Best Supporting Actor Oscar Predictions 2014 (photo: Jared Leto in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’) As explained in our previous Oscar 2014 predictions post, this year’s Academy Award nominations in the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories initially looked impossible to predict. For Best Supporting Actor, Jared Leto was the front-runner for his performance as a transsexual with AIDS in Dallas Buyers Club, and Michael Fassbender was another strong possibility for his evil planter in 12 Years a Slave — but who else? (See also: "Oscar Predictions 2014 Best Actress: Meryl Streep Possibly to Break Another Record," "Oscar Predictions 2014 Best Actor: Robert Redford Possible Near-Record," "Best Supporting Actress 2014 Oscar Predictions: Jennifer Lawrence and/or Scarlett Johansson to Make Oscar History?" and "Oscar Predictions 2014: Best Picture, Best Director.") A couple of weeks ago, the SAG Award nominations helped to clarify things some, but, just as in the Best Supporting Actress category, there remains quite...
- 1/8/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever At Film Threat, Phil Hall comes up with a follow-up to his 2008 article about important lost films. Among the 50 titles on Hall's highly eclectic new list are a version of Carmen (1915) starring Fox vamp Theda Bara; The Life of General Villa (1914), in which Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa plays himself and future filmmaker Raoul Walsh played Villa as a young man; and the Rudolph Valentino vehicle A Sainted Devil (1924). Also, the 1928 version of Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, featuring Ruth Taylor; Jealousy (1929) one of two talkies (the other being The Letter) starring Broadway legend Jeanne Eagels; Lon Chaney's last silent film, Thunder (1929); and Alam Ara (1931), the first Indian talking picture. And more: Heartache (1936), the first Cantonese-language American production; segments from what was to become part III of Sergei [...]...
- 4/20/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Exactly one year to the day since his death from an accidental drug overdose, Heath Ledger was remembered Thursday with an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor for his performance as the deranged Joker in "The Dark Knight."
Ledger, who died at age 28, became the seventh actor to earn a posthumous nomination in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. If he wins the statuette at the 81st annual Academy Awards on Feb. 22, he will enter even more select company, for only one performer, Peter Finch, nominated for 1976's "Network," has ever won an Oscar after his death.
The other actors who left the scene before their work scored nominations include Jeanne Eagels (best actress, "The Letter," 1929) to Spencer Tracy (actor, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" 1967), Ralph Richardson, (supporting actor, "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan," 1984) and Massimo Troisi ("Il Postino," 1994, best actor). Ledger's career most closely resembles that of James Dean,...
Ledger, who died at age 28, became the seventh actor to earn a posthumous nomination in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. If he wins the statuette at the 81st annual Academy Awards on Feb. 22, he will enter even more select company, for only one performer, Peter Finch, nominated for 1976's "Network," has ever won an Oscar after his death.
The other actors who left the scene before their work scored nominations include Jeanne Eagels (best actress, "The Letter," 1929) to Spencer Tracy (actor, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" 1967), Ralph Richardson, (supporting actor, "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan," 1984) and Massimo Troisi ("Il Postino," 1994, best actor). Ledger's career most closely resembles that of James Dean,...
- 1/22/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Synchronize the Watches: Nominations are due to be announced at 5:30 a.m. Pt tomorrow. Why You Can Forget About What Happened at the Globes: At the Globes, a film like Slumdog Millionaire held a decided advantage—a decided geographic advantage—over a film like Benjamin Button. To quote the positively thrilled Hollywood Foreign Press member who introduced the victorious Slumdog-ers to the Globes pressroom: "They're from Bombay! Like me!" Before You Ask, and You Will: If Heath Ledger is nominated, he will be the seventh person nominated posthumously for an acting Osar. Jeanne Eagles (1929's The Letter) was the first; Massimo Troisi (1995's Il Postino) is the most recent. James...
- 1/21/2009
- E! Online
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