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A History of Violence

Index A History of Violence

A History of Violence is a 2005 American crime thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Josh Olson. [1]

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A History of Violence (comics)

A History of Violence is a graphic novel written by John Wagner and illustrated by Vince Locke, originally published in 1997 by Paradox Press and later by Vertigo, both imprints of DC Comics.

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Aidan Devine

Aidan Devine is an English Canadian film actor.

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Ashton Holmes

Ashton Holmes (born February 17, 1978) is an American actor, best known for the role of Jack Stall in A History of Violence, Private Sidney Phillips in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, Thom on the CW action-thriller series Nikita, and as Tyler Barrol on the ABC drama series Revenge.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century

The 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century is a list compiled in August 2016 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), chosen by a voting poll of 177 film critics from around the world.

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Belgian Film Critics Association

The Belgian Film Critics Association (Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC) is an organization of film critics from publications based in Brussels, Belgium.

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Bodil Award for Best American Film

The Bodil Award for Best American Film is one of the categories for the Bodil Awards presented annually by the Danish Union of Film Critics (Filmedarbejderforeningen).

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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Cahiers du cinéma

Cahiers du Cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) is a French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.

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Cavan Monaghan

Cavan Monaghan (known as Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan until 2007) is a township in Peterborough County in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, southwest of the city of Peterborough.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chris Bender (film producer)

Chris Bender (born 1971) is an American film producer whose beginnings were through co-producing American Pie film series based on his own high school experiences.

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Coup de grâce

A coup de grâce (French for "blow of mercy") is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal.

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Crime film

Crime cinema, in the broadest sense, is a cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2005

The 11th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association on December 19, 2005, honored the best in film for 2005.

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David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg, (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian director, screenwriter and actor.

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Dream sequence

A dream sequence is a technique used in storytelling, particularly in television and film, to set apart a brief interlude from the main story.

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Eaton Hall (King City)

Eaton Hall is a large house in King City, Ontario, Canada, built in the Norman style for Lady Eaton in 1938-39 on a 700-acre (2.8 km²) parcel of land (partly the Ferguson farm).

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Ed Harris

Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter.

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Empire (film magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Gotham Awards

The Gotham Independent Film Awards are American film awards, presented annually to the makers of independent films at a ceremony in New York City, the city first nicknamed "Gotham" by native son Washington Irving, in an issue of Salmagundi, published on November 11, 1807.

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Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association)

The Grand Prix is an annual award presented by the Belgian Film Critics Association (Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC).

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Greg Bryk

Gregory Michael Bryk (born 1972) is a Canadian film and television actor.

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Howard Shore

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores.

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Human sexual activity

Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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J. C. Spink

Jeffrey Christian "J.

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John Wagner

John Wagner (born 1949) is an American-born British comics writer.

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Josh Olson

Josh Olson is an American screenwriter and director.

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K&A Gang

The K&A Gang (currently known as the Northeast Philly Irish Mob) is a predominantly Irish American criminal network based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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King City, Ontario

King City is an unincorporated Canadian community in King, Ontario located north of Toronto.

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Kyle Schmid

Kyle Schmid (born August 3, 1984) is a Canadian actor.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Manohla Dargis

Manohla Dargis (born 1961) is one of the chief film critics for The New York Times, along with A. O. Scott.

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Maria Bello

Maria Elena Bello (born April 18, 1967) is an American actress and writer.

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Mark Kermode

Mark James Patrick Kermode (nocat Fairey; born 2 July 1963) is an English television and film critic and musician.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Morgan Kelly

Morgan Kelly (born 23 July 1976) is a Canadian actor, best known for his roles on Being Erica and Killjoys.

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New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema is an American film production studio a part of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2005

71st NYFCC Awards December 12, 2005 ---- Best Film: Brokeback Mountain The 71st New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 12 December 2005 at the Algonquin Hotel, New York City, United States.

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Online Film Critics Society Awards 2005

9th Online Film Critics Society Awards January 16, 2006 ---- Best Film: A History of Violence The 9th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 16 January 2006.

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Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Peter MacNeill

Peter MacNeill is a Canadian film and television actor and voice-over artist who has starred in several TV shows and films.

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Peter Suschitzky

Peter Suschitzky, A.S.C. (born July 25, 1941) is a British cinematographer and photographer.

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Peter Travers

Peter Travers is an American film critic and journalist, who has written for People and Rolling Stone.

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R. D. Reid

R.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Ronald Sanders

Ronald Sanders is a Canadian film editor and television producer.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2005

10th SDFCS Awards December, 2005 ---- Best Film: King Kong The 10th San Diego Film Critics Awards, honouring the best in film for 2005, were given in December, 2005 by the San Diego Film Critics Society.

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Self-defense

Self-defence (self-defense in some varieties of English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm.

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Stephen McHattie

Stephen McHattie (born Stephen McHattie Smith on February 3, 1947) is a Canadian actor.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres.

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Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2005

9th TFCA Awards December 21, 2005 ---- Best Film: A History of Violence The 9th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 21 December 2005.

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Tottenham, Ontario

Tottenham is a community in the town of New Tecumseth, in south-central Ontario, Canada.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Videodrome

Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry.

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Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is a Danish-American actor, producer, author, musician, photographer, poet, and painter.

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Village Voice Film Poll

The Village Voice Film Poll is an annual polling by The Village Voice film section of more than 100 major film critics for alternative media sources.

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Vince Locke

Vincent Locke is an American comic book artist known for his work on Deadworld and A History of Violence and for his ultraviolent album covers for death metal band Cannibal Corpse.

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William Hurt

William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor.

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Writers Guild of America Awards 2005

58th WGA Awards February 4, 2006 ---- Best Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain ---- Best Original Screenplay: Crash The 58th Writers Guild of America Awards, given on February 4, 2006, honored the best film and television writers of 2005.

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10th Satellite Awards

The 10th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2005, were given on December 17, 2005.

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2005 Cannes Film Festival

The 58th Cannes Film Festival started on 11 May and ran until 22 May 2005.

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2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 31st Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honored the best in film for 2005.

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2005 National Society of Film Critics Awards

40th NSFC Awards January 7, 2006 ---- Best Film: Capote The 40th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 7 January 2006, honored the best in film for 2005.

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59th British Academy Film Awards

The 59th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 19 February 2006 and honoured the best films of 2005.

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63rd Golden Globe Awards

The 63rd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 2005, were presented on January 16, 2006 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Los Angeles, California.

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78th Academy Awards

The 78th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Violence

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