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Taxi Driver is a 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd, and a young Jodie Foster. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The film gained notoriety when John Hinckley, Jr. confessed that it was his

Minnie Driver (born Amelia Fiona J. Driver; 31 January 1970) is an English actress and singer songwriter. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. Driver was born Amelia Fiona J. Driver in Finsbury Park, London, the daughter of Gaynor Churchward (née Millington), a designer and former couture model, and Ronnie Driver, a businessman. Driver's mother was her father's mistress, and her father's wife was not aware of

A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a lorry driver or driver in Ireland and the United Kingdom), is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck, usually a semi truck, box truck, or dump truck. Truck drivers provide an essential service to industrialized societies by transporting finished goods and raw materials over land, typically to and from manufacturing plants, retail and distribution

Driver is a series of mission based driving video games developed by Reflections Interactive (now Ubisoft Reflections), and originally published by GT Interactive and later by Atari. The gameplay consists of a mixture of action, driving, and third person shooting in open world environments. Since the series began in 1999 there have been five installments released, with a sixth one on the way. The first game of the Driver series was released for the PlayStation on June 30, 1999 in the US. It was

Driver is an unincorporated community in the independent city of Suffolk, Virginia, United States. It is located at the junction of State Route 337, State Route 125, and State Route 627. Originally named Persimmon Orchard , Driver was once located on the now abandoned Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's line in the former Nansemond County between the former town of Suffolk and the City of Portsmouth, which was itself was located in the former Norfolk County. Through traffic in Driver formerly used

Martin C. Scorsese (pronounced /skɔrˈsɛsi/; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a non profit organization dedicated to film preservation. Scorsese's body of

CBeebies is a television channel produced by the BBC aimed at children 6 years and under. First launched on 11 February 2002, it is broadcast as both a free to air domestic British television channel, and as international variants supported by advertising, subscription or both. The channel has been nominated for, and won, many awards. At the BAFTA Children's Awards it has won awards in every year from 2002 2009 (apart from 2003), including Best Pre school Live Action Series awards in 2002, 2004

Ferruccio Amendola (Turin, July 22, 1930 Rome, September 3, 2001) was an actor and Italian dubber who worked for cinema and television. Son of actors, nephew of director/screenwriter Mario Amendola, he started in films with Gian Burrasca directed by Sergio Tofano and soon began working as a dubber. After years of theater magazines, cinema and TV, in 1968 he began devoting most of his time to dubbing. Amendola is best known as the Italian dubber of famous actors including Al Pacino, Sylvester

The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth literature prize) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's literature. It is Germany's only state funded literary award. In the past, authors from many countries have been recognised, including non German speakers. The 2010 nomineees were announced in March, and the prizes will be awarded on 8th October 2010. The award is