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Character name:
"Nick" Nikanor Chevotarevich
Appears in:
The Deer Hunter
Date(s): 1978
Awards Won:
Academy - Best Actor in a
Supporting Role
NYFCC - Best Supporting Actor
| | Character back story: Nick Chevotarevich, is a young Pittsburgh steelworker who is a quiet, introspective man who loves nature and hunting with his friends. After joining the US Army and getting captured he is emotionally and spiritually destroyed by his combat experience of war in Vietnam. He transforms from a sensitive, gentle guy to self-destructive, high on heroin and gambles with his life at Russian roulette. | | Age/Occupation: 20's - Steelworker | | Personality type: Sensitive, gentle then transforms to self-destructive, zoned out | | Resides: Clairton, Pennsylvania USA then stays in Vietnam | Fun facts/trivia: Christopher Walken achieved the withdrawn, hollow look of his character by eating nothing but rice and bananas for the week before he filmed the third act.
Director Michael Cimino convinced Christopher Walken to spit in Michael's (Robert De Niro) face. When Walken actually did it, Robert De Niro was completely surprised by it, as evidence by his reaction. In fact, De Niro was so furious about it he nearly left the set. Cimino later said of Walken: "He's got courage!"
Academy Awards
1. Best Supporting Actor, Christopher Walken
2. Best Director, Michael Cimino
3. Best Editing, Peter Zinner
4. Best Picture, Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
5. Best Sound, Richard Portman, William L. McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, C. Darin Knight
Golden Globe Awards
1. Best Director, Michael Cimino
BAFTA Awards record
1. Best Cinematography, Vilmos Zsigmond
2. Best Editing, Peter Zinner | | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Nick: "I don't think about that much with one shot anymore, Mike. "
Michael: "You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot."
- Axel: "Lemme ask you a question. How come I never see you eat?"
Nick: "I like to starve myself. It keeps the fear up."
- Nick: "Did you hear about the happy Roman?"
Man in Locker Room: "Yeah."
Nick: "He was Gladiator "glad he ate her."
- Nick: "One Shot."
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Character name:
Frank Abagnale Sr.
Appears in:
Catch Me If You Can
Date(s): 2002
Award(s):
Academy~Nominated
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
BAFTA Award~Won
Best Performance Actor in a Supporting Role
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA- NSFC Award~Won
Best Supporting Actor
Screen Actors Guild Awards~Won
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
| | Character back story: Frank Abagnale Sr., is a World War II veteran. Frank Sr. has a wonderful life and grand home until he committed IRS tax evasion. After that, he loses his wife Paula and most of his wealth. | | Age/Occupation: 40's/Business Man | | Personality type: Heart broken, apologetic | | Resides: New Rochelle, New York | Fun facts/trivia: It was Walter Parkes who first suggested Walken for the role. Spielberg
recalls, "I have been a great admirer of Christopher Walken and have always had
a desire to work with him. So the minute Walter said, "Have you ever considered
Chris Walken?," everything came into focus about who should play Leonardo DiCaprio's father."
The title "Catch Me If You Can" could just as easily be applied to the film's shooting schedule as to its story. The movie was filmed in just 56 jam-packed days, utilizing more than 140 sets on locations in and
around Los Angeles, New York, Montreal and Quebec City.
 | | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Frank Abagnale Sr.: You know why the Yankees always win, Frank?
Frank Abagnale, Jr.: 'Cause they have Mickey Mantle?
Frank Abagnale Sr.: No, it's 'cause the other teams can't stop staring at those damn pinstripes.
- Frank Abagnale Sr.: Where's your mother?
Frank Abagnale, Jr.: I don't know. She said something about going to look for a job.
Frank Abagnale Sr.: What's she gonna be, a shoe salesman at a centipede farm?
- Frank Abagnale Sr.: She's so stubborn, your mother - Don't worry I won't let her go without a fight. - I've been fighting for her since the day we met.
Frank Abagnale, Jr.: Dad, out of all those men - You were the one who took her home, remember that.
Frank Abagnale Sr.: Two hundred men sitting in that tiny social hall watching her dance. What was the name of that town?
Frank Abagnale, Jr.: Montrichard, dad.
Frank Abagnale Sr.: I didn't speak a word of French, six weeks later she was my wife.
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Character name: Max Shreck
Appears in:
Batman Returns
Date(s): 1992
Award(s):
| Character back story: A powerful business mogul who serves as the boss of Selina Kyle and unusual ally to the Penguin. Shreck plans to take control of Gotham City by
building a super power station and drain Gotham of its electricity. | | Age/Occupation: Corrupt millionaire industrialist/businessman | | Personality type: Sleazy,Devious | | Signature look: White Hair, Bow ties | | Resides: Gotham City | | Fun facts/trivia: Christopher Walken, (remembering a film he'd seen previously), requested from director Tim Burton that his cuff-links be made from human molars for his character, Max Shreck. | | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Charles 'Chip' Shreck: Dad, you buy that "blurry" business?
Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Women. Nothing surprises me, Chip, except your late mother. Who'd have thought Selina had a brain to damage. Bottom line, she tries to blackmail me, I'll drop her out a higher window. Meantime, I got better fish to fry.
- [seeing Bruce Wayne in a tuxedo at a masquerade party]
Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Let me guess... trust fund goody-goody?
- Bruce Wayne: The point is, Max, Gotham City has a power surplus. I'm sure you know that. My question is: what's your angle?
Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Power surplus? Bruce, shame on you. No such thing. One can never have too much power. If my life has a meaning, that's the meaning.
Bruce Wayne: Yeah, well... I'm gonna fight you on this. And I've already spoken to the mayor and we see eye to eye, so...
Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Mayors come and go. Blue bloods tire easy. You think you can go fifteen rounds with Muhammed Shreck?
Bruce Wayne: Well, I guess we're gonna find out. Course, I don't have a crime boss like Cobblepot in my corner, so it might...
Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Crime boss? Shows what you know, Mr. to-the-manor-born-with-a-silver-spoon. Oswald is Gotham's new golden boy. If his parents hadn't eighty-sixed him, you two might've been bunkies at prep school!
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Character name: Brad Whitewood Sr.
Appears in:
At Close Range
Date(s):
1986
Award(s):
| | Character back story:Brad Whitewood, Sr., the leader of an organized crime family consisting of his brothers and close friends. His criminal activities range from burglary, theft... and ultimately, murder.When Brad's name is given to the grand jury by his own son, Brad, Sr. feels his only recourse is to eliminate every witness that can connect himself and his crew with his sons and their crew, and he has them killed one by one. | | Age/Occupation: Late 30's/Criminal | | Personality type: Disturbed | | Resides: Pennsylvania, USA | | Fun facts/trivia: When Christopher Walken works with guns in film, he checks them himself before each scene for safety reasons and his own personal ease. During the scene when 'Sean Penn' sticks a gun in Walken's face, Walken checked the gun before the scene started. Before the director had the chance to say "Action", Penn ran off camera and shouted, "Give me the other gun!" He immediately returned to Walken and started the scene. This is the cut that made it into the movie, and Walken was really terrified. | | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Brad Whitewood Sr.: Most people who drive through here see farms. Houses, and fields, and shit. I see money, I see things, everything got my name writ' on it!
- Brad Whitewood Sr.: How old are you anyway?
Brad Whitewood Jr.: Old enough.
Brad Whitewood Sr.: Damn!
- Brad Whitewood Sr.: If it's blood, don't break it.
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