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Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers. It stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, and Arliss Howard.
For the first time in Oscar history, all five Best Director nominees were born outside the United States. [13] Best Actor winner Michael Douglas became the second person to win Oscars for both acting and producing, albeit the first person to win the awards for two separate films and in different years.
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films.. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. ...
In 1986, D'Onofrio took on the role often considered the defining moment in his acting career, as Pvt. Leonard Lawrence, an overweight, clumsy Marine recruit in the movie Full Metal Jacket. On a tip from friend Matthew Modine, D'Onofrio was urged to send audition tapes to director Stanley Kubrick, in England. Four tapes later, D'Onofrio landed ...
Stanley Kubrick (/ ˈ k uː b r ɪ k /; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography ...
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) [1] is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival‘s Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman film Streamers (1983).
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Bride of Frankenstein (The homunculus scene) [5] Cool World; Chopping Mall (laser effects) Demon Wind (hand rotoscoped demonic effects throughout) A Fistful of Dollars (title sequence) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (title sequence) Guardians of the Galaxy (Rocket Raccoon was created by rotoscoping Oreo, a tame raccoon)