Ving Rhames
Bringing Out the Dead
(1999)
Joe Connelly (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)
2 wins & 4 nominations.
Haunted by the patients he failed to save, an extremely burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three fraught and turbulent nights.
Mission: Impossible
(1996)
Bruce Geller (television series), David Koepp (story), Steven Zaillian (story), David Koepp (screenplay), Robert Towne (screenplay)
3 wins & 13 nominations.
Based on the hit T.V. series. Jim Phelps was sent to Prague for a mission to prevent the theft of classified material. His wife Claire and his trusted partner Ethan Hunt were members of Phelps' team. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong and the mission failed, leaving Ethan Hunt the lone survivor. After he reported the failed mission, Kettridge the head of the agency suspects Ethan of being the culprit for the failed mission. Now, Ethan uses unorthodox methods (Which includes the aid of an arms dealer going by the name "Max") to try to find who set him up and to clear his name.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
(2015)
Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay), Christopher McQuarrie (story), Drew Pearce (story), Bruce Geller (television series)
6 wins & 23 nominations.
CIA chief Hunley (Baldwin) convinces a Senate committee to disband the IMF (Impossible Mission Force), of which Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is a key member. Hunley argues that the IMF is too reckless. Now on his own, Hunt goes after a shadowy and deadly rogue organization called the Syndicate.
Mission: Impossible II
(2000)
Bruce Geller (creator television series Mission: Impossible), Ronald D. Moore (story), Brannon Braga (story), Robert Towne (screenplay)
10 wins & 18 nominations.
Chimera is a deadly virus that will bare a deathly death unless you are given the antidote. The creator of Chimera is murdered and the antidote is stolen by a disavowed IMF agent, Sean Ambrose. The Impossible Mission Force, IMF, hire the skilled and charming Ethan Hunt, and the beautiful Nyah Nirdoff-Hall, who has had her share with Ambrose. Their mission, should they choose to accept it is to send Hirdoff-Hall undercover to Ambrose and learn what she can for Hunt to bring down Chimera, but they will have to break into a secure lab by jumping off buildings and dodging bullets. Its impossible.
Out of Sight
(1998)
Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 12 nominations.
A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big scam, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.
Pulp Fiction
(1994)
Quentin Tarantino (story), Roger Avary (story), Quentin Tarantino
Won 1 Oscar. Another 54 wins & 60 nominations.
Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.
Surrogates
(2009)
Michael Ferris (screenplay), John Brancato (screenplay), Robert Venditti (graphic novel), Brett Weldele (graphic novel)
N/A
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.