He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational " mockumentary " films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast.

The cast members made efforts to keep the ensemble format and not allow one member to dominate ; they entered themselves in the same acting categories for awards, opted for collective salary negotiations, and asked to appear together on magazine cover photos in the first season.

Much like its predecessor Cheers, Frasier used an ensemble cast with storylines involving the central group of characters.

He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film The Royal Tenenbaums and in yet another Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman.

In the summer of 2011 a lot of the surviving cast and an ensemble of country artists taped a Country's Family Reunion special, entitled Salute to the Kornfield, which aired on RFD-TV in January 2012.

He quickly developed a reputation as a character actor, and was cast in bigger roles, including one-half of the bickering Connecticut couple in the dark comedy The Ref ( 1994 ), a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire Swimming with Sharks, and the malevolent office manager in the all-star ensemble film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ), gaining him positive notices by critics.

She was part of an ensemble cast that included Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, and David Alan Grier.

She was part of an ensemble cast that included Julia Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Julia Stiles.

While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.

This series, produced by Steven Bochco, featured many elements borrowed from soap operas such as an ensemble cast, multi-episode storylines, and extensive character development over the course of the series.

Later that year, Soderbergh released Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and featuring an ensemble cast.

The ensemble show toured around the country and included a rotating cast of singer-songwriters individually performing Guthrie's songs.

Known for the location, theme song, and ensemble cast, Hawaii Five-O is also noted for its liberal use of exterior location shooting throughout the entire twelve seasons.

Writing in Variety, Todd McCarthy said the cast ensemble " could not be better "; he praised Spacey's " handling of innuendo, subtle sarcasm and blunt talk " and the way he imbued Lester with " genuine feeling ".

In 2006, Hunt appeared in the ensemble cast film Bobby alongside Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone and William H. Macy.

It features an ensemble cast including Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Keith David and Steve Buscemi.

Kozintzev described his vision of the film as an ensemble piece: with Lear, played by a dynamic Jüri Järvet, as first among equals in a cast of fully developed characters.

The series featured an ensemble cast that mixed musical numbers and choreography throughout storylines.

It features an ensemble cast including Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, and others.

The large ensemble cast includes David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert DoQui, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield, Henry Gibson, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Harris, David Hayward, Michael Murphy, Allan F. Nicholls, Cristina Raines, Bert Remsen, Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles, and Keenan Wynn.

Other Altman trademarks prevalent in the film are the large ensemble cast and the overlapping dialogue with several characters speaking at once.

Chinese Roulette ( Chinesisches Roulette ) is a gothic thriller with an ensemble cast, the story follows a twelve year old crippled girl who, out of hate for her parents lack of affection, arranges an encounter between them with their respective lovers at the family country estate.

The fast-paced scripts and ensemble cast combined physical humor and sight gags with smart dialogue and absurd storylines.

Cass was also part of the nine member ensemble cast for the 1960 Broadway revue A Thurber Carnival, adapted by James Thurber from his own works.

Dogma is a 1999 American adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars in the film along with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo, Alanis Morissette, and Jason Mewes.

They consisted of a new arrangement of `` Nutcracker '' excerpts danced stunningly by Irina Kolpakova and Mr. Sokolev, with a large ensemble ; ;

The original Band Aid ensemble consisted of ( in sleeve order ):

The ensemble consisted of two trumpets, trombone, French horn and tuba.

The sessions featured Davis's ensemble sextet, which consisted of pianist Bill Evans ( Wynton Kelly on one track ), drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian " Cannonball " Adderley.

Musical groups at that time consisted of marching band, concert band, orchestra, chorus, glee club, show group, women's chorus, and string ensemble.

Upon her departure, Creager's ensemble consisted of her and Jonathon TeBeest.

Unlike Works Volume 1 ( which consisted of three solo sides and one ensemble side ), Volume 2 was a single album which seemingly was a compilation of leftover tracks from other album sessions that had not made those albums.

The ICO consisted only of strings as its regular ensemble for many years, adding wind, brass and percussion players on a freelance basis when needed.

Each speaking clock ensemble consisted of two announcing units ( Zag 500 ), a supervisory unit ( CCU 500 ), two phase-locked oscillators, two pulse distribution units, a Civil Time Receiver ( plus a spare ), and two or four Computime 1200 baud modems.

Third Watch's original ensemble cast in the series ' first season consisted of Michael Beach, Coby Bell, Bobby Cannavale, Eddie Cibrian, Molly Price, Kim Raver, Anthony Ruivivar, Skipp Sudduth, and Jason Wiles.

These bands consisted of a relatively small horn section, piano, bass, a full array of Cuban percussion instruments and a vocalist fronting the ensemble.

According to Charles Suhor, Dixieland is characterized, and differentiated from earlier Jazz forms, by “ more conventional tones of wind instruments, rejection of rapid vibratos, greater instrumental facility, and considerable attention to solos, which are routinely “ passed around ” in between opening and closing ensemble Choruses .” Burke's repertoire consisted primarily of old standards.

By the time of that recording the ensemble consisted of Custer LaRue ( soprano ), Ronn McFarlane ( lute ), Mary Anne Ballard ( viols, fiddle ), Larry Lipkis ( bass viol, recorder ), Chris Norman ( flutes, bagpipes, bodhran ), Howard Bass ( bandora ), and Mark Cudek ( cittern, bass viol ).

The ensemble of the Ferhadija mosque consisted of the mosque itself, the courtyard, a graveyard, the fountain, 3 mausoleums (" turbes ") and the surrounding wall with the gate.

1995's festival featured another performance of John Zorn's Cobra " game piece " including many of the same performers from the previous year ; Machine For Making Sense, which consisted of Rik Rue, Chris Mann, Jim Denley, Amanda Stewart, and Stevie Wishart ; Lucas Abela's Pealed Hearts Paste project ; percussion ensemble Utungun Percussion in performance with Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim ; Tony Buck ; performance art group Distraziione ed Innovazione ; and Ear Rational Music.

Originally, the front ensemble consisted of keyboard percussion and timpani, the marching versions of which are heavy and awkward.

The ensemble consisted of five pavilions with double-eaved roofs connected by bamboo verandas.

The performances lasted approximately 25 minutes and consisted of a combination of all the course cohorts work to create an ensemble physical theatre performance.

The ensemble consisted of up to four part vocals led by Matthew McQueen, backed by pianist Karl Brown, with violin, flute / sax, and a string bassist and drummer from the San Francisco Lesbian / Gay Freedom Band.

After the first year of this service they were transferred to the local army ensemble which consisted of orchestra, choir and ballet.