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Alejandro G. Iñárritu

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Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican filmmaker. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition. His projects have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including five Academy Awards,  Special Achievement Awards, Golden Globe Awards,  BAFTA Awards, and  Directors Guild of America Awards. His most notable films include Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo (2022). Amores Perros (2000), and Biutiful (2010) each received nominations for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He earned critical and commercial success for his films 21 Grams(2003) and Babel (2006). For Birdman (2014), he won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. The following year, he was awarded Best Director for The Revenant (2015), making him the third director to win back-to-back after John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Iñárritu was later awarded a Special Achievement Academy Award for his virtual reality installation Carne y Arena (2017). Iñárritu became the first Mexican filmmaker to be nominated as director or producer in the Academy Awards' history and the first to win for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. He was the first Mexican filmmaker to receive the Best Director Award at Cannes, and the first to win a DGA Award for Outstanding Directing. In 2019, Iñárritu became the first Latin American to serve as jury president for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Iñárritu and Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro are known in the film industry as "The Three Amigos." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alejandro González Iñárritu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Miranda Richardson

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Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theatre. She made her film debut as Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger (1985) and went on to earn Academy Award nominations for her roles in Damage (1992) and Tom & Viv (1994). A decorated performer, Richardson has received seven BAFTA Award nominations, winning Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Damage, and has earned seven Golden Globe Award nominations, with wins for Enchanted April (1992) and the television film Fatherland (1994). Her extensive career includes notable television work in series such as Blackadder, The Lost Prince, and Rubicon, as well as a prolific stage career that earned her an Olivier Award nomination for A Lie of the Mind (1987). In 1996, one critic notably hailed her as "the greatest actress of our time in any medium" following her performance in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival.
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Matty Rich

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Born and raised in the Red Hook housing projects in Brooklyn, NY, Matty Rich, became highly regarded as the pioneer of Black Filmmakers. Rich made his way onto the Hollywood scene in the early 90's. He gained major recognition as, 19 year-old acclaimed writer/director/producer with his award winning film, "Straight out of Brooklyn". After winning the Sundance Film Festival Award, Samuel Goldwyn Films distributed the movie. The film would go on to sweep the award season winning the prestigious Independent Spirit Award, the NAACP Image Award, The CEBA Award, The Big Apple Award, The Producer's Guild's "Most Promising Film Producer" award and the Nova Award. The movie, which was made for a mere $77,000, and became a worldwide box office success and a favorite that continues to play on television to this day! Matty then landed a three-picture movie deal with Tri Star studios under the helm of studio chief Mike Medavoy. While at Tri Star, Matty developed the First Black Organize Crime family film "Forty Theives" and "Sunset Park" with stars such as Danny and others. Next, Matty was headed for Disney studios where he was given a three picture deal from studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg. Matty soon directed the summer splash movie, The Inkwell! for Touchstone Pictures. The star studded cast members of the Inkwell included Jada Pinkett-Smith, Larenz Tate, Joe Morton, Morris Chestnut and many other notable names. The Inkwell was made for on a modest $4 million budget and became a summer splash hit in the U.S box office. After The Inkwell's success, Matty developed/produced and directed and developed several television and film projects, "Red Hook" as creator/producer/director of the drama series for Warner Brothers TV/Fox Network, the Tupac Shakur bio picture project for HBO, "Subway Scholar" with Whitney Houston as producer for Showtime Networks. "Tommy Morris vs Ray Mercer" Matty produced, directed the boxing documentary pieces for HBO pay per view, "Free At Last" feature film screenplay for the Weinstein Company and Edmonds Entertainment, "The Kool Moe Dee" Variety Show" for Buena Vista/Disney television. Matty soon headed for Paris, France where he served as Creative Director and Artistic director for the video game, 187 Ride or Die. Matty lead a team of over 100 artists, game designers and programmers. Matty also wrote/directed the 187 Ride or Die 3D animation game cinematics overseeing an animation team in Hong Kong, China. After the release of 187 Ride or Die, Matty formed Matty Rich Games, a Los Angeles based gaming development company that creates games for Apple and Android mobile phones and tablets. Matty hasn't forgotten his filmmaking roots, he is now developing film and television properties that will also feature games under his Matty Rich Games brand. Matty has been a featured speaker in Hollywood's most prominent Video Games conferences; The Ayzenberg A-List Gaming Summit (2011-13).Variety Magazine's 3D Entertainment Summit (2011-2013) Variety Magazine's 3D Gaming Summit (2010-2013). Matty was also the official host for the AT &T gaming & technology exhibition during the 2014 BET Awards Fan Fest weekend in Los Angeles.
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Michael Powell

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Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. They worked together under the name of "The Archers" and produced a series of classic British films, notably The Thief of Bagdad (1940), 49th Parallel (1941), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946, also called Stairway to Heaven), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). His controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom, however, was so vilified that his career was seriously damaged.
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Aditi Rai

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Aditi Rai is an Indian Actress who predominantly works in Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam films. She has acted in notable films like Prince (Kannada), 50 (Tamil) and Annyarkku Praveshanamilla (Malayalam). Aditi is currently studying MBA in a reputed institution. In 2011, Aditi Rai made her acting debut in the Kannada film ‘Prince’ which had Darshan Tugudeep in lead role. Her lead role in ‘Annyarkku Praveshanamilla’ directed by V S Jayakrishnan earned her fame in which she had played the role Anjana, a fashion designer. She also one of the contestants in the big reality show Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 1.
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Trine Dyrholm

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Trine Dyrholm (born April 15, 1972) is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter. Dyrholm received national recognition when she placed third in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix as a 14-year-old singer. Four years later, she again achieved national recognition when she won the Bodil Award for Best Actress in her debut film: the teenage romance Springflod. Dyrholm has won the Bodil Award for Best Actress five times and a Bodil award for Best Supporting Actress twice as well as six Robert Awards in her acting career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Trine Dyrholm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Claudio Arrau

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Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Arrau was born in Chillán, Chile, to Carlos Arrau, an ophthalmologist who died when Claudio was only one year old, and Lucrecia León Bravo de Villalba, a piano teacher. He belonged to an old, prominent family of Southern Chile. His ancestor Lorenzo de Arrau was a Spanish engineer who was sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain. Through his great-grandmother, María del Carmen Daroch del Solar, Arrau was a descendant of the Campbells of Glenorchy, a Scottish noble family. Arrau was raised as a Catholic, but gave it up in his late teens. Arrau was a child prodigy and he could read music before he could read words, but unlike many virtuosos, there had never been a professional musician in his family. His mother was an amateur pianist and introduced him to the instrument. At the age of four, he was reading Beethoven sonatas, and he gave his first concert a year later. When Arrau was six, he auditioned in front of several congressmen and President Pedro Montt, who was so impressed that he began arrangements for Arrau's future education. At eight years old, Arrau was sent on a ten-year-long grant from the Chilean government to study in Germany, travelling with his mother and sister Lucrecia. He was admitted to the Stern Conservatory of Berlin where he eventually became a pupil of Martin Krause, who had studied under Franz Liszt. At the age of eleven, Arrau could play Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, one of the most difficult works for piano, as well as Brahms's Paganini Variations. Arrau's first recordings were made on Aeolian Duo-Art player piano music rolls. Krause died in his fifth year of teaching Arrau, leaving the 15-year-old student devastated by the loss of his mentor; Arrau did not continue formal study after that point. In 1935, Arrau gave a celebrated rendition of the entire keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach over 12 recitals. In 1936, Arrau gave a complete Mozart keyboard works over 5 recitals, and followed with the complete Schubert and Weber cycles. In 1938, for the first time, Arrau gave the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and concertos in Mexico City. Arrau repeated this several times in his lifetime, including in New York and London. He became one of the leading authorities on Beethoven in the 20th century. In 1937, Arrau married mezzo-soprano Ruth Schneider, a German national. They had three children: Carmen (1938–2006), Mario (1940–1988) – who fathered three sons: Shawn (1968), Paycer (1969), and Kip (1970) – and Christopher (1959). In 1941 the Arrau family emigrated from Germany to the United States, eventually settling in Douglaston, Queens, New York, where Arrau spent his remaining years. He became a dual US–Chilean citizen in 1979. On August 17, 1982, the first CD of classical music in history was released by the PolyGram record company; its content consisted of waltzes by Chopin performed by Claudio Arrau. ... Source: Article "Claudio Arrau" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Hugo Acevedo

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Hugo Acevedo is an actor, writer and producer born in Texas and raised in Atlanta. Hugo was born into a Mexican American family and as a child he spoke only Spanish and taught himself to speak English by watching television. He joined the Marines out of school, and after that trained and fought as an amateur MMA fighter. It was during his MMA training that Hugo developed his drive and self discipline, which he found to be an excellent training ground for his true passion. Hugo knew from the moment he stepped into his first acting class that he had found his calling. Telling stories and connecting with others truly lit him up, and allowed him to express himself.
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Han Thit Htoo Aung

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Han Thit Htoo Aung is a Burmese filmmaker who uses humor to reflect on global issues. He began his career as a scriptwriter in 2018 and has since directed several short films. His short film She Isn’t Alone won Best Short Film and Best Title at the Care Myanmar Film Festival in 2020. In 2022, his short film script Mania was selected for the Purin Short Film Camp, supported by Netflix. His first documentary, Journey of a Bird, was selected for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2023 and Taiwan International Documentary FIlm Festival in 2024. His debut feature film project, When The World Is Paused, produced by Pyae Zaw Phyo, was officially selected for the QCinema Project Market 2025 in the Philippines, where it received three awards: the Kingyo Production Award, the CmB Discovery Award, and the Narra Post-Production Award.
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Lenka Krobotová

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Lenka Krobotová se narodila 10. března 1977 v Plzni, do rodiny slavného divadelního režiséra a herce Miroslava Krobota. Zprvu se věnovala lidovému a scénickému tanci, aby se nakonec stejně nechala zlákat prkny, co znamenají svět. První role ztvárnila v divadle Kašpar, kde pouze zaskakovala. Po úspěšném absolvování DAMU se stala členkou Dejvického divadla v Praze, kde několikrát spolupracovala se svým otcem. Od roku 2000 zde ztvárnila spoustu nezapomenutelných rolí, jako byla Grušenka v Bratrech Karamazových, Stella ze hry Tramvaj do stanice Touha nebo Aglája v Idiotovi. Hostovala i v divadle na Vinohradech, Činoherním klubu nebo v divadle ABC. Ve filmu se objevila už v roce 1993, coby členka tanečního souboru Impuls tančila v muzikálu ŠAKALÍ LÉTA Jana Hřebejka. Mihla se v ÚTĚKU DO BUDÍNA, v černé komedii JEDNA RUKA NETLESKÁ nebo v pohádce KRÁLOVNA SE SLONÍMA NOHAMA. První větší roli ji nabídl až režisér Julius Ševčík v česko-finském dramatu RESTART. Hned třikrát si vystřihla roli zdravotní sestřičky, a to v seriálech DOBRÁ ČTVRŤ a HRABĚNKY i ve filmu BRAINSTORM. V originálním snímku Petra Zelenky KARAMAZOVI, inspirovaném jeho divadelní hrou z Dejvického divadla, nesměla chybět. Ztvárnila zde lehkovážnou Grušenku, kterou ztvárňovala již na jevišti. Lenka vytvořila i několik zajímavých rolí v rozhlase, jako byla například Maryša ve stejnojmenné inscenaci. Má dva bratry, kteří mají také sklony k herectví. Nedávno se stala i matkou a svůj stav tehdy komentovala: ,, Ty teploty jsou strašné, přesto se ale snažím léto užít, jak jen to jde. Dítě se má narodit každým dnem. Nevím, jestli to bude kluk nebo holka. A ani to nechci vědět. Cítím se přesto dobře, že když jsem teď v jiném stavu ráda se dojímám.“ Lenka Krobotová dnes patří k nejúspěšnějším hercům svojí generace a jistě se od ní máme ještě na co čekat.
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