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 Oscar-winning actor talks about his most emotionally intense role to date as a hustler and devoted single dad dying of cancer in a gut-wrenching drama by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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The talented, brooding actor, who some critics have labeled “the next Brando,” chats about his Golden Globe-nominated role as a crazy-in-love young man whose relationship slowly disintegrates.
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The acclaimed new film from the writer-director of Lost in Translation, about a jaded, Chateau Marmont-dwelling movie star who reconnects with his 11-year-old daughter. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2010 Venice Film Festival.
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Starring as a couple mourning the death of their young child in the emotionally intense, Oscar bait drama from director John Cameron Mitchell.
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The stars chat about their timely drama about corporate layoffs, The Town, their own hiring and firing stories, and more, at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
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