Research Of Thomas McCarthy's Film Art

At the 88^th Oscar Academy Awards ceremony in 2016,Thomas McCarthy,the American independent director,won the awards of the best original screenplay and the award of best picture with the movie<spotlight>.During the 30 years of his career,Thomas McCarthy has only participated in editing movie for seven times and directing movie for 5 times,and yet he was favored by the film festivals and award ceremony.Totally he was nominated and won various of awards for 17 times.He has also act in movie and tv series for over ten times.He has achieved a greater level in his career through the success of<spotlight>.This man who has been dedicating his whole into film industry will remarkably be written in the history of movie.And we should know more about him.The passage start from Thomas McCarthy's acting,directing and editing and try to conclude the style,the method and the conception of his film making.By gathering the information I will analyze which value,philosophy and esthetic does his works reflects.Additionally the external culture and environment will be included in my discussion.Then,the passage will explore Thomas McCarthy's identity of being both actor and director which is so called the“double identity”and find out his thought on being both of them.This part will be focusing on his expression in his movie making and finding if the actor experience of his will benefit his director career,therefore,we will be benefit from his experience and inspire our own movie making.The author will firstly sort Thomas McCarthy's works with the knowledge of history and gives a objective description about his works.Then the author will combine the movie criticism and cultural background to research the theme and its cultural reflection,studying Thomas McCarthy's works'meaning and significance.On the screen,Thomas McCarthy has been successfully sculpted a numbers of characters and each of them are featured differently.He has his own expression and unique acting style which is rich of humor and exquisite.He is an actor who was capable of building character through details of facial expressions.His action is logical and stylish.And these are keys to his successful acting.Thomas McCarthy edits all the works that he directs,all of his works focuses on the minor characters and their daily life,reflecting the social reality that may not be so noticed.As an editor,Thomas McCarthy has a solid writing skills.He is very personalized of his screenplay construction and event plots.Though each of his works focus on realistic problem,and the character that he creates may be flawed in their characters,the warming and beauty of humanity is always the theme that his screenplay would like to show.His story and characters are not only performed by words,but also performed by proper visual expression.As an independent film maker,he can always manage to perform is work in the most concise way.By using all the visual and vocal techniques,Thomas McCarthy makes his screenplay alive.The passage focuses on Thomas McCarthy's acting,directing and editing and combines his theory of making movie and look forward to inspiring the minds of us,the younger movie makers.