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Emily Stevens (actress)She received very positive reviews for her acting as the title character inThe Fugitive (1916) by John Galsworthy.
Manos HatzidakisIt was 1960 that brought him international success, as his song'' Never on Sunday'' ('' Τα παιδιά του Πειραιά''), from Jules Dassin's film Never on Sunday (Ποτέ την Κυριακή), won him an Academy Award and became a worldwide hit.
Choi Min-sikThough Kim Ji-woon's 2010 thriller I Saw the Devil drew criticism from some quarters for its ultra-violent content, reviewers agreed that Choi's performance as a serial killer was memorable.
Bette DavisWhen it received lukewarm reviews and failed at the box office, Hollywood columnists wrote that Davis's comeback had petered out, and an Academy Award nomination for The Star (1952) did not halt her decline.
George Moore (novelist)It contains a substantial amount of literary criticism for which it has received a fair amount of praise, Esther Waters'' Moore as caricatured by -LSB- -LSB- Walter Sickert in Vanity Fair, January 1897 -RSB- -RSB- During the 1880s, Moore began work on a series of novels in a realist style.
Forest WhitakerIn 2013, after languishing in several direct-to-DVD movies such as Freelancers and Pawn, Whitaker has enjoyed a bit of career resurgence, having played the lead role in Lee Daniels' The Butler, which has become one of his greatest critical and commercial successes to date.
Susan SarandonOne of her biggest commercial successes came in 1988 when she starred in Bull Durham.
Shankar (director)His musical entertainer film Boys was released in 2003, which received mixed response from the critics and audience, prompting it to do only average business.
Sylvester StalloneIn 1996, he starred in the disaster film Daylight, which was not very successful in the US, but grossed $ 126 million overseas.
Mike Elliott (comedian)However on MW it failed to gain the same amount of listeners that the Century FM series had achieved, and Elliott was released from his contract in July 2003, whilst on holiday.
Naomi WattsIn 2002, she starred in one of the biggest box office hits of that year, The Ring, the English language remake of the Japanese horror film Ringu.
Jonathan DemmeDemme ended up renouncing the finished product, and when the film was released in May 1984, it was generally panned by critics and neglected by moviegoers.
Katharine HepburnHer early years in the film industry were marked with success, including an Academy Award for her third picture, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures.
Shirley BoothHer success in Come Back, Little Sheba was immediately followed by the musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), (based on the popular novel) in which she played the feisty but lovable Aunt Sissy, which proved to be another major hit.
Ben AffleckAffleck directed his second feature, The Town, an adaptation of Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves, that was both a critical and commercial success when it was released in theaters in 2010.
Sidney PoitierIn 1967, he was the most successful draw at the box office, the commercial peak of his career, with three popular films, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ; To Sir, with Love and In the Heat of the Night.
Roland EmmerichEmmerich then directed Independence Day, an alien invasion feature, released in 1996, that became the first film to gross $ 100 million in less than a week and went on to become one of the most financially successful films of all time, at one point having been the second-highest grossing film in terms of worldwide box office.
Osamu AdachiThe Prince of Tennis was released on May 13, 2006 and opened on the tenth spot in the Japanese Box Office and marked Adachi's first appearance in the film industry.
Ruco ChanChan gained media recognition as the young barrister Keith Lau in the TVB television legal drama The Other Truth (2011), and was critically lauded for the role.
Kim Sun-aAfter a three-year hiatus caused by legal and contractual disputes, Kim finally got back to work in 2008, starring in the big-screen comedy Girl Scout, and the poorly received TV drama Night After Night (also known as When It's At Night).
Jim VarneyErnest Goes to Camp brought Varney a nomination for'' Worst New Star'' at the 1987 Golden Raspberry Award s, but the movie was a huge hit, grossing $ 25 million at the box office.
Peter Sarsgaard 2003 marked a significant turning point in Sarsgaard's career, when he starred in the feature film Shattered Glass.
Choi Min-sikIn his 2012 follow-up Nameless Gangster, Choi essayed another complex, layered antihero, and the Yoon Jong-bin film was both a critical and box office hit.
Sam RaimiRaimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man (2002), which was adapted from the comic book series of the same name.
Max MinghellaThe film was released in November 2005 to mostly mixed reviews and low box office, grossing only $ 1 million in its limited release, although critics remarked that Minghella was'' a talented young actor to watch, delivering a strong performance''.
Joana Machado Joana Machado brought to media attention in 2008 following her on-and-off affair with football player Adriano, marked by scandals and mutual aggression.
Vicente Aranda In the 1990s, Vicente Aranda continued to make films that were commercial hits at home and were shown at film festivals worldwide.
Gabriel PascalBut Pascal became more and more extravagant, Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), the next Pascal film of a Shaw play, was the most expensive British movie ever at that time, and a big financial and critical flop.
Yash (actor)In 2012 Yash had two major releases, Lucky (opposite Ramya) and Jaanu, both of which were much anticipated but met with mixed response, although commercially successful.
Robert PattinsonPattinson one last time appeared as Edward Cullen in the final instalment of Twilight saga, The Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 which was released on 16 November 2012, and has grossed over $ 829 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of the'' Twilight'' series.
William HoldenHis career peaked in 1957 with the enormous success of The Bridge on the River Kwai, but Holden spent the next several years starring in a number of films that rarely succeeded commercially or critically.
Herodes FalskFalsk also directed the film, which was slaughtered by the critics after its premiere in September 1989, and bombed at the box office.
James Millar (Australian actor) Following the success of The Hatpin, Millar teamed up again with Rutherford for an inventive and critically acclaimed Song Cycle'' LoveBites'' which received a stream of rave reviews in 2008.
Saswata ChatterjeeHe enjoyed success at the national level in Sujoy Ghosh's 2012 blockbuster Hindi film, Kahaani, where he played a simple-looking creepy contract killer.
Edith Evans By this time Evans was well known to the critics, and frequently received excellent notices ; with her performance as Millamant in The Way of the World in 1924 she achieved wide public fame for the first time.
Ryoo Seung-wanHis 2010 film The Unjust, a tale about corruption among policemen and prosecutors, received rave reviews for its seamless storytelling interspersed with action sequences, social commentary and powerhouse performances from Hwang Jung-min and brother Seung-bum.
Akira KurosawaIkiru opened in October 1952 to rave reviews -- it won Kurosawa his second Kinema Junpo'' Best Film'' award -- and enormous box office success.
Yasujir? OzuIn 1932, his I Was Born, But..., a comedy with serious overtones on adolescence, was received by movie critics as the first notable work of social criticism in Japanese cinema, winning Ozu wide acclaim.
Cameron Crowe He returned in 2005, with Elizabethtown, which again opened to mixed reviews, scoring 45 on Metacritic, the same as his previous effort, Vanilla Sky.
Ashanti (singer)The movie opened at number-one at the U. S. box office, eventually grossing $ 67 million in the U. S. Later in 2005, Ashanti beat out Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson to star as Dorothy Gale in the made-for-television film The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, which pulled in nearly 8 million viewers.
Rufus WainwrightDespite critical acclaim, Wainwright has experienced limited commercial success in the United States, although the release of Release the Stars saw increased media attention there, as did the associated 2007 U. S. tour.
David GattenThe second film in the cycle, The Great Art of Knowing, is generally regarded at Gatten's most important film and was listed on the'' 50 Best Film of the Decade'' in a 2010 Film Comment critics poll.
Michael Bay As of 2009, Michael Bay's worldwide box office totals make him the director with the eighth highest domestic US gross of all time (not adjusted for inflation).
Aadhi (actor)In 2010 he had two releases, Ayyanar and Aadu Puli which both were commercial films and were average grossers building his commercial value well despite the negative reviews.
Shilpa Shetty2007 proved to be Shetty's most successful year at the box office so far.
El Hijo del SantoIn 2000 he starred in the film Infraterrestre, which received positive reviews from critics such as the respected Mexican film critic, David Wilt.
Benjamin ChristensenChristensen got off a good start with the Norma Shearer vehicle The Devil's Circus (1926), a commercial success.
Michelle PfeifferAfter The Age of Innocence, she played the role of Laura Alden opposite Jack Nicholson in Wolf (1994), a horror film that garnered a mixed critical reception.
Peter BogdanovichThe 32-year-old Bogdanovich was hailed by critics as a'' Wellesian'' wunderkind when his best-received film, The Last Picture Show, was released in 1971.
Vivek OberoiIn 2010, he appeared in Prince, which failed to receive a good response from the audience despite initial box office success.
Marcel GrantHere, he found critical and commercial success with the 2000 film Gangster No. 1 starring Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell.
Nikita Mikhalkov Mikhalkov established an international reputation with his second feature, A Slave of Love (1976).
James MarsdenFollowing his breakthrough in comic book films, Marsden went on to star in comedies including 2007's Hairspray which was a critical and commercial success and won many awards for its ensemble cast.
Lisa KronKron's sparkling autobiographical play Well has arrived on Broadway... to restore the honor of a genre that was slipping into disgrace... Well opened on Broadway March 10, 2006, to critical acclaim and received two Tony nominations.
Fernando ReyHe achieved his greatest notoriety after he turned 50 :'' Perhaps it is a pity that my success came so late in life'', he told The Times of Madrid in 1973.''
Vijay RaghavendraHis much delayed films Shraavana, Vinayaka Geleyara Balaga and multi-starrer Kalla Malla Sulla released in 2011 with the latter two films earning favorable reviews.
Moon So-riHer voice acting for Leafie, A Hen into the Wild was praised as'' superb -LSB-... -RSB- instantly recognizable and articulating the gumption and touching naivete of the eponymous hen with great conviction,'' and in 2011 Leafie became the most successful Korean animated film of the modern era, with over 2 million admissions.
Prema (actress)The year 2000 saw 6 releases of Prema films of which Yejamana turned out to be another huge blockbuster film, breaking all the previous records with respect to box-office collections.
George ClooneyAs of 2011, it was Clooney's most commercially successful film, earning more than $ 450 million worldwide.
Katie HolmesShe later played the President's daughter in First Daughter, which was originally to be released in January 2004 on the same day as Chasing Liberty, another film about a president's daughter, but was ultimately released in September 2004 to dismal reviews and ticket sales.
Sophie MonkThe film was released straight-to-DVD in September 2009 to mixed reviews from critics with some praising Monk's performance.
Ray ParlourParlour continued to enjoy success with Arsenal for another four years (winning another Double in 2002), but generally received little acclaim in the media compared with many of his more illustrious Arsenal team-mates, especially as he was almost constantly living in the shadow of Patrick Vieira for much of his time at the club.
Phillip NoyceMiller also produced the film that brought Noyce his greatest acclaim in the United States -- the thriller Dead Calm (1989) which turned Nicole Kidman into a star.
Robert SiodmakSiodmak arrived in Hollywood in 1939, where he made 23 movies, many of them widely popular thrillers and crime melodramas, which critics today regard as classics of film noir.
John WooWoo gained international recognition with the release of The Killer (1989).
Angelina JolieThe movie was an international success nonetheless, earning $ 275 million worldwide, In 2002, she starred in Life or Something Like It as an ambitious television reporter who is told that she will die in a week.
Richard LaymonDespite praise from prominent writers from within the genre, including Stephen King and Dean Koontz, Laymon was little known in his homeland -- he enjoyed greater success in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom -- until his affiliation with Leisure Books in 1999.
Jung Woo-sungGiven the hype regarding his return to the small screen after 15 years, Jung's spy genre drama Athena : Goddess of War (spin-off to 2009's IRIS) was a disappointment, failing to duplicate its predecessor's ratings.
Ha Ji-wonIn 2009, Ha Ji-won starred in the blockbuster disaster film Haeundae, which became the 5th Korean film to surpass 10 million viewers.
Khadija MumtazMumtaz rose to fame with her novel Barsa (2007), which was a great critical and popular success.
Ryan GoslingThe film grossed over $ 115 million worldwide and, with adjustments for inflation, it remains the most commercially successful film of Gosling's career as of 2012.
Jean GabinFollowing another box office failure in 1947, Gabin returned to the stage, but there too, the production was another financial disaster.
Julianne MooreMoore was not seen on screens again until March 2012, with a performance that received considerable praise and recognition.
Aadhi (actor)He made hís first appearance in a Tamil film in Mirugam (2007) which upon release received critical acclaim from critics and audiences.
Jacob Smith (actor)He was subsequently cast as one of twelve children in the family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, which was released in December 2003 and became a box office success, gaining Smith renown with pre-teen audiences.
Joseph ConradThe second phase, spanning the war and following the popular success of Chance (1913), is marked by the advent of Conrad's public persona as'' great writer''.
Yasujir? Ozu On 9 September 1937, at a time when Shochiku was unhappy about Ozu's lack of box-office success (despite the praise and awards he received from critics), the thirty-four-year-old Ozu was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army.
Marsha MasonShe co-starred with Clint Eastwood in the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge, which was fairly well received and a commercial success.
Lindsay LohanLohan's next widely released film, the romantic comedy Just My Luck, opened in May 2006 and, according to Variety, earned her over $ 7 million.
Anil KapoorHis 1995 release, Trimurti was a box office disaster, though Kapoor's performance was creditable.
Dimple KapadiaShe returned to commercial cinema in 1996, but the few films she did until the end of the decade met with neither mainstream nor critical success.
Margery Allingham Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley.
Sarah PolleyPolley's subsequent role as Nicole Burnell in the 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter, brought her considerable attention in the United States ; she was a fan favourite at the Sundance Film Festival.
Bob MouldThose influences were clear on his 2002 release Modulate, which featured a strong electronica influence to mixed critical reviews and poor fan reaction.
Antonia BirdThe film brought Bird to international attention but was overshadowed by the success of the controversial Priest (BBC/Miramax 1994), which she directed immediately following Safe.
Christophe GodinIn 1995, with Temple, Christophe played on an album that was properly distributed in France and received a wave of positive reviews.
Vivian SchillingIn spite of its limited budget, the film earned Schilling a Saturn Award in 1992 -LSB- 1 -RSB-.
Chris Roberts (game developer)The 1999 feature film release of Wing Commander directed by Roberts himself, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and featuring visual effects from Digital Anvil failed to attract either critical praise or financial success.
Nora AunorEven with only some limited run in few Metro Manila theaters, the movies, particularly Care Home, was still able to score for Aunor critical praise and even nominations for Best Actress, specially from PMPC STAR Awards for Movies in 2007.
Manoel de OliveiraIn 1971 Oliveira made his second feature narrative film Past and Present, a social satire that both set the standard for his film career afterwards and gained him recognition in the global film community.
Shia LaBeoufThe movie grossed $ 800 million, but received mostly negative reviews by critics, with LaBeouf sharing a nomination for the'' Worst Screen Couple of 2009'' Razzie Award with'' either Megan Fox or any Transformer.''
James Craig (actor)Craig received critical praise (and a step up to A movies) when he played a New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul in All That Money Can Buy, also titled The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941).
Al PacinoPacino received an Academy Award nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit Dick Tracy in 1990, of which critic Roger Ebert described Pacino as'' the scene-stealer''.
Rose ByrneIn 2011, she starred in the critically acclaimed and financially successful films Insidious, X-Men : First Class and Bridesmaids.
Boz ScaggsHe garnered good reviews with Dig although the CD, which was released on September 11, 2001, got less attention than it might have received in a calmer time.
Mykola KulishSuddenly since 1930 all his fame was diminishing receiving all kinds of negative critical reviews.
James Gray (film director)His third film, We Own the Night, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg, played in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in May, receiving widely divergent reviews from international critics.
Amitabh BachchanThe film was released in 1983, and partly due to the huge publicity of Bachchan's accident, the film was a box office success and the top grossing film that year.
Peter FinchHowever in 1956 he appeared in two major hits, A Town Like Alice (1956) and The Battle of the River Plate (1956), which saw exhibitors vote him the seventh most popular British star at the box office ; the following year his ranking went up to third, being the fifth most popular regardless of nationality.
Richard Yates (novelist)Yates' second collection, Liars in Love, appeared nearly twenty years later, in 1981, and was again met with a positive critical reception.