All-star

An all-star team is a group of people all having a high level of performance in their field. Originating in sports, it has since drifted into

entertainment industry

.

Sports

"All-star" as a sports term refers to individual players named to an "all-star" roster or team representing the top performers (members of such a team were all stars from other teams) during and before the end of a season in a given sport, or to a list of top participants who played in individual sports such as golf and bowling. Events limited to such honorees are referred to as "all-star games" or events.

In American team sports the premier all-star games are the

NFL Draft

in April.

In

Ladies' Gaelic football, hurling, rounders and camogie

).

Entertainment

Cinema

The term "all star" is also used in films, often used as a form of publicity gimmick to promote the cast of a movie in which a number of high-profile actors appear, sometimes merely in cameo roles.^[1] An archetype is the 1956 version of Around the World in 80 Days.

Television

Some

franchise

. These can include entire seasons where the alumni compete against each other, or a spin-off competition with a different format.

Sometimes, all-star crossovers may be organized between contestants of multiple reality formats; the MTV series The Challenge was originally a competition spin-off of its reality shows The Real World and Road Rules, but later seasons began to increasingly include alumni from other popular reality series such as The Amazing Race, Big Brother, RuPaul's Drag Race, and Survivor.^[2]^[3]

Music

"All-stars" in music terms is referred to record labels or a music genre's top musical artists. An example of this includes the single "

Grime All-Stars". Sometimes, labels organize such all-star sessions to release dedicated albums. Examples of this case are the collective This Mortal Coil under the 4AD label, or the Roadrunner United sessions by Roadrunner Records. The term is not equivalent to supergroup

, which refers to a group made of already established musicians from other popular bands or with a successful solo career.

Comics

The All Star DC Comics was an imprint of ongoing American comic book titles published by DC Comics that ran from 2005 to 2008. DC has published two titles under the All-Star banner, featuring Batman and Superman. The premise of the imprint was to partner DC Comics' top tier characters with the most popular and acclaimed writers and artists.

References

^ "Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey head all-star cast in 'The Butler'". Boston Herald. August 16, 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
^ Alston, Joshua (September 14, 2015). "How MTV's The Challenge became one of TV's most riveting workplace dramas". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
^ Wieselman, Jarett (October 6, 2016). "The Most Influential Reality Show In TV History". BuzzFeed. Retrieved May 21, 2022.

External links

Daniel Hubschman (Feb 14, 2011). "All Star Ensemble Casts". Hollywood.com.

[1] "Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey head all-star cast in 'The Butler'". Boston Herald. August 16, 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-23.

[avclub-2] Alston, Joshua (September 14, 2015). "How MTV's The Challenge became one of TV's most riveting workplace dramas". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 21, 2022.

[buzzfeed-3] Wieselman, Jarett (October 6, 2016). "The Most Influential Reality Show In TV History". BuzzFeed. Retrieved May 21, 2022.

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