Colin Firth was nominated for an 'Oscar' for Best Actor this year for his role as 'George Falconer' in which film?
"A Single Man A Single Man is a 2009 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. It is directed by Tom Ford in his directorial debut and stars Colin Firth, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of George Falconer, a depressed gay British university professor living in Southern California in 1962. The film premiered on September 11, 2009 at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, and went on the film festival circuit. After it screened at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival, The Weinstein Company picked"
"2017. Firth added, ""I will always be extremely British (you only have to look at or listen to me)."" Interviews Further reading Colin Firth Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor, who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, Firth's portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's ""The King's Speech"" won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Identified in the late 1980s with the ""Brit Pack"" of"
"verdict: ""Luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections. An impressive helming debut for fashion designer Tom Ford."" The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival and won the festival's third annual Queer Lion. Colin Firth was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the film festival for his performance in the film. He received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Firth also received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations for Best Actor. For her performance, Julianne Moore was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best"
"Colin Firth Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor, who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, Firth's portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's ""The King's Speech"" won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Identified in the late 1980s with the ""Brit Pack"" of rising, young British actors, it was not until his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's ""Pride"
"In 2009 he made his directorial debut with ""A Single Man"", based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. The drama stars Colin Firth as an LA-based, gay college professor, alongside Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode. The novel was adapted by David Scearce and Ford; Ford was also one of the producers. ""A Single Man"" premiered on September 11, 2009 at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, where it was nominated for top award the Golden Lion. Colin Firth was awarded the Volpi Cup as Best Actor for his performance. He won a BAFTA Award"
"in the film. ""The Damned United"" was released in 2009. Work on Hooper's next film, ""The King's Speech"", began in the same year. Hooper explained: ""It was a stage play, and my mother who's Australian was invited to a fringe [theatre] reading in London because she's part of the Australian community. The play's about the relationship between King George the Sixth and his Australian speech therapist. She came back and said 'you've got to read this play,' and I read it and it was brilliant ..."". Hooper cast Colin Firth as George VI and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue and"
"trying to keep it together for one last day after his world has fallen apart."" Critic Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" also praised Firth, saying that he ""plays George superbly, as a man who prepares a face to meet the faces that he meets. He betrays very little emotion, and certainly his thoughts cannot be read in his eyes."" ""The Times"" newspaper of London called the film ""a thing of heart-stopping beauty . . . There will be critics who will be unable to get past the director's background, but rest assured: Tom Ford is the real deal."" ""Variety""'s"
"Ryder?"" (1979); ""Lifeforce"" (1985); ""Letter to Brezhnev"" (1985); ""Northanger Abbey"" (1986), playing Henry Tilney; ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1990); ""White Angel"" (1993), playing mild-mannered dentist Leslie Steckler; ""Amistad"" (1997); ""Mighty Joe Young"" (1998); ""Pearl Harbor"" (2001); and ""The Greatest Game Ever Played"" (2005), playing Lord Northcliffe. Along with his film career, Firth has continued to appear in various television productions, with several notable credits in various high-profile dramas. He starred in two science-fiction episodes of the BBC's ""Play for Today"" anthology series as the eponymous time-traveller in the romantic ""The Flipside of Dominick Hide"" (1980), and its sequel, ""Another"
"Greenwich Village, and very loosely based on the life of Dave Van Ronk. The film stars Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan. It won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it was highly praised by critics. They received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song for ""Please Mr. Kennedy"", which is heard in the film. ""Fargo"", a television series inspired by their film of the same name, premiered in June 2014 on the FX network. It is created by Noah Hawley and executive produced by the brothers. The Coens also contributed to the screenplay"
"and a rival to Jack. In 2016, he starred as Jack Brewster in the Hallmark original film ""Every Christmas Has a Story"" alongside Lori Loughlin. In 2017, he starred as Mackintyre Sullivan in hallmark movies and mysteries film ""Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery"" co-starring Jewel Kilcher. He also starred in the Hallmark movies and mysteries sequel ""Concrete Evidence: A Fixer Upper Mystery."" Ferguson is a Montreal Canadiens fan, and he contributes to NHL.com as a celebrity blogger. Colin Ferguson Colin Ferguson (born July 22, 1972) is a Canadian-born American actor, director and producer. He is known for playing"
"nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Burt Lancaster), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Telly Savalas), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Thelma Ritter) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Robert Stroud (Lancaster) is imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska. He is shown as a rebellious inmate, fighting against a rigid prison system: on his way to jail by train he breaks open the window to allow the suffocating inmates to breathe. His rebellious attitude puts him in conflict with Harvey Shoemaker (Malden), the warden of Leavenworth Prison. While in jail, Stroud"
"Award for Best Actor. Garfield's sole film release of 2017 was the biopic ""Breathe"", in which he portrayed Robin Cavendish, a young man paralysed by polio. In preparation, he interacted with victims of the disease and collaborated closely with Cavendish's wife and son. Stephen Dalton of ""The Hollywood Reporter"" wrote that despite an exceptional story, the film had glossed over the complexities in Cavendish's life, and thought that Garfield was ""hampered by a role that restricts him to little more than nodding and grinning"". In March 2018, Garfield reprised the role of Prior when the ""Angels in America"" production transferred"
"3. Roger Deakins – ""A Serious Man"" 1. Kathryn Bigelow – ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. Wes Anderson – ""Fantastic Mr. Fox""<br> 3. Quentin Tarantino – ""Inglourious Basterds"" 1. ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. ""Up in the Air""<br> 3. ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"" 1. ""Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)"" • France<br> 2. ""Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos)"" • Spain<br> 3. ""Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick)"" • Sweden 1. ""Of Time and the City""<br> 2. ""Anvil! The Story of Anvil""<br> 3. ""Tyson"" 1. Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche, – ""In the Loop""<br> 2. Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner – ""Up"
"with most reviews singling out Colin Firth's performance. It currently holds an 85% ""Fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 175 reviews, with the site's consensus being that ""Though the costumes are beautiful and the art direction impeccable, what stands out most from this debut by fashion designer Tom Ford is the leading performance by Colin Firth."" Metacritic has compiled an average score of 77 (generally favorable reviews) from 35 critic reviews. Michael Phillips of the ""Chicago Tribune"" wrote ""Some films aren’t revelations, exactly, but they burrow so deeply into old truths about love and loss and the mess and"
"He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 miniseries ""Lincoln"". He has also appeared in such films as ""Julia"" (1977), ""The Fog"" (1980), ""Creepshow"" (1982), ""Wall Street"" (1987), ""The Firm"" (1993), ""Hercules"" (1997), and ""Men of Honor"" (2000). Holbrook's role as Ron Franz in Sean Penn's ""Into the Wild"" (2007) earned him both Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Until Robert Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award in 2015, Holbrook was the oldest actor to receive a Best Supporting Actor nomination. In 2009, Holbrook received critical acclaim for his performance as recently retired farmer,"
"Copperbottom in ""Robots"" (2005), Camerlengo Father Patrick McKenna in ""Angels and Demons"" (2009), ""the ghost"" in Roman Polanski's political thriller ""The Ghost Writer"" (2010), Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama ""Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"" (2011), Lumière in a live-action adaptation of the musical romantic fantasy ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2017), and the adult version of the titular character in the fantasy comedy-drama ""Christopher Robin"" (2018). In 2018, McGregor won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his performance as brothers in the third season of FX anthology series ""Fargo"", and received Golden"
""""" (2010). In 2008, Firth starred as the chef in a short film, ""The Chef's Letter"", played Evan in the radio production of Dame Daphne du Maurier's ""September Tide"", and was also featured in an episode of the American television series ""Ghost Whisperer"". In 2009, he portrayed Dr. David Fuller in the German film production of ""Albert Schweitzer"". In 2016, he appears as Rex Bishop in the BBC series ""Father Brown"" episode 4.1 ""The Mask of the Demon"". Jonathan Firth Jonathan Stephen Firth (born 6 April 1967) is an English actor best known for his roles in such noted British"
"""Capote"" as Truman Capote 2006: Forest Whitaker – ""The Last King of Scotland"" as Idi Amin 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview 2008: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" as Harvey Milk 2009: George Clooney – ""Up in the Air"" as Ryan Bingham 2010: James Franco – ""127 Hours"" as Aron Ralston 2011: George Clooney – ""The Descendants"" as Matt King 2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln 2013: Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" as Ron Woodroof 2014: Michael Keaton – ""Birdman"" as Riggan Thomson 2015: Leonardo DiCaprio – ""The Revenant"" as Hugh Glass 2016:"
"Supporting Actress in Motion Picture. Abel Korzeniowski was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The film received the Grand Prix from the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. On January 14, 2010, the film was nominated for, and later won, Outstanding Film – Wide Release at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards along with AFI's Film of the Year. A Single Man A Single Man is a 2009 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. It is directed by Tom Ford in his directorial debut and stars Colin Firth, who was"
"""The King's Speech"" fell on Colin's 50th birthday and was called the ""best 50th birthday gift"". On 16 January 2011, he won a Golden Globe for his performance in ""The King's Speech"" in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. The Screen Actors Guild recognised Firth with the award for Best Male Actor for ""The King's Speech"" on 30 January 2011. In February 2011, he won the best actor award at the 2011 BAFTA awards. He received an Academy Award for Best Actor in a motion picture for ""The King's Speech"" on 27"
"Libération by the French government in 1960, one of only two people (the other being Churchill) to be awarded the medal after 1946. A number of geographical features, roads, and institutions are named after George VI. These include King George Hospital in London; King George VI Reservoir in Surrey, United Kingdom; King George VI Highway and King George Boulevard in Surrey, British Columbia; Kingsway in Edmonton; George VI Sound in Antarctica; and the King George VI Chase, a horse race in the United Kingdom. Colin Firth won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as George VI in"
"Family"". Other Film work includes: ""Heavy Duty"" (2012), playing the villainous Russian gang leader Gregorin. Directed by Rhys Hayward and produced by Hand made films);. Bollywood movie ""The Pinocchio Effect"", ""This Charming Man"", ""The Knight and the Templar"", and ""Daybreak"". He has also written, directed and starred as Fate in his own short film, ""The Wheel of Fortune"". Jay Simon is a voice artiste/impressionist. He has contributed to numerous current affairs programmes including: ""Dispatches"", ""Panorama"" and BBC's ""Newsnight"". He was one of the Gerry Adams' sound a likes during the Thatcher ban on IRA broadcasting and Jay later voiced Tony"
"George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, filmmaker and businessman. He is the recipient of three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, one for acting in ""Syriana"" (2006) and the other for co-producing ""Argo"" (2012). In 2018, he was the recipient of the AFI Live Achievement Award, at the age of 57. Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the long-running medical drama ""ER,"" from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. While"
"gut level despite its dramatic shortcomings,"" he added that ""Things aren't helped any by Firth's dour perf, as his Blake comes across as a self-centered whiner, a latter-day Me Generation figure who's obsessed with finding problems when there really aren't any."" In 2009, he featured in ""A Christmas Carol"", an adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, using the performance capture procedure, playing Scrooge's optimistic nephew Fred. At the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009, Firth was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his role in Tom Ford's directorial debut ""A Single Man"" as a college professor grappling with"
"""The Nutty Professor"" (1996), ""Life"" (1999), ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"" (2000), ""Intolerable Cruelty"" (2003) and ""The Dilemma"" (2011). He has also produced many dramatic thrillers including ""Inside Man"" (2006), ""The Da Vinci Code"" (2006), ""American Gangster"" (2007), ""Changeling"" (2008), ""Angels & Demons"" (2009), ""Robin Hood"" (2010), and ""Cowboys & Aliens"" (2011). His recently released films include ""J. Edgar"", the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic of J. Edgar Hoover, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, ""Tower Heist"", starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, and ""Restless"", directed by Gus Van Sant. Grazer's Imagine Entertainment's television series include ""Sports Night"", ""Felicity"", ""Arrested Development"", ""24"" with Kiefer Sutherland,"
"Martin Scorsese. He was acclaimed for his performances in the political war thriller ""Blood Diamond"", the neo-noir crime drama ""The Departed"" (both 2006), the espionage thriller ""Body of Lies"" (2008), the drama ""Revolutionary Road"" (2008), the psychological thriller ""Shutter Island"" (2010), the science fiction thriller ""Inception"" (2010), the biographical film ""J. Edgar"" (2011), the western ""Django Unchained"" (2012), and the period drama ""The Great Gatsby"" (2013). DiCaprio's portrayals of Howard Hughes in ""The Aviator"" (2004) and Hugh Glass in ""The Revenant"" (2015) won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. His performance as Jordan Belfort"
"in ""Scarface"" (1983) and the films of Darren Aronofsky: ""π"" (1998), ""Requiem for a Dream"" (2000), ""The Fountain"" (2006), ""The Wrestler"" (2008), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Noah"" (2014). In 1991, Margolis played Helmut Dieter in the soap opera ""Santa Barbara"". He has had recurring roles on numerous other TV shows, including ""The Equalizer"", ""Quantum Leap"", ""Oz"", ""Law & Order"", ""Crossing Jordan"", ""Californication"", ""Breaking Bad"", and ""Better Call Saul"". In January 2015, he portrayed Felix Faust in the ""Constantine"" episode ""Quid Pro Quo"". For his role in ""Breaking Bad"" and ""Better Call Saul"", Margolis received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy"
"2018, but Ford was not involved in the production. Ford's status as a leading actor was solidified when he starred as globe-trotting archeologist Indiana Jones in the film ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981), a collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford from the beginning, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in ""American Graffiti"" and ""Star Wars"", but he eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept. Ford went on to star in the prequel ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"" (1984) and the sequel ""Indiana"
"Caesar!"", about a ""fixer"" in 1950s Hollywood trying to discover what happened to a cast member who vanishes during filming. It stars Coen regulars George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johansson and Tilda Swinton, as well as Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, and Alden Ehrenreich. The film was released on February 5, 2016. In 2016, the Coens gave to their longtime friend and collaborator John Turturro the right to use his character of Jesus Quintana from ""The Big Lebowski"" in his own spin-off, ""Going Places"", which he would also write and direct. The Coens have no involvement in"
"a French film, as Michael Firth (1997). He has appeared on the Hallmark Channel original film ""Final Days of Planet Earth"" and the Canadian television series ""Terminal City"". In 2007, he completed filming for ""Kill Kill Faster Faster"", which is a contemporary film noir inspired by the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Joel Rose. Bellows also played a State Department Officer in """", a television film prequel to the seventh season of ""24"". He starred in the Super Channel Science-Fiction adventure thriller film ""Infected"". Bellows has also appeared as Maxwell Lord on ""Smallville"" in the Season 9"
"cinema's greatest villains. He meanwhile gave an acclaimed reading of Ludwig van Beethoven in ""Immortal Beloved"" (1994). In the 21st century, Oldman is known for his roles as Sirius Black in the ""Harry Potter"" series, James Gordon in ""The Dark Knight Trilogy"", Lord Shen in ""Kung Fu Panda 2"" (2011), George Smiley in ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" (2011), a human leader in ""Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"" (2014), and Winston Churchill in ""Darkest Hour"" (2017), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Films in which he has starred have grossed over $11 billion. In addition to"
"solitude after the death of his longtime partner. His performance earned Firth career best reviews and Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors' Guild, BAFTA, and BFCA nominations; he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in February 2010. Firth starred in the 2010 film ""The King's Speech"" as Prince Albert, Duke of York/King George VI. The film details his working to overcome his speech impediment while becoming monarch of the United Kingdom at the end of 1936. At the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the film was met with a standing ovation. The TIFF release of"
"Best Film Editing & Best Original Screenplay. It was followed by the darker, less commercial ""The Mosquito Coast"" (1986), Paul Schrader's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel, with Ford playing a man obsessively pursuing his dream to start a new life in the Central American jungle with his family. These dramatic parts provided Harrison Ford with important opportunities to break the typecasting of his career-making roles in the ""Star Wars"" and ""Indiana Jones"" series. Both films showed off his ability to play more subtle and substantial characters and he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his work in ""Witness"","