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Kim Basinger won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for LA Confidential. Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce starred in director Curtis Hanson’s 1997 film which compares favourably with many film noir classics of the 1940s. Based on James Ellroy’s novel, the film is a stylish and violent depiction of Hollywood sleaze and police corruption.		The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) (2004), directed by Walter Salles, is based on the journal of Che Guevara and follows a motorcycle trip which he and a fellow medical student took across Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru in order to do their medical residency at a leper colony.		River Phoenix and Will Wheaton play two of four young boys who search for the body of a missing teenager in the woods near their home town in Oregon in Stand By Me. Rob Reiner directed the film in 1986. Raynold Gideon’s script was based on Stephen King’s short story The Body.
Shrek (2001) is a computer-animated film, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, which relates the adventures of the ugly but lovable ogre Shrek, (whose voice is provided by Mike Myers), and his spirited and very talkative donkey (the voice of Eddie Murphy).		Tim Burton has gained commercial and critical success as the director of such diverse films as Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).		In The City of Lost Children (1995), (La Cité des enfants perdus), directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeune, a scientist who cannot dream kidnaps young children in order to steal their dreams and slow his own aging process.
Australian actress Nicole Kidman has appeared in a broad range of films, from highbrow literary adaptations such as Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) to action films including The Peacemaker (1997) and Batman Forever (1995).		With his trademark rasping filthy laugh, South African comic actor and former boxer Sid James was one of the mainstays of the Carry On series of films, usually cast as a charmingly roguish philanderer.		Though composer Michael Nyman is perhaps best known for his soundtrack to Jane Campion's The Piano (1993), between 1976 and 1991 he composed scores for eleven films by Peter Greenaway, including Drowning by Numbers (1988).
French actress Brigitte Bardot appeared alongside her then husband Roger Vadim in Et Dieu créa la femme (1956); she also sang on the original version of Serge Gainsbourg's notorious 1969 recording 'Je t'aime, moi non plus'.		Australian director Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge (2001) was nominated for Academy Awards in eight categories. The two awards it ultimately received, for set decoration and costume design, were both gained by Catherine Martin, Luhrmann's partner.		Peter Greenaway, the controversial British director responsible for films including The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), is an outspoken opponent of cinema's obsession with narrative, dismissing the first century of cinema as '100 years of illustrated text'.
Italian actress Monica Vitti and director Michelangelo Antonioni worked together on four films: L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), L'Eclisse (1962) and Il Deserto Rosso (1964). Antonioni has now been directing films for more than 60 years.		Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks formed the United Artists corporation in 1919. Releasing films by independent directors, it was intended to help artists escape commercial exploitation by the major studios		Before his first Hollywood role, appearing alongside Mira Sorvino in Antoine Fuqua's The Replacement Killers (1998), Chow Yun Fat had starred in Hong Kong films for more than 20 years, working repeatedly with action director John Woo.
The son of a surgeon, Humphrey Bogart spent years playing gangsters before appearing as detective Sam Spade in John Huston's 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon. The role of Rick in Casablanca soon followed.		Belgian actress Audrey Hepburn played troubled good-time girl Holly Golightly in Blake Edwards's Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). The film was based on a novella by Truman Capote; Henry Mancini composed and performed its memorable soundtrack.		Buster Keaton's deadpan expression was an important factor in his success as a comic actor. This photograph was taken to promote his short silent film The Goat (1921), which he co-wrote, co-directed and starred in.
In her long career, Dame Judi Dench has been cast in a variety of roles; in addition to appearing as M in four James Bond films, she has also played both Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria.		The Swedish actress Greta Garbo, seen here in a poster for Queen Christina (1933), appeared in silent films throughout the 1920s. Her first speaking role in Anna Christie (1930) was promoted with a two-word slogan: 'Garbo talks'.		American actor Jack Nicholson has won three Academy Awards, for As Good As It Gets (1997), Terms of Endearment (1983) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); he has been nominated on a further nine occasions.
The classic musical Singing in the Rain (1952) tells the story of cinema's transition from silent films to 'talkies'. Gene Kelly, the film's choreographer and co-director, plays a silent movie star reminiscing about his career.		French actress Audrey Tautou is best known for her performance in the title role in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (2001); she took on her first English-language part in 2002 when she appeared in Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things.		Italian director Federico Fellini won five Oscars, four for Best Foreign Picture and one for Lifetime Achievement. Much of his work was self-referential; his 8½ (1963) centred on a director unable to complete a film.
The Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodovar won the 'Best Foreign Film' Oscar for All About My Mother (1999), which starred Penelope Cruz. Antonio Banderas appeared in Almodovar's earlier film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990).		Marlon Brando's rebellious image was created by his role in The Wild One (1954), and later confirmed by his refusal of the 'Best Actor' Oscar in 1973 in protest at Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.		Croatian actor Goran Visnjic's first major film role came in Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), set during the Bosnian war; Visnjic has since joined the cast of American television drama ER, playing paediatrician Dr Luka Kovac.
At the age of 25, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed and starred in Citizen Kane, the fictional life story of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane. The film regularly tops the Sight and Sound critics' best film poll.		Crowned Miss World in 1994, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai made her first major film appearance in Iruvar (1997). In 2003, she became the first Indian actress to serve on the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival.		Indian producer Ismail Merchant and American director James Ivory first collaborated on The Householder in 1963; they made nearly forty films together, including successful adaptations of novels by Forster, James and Ishiguro. Merchant died in 2005.
Young English actor Orlando Bloom was still a London drama student when he successfully auditioned for the role of Legolas the elf in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J R R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03).		The Indian actor Sabu was discovered while working as a stable boy for the Maharajah of Mysore, and made his film debut at the age of 13 in Elephant Boy, based on a Kipling short story.		The Swedish director Ingmar Bergman addressed philosophical issues in striking ways in his work. His most celebrated film, The Seventh Seal (1957), famously centres upon a game of chess played between Death and a knight.
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa has influenced Western cinema significantly; his The Seven Samurai (1954) was remade as The Magnificent Seven (1960), while George Lucas acknowledged Star Wars's (1977) debt to Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (1958).		Former James Bond Sean Connery has continued to feature in action films, playing a former convict and Alcatraz escapee in The Rock (1996), and Indiana Jones's father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).		American director Steven Spielberg won a 'Best Director' Oscar for Schindler's List in 1993. The English director Sam Mendes won the same award in 1999 for American Beauty, a film released by Spielberg's DreamWorks company.
The Hong Kong actor, director and stuntman Jackie Chan is one of the few Asian actors to become successful in the West, starring in action films such as Rush Hour (1998) and Shanghai Noon (2000).		The British actor Cary Grant appeared in four of director Alfred Hitchcock's films. In Notorious (1946), he played an American spy who falls in love with Ingrid Bergman's character, the daughter of a Nazi spy.		The giant ape in King Kong (1933) was actually an eighteen-inch model whose apparent movement was generated by combining stop-motion photography with rear projection. Today, such effects are usually created using CGI (Computer Generated Imagery).
A pioneer in early cinematography, Louis Lumière invented the 'cinematographe' in 1894 with his brother Auguste. A portable machine comprising both camera and projector, it was used by the brothers to make short documentary films.		Sir Laurence Olivier is often considered the greatest actor of the twentieth century. His first notable film role was as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1939); he later appeared in four adaptations of plays by Shakespeare.		The Ten Commandments (1956) was American director Cecil B. DeMille's final film, and his second by that title. In the later film, Charlton Heston played Moses, with Yul Brynner as his Egyptian half-brother Rameses II.
The DC comics superheroes Superman and Batman became the subjects of successful film franchises in the 1970s and 1980s; more recently, films featuring Marvel comic heroes, including Spiderman, Blade, and the X-Men, have proved popular.		The Indian actress Devika Rani studied architecture in the 1920s in London, where she met her husband, the director Himansu Rai. The pair made Karma together in 1933, and later founded the Bombay Talkies studio.		The pioneering Soviet director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a political film-maker. The Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin (1925) made innovative use of montage, but the film was frequently banned or suppressed in the West.