When Daniel Kaluuya won the 2021 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” he became the 77th performer to be honored for a portrayal of a real person. There has been at least one such case across the four acting categories in 19 of the last 20 years, with the 2017 quartet being the last to all win for playing fictional characters. This year, there are nine nominees with the potential to continue the trend, including two whose real-life counterparts are still living.
In Oscar history, it is most common for a win of this kind to come in the Best Actor category. In the nine decades since George Arliss prevailed here for playing Benjamin Disraeli in “Disraeli” (1930), 27 more lead male champs have followed, and they now account for 30% of all victories in the category. The six who have triumphed in the last decade alone...
In Oscar history, it is most common for a win of this kind to come in the Best Actor category. In the nine decades since George Arliss prevailed here for playing Benjamin Disraeli in “Disraeli” (1930), 27 more lead male champs have followed, and they now account for 30% of all victories in the category. The six who have triumphed in the last decade alone...
- 3/15/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
The lavish production of "War and Peace" is sure to be an Emmy contender in a slew of below-the-line categories. And leads Paul Dano, Lily James and James Norton are strong contenders too. Among the supporting players, the standout is Jim Broadbent. He steals every scene in which he appears as Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky, an aristocrat who struggles to maintain his stature in tsarist Russia during the Napoleonic era. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Emmy Predictions Broadbent won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar back in 2001 for his turn in "Iris" as writer John Bayley whose wife, author Iris Murdoch, was afflicted by Alzheimer's disease. And he is well-known to TV academy voters. He contended in this category in 2002 for his performance in "The Gathering Storm"; he lost to Michael Moriarty ("James Dean"). And in 2007, he was nominated up in...'...
- 3/3/2016
- Gold Derby
It is going to be a sizzling August in Jodhpur where the impressive multi-cultural cast of Gurinder Chadha's new film The Viceroy's House will soon gather. The film chronicles the last months of Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina's stay in India before British rule ended. The very talented British actor Hugh Bonneville, who has endeared himself to critics and audiences playing a gallery of real-life characters including John Bayley and Sir Christopher Wren, is playing Lord Mountbatten, while Gillian Anderson of X Files plays his wife Edwina. Interestingly the film casts Huma Qureshi with Manish Dayal in a romantic space. Manish was the critics' delight last year as the Indian chef in France in Lasse Hailstrom's well-received The 100 Foot Journey. Manish, who rose to instant stardom, would be happy to have his screen-dad Om Puri from The 100 Foot Journey back as a co-star in Chadha's film. Chadha is...
- 8/8/2015
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Glenda Jackson: Actress and former Labour MP. Two-time Oscar winner and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson returns to acting Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson set aside her acting career after becoming a Labour Party MP in 1992. Four years ago, Jackson, who represented the Greater London constituency of Hampstead and Highgate, announced that she would stand down the 2015 general election – which, somewhat controversially, was won by right-wing prime minister David Cameron's Conservative party.[1] The silver lining: following a two-decade-plus break, Glenda Jackson is returning to acting. Now, Jackson isn't – for the time being – returning to acting in front of the camera. The 79-year-old is to be featured in the Radio 4 series Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money, described on their website as a “mash-up” adaptation of 20 Emile Zola novels collectively known as "Les Rougon-Macquart."[2] Part 1 of the three-part Radio 4 series will be broadcast daily during an...
- 7/2/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Iris Murdoch suffered from Alzheimer's disease toward the end of her life, but it was her husband, the critic John Bayley, who observed that the suffering was strangely contagious. "Alzheimer's obviously has me in its grip," he reflected in Elegy for Iris, the second of three memoirs he wrote about his wife's gradual decline. "Does the caregiver involuntarily mimic the Alzheimer's condition? I'm sure I do."
Grand départ poses a similar question. Its patient is Georges (Eddy Mitchell), a divorcé beset, at 65, by the onset of a neurodegenerative disease. His care falls to Romain (Pio Marmaï), his distant son, who soon finds his own life debilitated by his father's symptoms, which require constant attention and a degree of patience not even the st...
Grand départ poses a similar question. Its patient is Georges (Eddy Mitchell), a divorcé beset, at 65, by the onset of a neurodegenerative disease. His care falls to Romain (Pio Marmaï), his distant son, who soon finds his own life debilitated by his father's symptoms, which require constant attention and a degree of patience not even the st...
- 5/21/2014
- Village Voice
Whit Stillman's comeback is a charming campus comedy
Whit Stillman is back after 14 years with another elegant, eccentric and utterly distinctive movie: a gorgeously if oddly coloured butterfly of a film, liable to get broken on the wheel of incomprehension or exasperation. It's a campus comedy of romance that does not render up its style and identity with the zappy eagerness of most movies. You have to let the film's language grow on you, and this is not a quick process, perhaps especially because the register of instantly readable irony is not present.
Greta Gerwig stars as Violet, a weirdly self-possessed student whose mission is to humanise and civilise the yobbish males on campus. She is the leader of a doe-eyed quartet of pretty, serious-minded co-eds, including Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke), who affects a British way of speaking, at one stage earnestly deploring a guy's pickup moves as those of...
Whit Stillman is back after 14 years with another elegant, eccentric and utterly distinctive movie: a gorgeously if oddly coloured butterfly of a film, liable to get broken on the wheel of incomprehension or exasperation. It's a campus comedy of romance that does not render up its style and identity with the zappy eagerness of most movies. You have to let the film's language grow on you, and this is not a quick process, perhaps especially because the register of instantly readable irony is not present.
Greta Gerwig stars as Violet, a weirdly self-possessed student whose mission is to humanise and civilise the yobbish males on campus. She is the leader of a doe-eyed quartet of pretty, serious-minded co-eds, including Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke), who affects a British way of speaking, at one stage earnestly deploring a guy's pickup moves as those of...
- 4/27/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Kate Winslet is seen by many as one of the greatest actresses Britain has ever produced. While for some she will always be Rose DeWitt in Titanic, she has never rested on her laurels and has constantly picked interesting and challenging roles. February sees her appear in Roman Polanski’s latest film Carnage. Based on the play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, it’s a savage, hilarious comedy about two couples who are drawn together when their respective sons get into a fight – and end up squabbling more than the kids! Winslet is excellent (as is the rest of the all-star cast), and received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Carnage, giving us the perfect opportunity to look at some of the greatest performances of her career…
Heavenly Creatures
Between making splatter comedies in his native New Zealand and changing the history of cinema with Lord Of The Rings,...
Heavenly Creatures
Between making splatter comedies in his native New Zealand and changing the history of cinema with Lord Of The Rings,...
- 1/31/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent revisited the agony of watching his mother battle Alzheimer's disease to play a man afflicted with the condition in a new drama.
The Harry Potter star takes on the role of an Alzheimer's sufferer in BBC drama Exile, and has revealed he drew on personal experience to accurately convey the horrors of the illness.
He tells Britain's The Guardian, "It was upsetting when mother was ill; in a way that was more upsetting than any acting will be. But you know, you just use all that. You remember what was painful about it."
In 2002, Broadbent won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in Iris as John Bayley, an academic who watched helplessly as his wife succumbed to Alzheimer's.
The Harry Potter star takes on the role of an Alzheimer's sufferer in BBC drama Exile, and has revealed he drew on personal experience to accurately convey the horrors of the illness.
He tells Britain's The Guardian, "It was upsetting when mother was ill; in a way that was more upsetting than any acting will be. But you know, you just use all that. You remember what was painful about it."
In 2002, Broadbent won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in Iris as John Bayley, an academic who watched helplessly as his wife succumbed to Alzheimer's.
- 4/19/2011
- WENN
The new film The Iron Lady looks to capture the image of a woman capable of deploying sexual allure politically
Ever since French president François Mitterrand suggested that Margaret Thatcher had "the eyes of Caligula, the mouth of Marilyn Monroe", we've had to get used to the unbelievable truth that Margaret Thatcher was made of more than iron.
The publicity still of Meryl Streep released to promote her forthcoming performance in the film The Iron Lady continues that counterintuitive narrative. Not Thatcher, Milk Snatcher. But Thatcher, Seducer. The image ideally realises what Tory makeover people wanted Thatcher to be – not just the hard-as-nails Conservative who destroyed a nation's industrial base, but a woman capable of deploying sexual allure politically.
Streep, I feel sure, will be able to modulate that psychic transition subtly if her career as an actor and the photo of her as Thatcher are anything to go by.
Ever since French president François Mitterrand suggested that Margaret Thatcher had "the eyes of Caligula, the mouth of Marilyn Monroe", we've had to get used to the unbelievable truth that Margaret Thatcher was made of more than iron.
The publicity still of Meryl Streep released to promote her forthcoming performance in the film The Iron Lady continues that counterintuitive narrative. Not Thatcher, Milk Snatcher. But Thatcher, Seducer. The image ideally realises what Tory makeover people wanted Thatcher to be – not just the hard-as-nails Conservative who destroyed a nation's industrial base, but a woman capable of deploying sexual allure politically.
Streep, I feel sure, will be able to modulate that psychic transition subtly if her career as an actor and the photo of her as Thatcher are anything to go by.
- 2/9/2011
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
In roles large and small, in theater and onscreen, Jim Broadbent is a masterful actor. Thanks to impeccable credentials—training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, rising up through Britain's National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and continuing to ply his craft from his days in Britain's repertory system through today—he is superb in every role he takes on.Imprinting his work with his characteristic mix of truthfulness and colorful details, whether appearing in period comedies or wrenching dramas, he can play an astonishing variety of characters. The kinetic manager in "Moulin Rouge!" and the devastated husband in "Iris" reflect only two of the many extremes of his work. The straight-and-narrow judge in "Vera Drake" gives smooth way to Bridget Jones' placidly patient dad. And Broadbent deftly leaps from portraying a star in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" to playing the Duke of...
- 12/30/2010
- backstage.com
Supporting actors aren't just those familiar faces who can steal a film. They show a way for movies to portray real life
Do you remember the film Iris? Directed by Richard Eyre, it opened in 2001, and was about the marriage between novelist Iris Murdoch, and her husband, the literary professor John Bayley. I have not seen the picture since it opened and as I try to recall it, I see three faces – Judi Dench and Kate Winslet (they played the older Iris and the younger woman), and Jim Broadbent – who was Bayley in his mature years. I think of it as a tripartite film, yet I know there was a fourth corner and a fourth actor – the young Bayley. I hope he will forgive me, but I have to check his name – of course, it was Hugh Bonneville.
Having looked the film up, here is what surprises me: Dench was nominated for best actress,...
Do you remember the film Iris? Directed by Richard Eyre, it opened in 2001, and was about the marriage between novelist Iris Murdoch, and her husband, the literary professor John Bayley. I have not seen the picture since it opened and as I try to recall it, I see three faces – Judi Dench and Kate Winslet (they played the older Iris and the younger woman), and Jim Broadbent – who was Bayley in his mature years. I think of it as a tripartite film, yet I know there was a fourth corner and a fourth actor – the young Bayley. I hope he will forgive me, but I have to check his name – of course, it was Hugh Bonneville.
Having looked the film up, here is what surprises me: Dench was nominated for best actress,...
- 7/1/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
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