Will Smith moved from music to television to film and was for roughly a decade the most reliable box office draw on earth, with Independence Day, Men in Black, I Am Legend and Hitch.
Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness brought nominations, and Six Degrees of Separation is the early performance that shows what he could do when a director pushed him.
He won Best Actor for King Richard, playing Richard Williams, and the win was entirely overshadowed by his striking Chris Rock at the ceremony minutes earlier.
He was banned from the Academy Awards for ten years and has been working steadily since, with the incident attached to every discussion of him.
Bryce Dallas HowardThe Disney live action remakes rate 3 out of 10 as a body of work. Fifteen years, a dozen and a half films, several billion dollars, and a program whose governing principle is that the animated version should be reproduced…
Alice BragaI Am Legend (2007) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The first hour is one of the best depictions of solitude ever filmed. Then the ending inverts the meaning of the book it is named after, and…
Linda FiorentinoEd Solomon wrote, loosely adapted from Lowell Cunningham's Aircel/Malibu comic. The film made approximately five hundred and ninety million dollars worldwide on a ninety million dollar budget.
Bill PullmanDean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
Gabrielle UnionBad Boys is the buddy cop franchise that defined Miami action cinema for three decades. Michael Bay directed the first two films.
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