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From today's featured article  Christian Bale (born 1974) is an English actor. Known for his versatility and recurring physical transformations to play his roles, Bale has been a leading man in films of several genres. Born in Wales, he had his breakthrough role at age 13 in the war film Empire of the Sun (1987) and gained wider recognition for his work in the black comedy American Psycho (2000) and the psychological thriller The Machinist (2004). Bale played the superhero Batman in Batman Begins (2005) and reprised the role in the sequels The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). He received acclaim for his performance in the trilogy, which is one of the highest-grossing film franchises. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of the boxer Dicky Eklund in the biographical film The Fighter (2010), Bale was listed on Forbes magazine's list of the highest-paid actors in 2014. (Full article...)

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Ongoing: Recent deaths&#58; On this day July 8: Day of Arafah (Islam, 2022)  Battle of Poltava Eli Lilly ( b. 1838)Percy Grainger ( b. 1882)<li>Sky Ferreira  ( b. 1992)</li></ul> More anniversaries: <h2 id="mp-tfl-h2" class="mp-h2">From today's featured list <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; color: inherit; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 120px;"> Austin Wintory The International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media is an annual award given by the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Established in 2007, the award is given to the composer of a video game score based on two criteria: "the effectiveness, appropriateness and emotional impact of the score in the context of the film for which it was written; and the technical and intellectual merit of the composition when heard as a standalone listening experience." As of 2022<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;">[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit &#91;update&#93;], 52 composers have been nominated for the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media. The first award was given to John Debney for his work on the video game Lair. The most recent recipients were Mark Mothersbaugh and Wataru Hokoyama for their work on the video game Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Austin Wintory (pictured) has been nominated eight times and won three; he is the only composer to have been nominated twice in the same year, which happened in 2016. (Full list...) Recently featured: <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:
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