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Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 5 of 5)
30 May 2012 10:08 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Gary Oldman as Jackie Flannery in State Of Grace (Phil Joanou, 1990, USA):
Long considered one of the most talented actors in cinema, it’s very strange that his outstanding acting as the younger brother of Ed Harris’ local crime boss in this underrated film doesn’t get talked about nearly enough when discussing Oldman’s body of work. This is a must-see performance for all Oldman fans. For the record, State Of Grace is a far better Irish mob film than The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006, USA), primarily because it contains much better acting across the board. Oldman was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011, UK/France).
Other notable Gary Oldman performances: Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears, 1987, USA), Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992, USA), True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993, USA), Leon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994, France), Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997, USA), The Contender (Rod Lurie, »
- Terek Puckett
Sandwiches with Gary Oldman
21 April 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In 1987, the actor wasn't keen on theatre audiences eating chocolates
In 1987 I met Gary Oldman backstage at Chelsea's Royal Court, where he was playing a corporate raider in Caryl Churchill's Serious Money. Oldman provided tea and cheese sandwiches, then let me watch his makeup being applied.
"Mentally I'm not in London at the moment, I'm in North Carolina working on Nic Roeg's Track 29," he admitted, Cheshire cheese crumbling on to his battered corduroy trousers. "This morning I discovered a shooting schedule in the mail. I'd been hoping the scene in which I assault Theresa Russell would be in week six, but it's the first scene on the first day."
Prick Up Your Ears, in which he played Joe Orton, was shortly to be released, and he explained how he'd "spent many an evening in curry houses drinking Guinness" to look "older, fatter and queenier", whereas to portray »
- John Hind
Gary Oldman Thrills NY Crowd With Stories of The Dark Knight Rises, His Paralyzing Fear Of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and How Call Of Duty Made Him A Very Cool Dad
9 February 2012 7:16 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Gary Oldman wrapped up his 3-day, 7-film retrospective at New York's Landmark Sunshine Cinema with a fun, extended Q&A after Wednesday night's screening of his Oscar-nominated performance in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The first time Academy Award nominee fielded questions from a theater filled with hundreds of his fans with nearly an hour. Oldman also hung around for autographs, pictures and additional questions. Hit the jump for stories from the set of The Dark Knight Rises, his paralyzing doubt on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and what he thought while watching Heath Ledger as The Joker. The event, co-sponsored by Focus Features (Tinker Tailor's distributor) and Wnyc (public radio) is one of several recent 3-day retrospectives of Oldman's work in Los Angeles and San Francisco, held in conjunction with the film's nationwide rollout. Sid & Nancy, JFK, The Contender, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Prick Up Your Ears and State Of Grace all »
- Ron Messer
Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great
9 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Hailed by John Hurt as the 'best of the bunch', Oldman is a working-class hero acclaimed for his acting and directing
Gary Oldman returns to London this weekend in the role of prodigal son, the wayward talent brought in from the cold. He arrives from California to find a landscape very different from the one he left in the early 1990s.
The fiery social-realist BBC teleplays that provided an early calling card have bitten the dust. The cult of the raw-boned working-class British performer has been largely replaced by a roll call of Etonians and Harrovians: a rash of Redmaynes, Hiddlestons and Cumberbatches. And so, at the age of 53, Oldman touches down like some disreputable Rip Van Winkle, a reminder of times gone by. All of which makes him more striking – and arguably more necessary – than he was before.
If they handed out awards for nuance and subtlety, shade and stealth, »
- Xan Brooks
Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great
9 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hailed by John Hurt as the 'best of the bunch', Oldman is a working-class hero acclaimed for his acting and directing
Gary Oldman returns to London this weekend in the role of prodigal son, the wayward talent brought in from the cold. He arrives from California to find a landscape very different from the one he left in the early 1990s.
The fiery social-realist BBC teleplays that provided an early calling card have bitten the dust. The cult of the raw-boned working-class British performer has been largely replaced by a roll call of Etonians and Harrovians: a rash of Redmaynes, Hiddlestons and Cumberbatches. And so, at the age of 53, Oldman touches down like some disreputable Rip Van Winkle, a reminder of times gone by. All of which makes him more striking – and arguably more necessary – than he was before.
If they handed out awards for nuance and subtlety, shade and stealth, »
- Xan Brooks
Paula Poundstone Photo: Art Directors Guild Awards 2012
7 February 2012 5:27 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Paula Poundstone Comedian Paula Poundstone acted as host of the Art Directors Guild Awards last Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, while Adg president Thomas A. Walsh presided over the awards ceremony and 65-year-old Ben Vereen (Funny Lady, All That Jazz) performed as a "special musical guest." That was Poundstone's third consecutive gig at the Adg Awards. [Full list of 2012 Art Directors Guild winners and nominees.] Presenters at the ceremony included Ed Asner (Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant), Alexandra Breckenridge (American Horror Story), Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly), 1996 Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee James Cromwell (Babe, The Artist), Melanie Lynskey (Up in the Air), Penelope Ann Miller (Chaplin, The Artist), Kevin McHale (Glee), 2012 Best Actor Oscar nominee Gary Oldman (Prick Up Your Ears, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Vinessa Shaw (3:10 to Yuma), and Max Greenfield (New Girl). Among the evening's award winners were Dante Ferretti for Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Stuart Craig for David Yates' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 »
- D. Zhea
Ed Asner Photo: Art Directors Guild Awards 2012
7 February 2012 5:06 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Ed Asner Veteran television and film actor Ed Asner (Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant) was one of the presenters at the 2012 Art Directors Guild Awards held last Saturday. Winners for excellence in production design included Martin Scorsese's period film Hugo (Dante Ferretti), David Yates' fantasy film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Stuart Craig), and David Fincher's contemporary film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Donald Graham Burt). [Full list of 2012 Art Directors Guild winners and nominees.] Art Directors Guild president Thomas A. Walsh presided over the awards ceremony, while comedian Paula Poundstone served as host for the third consecutive year. In addition to Asner, Adg Awards presenters included Alexandra Breckenridge (American Horror Story), Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly), James Cromwell (Babe, The Artist), Melanie Lynskey (Up In The Air), Penelope Ann Miller (Chaplin, The Artist), Kevin McHale (Glee), Gary Oldman (Prick Up Your Ears, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Vinessa Shaw (3:10 to Yuma), and Max Greenfield (New Girl). Also, »
- D. Zhea
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Hugo: Art Directors Guild Winners
4 February 2012 11:55 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Martin Scorsese's Hugo (period film), David Yates' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (fantasy film), and David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (contemporary film) were the feature-film winners at the Art Directors Guild's 16th Excellence in Production Design Awards, held this evening at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The respective production design winners were Dante Ferretti (photo), Stuart Craig, and Donald Graham Burt. [Full list of 2012 Art Directors Guild winners and nominees.] Both Ferretti (with frequent collaborator/set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo) and Craig (with set decorator Stephenie McMillan ) are in the running for the Best Art Direction Academy Award. Their competitors are Laurence Bennett and set decorator Robert Gould for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, Anne Seibel and set decorator Hélène Dubreuil for Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, and Rick Carter and set decorator Lee Sandales for Steven Spielberg's War Horse. Among the »
- Andre Soares
NYC Retrospective for Oscar Nominee Gary Oldman: 'Tinker Tailor,' 'Sid and Nancy,' 'Dracula' and More
1 February 2012 10:45 AM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Oscar and BAFTA award nominee Gary Oldman ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy") is getting a six-film retrospective in New York City, to include free screenings of "The Contender," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "JFK," "Prick Up Your Ears," "Sid and Nancy" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." Wnyc Radio is hosting the retrospective at Landmark Theatres' Sunshine Cinema; Oldman will attend a Q & A following the "Tinker" screening on February 8. Tickets are available here. More on the screenings below: The other films being screened in the series are Sid and Nancy (1986), which starred Mr. Oldman as »
Oldman Takes Manhattan: Free Film Retrospective
1 February 2012 7:00 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
You could hear a collective cheer from the film world when Gary Oldman's Oscar nomination was announced last week. To celebrate, Wnyc Radio is hosting a free retrospective of six of Gary Oldman's most famous films. The screenings, 2 per night from February 6 through 8, will end with Focus Features' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, where Gary Oldman will be present for a live Q and A after the film to discuss the role of George Smiley, which finally secured him a nomination. In addition to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the other famous Oldman films screened in the series will be Sid and Nancy, JFK, The Contender, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Prick Up Your Ears. It's hard to believe that this is the first time that Oldman has been recognized by the Academy. Just like the character of George Smiley, the legendary Brit has tackled many famous figures, both real and fictional, »
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