Every legend starts with a small act. Will Smith grew to become a legend quickly at a young age. He earned the nickname, Prince because of his quick wits and charm. He is known for his music in a hit duo called Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince. Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince became one of the greatest rap groups of the 90’s. Rap is a style that takes rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted in a musical background. The musical background is also called hip-hop. Rap became popular in the 1980s. 4 Will Smith also became a television superstar on a comedy sitcom called The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Smith wanted to do more acting so he pursued movie roles. After a few movies he starred in, Smith left the duo to go solo and creates albums. …show more content…
1 In 2001, Ali is a movie about the legendary boxer known as Muhammad Ali. This gave Smith a second chance to regain his big screen swagger. Smith has proven himself that he can do dramas for the movie, Ali. This new turn help shows his dedication to acting with his life, training, and disciplining himself and ego. The movie Moore 8 overwhelmed the box office, breaking records on the starting day. The performance was strong enough to earn himself his first Academy Award nomination. 1 Smith was the first hip hop artist was nominated for an Academy Award. Smith did not stay at the Awards due to the lack diversity with all the acting nominees. This will not be the only time that Smith will skip on the ceremony due to sending a message. A few sequels were next with roles for both Men In Black II and Bad Boys II. Neither were a flop nor as impressive as the first at the box office. Staying with the sci-fi action movies, Smith moved to a film called I, Robot in 2004. Isaac Asimov story had Smith play a cop in the future investigation a murder by a robot, then battle a robot insurgency. The movie did well, making more than 144 million dollars domestically.
Rap is a genre in music that consists of rhyming or being poetic over a certain unique beat. The origin of rap is significantly different from any other form of music. The flow, change, subject of the music, and the instrumentals behind the rapping has all changed with time. Most people would underestimate the complexity of the music and the evolution it has undergone. The real roots of rap music began in the late 1980’s with the “Golden Age.” It was innovative and mostly based around the party scene. Gangsta Rap followed the Golden age and was very impactful on the young culture. After the Gangsta Rap era came the time in rap referred to as Crunk Rap which combined the country sound with the party lifestyle. Conscious
Not only is he the most nominated living individual in the history of the Academy Awards (with 49 nominations), but he is also the third most-nominated person in Hollywood History, second only to Metro Goldwyn Mayer (62) Walt Disney (59). In his credentials he holds five Academy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, 22 Grammy Awards, and 4 Golden Globe Awards. Considering that obtaining a single nomination for any of the aforementioned awards is remarkable in itself, this astounding number is truly
Then in 1966, Wayne received the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globe Awards. “The Duke” would go on to make one more appearance at the Golden Globes, as well as he Academy Awards in 1970. In 1970, at the Golden Globes, John Wayne won Best Motion Picture Actor in a drama for the movie True Grit. At the Academy Awards, he won Best Actor, also for True Grits. Then in the 1970’s Wayne managed to win the same award at the People’s Choice Awards for four consecutive years. Through the years of 1975-78, he won the Favorite Motion Picture Actor award. This is a lot of accomplishments for one actor. But Wayne was not just any actor though. When discussing his acting talents once, Wayne stated, “I don’t act, I react.” Years after Wayne’s death, he is still being recognized. He was named number sixteen of the “Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” by Empire Magazine in October of 1997. Wayne also helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, and later became the president. Also, just one month before Wayne died, President Jimmy Carter and Congress a special medal honoring “The Duke.”
According to Wikipedia, Hip-hop music, also called rap music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, breaking/dancing, and graffiti writing. Hip hop is also characterized by these other elements: sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.
Not many people remember Will Rogers, but in the 1930's he was the most well known man in America -- more popular than Shirley Temple. He was a simple cowpoke who entertained people with his rope tricks and sly political observations. He also wrote a widely-read newspaper column and appeared on the raido every week. I supose he is alot like Bill Cosby is today: beloved for his down-to-earth style of humor. But that "aww, shucks" attitude hid a brilliant mind. Furthermore, Will Rogers was more than just a comedian; he was a man of character. Throughout his life, he exhibited the qualities of humility, fairness, generosity, and loyalty witch make him a real American hero.
Matthew McConaughey was a very enthusiastic speaker who showed that he was the right choice when winning this award. He began by thanking his fellow workers who worked hard on the movie and even the other nominees to show respect and not doubt his fellow actors. McConaughey also states his three main points of the speech to show what he would be talking about. His humor made his words flow whenever he started talking about his Father and it caused it to shift into thanking his loved ones in the audience. His stance throughout the speech looked like he was shifting only because he would look around at the audience and create eye contact. McConaughey pointed out the people he was talking about and directly spoke to them the things he wanted to
But he soon became featured cast member, also but over time he became an even bigger part of SNL, a full cast member. Adam Sandler had lots of character on SNL like Cajun Man, Opera Man, Canteen Boy, etc. Adam Sandler was fired from SNL in the year 1995 because the viewer thought he was getting boring.
The other two nominations came from Best Writing, Adapted screenplay, and for Best Achievement In Film editing. The last one was for Best Achievement in Sound Mixing. The American Sniper movie end up winning the oscar for Best Achievement in Sound Editing (trumbo).
As Will got older, he became famous for his trick roping skills. After performing in multiple wild west shows he quit. Then he went to Vaudeville. After that, he went to Broadway(Editors, 2014). Usually his acts included exquisite displays of roping and beautiful riding tricks(Sez, n.d.). Hurtful at first ,his early jokes popped up ,when he couldn't get the rope to spin. As his jokes got better ,people started coming to just hear jokes. Soon after ,friends started encouraging the comedic comments(“Will Rogers Memorial Museum & Birthplace Ranch,” 2005). Will also became known as an actor. His first movie premiered in 1916 with a role in the “Wall Street Girl”. After this ,he also performed on other movie sets. Will Rogers’
Smith has taken everyday occurrences, added humor and a bit of obscenity and crafted them into scripts. Smith has then taken these scripts and directed, and produced full-length films in which he also acted. After the film was fully shot, Smith then edited all of his films (with the exception of “Mallrats”). Because of all of the work that Smith single-handedly put into his independent films that ended up drawing a huge crowd of fans, he can surely be called an auteur.
Known for his comedy, seeing Foxx play such a serious role and do it well surprised critics. That is why polls heavily favored him to win at least one of the two awards.
As one of the most widely acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era, Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a reputation and a standing unique among the filmmakers of his day. He had a brilliant career with relatively few films. An outsider, he worked beyond the confines of Hollywood, which he disliked, maintaining complete control of his projects and making movies according to his own ideas and time constraints. To him, filmmaking was a form of art and unlike Hollywood, not a business.
In 2006, Tatum received the Special Jury Award for the film ‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints’. He is the recipient of Teen Choice Award in 2008 and 2009 for Stop- Loss and Step Up 2: The Streets. In 2010 also he is the recipient of Teen Choice Award for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2012, he won the Teen Choice Award for 21 Jump Street. He is the recipient of MTV Movie Awards as the Best Comedic Performance for 22 Jump Street in 2015. In 2016, he won the People’s Choice Award.
Clint Eastwood is a star whether he is directing a movie or playing in the movie. Clint Eastwood started out as an actor before becoming a director too. He has multiple movies that are famous worldwide. The many awards he has received are examples of his amazing work. Clint Eastwood starred in movies, as well as directing them, and won a lot of awards for this.
Eminem has been nominated for 43 Grammy Awards, 15 of which he took home. One of these was for “Best Solo Rap Performance” in 2001 thanks to “The Real Slim Shady.” Its album, The Marshall Mathers LP, also claimed “Best Rap Album” and was nominated for “Album of the Year” in the same ceremony. The track’s video was also nominated in six categories at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, claiming “Video of the Year” and “Best Male Video.”