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Known for giving witty and irreverent acceptance speeches, he has received numerous accolades including a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Venice International Film Festival Prize as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Films with the most nominations: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016) each earned 14 Academy Award nominations. Film with the highest clean sweep: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won all 11 Academy Awards from its 11 nominations.
2017 Winner Evening Standard British Film Award. Best Actor; Florence Foster Jenkins
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The film depicts the story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old from Hayward, California, and his experiences on the last day of his life, before he was fatally shot by BART Police in the early morning hours of New Year's Day2009. The movie begins with the actual footage of Oscar Grant and his friends being detained by the BART Police at the Fruitvale...
Development
Ryan Coogler was a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts when Grant was shot on January 1, 2009. Following this event, Coogler expressed his desire to make a film about Grant's last day, "I wanted the audience to get to know this guy, to get attached, so that when the situation that happens to him happens, it's not just like you read it in the paper, you know what I mean? When you know somebody as a human being, you know that life means something."...
Filming
Fruitvale Station was shot in Oakland, California, for 20 days in July 2012. Scenes were shot at and around the Bay Area Rapid Transit platform where Grant was killed. BART agreed to let the crew film at the Fruitvale BART station for three four-hour nights. Most of the platform scenes were shot over the course of two nights (with another night dedicated to the sequences on the train that led up to the police confrontation). San Quentin State Prison served as a filming location for a flashbac...
Soundtrack
The musical score to Fruitvale Station was composed by Coogler's fellow USC graduate Ludwig Göransson,who said of the scoring process: Coogler added: A soundtrack album, Fruitvale Station: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, was released digitally on September 24, 2013 and on CD October 15, 2013 through Lakeshore Records.
The Weinstein Company commissioned three murals to be painted in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco by well-known street artists Ron English, Lydia Emily and LNY, in anticipation of the film. Some people questioned having a poster for the film in Fruitvale Station, but a BART spokeswoman said about this decision: Promotional material used on ...
Fruitvale Station premiered on January 19, 2013 during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it was listed as Fruitvale before undergoing a title change. After premiering at Sundance, the film was at the center of a distribution bidding war. Rights for the film were ultimately acquired by The Weinstein Company for approximately US$2 million. In May...
Fruitvale Station at IMDbFruitvale Station at Box Office MojoFruitvale Station at Rotten TomatoesFruitvale Station at MetacriticFruitvale Station: Directed by Ryan Coogler. With Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand. The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
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- Ryan Coogler
- 2013-07-26
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