Directors Star Turns! A Movie Tournament! (1 Viewer)

[Jeff Gross]

Tom Hanks - Big (his launch is debatable)

By the time Big came around I was already a big Tom Hanks fan. I would think Splash would be the movie that launched him.

 

[Chris_Richard]

Nominate
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Jennifer Jason Leigh
Misery - Kathy Bates
WarGames - Matthew Broderick (3 year before Ferris)
Zulu - Michael Caine

Second
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Robert Redford
Die Hard - Alan Rickman

Third
Basic Instinct - Sharon Stone
Mulholland Dr. - Naomi Watts

 

[SteveGon]

By the time Big came around I was already a big Tom Hanks fan. I would think Splash would be the movie that launched him.

I could go either way. Feel free to nom Splash if you want, but only one of those films can make it in. Same goes for the nominated Matthew Broderick films.

List updated.

 

[SteveGon]

Added to the noms list:

Back to the Future - Michael J. Fox
My Left Foot - Daniel Day-Lewis
The World According to Garp - John Lithgow

 

[ErikG]

Second:

Back to the Future - Michael J. Fox
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Jennifer Jason Leigh
Mad Max - Mel Gibson

Third:

Die Hard - Alan Rickman

 

[LukeB]

Second:
Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews

Third:
Back to the Future - Michael J. Fox

 

[ErikG]

Nominate:

Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry)
Kurt Russell (The Thing) or would it be Escape From New York?
Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws)
Kevin Bacon (Footloose)

 

[Mike Hutman]

I'll nominate
Ed Norton-Primal Fear

 

[Steeve Bergeron]

Wow! Audrey Tautou is already in.

Countdown until Bergeron noms Natalie Portman for The Professional...

Well, okay, if you insist. Consider her nominated then!

 

[LukeB]

Second:
DeNiro, Godfather II
Dreyfuss, Jaws (though I'm thinking maybe American Graffiti is more of the star-making)

 

[SteveGon]

List updated.

 

[Justin_S]

Haha, nice coincidence that it was two fellow Texans that seconded and thirded Naomi.

I third:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Man in the Moon - Reese Witherspoon
The Seventh Seal - Max Von Sydow
The Usual Suspects - Kevin Spacey

I second:

The Thing- Kurt Russell
Street Smart- Morgan Freeman
Psycho- Anthony Perkins

 

[Evan Case]

I think Clint Eastwood should really be Fistful of Dollars, not Dirty Harry.

Dreyfuss is debatable, but I think Eastwood's a no-brainer.

Evan

 

[SteveGon]

Evan, I agree. You can nominate Eastwood for AFOD. Interesting to see which one would make it in.

 

[Evan Case]

I'm out of noms, but if I've been given another one then I'll use it for Clint Eastwood - A Fistful of Dollars

Evan

 

[Ric Bagoly]

More.

 

[SteveGon]

Okay, two more noms, seconds, and thirds for everyone.


Evan, I went ahead and put Clint Eastwood on the noms list for A Fistful of Dollars - that's one of your two new noms.

 

[SteveGon]

Added to the noms list:

Amadeus - F. Murray Abraham
Gandhi - Ben Kingsley

 

[Angelo.M]

Gabriel Byrne, Miller's Crossing
Russell Crowe, Gladiator (? L.A. Confidential; don't think it truly launched him)

 

[SteveGon]

Here's an updated list of nominees - we need 12 more and we're good to go.

Moved down.