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Monster's Ball is a 2001 American romantic drama film directed by Marc Forster, produced by Lee Daniels and written by Milo Addica and Will Rokos, who also appeared in the film. It stars Billy Bob Thornton , Heath Ledger , Halle Berry , and Peter Boyle , with Sean Combs , Mos Def , and Coronji Calhoun in supporting roles.
Monster's Ball: Hank Grotowski Bandits: Terry Lee Collins The Man Who Wasn't There: Ed Crane Camouflage — Writer only (credited as Reginald Perry) 2002 Waking Up in Reno: Lonnie Earl Dodd The Badge: Sheriff Darl Hardwick 2003 Bad Santa: Willie Soke Love Actually: President of the U.S. Intolerable Cruelty: Howard D. Doyle Levity: Manuel Jordan ...
Billy Bob Thornton [2] [3] (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer and songwriter. He received international attention after writing, directing and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Calhoun, who was 31, reportedly died of congestive heart failure The post Coronji Calhoun, actor who played son in ‘Monster’s Ball,’ dies at 31 appeared first on TheGrio.
After starring in the 2001 films A Knight's Tale and Monster's Ball, Ledger was cast as the title character in the 2003 biographical film Ned Kelly for which he received his second AFI and Film Critics Circle award nominations.
Marc Forster (born 30 November 1969) is a German-Swiss filmmaker. He is best known for directing the feature films Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction, Quantum of Solace, World War Z, and Christopher Robin, and has directed numerous television commercials as well.
Posthumously, on 23 February 2008, he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the film's ensemble cast, its director, and its casting director. [ 29 ] In his penultimate film role, Ledger played the Joker in Christopher Nolan 's 2008 film The Dark Knight , which was released nearly six months after his death.
[3] Lee Daniels, who was a producer on the Oscar-winning film Monster's Ball, came on board as a producer. [2] Kevin Bacon, besides starring in the film, was one of the producers as well. [4] For research, Kassell interviewed sex offenders and therapists who worked with them. [4]