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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 19, 2017 5:59:34 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 20, 2017 5:00:31 GMT
From The Carpetbagger's report, d. JAN 12, 2011, of the National Board of Review gala: Press-hating, long-haired Christian Bale sat at an otherwise empty table with his wife, Sibi Blazic, for a while, yawning. He was eventually joined by the rest of the crew from “The Fighter,” and they finagled the schedule so that Mr. Bale’s award, for best supporting actor, could be moved up. But he had the requisite humble attitude about playing the drug addicted ex-boxer Dicky Eklund. “Christ, how many times do you get a character like him come around? He’s something else,” Mr. Bale said in his acceptance speech. “I almost feel like I can never play anyone else anymore. I haven’t been done any jobs since finishing ‘The Fighter.’ I’m doing Batman next, so I’m interested to see how Chris Nolan sees Dicky in a bat suit.” He also took the requisite awards show opportunity to “score big points with your wife,” as he put, thanking his, and then excused his whole table. “The storm’s coming in,” he said, “so we gotta scoot right now.”
They left hours early. carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/bill-murray-shows-them-how-its-done/
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 20, 2017 5:15:24 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 20, 2017 5:28:01 GMT
From the 2011 SAG awards afterparty, via The Carpetbagger: “I’m the one who has a fight with Amy Adams. I have red hair and no teeth” – Dendrie Taylor, who plays one of the coven of seven sisters in “The Fighter”
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Dicky Eklund, the real-life inspiration for the character that Christian Bale played in “The Fighter,” was a presence all night – as anyone who watched the SAG awards noticed, when Mr. Eklund shouted his approval at the best supporting actress win of his on-screen mother, Melissa Leo, and later, at the urging of co-star and producer Mark Wahlberg, ran up on stage as Mr. Bale accepted his best supporting actor award. At the party, Mr. Eklund was dancing (well, grinding) with a voluptuous blonde in a low-cut sequined gown in the back; later, he posed for a photo sandwiched between Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 20, 2017 5:33:01 GMT
From the 2011 Annual Oscars Luncheon report at The New York Times: The event, which is unusual in Hollywood’s seemingly interminable prize season because seating is determined by a lottery and not by star power, found one nominee in an unexpected spotlight. Nominated in the supporting actress category for her demon mother in “The Fighter,” Melissa Leo took the risky step last week of taking out a couple of “for your consideration” ads on her own behalf.
Ms. Leo is certainly not the first contender to do so, but as the front-runner in her category, why did she risk overreaching? “This entire awards process to some degree is about pimping yourself out,” she said. “I’m confident my fans will understand the ads were about showing a different side of myself.”
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 20, 2017 21:14:24 GMT
From The Carpetbagger's 2011 Oscar win picks blogpost, d. FEB 25: SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bagger Pick: Christian Bale in “The Fighter”
John Hawkes in “Winter’s Bone”
Jeremy Renner in “The Town”
Mark Ruffalo in “The Kids Are All Right”
Geoffrey Rush in “The King’s Speech”
Yes, he employed his signature moves – stark weight change, impeccable accent work – but Christian Bale’s portrayal of the ex-boxer and drug addict Dicky Eklund in “The Fighter” reached far beyond the surface. The manic force behind his sunken eyes told the story of the movie. Mr. Bale, who has had a prickly relationship with the press and promotion, evolved into a charmer as he racked up industry awards (aided occasionally by the real-life Mr. Eklund, demonstrating that Mr. Bale did not overact). Buoyed by momentum for “The King’s Speech,” Geoffrey Rush became a contender, playing the wacky-yet-effective speech therapist. Some pundits believe if he’d done more campaigning — he was busy with a play in Australia all fall — he could’ve been the front-runner. But Mr. Bale’s performance was indelible, and he had the bad teeth and hair to frame it.
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SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams in “The Fighter”
Helena Bonham Carter in “The King’s Speech”
Bagger Pick: Melissa Leo in “The Fighter”
Hailee Steinfeld in “True Grit”
Jacki Weaver in “Animal Kingdom”
As the mother who has a love-hate relationship with her children, Melissa Leo was an early favorite for this category, which tends to be Oscar’s wild card. Playing the matriarch to the Ward-Eklund clan in “The Fighter,” Ms. Leo was all acid-blond stamina, a chain-smoker no one wanted to tussle with. All the more surprising, then, that she took out a personal campaign ad in a trade paper. It was considered gauche in Hollywood, but it’s unlikely the kerfuffle derailed her chances. Then again, this is the wild card. Fans of “True Grit” might want to reward its star, the 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld. Or Ms. Leo could split the vote with her co-star Amy Adams, leaving Jacki Weaver, of the Australian crime drama “Animal Kingdom,” to scoop up the prize for playing — what else? — a bleached-blond, dastardly mother of a certain age.www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/movies/awardsseason/25oscarpredictions.html?pagewanted=2
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 20, 2017 21:34:45 GMT
From an analysis of Twitter mentions during the 2011 Oscars broadcast: mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/oscars-online-no-to-james-franco-yes-to-bob-hope/James Franco, the Oscar co-host, just joined Twitter a few weeks ago, but he provided a steady stream of updates during the show, including backstage photos and videos,to almost 300,000 followers. Not surprisingly, he turned out to be mentioned on Twitter more than anyone or anything else during the broadcast; his name was found in 85,871 updates, followed by Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale and Colin Firth, according to Tweetbeat, a social media analytics firm that provided analysis and data for ABC.
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