Ed Harris has been nominated four times and won none, playing men with visible competence and a temper underneath it. The Right Stuff established the register as John Glenn, and Apollo 13 refined it as Gene Kranz.
The Abyss is the physical achievement. James Cameron’s shoot was notoriously punishing, with Harris nearly drowning, and he has declined to discuss the production for decades.
He directed and starred in Pollock, which he spent ten years developing and which won Marcia Gay Harden an Academy Award.
The Truman Show and Westworld gave him god-adjacent roles that use the authority differently, and A History of Violence is the best of his villains.
Ed HarrisGravity (2013) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron opens on a thirteen minute unbroken shot and then destroys everything in it. The technical achievement is genuine and permanent. The dialogue keeps explaining a film that was…
Abbie Cornish2017 Dean Devlin disaster film with Gerard Butler battling weather-controlling satellites that go rogue. Geostorm is Dean Devlin's 2017 American disaster film.
Chris EvansBong directed and co-wrote with Kelly Masterson. The film made approximately eighty-six million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.
Anthony MackiePain and Gain is Michael Bay's most personal commercial film. The 7 rating is honest evaluation.
Bill PaxtonThe film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
Anthony HopkinsWestworld Season 1 is near-perfect science fiction television. The other three seasons are a masterclass in how prestige TV destroys itself.
Ed HarrisThe production achievement of The Abyss is extraordinary even by Cameron's standards. The Deepcore rig is a superbly designed setting, confined, functional, full of the specific texture of working machinery that Cameron consistently brings to his industrial environments.
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