| Ms Grace
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In 1977, a 23-year-old American truck driver watched a movie in the theater, quit his job and went into the film industry, and a few years later, he made "Terminator," "Titanic" and "Avatar," and the truck driver was James Cameron.
During the same period, a 40-year-old British advertising director also saw the film, and he decided to become a film director, and just a few years later, he made Alien and Blade Runner, and the advertising director was Ridley Scott.
Ridley Scott and James Cameron are both big-name directors, and the film that influenced them on the path to cinema was Star Wars. The Star Wars series has been shot in 9 films so far, and it is one of the most successful and profitable commercial films and series of films in history.
Today, I don't want to talk about the commercial value of Star Wars, but I want to give readers and friends an Easter egg to take stock of the big-name actors who have played supporting roles and cameos in this series of movies, and who have the common point that they have been nominated for or awarded for Oscar acting awards before starring in the Star Wars films.
01
Alec Guinness
Star Wars Character: Ben-Wan Kenobi
British actor Alec Guinness is known as the "Thousand Faced Man" in the film industry, and he has participated in many films, such as "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago", etc. are classic films in film history, and the characters portrayed are very different, but Guinness can always be perfectly mastered.
Guinness's early masterpiece was "The Bridge on the River Kwai", in which he played the rigorous and decent Colonel Nixon, even though he was a prisoner of war camp in World War II, but in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of prisoners of war, he fought with the Japanese generals. Guinness won the 30th Academy Awards for Best Actor for this role.
Stills from "The Bridge over the River Kwai"
Guinness began to officially start filming in his 30s, but he was active from the 1940s to the 1990s, and his masterpiece in his later years was Star Wars. Played by Guinness, the Jedi Knight Ben-Van Kenobi is Luke's mentor in Skywalker, kenobi, although a supporting role, is one of the souls that connect the entire Star Wars movie series.
In 1978, Guinness was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 61st Academy Awards for this role, and he is currently the only actor to be nominated for an Oscar for the Star Wars film series. Alec Guinness died on 5 August 2000 at the age of 86.
02
Liam Neeson
Star Wars Character: Qui-Gang
Liam Neeson is best known for his work in Schindler's List, in which he plays Schindler, a German businessman who lost his fortune in World War II to save the lives of more than 1,100 Jews, for which Liam Neeson was nominated for Best Actor at the 66th Academy Awards.
Schindler's role is too deeply rooted, and Neeson, who is 1.93 meters tall, has a cold and righteous face, and he does have an innate advantage in playing a positive role.
In the 1999 star wars episode Prequel I: The Phantom Menace, Neeson's Jedi Master Quigan is another savior-type character, and he has a lot of play in this movie, and Neeson does a great job, which lays a good foundation for his transformation into an action superstar a few years later.
03
Samuel L. Jackson
Star Wars character: Mace Windu
Samuel L. Jackson is one of Hollywood's best-known black male stars, having been nominated for the 67th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1995 for Pulp Fiction.
Samuel also starred in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, in which he played Jedi Master Master Mace Windu, but not much.
In recent years, Samuel's best-known role has been in the Marvel superhero series of movies, playing S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury.
04
Laura Dunn
Star Wars character: Ameline Holdo
Laura Dunn, a child actress by birth, officially entered the film industry at the age of 12, and became famous at the age of 23 in "My Heart Is Wild" directed by David Lynch, and Laura's most famous role was played as the heroine in "Jurassic World" directed by Spielberg.
Laura's parents are both well-known actors, her father Bruce Dunn and her mother Diane Ryder have both been nominated for Oscars, and the family of three has received seven Oscar nominations.
What is even more rare is that Laura was nominated for Best Actress at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992 with "Rose", and her mother Diane was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the same time for the film.
Laura Dunn and Mom
In 2015, Laura was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 87th Academy Awards for "Into the Wilderness". In 2017, Laura made a cameo appearance in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi as Amelien Holdo, the leader of the Resistance.
On February 10, 2020, Laura Dunn was nominated for the 92nd Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Marriage Story", and her mother Diane accompanied her to the Oscars. It was Laura's 53rd birthday, and she finally got the award, which Laura bluntly said was "the best birthday gift."
05
Benicio del Toro
Star Wars Character: DJ
Benicio del Toro is a well-known Hollywood character actor and "chameleon" actor, he often plays supporting roles in various films, but each role is unique.
In 2001, Benisio won the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for Drug Network, and in 2004, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 21 Grams.
In 2017, Benicio made a cameo appearance as DJ in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, only two or three scenes, but the performance was still very eye-catching.
06
Lupita Nyong'o
Star Wars Character: Maz Kanata
Rupita Nyong'o, from Kenya, starred in her first film, Twelve Years of Slavery, which won her Best Supporting Actress at the 86th Academy Awards, followed by a superhero film Black Panther.
In 2017, in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Lupita also came to make a cameo appearance as the female pirate Maz Kanata, a character filmed using motion capture technology, and she herself did not appear in the film.
Write at the end
In fact, there are two actors who have played supporting roles in the "Star Wars" series of movies and have also been nominated for Oscars for acting.
One is Ivan McGregor, who starred as a young Kenobi in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and the other is Kayla Knightley, who played a stand-in for Queen Amidala in the film.
Both of them were nominated for an Oscar for acting, but because they were nominated after starring in the Star Wars films, they were not included in the above inventory.
George Lucas was the lead star in the Star Wars franchise, but when he made his first film in the 1970s, lucas chose to star as a lesser-known actor and a newcomer actor because of the shortage of money.
After the success of the first 3 Star Wars films, and the other 6 films later, this tradition was also continued, starring still using lesser-known actors and newcomer actors, but will invite well-known actors to play important supporting roles or cameos.
Many actors are Star Wars fans, and starring in the "Star Wars" series of movies is both a dream thing and a win-win cooperation for them.