Ben Kingsley won Best Actor for Gandhi in what was effectively his first film lead, having spent fifteen years with the Royal Shakespeare Company beforehand.
The subsequent career deliberately avoided repeating it. Sexy Beast gives him Don Logan, a small man of such concentrated aggression that the film cannot contain him, and it earned a nomination in the opposite direction from the first.
Schindler’s List, House of Sand and Fog and Death and the Maiden fill out the serious work, and he has taken a considerable amount of paid genre work alongside it.
He was born Krishna Bhanji and adopted the stage name early, which he has discussed as a practical decision about British casting in the 1960s.
Ben KingsleyTony Stark hunts a terrorist called the Mandarin while battling PTSD from the Avengers, with Christmas as the season-long backdrop. Iron Man 3 is Shane Black's 2013 American superhero film depicting Tony Stark hunting an apparent terrorist called the Mandarin…
Ben KingsleyRichard Attenborough's 1982 Gandhi biopic. Three-hour epic of nonviolent resistance.
Ben KingsleySpielberg's 1993 Holocaust drama. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Fiennes as Goeth.
Amanda RedmanJonathan Glazer's 2000 British crime debut. Ben Kingsley terrifying as Don Logan.
Ben KingsleyThe Boxtrolls is Laika's third feature and a strange, beautiful, sometimes overstuffed adventure that does not get the credit it deserves. Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable co-directed.
Ben KingsleyThe film adapts Roald Dahl's 1961 children's novel about an orphan who escapes his abusive aunts by climbing inside a magically enormous peach and floating across the Atlantic with a crew of human-sized talking insects. The film made approximately twenty-nine…
AwkwafinaTony Leung's career-best Wenwu, Hong Kong-influenced martial arts choreography, the Phase 4 entry that demonstrated the alternative. The 6.5 reflects honest evaluation based on what the available material shows, the broader critical reception, and the documented commercial response.
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