On February 9, 2020, the award ceremony of the 92nd Academy Awards (Academy Awards) was held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California, with a total of 24 Academy Awards awarded. Among them, the Korean film "Parasite" won four awards in one fell swoop: Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Film and Best Original Screenplay, becoming the biggest winner of this award ceremony.
Hollywood, as the center of the world film industry and the symbol of American cinema, attracts countless entertainers to chase their dreams every year. When we talk about Hollywood actors, we often talk about "faces," "acting," and "stature," but we rarely talk about "intelligence." In fact, Hollywood not only has "drama essence", but also many "learning bullies". They're not just stars in the spotlight, they've also stood out in U.S. college applications. Let's take stock of the American actors who have had a double harvest in their academic careers.
Meryl streep
Even in the star-studded Hollywood, no one will deny that "Aunt May" is the brightest star. Known as one of the greatest actresses in the history of American cinema, she is able to perfectly engage and master all types of role-playing, and can also effortlessly switch between different accents. Aunt May has been nominated for 21 Academy Awards, the most nominated actress in history for an acting award, and won the 51st Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the 54th and 84th Academy Awards for Best Actress, respectively.
Off-screen, Meryl Streep is an unabashed bully. In 1971, after receiving her bachelor's degree in drama from Vaasa College, she applied to the Art Department of yale's School of Drama. He graduated from yale School of Drama in 1975 with a master's degree. In 1981, Aunt May also had an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College.
Judy Foster
In the spotlight, Judy Foster is a young adult. In 1976, 14-year-old Judy Foster was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Taxi Driver. After that, she won the 61st Academy Award for Best Actress for "StormIng Pear Blossom" released in 1989. The Silence of the Lambs, released in 1991, gave Judy Foster her second Oscar for Best Actress. In 1991, her first self-written and self-directed film, Splendid Childhood, was released.
In 1980, Judy Fox was admitted to the prestigious Yale University. At Yale, Judy chose to major in literature, majoring in classical literature and later American literature. She is particularly interested in African-American literature, with the Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison. In addition to English and French, Judy speaks Latin, Italian and Spanish. Judy Foster graduated from Yale University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Magna Laude (Latina Honors).
Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman is not just the spirited little girl in "This Head Is Not Too Cold", not just the Amidala Queen in the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, not just the ballet dancer of "Black Swan", but also the top intelligent mind who can combine a busy acting career and difficult coursework. Natalie Portman speaks 6 languages: English, French, Japanese, German, Hebrew, and Arabic. From elementary school to high school, she took an A in everything she did. In high school, she attended a public school on Long Island, New York, where she was a semi-finalist for an Intel Science Prize paper titled "An Easy Way to Demonstrate oxygen Enzymes for Sugar." Later, when Natalie Portman graduated from high school, she received both Yale and Harvard acceptance letters, and she eventually chose to study psychology at Harvard University.
Matt Damon
One might ask, didn't Matt Damon not get his college diploma? Like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, a bully doesn't necessarily have to get a college degree, but can also arbitrarily drop out of school to pursue his dreams and succeed.
Matt Damon's home is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the top universities Harvard and MIT are home. In high school, Matt Damon often performed in the school's theater troupe, through which he met his best friend Ben Affleck. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Department of English Language and Literature at Harvard University, and then decided to graduate from school and travel with Ben Affleck to Los Angeles to try to develop into show business. The story that happened later is obvious to everyone, and these two good brothers have gained a foothold in Hollywood and have their own achievements.
James Franco
It is not surprising that the "Fu Lanlan" in the mouth of Chinese film fans has become a school bully, because he himself was born in a family of school bully. James Franco's parents both graduated from Stanford University, and he and his family live in Silicon Valley, California, where talent comes together.
After graduating from high school, James Franco was accepted to UCLA, but soon decided to drop out to pursue his acting dreams. However, presumably because of his academic skills, he returned to UCLA after acting and received his bachelor's degree in 2008. He then majored in creative writing and filmmaking at Columbia University and New York University. In 2010, James Franco became a Doctor of Literature student at Yale University.
Wentworth Miller
Wentworth Miller, who rose to fame in 2005 for playing Michael Scofield in the TV series "Prison Break", and was called "Mi Shuai" by Chinese audiences, was a high-achieving student who graduated from Princeton University.
Wentworth Miller's parents were both Yale graduates, and his father continued his studies in the UK. His father taught him from an early age that "everything you do is the best you can be, and you can't give up halfway." After graduating from high school, Wentworth chose Princeton University. In 1995, Wentworth graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English Literature, went from New York to Los Angeles, and began to go on the road to art.
Maim Byrik
The actor who played Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory is not a Frankenstein in life, but Amy's actor, Maim Bailik, is a fake Neuroscience Doctor.
Maim Byrik was admitted to a number of prestigious universities when she graduated from high school, but in order to stay with her parents, she chose to stay on the West Coast of the United States and enroll in UCLA. After earning her bachelor's degree in neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish, she also went on to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. Compared to the other stars in The Big Bang Theory, Maim Byrik should have taken it easy to recite his lines.
Hollywood has never lacked smart and hard-working dreamers, and in our eyes, they are the perfect gods, whether as ordinary American college applicants or performers in the center of the stage. But perhaps the actions and experiences of these "gifted actors" are precisely to tell us that the aura and success in the eyes of others cannot replace the joy and harvest of pursuing dreams. In the face of the bravest, most persistent, and hardest working souls, the clever mind is just "icing on the cake" only.