Arguably the biggest surprise of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 16 – aside from host Ricky Gervais’ acerbic wit and Natalie Portman’s maniacal cackle – came courtesy of a schlubby, balding, bespectacled actor. Paul Giamatti stunned the crowd with his upset win for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, for his performance as foulmouthed screw-up Barney Panofsky in BARNEY’S VERSION. Giamatti is no stranger to the Golden Globes, having won in 2008 for the HBO television miniseries, “John Adams.” However, his win at the 2011 Globes – over more ballyhooed stars like Johnny Depp and ...
It’s the “best performance since Brando in ‘The Last Tango in Paris’,” according to Sean Penn. “Javier is on another level from the rest of us,” said Ben Affleck. Granted, both of these thesps heaping praise on Javier Bardem’s quietly devastating performance in BIUTIFUL are more than a little biased – Penn starred in director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “21 Grams,” and Affleck just wrapped a new Terrence Malick film with Bardem in Paris – but many are calling Bardem’s performance in “Biutiful” the best of his career. Unfortunately, its been shut out of the awards so far due to the heavy-handedness ...
Whether or not you believe Ryan Gosling, the brooding, wounded 30-year-old actor, is the next Brando, he is undoubtedly one of the most exciting actors of his generation. The native of London, Ontario, Canada got his start as a cast member on “The Mickey Mouse Club” alongside cast mates Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and others. He dropped out of high school at 17 to shoot “Young Hercules” in New Zealand, and received his big break as a racially intolerant young cornerback in the 2000 film “Remember the Titans,” starring Denzel Washington. But it was his role as Danny Balint, ...
The versatile actor chats about his method approach to playing a marine in the alien invasion blockbuster, how he acted through a broken arm, and what he learned acting alongside Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.
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The Oscar-nominated actor chats about his sci-fi romance that’s like a cross between Dark City and Stranger Than Fiction, co-starring the fetching Emily Blunt.
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The Gossip Girl star and the Friday Night Lights actress/Derek Jeter’s fiancée chat about their first lead roles in this ‘reimagining’ of Single White Female, about a college freshman who begins terrorizing her roommate.
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Based on the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler, Giamatti stars – in a Golden Globe-winning role – as a man who falls in love with another woman on his wedding night. The film also stars Minnie Driver and Dustin Hoffman.
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The Knocked Up comedic actor chats about his first stab at a superhero film, starring as billionaire playboy Britt Reid, who, along with his Kung-Fu fightin’ chauffeur Kato and their beautifully lethal ride, Black Beauty, rid the streets of crime.
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