They got Kevin Spacey, one of Hollywoods best regarded character actors to play the lead.
Other big names at the ceremony included actors Michael Douglas, Matthew Broderick, Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman.
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Kevin Spacey gives an Oscar-caliber performance as Lester Burnham, a man only going through the motions of living.
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John Boorman's The General and Kevin Spacey's comedy Ordinary Decent Criminal viewed the same milieu from the lawbreaker's perspective.
Dramatised by the BBC in 1990, Dobbs' House of Cards novel recently inspired a US remake starring Kevin Spacey.
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The US remake, produced by the online streaming service Netflix, stars Kevin Spacey and relocates the action to Washington DC.
Based on a British series, the political drama stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright and is directed by David Fincher.
And Kevin Spacey, as their steely office manager, Williamson, plants a daringly long fuse and ignites it with the smallest flicker.
Making the announcement, actor Kevin Spacey described De Niro as being "universally acknowledged as one of the greatest actors of all time".
Plays featuring star performers such as Kevin Spacey's sell-out run in Richard III have been attributed to the boost in audience figures.
It will have taken a year from when Netflix announced the plan to develop this series, starring Kevin Spacey, to its debut.
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Actors Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Claire Danes, who play government characters on series, were among the attendees, as was Korean entertainer Psy.
Thank goodness, then, for Kevin Spacey, who brings a glee and relish to Luthor's larger-than-life villainy that compensates for the slightly sombre whole.
House of Cards is executive produced by Fincher, Willimon, Joshua Donen, Eric Roth, Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs and John Melfi.
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Actor Kevin Spacey met in the dressing room with both players ahead of the match and later tweeted a photo of himself with them.
The wildly entertaining 13-episode series about the soap-opera-like underbelly of politics in the U.S., features a performance by Kevin Spacey that critics are raving about.
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Netflix says it added 3 million streaming customers in the period, as it debuted more original content, the widely praised, Kevin Spacey-led House of Cards.
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The company previously made waves in the TV industry by bypassing established networks and filming its own remake of British political drama House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey.
Kevin Spacey plays Richard as a sort of Barnum of barbarity.
Upon American actor Kevin Spacey's appointment this winter as artistic director of London's famed Old Vic theatrical company, newspaper comment focused on the troupe's dire financial straits.
Some of the night's best lines actually came from Kevin Spacey, who participated in a comedic video billed as "secret footage" showing how the Correspondents' Dinner comes together.
The trailer is brief, but the style and everything we can see of star Kevin Spacey as Congressman Francis Underwood has the feel of a high quality production.
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Adapted from a British political thriller, and produced by David Fincher, the series stars Kevin Spacey as a mercenary Democratic House Majority Whip and Robin Wright as his wife.
"The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances, " said Kevin Spacey, artistic director of the Old Vic.
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The defeated suburban patriarch Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), condemned by his withdrawn daughter (Thora Birch) and his hyperorganized wife (Annette Bening), drops out of his job and misbehaves badly.
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