Susan Sarandon was nominated five times and won Best Actress for Dead Man Walking, playing Sister Helen Prejean opposite Sean Penn, in a film that refuses to resolve the death penalty question for the audience.
Thelma and Louise brought a nomination and became a genuine cultural argument, and Bull Durham gave her the best comic performance.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the cult credit and she has been good-humoured about it for fifty years.
She has been consistently and publicly political, including arrests at protests, and has said openly that it has cost her roles.
Christina RicciSpeed Racer (2008) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The Wachowskis spent a hundred and twenty million dollars building a candy-colored world with no shadows in it, made ninety-four back, and produced the most misunderstood studio film…
Brad PittThelma & Louise (1991) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Callie Khouri wrote it in six months as her first screenplay and took the Academy Award for it. Two women leave for a fishing weekend and never…
Alice KrigeThe film looks extraordinary. The Hunger earns its 6.5 the way a fashion shoot earns a magazine cover.
Raymond J BarryTim Robbins' 1995 death row drama. Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon Best Actress.
Kevin CostnerRon Shelton's 1988 minor league baseball comedy. The rare sports film that captures the actual sport's culture.
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-eight…
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