peter North, Jamie Gillis and Ginger Lynn. It won Best Film at the 1985 AVN Awards.
The 5th Golden Satellite Awards, given by the International Press Academy, were awarded on January 14, 2001.
Anthony Spinelli was an American one-time mainstream actor and producer, who later became a pornographic film director.
Peter Chelsom is a British film director, writer, and actor. He has directed such films as Hector and the Search for Happiness, Serendipity, and Shall We Dance? Peter Chelsom is a member of the British Academy, the American Academy, The Directors Guild of America, and The Writers Guild of America.
Meredith Alfred Lytton, known professionally as Richard John Taylor, is a British filmmaker, author and restaurateur.
Reel People is a 1984 pornographic film directed by Anthony Spinelli. It was a seminal film as it was the first major movie to feature sex between professional pornographic performers and amateurs, ushering in "Pro-Am Porn", which became a porn genre. It is also a precursor of the reality porn genre. It was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2008.
The 11th AVN Awards ceremony, organized by Adult Video News (AVN), honored pornographic films released in 1993 and took place on January 8, 1994, at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada beginning at 7:45 p.m. PST / 10:45 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in 78 categories. The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller. Actor Randy West hosted the show for the third time; his co-hosts were actresses Summer Knight and Janine Lindemulder.
Talk Dirty to Me is a series of fifteen pornographic movies running from 1980 until 2003. Anthony Spinelli wrote and the directed the first film. John Leslie starred as "Jack" in the first five films, after which any reference to the original films ends and Leslie's character disappears. Talk Dirty to Me Part III is notable for featuring Traci Lords in one of her earliest roles. The original movie also generated a spin-off called Nothing to Hide (1981), starring John Leslie and Richard Pacheco, who reprise their respective roles, "Jack" and "Lenny". Nothing to Hide was followed by two sequels, Justine (1993) and Nothing to Hide 3 (1999).
Nothing to Hide is a 1981 American pornographic film starring John Leslie and Richard Pacheco. The film was directed by Anthony Spinelli and is a spin-off of Spinelli's Talk Dirty to Me. Nothing to Hide was followed by two sequels Justine (1993) and Nothing to Hide 3 (1999).
