Best Supporting Actor Nominatons – Stanely Tucci “The Lovely Bones” – 2010 Academy Awards
Stanley Tucci has had his ups and downs this year, he enjoyed critical favored roles in both The Lovely Bones and Julie & Julia. Although, not all has been good for the versatile actor, whose wife died last April after a fight with breast cancer. Tucci plays the main villain in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of […]
Christopher Plummer “The Last Station” – 2010 Best Supporting Actor Academy Awards (Video)
The Academy Awards are a curious event, an actor like Christopher Plummer, with an illustrious career can go almost his entire career without receiving a nomination. The 80 year old actor is receiving his first Oscar nomination for his role as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station. Plummer plays the famed author and philosopher in […]
Christoph Waltz Will Win Oscar Best Supporting Actor For “Inglorious Basterds”
Christoph Waltz is the front runner to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. He is sure to win the award for his brilliant performance as Col. Hans Landa. This is Christoph Waltz’s first Oscar nomination, for best actor in a supporting role (Inglorious Basterds). In “Inglorious Basterds,” Christoph […]
Woody Harrelson “The Messenger” – 2010 Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nomination (Video)
Gritty dramas based around the Iraq War were a popular subject in films in 2009. Dominating the award season is The Hurt Locker. Which means another film based in all of the Iraq War drama has been passed up, The Messenger. Staff Sergeant William Montgomery (Ben Foster) and Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) are part […]
Best Supporting Actor 2010 – Matt Damon in “Invictus”
This year at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Matt Damon will be up for the award for best supporting actor in “Invictus.” This is Damon’s third Oscar nomination. He has been nominated best actor in a lead role, and won the Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Good Will Hunting, 1997). […]
Jeremy Renner “The Hurt Locker” – 2010 Best Actor Oscar Nomination (Video)
Jeremy Renner is enjoying his first Academy Award nomination with Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker. Renner plays Sergeant First Class William James who is the slightly reckless leader of an EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) unit, and follows him and his crew who are winding down their last days of their tour in Iraq. This tense […]
Colin Firth “A Single Man” – 2010 Best Actor Oscar Nomination (Video)
Veteran British Actor is up for his first Academy Award nomination for the Tom Ford directed picture, A Single Man. Set in 1962 A Single Man tells the story of George Falconer an openly gay professor who is dealing with the death of his partner, Jim (Matthew Goode). The film is told through a single […]
Morgan Freeman in “Invictus” – Best Actor 2010 Oscar Nominee
Morgan Freeman is nominated for best actor in a lead role for “Invictus,” at the 2010 Academy Awards. This is Freeman’s fifth Oscar nomination. He has been nominated twice for best supporting actor, and won once (Million Dollar Baby, 2004). He has also been nominated twice for best actor in a lead role. This is […]
Jeff Bridges “Crazy Heart” – 2010 Best Actor Oscar Nomination (Video)
Jeff Bridges is a veteran Hollywood actor who was just recently nominated for an Academy Award for his work as Bad Blake in the film Crazy Heart. In the film he plays the down on his luck ex-Country superstar who has been reduced to playing backwater bars, and in some cases bowling alleys. When interviewed […]
George Clooney “Up in the Air” – 2010 Academy Award Nominee for Best Actor
George Clooney is nominated for best actor in a lead role, for “Up in the Air,” at the 2010 Academy Awards. This is Clooney’s sixth Oscar nomination. He has been nominated twice for best supporting actor, and won once (Syriana, 2005). He has also been nominated once for each best writing and original screenplay, and […]