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Paul Thomas Anderson
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Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. Often described as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation, he is the recipient of three Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTAs, three Critics Choice Awards, and nominations for a Grammy. He is the only person to have won the Academy Award for Best Director, as well as the Best Director Awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to those accolades, he won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Many of Anderson's films are psychological dramas characterized by depictions of desperate characters and explorations of dysfunctional families, alienation, loneliness, and redemption, alongside a bold visual style that uses constantly moving cameras and long takes. After his directorial debut, Hard Eight (1996), Anderson had critical and commercial success with Boogie Nights (1997), and received further accolades with Magnolia (1999) and Punch-Drunk Love (2002).
There Will Be Blood (2007), Anderson's fifth film, is regarded as one of the greatest films of the 21st century. It was followed by The Master (2012) and Inherent Vice (2014), an adaptation of the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon. Anderson's next three films, Phantom Thread (2017), Licorice Pizza (2021) and One Battle After Another (2025) were all nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, while the last earned him wins for both and Best Adapted Screenplay and became his highest-grossing film.
Anderson is noted for his collaborations with the cinematographer Robert Elswit, the costume designer Mark Bridges, the composers Jon Brion and Jonny Greenwood, and actors including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day-Lewis, John C. Reilly, and Joaquin Phoenix. He has directed music videos for artists including Fiona Apple, Haim, Aimee Mann, Joanna Newsom, Michael Penn, Radiohead, and the Smile. He also directed a 2015 documentary about Greenwood's album Junun, and the short music film Anima (2019) for the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke.
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Kim Gottwald
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Kim Gottwald (born July 25, 2003, in North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German ultramarathon runner and content creator.
He rose to prominence during the 2024 UEFA European Championship, running over 450 km between the host cities of Germany's matches — a project that went viral and was documented on film. In 2025, he founded the Last Soul Ultra, a backyard ultra in the last man standing format with 93 athletes, which was released as a six-part documentary series on YouTube and Joyn.
At the 2025 G1M Ultra in Texas, he shared the win with Kendall Picado Fallas after the race was called at lap 57 due to a severe thunderstorm. His return to the 2026 G1M Ultra, alongside his rappid athletes Aleksander Piotr Lingauer and others, was captured in the documentary *Changes*.
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Anthony Scott
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Anthony Scott has been in the Film Industry for over 30 years. In 1987, stop motion pioneer, Art Clokey, hired him to animate clay characters for the television series The New Adventures of Gumby. Soon thereafter, Anthony began working with director Henry Selick on short stop motion projects for MTV. Several commercial jobs followed, including a Selick-directed Pillsbury Doughboy reboot. When Henry began crewing up for Tim Burton and Disney’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, he asked Anthony to join his animation team.
Since Nightmare, Anthony has animated on several stop motion feature films such as Disney’s James and Giant Peach and Monkeybone for 20th Century Fox. He supervised animation on the Academy Award nominated feature, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride for Warner Bros. in London. He also supervised animation for the Academy Award nominated film, Coraline, for Laika Entertainment and Focus Features. Coraline was Laika’s first feature film and Anthony was a key contributor in setting up and staffing the new studio.
In 2008, Anthony collaborated with Jamie Caliri on the title sequence for Showtime’s United States of Tara, earning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design. He would join Caliri again animating on three spots for Children’s Medical Center, one of which won Best Animated Commercial at the 38th Annual Annie Awards. On the most recent Caliri project, Anthony was Lead Animator for the music video The Rifle’s Spiral.
Several feature film projects followed including Laika’s ParaNorman, Mark Osborne’s The Little Prince, Henry Selick’s Wendell and Wild and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which won several awards including Best Animated Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Additionally, Anthony has spoken and participated in panel discussions at San Diego Comic-Con, CTNX, ANIMA (Argentina), and taught and spoken at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark.
Recent projects include Lead Animator on the short film by PJ Magerko-Liquorice, Brim Broome Boulevard. He was Head of Animation and Associate Producer on Andrew Duplessie’s short horror film, The Littles, which has been acquired for Feature development at Paramount and Walter Hamada’s 18hz.
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Eric Shaw
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Eric Shaw (born June 8, 1973) is an American television writer whose credits include Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants. Originally from Jericho, NY, he attended Jericho High School and graduated from Columbia University. He has been an animation writer since 2003 and has also written Skunk Fu, Krypto the Superdog, Sid the Science Kid, My Friends Tigger & Pooh and many other animated hit shows. He is known for writing on SpongeBob SquarePants seasons five and six. As a staff writer, Shaw had written 10 SpongeBob episodes. In 2007, Shaw served as the President of the International Jury and the Cartoons on the Bay Animation Festival in Salerno, Italy. Shaw was Head Writer on the PBS animated series WordGirl starring Tom Kenny, Maria Bamford, Patton Oswalt, Jeffrey Tambor, and others. Shaw ran the writing on Season 5 (26 episodes), from Soup2Nuts's Watertown, Mass studio. On June 14, 2013, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the 40th Annual Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Warut Chawalitrujiwong
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Prem Warut Chawalitrujiwong is a model, actor. He initially wanted to become a professional golf player and even was a regional gold champion in the "Youth under 18" category at TGA matches. He wanted to follow in Tiger Woods' footsteps but later gave up on his dream. However, he didn't stop playing golf.
He cited Tor Thanapob Leeluttanakajorn as the reason he entered the entertainment industry since he grew up watching Hormones: The Series.
He made his debut in the entertainment industry at the 2017 Pop Da'vance.
He rose to prominence after portraying Team with his first Thai drama Until We Meet Again: The Series.
In November 2022, his contract with Starlatiz Co. Ltd expired and he didn't renew it.
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Felisa Rincón de Gautier
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Felisa Rincón de Gautier, better know as Doña Fela, was the first woman to hold the office of mayor of an important city in the Western Hemisphere. She served as mayor of San Juan for a period of 22 years, from 1946 to 1968. She was a pioneer in the movement for political rights for women, in establishing daycare programs for preschool children, and in establishing the first legal aid and medical assistance centers for indigents. A leader and role model for Hispanics, she also served as Goodwill Ambassador under four North American presidents. She is one of the most prominent Puerto Rican figures in the political history of our capital city.
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Andrée Tainsy
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Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (26 April 1911 – 19 December 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death.
She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium.
Andrée Tainsy attended Brussels' Conservatory, where she trained to become a theater performer in the early 1930s. She moved to Paris and made her debut with the Georges Pitoëff theatrical company in Les Voyageurs Sans Bagage (1937). Her film debut was ready in 1939 however, as World War II started, she fled to South America, where she reconnected with other artists who had also left. Her first experience in front of was in Chile a movie camera and in 1945 her movie career began starring in Jacques Remy's Le Moulin des Andes (Released in Chile as La Fruta Mordida).
Upon her return to France, after the end of the war, she resumed her theatrical activity with Les Amants de Noël and Joyeux Chagrins, both in 1948. Tainsy's career as an actress and comedian went on until the very end of her life. She worked until the day of her death. She appeared in a small role in Arnaud Desplechin's Rois et Reine on 22 December 2004, just three days after she died. Her cinema endeavors comprised works with several directors like Bertrand Tavernier, Woody Allen, Claude Chabrol, François Ozon and Arnaud Desplechin.
On 19 December 2004, after attending a presentation of a play by Pierre Desproges, she suffered a heart attack at her Parisian apartment. She was buried at Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Source: Article "Andrée Tainsy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Jencarlos Canela
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Jencarlos Canela (born April 21, 1988) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Canela starred in the telenovela Más sabe el diablo, and two other telenovelas.
In September 2013, he began a new project called "Scan Me" on his official Vevo account with a series of YouTube videos showing behind the scenes clips as he and his collaborators created his new album.
Canela won Artist of the Year in the 2013 awards show Premios Juventud, and his song "I Love It" won the Song of the Summer award. In the 2014 Lo Nuestro Awards show, Canela's "I Love It" music video was nominated for Video of the Year.
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Nicolette Pearse
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Nicolette Pearse is a Canadian-American actress, photographer, writer, and producer. She is known for her work in feature films such as We Forgot to Break Up, which premiered at BFI Flare 2024, the romantic comedy Maybe It's You, and the Tubi thriller Billion Dollar Bluff; she is also known for recurring roles on Kim's Convenience (Netflix) , Burden of Truth (CW), and the hit web series Mind Fudge (CBC Gem). Nicolette grew up on Vancouver Island in BC, attended Queen's University, and now divides her time between Toronto and LA. She is also known for her skills as a boxer, photographer, and visual artist. She co-wrote and produced the short Pink Light in 2024, and co-wrote and directed the short Old Friends for Toronto's 48 Hour Film Project.
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