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Christopher Plummer wins Oscar for playing a gay widower in Beginners
Canadian Christopher Plummer has won his first Oscar at the age of 82.
In Hollywood, Plummer was honoured for Finest Supporting Actor for his role as a same-sex attracted senior in Beginners, which as directed by Mike Mills.
The star who rocketed to international fame in The Sound of Music in 1965 has grow the oldest actor in history to win an Academy Award.
“You’re only two years older than me, darling, where have you been all my life?” Plummer quipped as he held the statue.
The Artist took home Best Picture and its director, Michel Hazanavicius, won the Oscar for Best Director. Its star, Jean Dujardin, won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Best Actress went to Meryl Streep for her performance in The Iron Lady.
Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Help.
A Separation was honoured as Best Foreign Production, coming out ahead of Canada's Monsieur Lazhar.
Meanwhile, Woody Allen won for Finest Original Screenplay for Midnight in Paris, and Alexander Payne, Nat Foxon, and Jim Rash were awarded Best Adapted Screenplay for The Descendants.
The Artist also won for Best Imaginative Score,
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By Greg Hernandez on Feb 25, 2012 9:34 pm | Comments (1) |
Christopher Plummer warmed up for what seems certain to be an Oscar win on Sunday by winning the supporting actor prize at Saturday’s Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica.
Plummer has also won the Golden Globe, SAG, Critics Choice, BAFTA and scores of other awards for his performance in Beginners in which he plays a father and widower who reveals to his surprised grown-up son that he is gay.
Plummer joked that it took him a prolonged time to understand the Spirit Awards had nothing to do with booze, he gave thanks to all the spirits that hold come his way in his career, “good and evil.”
Here is a finish list of winners:
Best Feature: “The Artist”
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Best Screenplay: “The Descendants,” Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Best First Feature: “Margin Call”
Best First Screenplay: Will Reiser, “50/50”
John Cassavetes Award: “Pariah”
Best Female Lead
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By Greg Hernandez on Jan 15, 2012 6:30 pm | Comments (1) |
Christopher Plummer continued his awards season domination by winning the Golden Globe Award for leading supporting actor in a motion picture for Beginners.
He plays a gay man who comes out near the end of his life in the film in which Ewan McGregor plays his son.
In his speech, Plummer said of McGregor: “I want to salute my partner, Ewan — that wily Scott . …. That scene-stealing swine.”
Backstage, Plummer told reporters: “Gay characters are human beings. we’re all exactly the same. That’s the reason I played it the way I did, not as a caricature. They’re a part of our society since the Egyptians, the Greeks – it’s part of the human condition. I realize there is a lot of antigay sentiment in our world at the moment and I abhor it.”
Plummer, who also won the Critics Choice Award a few days ago, appears to be the strongest front-runner of any category the Academy Award.
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Oscar Winner Christopher Plummer on Straight Actors Playing Gay: "We All Do a Great Job"
"The sexual differences cancel each other out," Christopher Plummer, 82, explained to me backstage after nabbing the first Oscar of his life for playing a gay man.
I'd just asked Plummer if he felt Hollywood and the Academy liked displaying support for homosexual roles, less so actors who are gay in concrete life.
Plummer was adamant:
"We all do a great job, same-sex attracted and straight," Plummer said about straights taking on the often award-winning same-sex attracted roles.
And the dude who has now joined an illustrious list of heterosexuals winning Oscars for going gay (Sean Penn for Milk, Tom Hanks for Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote) summed it up:
"All actors do our best," finished Plummer, who thinks no double standard exists.
Interesting thought. How many gay Oscar winners are there?
In the plum acting category, that is?
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