Berlin Film Festival showcases bright stars and 3D
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Jeff Bridges could join ffxiv gil Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks as the only winners of lead actor Oscars in successive years. Also, more fun facts.
%u2014 Jeff Bridges, who won the lead actor Oscar last year for "Crazy Heart," is up in the same category for his performance as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit." Only two actors have won Academy Awards in the lead actor category two years in a row %u2014 Spencer Tracy won for 1937's "Captains Courageous" and 1938's "Boy's Town," and Tom Hanks earned Oscars for 1993's "Philadelphia" and 1994's "Forrest Gump"
%u2014 Two lead performer nominees %u2014 Jesse Eisenberg, 27, ("The Social Network") and Jennifer Lawrence, 20, ("Winter's Bone") %u2014 would be the youngest ever to win in their categories. Adrien Brody holds the record for youngest lead actor for his win for 2002's "The Pianist" at age 29; Marlee Matlin was 21 when she won lead runescape gold actress for 1986's "Children of a Lesser God."
%u2014 Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of the western "True Grit" earned 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture. The original 1969 version of the film received only two nominations %u2014 lead actor for John Wayne, who won the award, and best song.
%u2014 Speaking of westerns, only three films inthe genre have won the best picture Oscar: 1930-31's "Cimarron," 1990's "Dances With Wolves" and 1992's "Unforgiven."
%u2014 If Colin Firth wins for lead actor for his role as King George VI in "The King's Speech," he will be the first actor to win playing a king of England since Charles Laughton in runescape money 1932-33's "The Private Life of Henry VIII."
%u2014 Before "Black Swan," only two films set in the world of ballet had been nominated for the best film Oscar %u2014 1948's "The Red Shoes" and 1977's "The Turning Point."
%u2014 Scott Rudin, with "The Social Network" and "True Grit," becomes the first producer since 1974 to have two films in the best picture race. Francis Ford Coppola and Fred Roos did it with "The Godfather 2" and "The Conversation."
%u2014 Besides 14-year-old supporting actress nominee Hailee Steinfeld, several of this year's acting nominees began their careers as child or teenage actors, including Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Michelle Williams, Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Eisenberg, Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter and Bridges.
%u2014Composer Randy Newman picks up his 20th Oscar nomination for his original song, "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3." He won the original song Oscar for "If I Didn't Have You" from runescape accounts 2001's "Monsters, Inc."
%u2014 Jeff Bridges, who won the lead actor Oscar last year for "Crazy Heart," is up in the same category for his performance as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit." Only two actors have won Academy Awards in the lead actor category two years in a row %u2014 Spencer Tracy won for 1937's "Captains Courageous" and 1938's "Boy's Town," and Tom Hanks earned Oscars for 1993's "Philadelphia" and 1994's "Forrest Gump"
%u2014 Two lead performer nominees %u2014 Jesse Eisenberg, 27, ("The Social Network") and Jennifer Lawrence, 20, ("Winter's Bone") %u2014 would be the youngest ever to win in their categories. Adrien Brody holds the record for youngest lead actor for his win for 2002's "The Pianist" at age 29; Marlee Matlin was 21 when she won lead runescape gold actress for 1986's "Children of a Lesser God."
%u2014 Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of the western "True Grit" earned 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture. The original 1969 version of the film received only two nominations %u2014 lead actor for John Wayne, who won the award, and best song.
%u2014 Speaking of westerns, only three films inthe genre have won the best picture Oscar: 1930-31's "Cimarron," 1990's "Dances With Wolves" and 1992's "Unforgiven."
%u2014 If Colin Firth wins for lead actor for his role as King George VI in "The King's Speech," he will be the first actor to win playing a king of England since Charles Laughton in runescape money 1932-33's "The Private Life of Henry VIII."
%u2014 Before "Black Swan," only two films set in the world of ballet had been nominated for the best film Oscar %u2014 1948's "The Red Shoes" and 1977's "The Turning Point."
%u2014 Scott Rudin, with "The Social Network" and "True Grit," becomes the first producer since 1974 to have two films in the best picture race. Francis Ford Coppola and Fred Roos did it with "The Godfather 2" and "The Conversation."
%u2014 Besides 14-year-old supporting actress nominee Hailee Steinfeld, several of this year's acting nominees began their careers as child or teenage actors, including Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Michelle Williams, Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Eisenberg, Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter and Bridges.
%u2014Composer Randy Newman picks up his 20th Oscar nomination for his original song, "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3." He won the original song Oscar for "If I Didn't Have You" from runescape accounts 2001's "Monsters, Inc."
Olivia Wilde transforms herself for "Tron: Legacy"
To play the female lead of runescape accounts Quorra in "Tron: Legacy," actress Olivia Wilde underwent the biggest physical transformation of her life.
The 26-year-old actress with a shapely body and cover model looks became, what she called, "a little warrior" by working with trainers who put her through rigorous workouts, including weight-training, cardio and martial arts training.
"I was ripped!," Wilde told Reuters. "Never been that way before; never will be again!"
Wilde is perhaps best known for her work on TV shows "The O.C.," which revolved a group of good-looking, wealthy Californians, and "House," where she portrayed a bisexual doctor. But in "Tron: Legacy," which debuts in U.S. theaters on Friday, she is suited up in all-black and lives in a futuristic world called the "Grid."
"It's interesting because I am drawn to those kick-ass roles," said Wilde. "I always knew that eventually I'd get to play a really great one. It didn't happen with Bond, but it happened with 'Tron.'"
Quorra is not unlike a butt-kicking Bond girl, which is ironic since only a few years back, it had come runescape money down to Wilde and French actress Eva Green to star as Vesper Lynd opposite Daniel Craig in 2006 James Bond movie, "Casino Royale."
"Tron: Legacy" stems from 1982 movie "Tron," which spawned an arcade game of the same name that featured some of the same characters in the film. The new movie is billed as a continuation of the old story, but with updated special effects for release in 3D.
Jeff Bridges reprises his role from the 1982 movie as Kevin Flynn, a technology visionary who helped create video games, but now is being held in a digitally-created virtual world from which he cannot escape.
WILDE GOES WILD
In the new film, Flynn's adult son Sam (Garrett Hedlund), is determined to find his father, who went missing when he was just a boy. Investigating the old Flynn's Arcade, where Kevin once worked, Sam is suddenly pulled into the digital grid where his father is trapped.
With the help of fearsome fighter Quorra, Kevin embarks on a journey across a digital landscape to find his father and get him back to the real world.
Until now Wilde, who was born in New York City runescape gold and is the daughter of journalists, has been best known for her TV roles, despite enjoying a smattering of mostly supporting roles in movies, such as "Alpha Dog" alongside Justin Timberlake."
She also appeared in small roles in the Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Year One," starring Jack Black, and in the recent thriller "The Next Three Days," which was written and directed by Paul Haggis and starred Russell Crowe.
But with big-budget "Tron: Legacy" and other major motion picture releases on the horizon, that may be about to change.
Next summer Wilde plays the female lead opposite Daniel Craig in sci-fi thriller "Cowboys & Aliens." She's currently shooting Apatow's comedy "The Change-Up" starring Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman and Leslie Mann, and has reunited with Timberlake on the futuristic sci-fi thriller "Now."
As Wilde finds herself in ever bigger roles, so too does Timberlake after the positive reviews and Oscar buzz he has earned in this year's "The Social Network." It's something the two, former co-stars discussed while shooting "Now."
"When we shot 'Alpha Dog,' we were both kind of new in the acting world. I was very inspired by his fearlessness on that movie and loved his performance so much. I never imagined I'd be in this position only a few years later, working with him again and in all of runescape money these big movies."
The 26-year-old actress with a shapely body and cover model looks became, what she called, "a little warrior" by working with trainers who put her through rigorous workouts, including weight-training, cardio and martial arts training.
"I was ripped!," Wilde told Reuters. "Never been that way before; never will be again!"
Wilde is perhaps best known for her work on TV shows "The O.C.," which revolved a group of good-looking, wealthy Californians, and "House," where she portrayed a bisexual doctor. But in "Tron: Legacy," which debuts in U.S. theaters on Friday, she is suited up in all-black and lives in a futuristic world called the "Grid."
"It's interesting because I am drawn to those kick-ass roles," said Wilde. "I always knew that eventually I'd get to play a really great one. It didn't happen with Bond, but it happened with 'Tron.'"
Quorra is not unlike a butt-kicking Bond girl, which is ironic since only a few years back, it had come runescape money down to Wilde and French actress Eva Green to star as Vesper Lynd opposite Daniel Craig in 2006 James Bond movie, "Casino Royale."
"Tron: Legacy" stems from 1982 movie "Tron," which spawned an arcade game of the same name that featured some of the same characters in the film. The new movie is billed as a continuation of the old story, but with updated special effects for release in 3D.
Jeff Bridges reprises his role from the 1982 movie as Kevin Flynn, a technology visionary who helped create video games, but now is being held in a digitally-created virtual world from which he cannot escape.
WILDE GOES WILD
In the new film, Flynn's adult son Sam (Garrett Hedlund), is determined to find his father, who went missing when he was just a boy. Investigating the old Flynn's Arcade, where Kevin once worked, Sam is suddenly pulled into the digital grid where his father is trapped.
With the help of fearsome fighter Quorra, Kevin embarks on a journey across a digital landscape to find his father and get him back to the real world.
Until now Wilde, who was born in New York City runescape gold and is the daughter of journalists, has been best known for her TV roles, despite enjoying a smattering of mostly supporting roles in movies, such as "Alpha Dog" alongside Justin Timberlake."
She also appeared in small roles in the Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Year One," starring Jack Black, and in the recent thriller "The Next Three Days," which was written and directed by Paul Haggis and starred Russell Crowe.
But with big-budget "Tron: Legacy" and other major motion picture releases on the horizon, that may be about to change.
Next summer Wilde plays the female lead opposite Daniel Craig in sci-fi thriller "Cowboys & Aliens." She's currently shooting Apatow's comedy "The Change-Up" starring Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman and Leslie Mann, and has reunited with Timberlake on the futuristic sci-fi thriller "Now."
As Wilde finds herself in ever bigger roles, so too does Timberlake after the positive reviews and Oscar buzz he has earned in this year's "The Social Network." It's something the two, former co-stars discussed while shooting "Now."
"When we shot 'Alpha Dog,' we were both kind of new in the acting world. I was very inspired by his fearlessness on that movie and loved his performance so much. I never imagined I'd be in this position only a few years later, working with him again and in all of runescape money these big movies."