Albert Finney Articles
BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Bergman, Fellini, Wilder
Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho set The first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship, "awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image," was director Alfred Hitchcock in 1971. Dozens of film, television, and assorted media personalities have become BAFTA Fellows since then, though the pattern here — as most elsewhere — is that achievements by men [...]
Sidney Lumet Dies: TWELVE ANGRY MEN, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, NETWORK
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sidney Lumet, Murder on the Orient Express Sidney Lumet, whose performers ranged from Katharine Hepburn to Sharon Stone, from Ralph Richardson to Marlon Brando, from Anna Magnani to Al Pacino, from Lauren Bacall to Jane Fonda, from Simone Signoret to River Phoenix, from Paul Newman to Vin Diesel, from Wendy Hiller and John Gielgud to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and [...]
Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Albert Finney, Julie Walters: Oscar Veterans 2000
Jeff Bridges in Rod Lurie's The Contender (top); Ellen Burstyn in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (middle); Julia Roberts, Albert Finney in Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich (bottom) Sissy Spacek: Oscar Veterans 2001 Jeff Bridges Jeff Bridges was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Rod Lurie's political drama The Contender. He lost to Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. Bridges had three previous Oscar [...]
Four Angry Young Men: Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Tom Courtenay
Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Photo: Bryanston Films Ltd./Photofest "Four Angry Young Men" is the title of a four-film series to take place on two consecutive Saturdays, Nov. 14 and 21, at the Getty Center's Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Note: The screenings are free, but a separate reservation is required for each film. The Four Angry Young Men in question — no [...]