Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage born Nicolas Kim Coppola is an American actor and filmmaker He is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award During the early years of his career Cage starred in a variety of films such as Rumble Fish 1983 Racing with the Moon 1984 Peggy Sue Got Married 1986 Raising Arizona 1987 Vampires Kiss 1989 Wild at Heart 1990 Honeymoon in Vegas 1992 and Red Rock West 1993 During this period John Willis Screen World Vol 36 listed him as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1984 For his performance in Leaving Las Vegas 1995 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor He received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation 2002 He subsequently appeared in more mainstream films such as The Rock 1996 Con Air 1997 City of Angels 1998 8mm 1999 Windtalkers 2002 Lord of War 2005 The Wicker Man 2006 Bangkok Dangerous 2008 and Knowing 2009 He also directed the film Sonny 2002 for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire 2000 and The Life of David Gale 2003 In October 1997 Cage was ranked No 40 in Empire magazines The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list while the next year he was placed No 37 in Premieres 100 most powerful people in Hollywood In the 2010s he starred in KickAss 2010 Drive Angry 2011 Joe 2013 The Runner 2015 Dog Eat Dog 2016 Mom and Dad 2017 Mandy 2018 SpiderMan Into the SpiderVerse 2018 and Color Out of Space 2019 His participation in various film genres during this time increased his popularity and gained him a cult following
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