Best Supporting Actress nominee Adams on the 85th Academy Awards red carpet Amy Adams, a Best Supporting Actress nominee for Paul Thomas Anderson's well-received psychological drama The Master, is seen arriving at the 85th Academy Awards show. Adams' competitors were the following: Jacki Weaver for David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, Anne Hathaway for Tom Hooper's Les Misérables, Sally Field for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, and Helen Hunt for Ben Lewin's The Sessions. Hathaway, as expected, turned out to be the winner. (See below photos of Aaron Tveit and Best Director nominee Benh Zeitlin on the Oscar red carpet.) This was Adams' fourth Oscar nod. Her previous ones, all in the Best Supporting Actress category, were the following: Phil Morrison's comedy-drama Junebug (2005); John Patrick Shanley's drama Doubt (2008), with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman; and David O. Russell's family drama The Fighter (2010), opposite Mark Wahlberg,...
- 2/25/2013
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Iron Man star Terrence Howard secured another promising gig by joining the A-list stuffed ensemble Prisoners alongside Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, and Maria Bello, respectively.
The Hustle & Flow thesp is the latest actor to join the Denis Villeneuve-directed thriller. The Oscar-nominated Canadian filmmaker Villeneuve (Incendies) is directing this movie with a script from Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband) which made the Black List a few years back.
The Boston-set thriller centers on a small town carpenter Keller Dover (Jackman), a father whose life is thrown into spin when his young daughter and her best friend go missing. Not content to leave the police to find them, Dover tirelessly pursues his own search, which leads to conflict with the hotshot detective Loki (Gyllenhaal) assigned to the case.
Maria Bello has recently joined the cast as Jackman character’s wife, but details aren’t available as to...
The Hustle & Flow thesp is the latest actor to join the Denis Villeneuve-directed thriller. The Oscar-nominated Canadian filmmaker Villeneuve (Incendies) is directing this movie with a script from Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband) which made the Black List a few years back.
The Boston-set thriller centers on a small town carpenter Keller Dover (Jackman), a father whose life is thrown into spin when his young daughter and her best friend go missing. Not content to leave the police to find them, Dover tirelessly pursues his own search, which leads to conflict with the hotshot detective Loki (Gyllenhaal) assigned to the case.
Maria Bello has recently joined the cast as Jackman character’s wife, but details aren’t available as to...
- 12/8/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Best Supporting Actress winner Melissa Leo.
I interviewed Melissa Leo in January of 2009 for her much-buzzed about (and Oscar-nominated) turn in "Frozen River," in many ways a fitting precursor to her Oscar-winning role as Mark Wahlberg's overbearing mother in David O. Russell's "The Fighter." During our talk, Leo was engaging, dramatic, and mercurial, much like her performance on the Oscars. She remains one hell of an actress, and we at The Interview congratulate her on this well-deserved win.
Melissa Leo: Many Rivers to Cross
By
Alex Simon
Born and raised in New York City, Melissa Leo is one of those faces you always see popping up on the big or small screen at least once a year, and you invariably find yourself asking "Wasn't she in fill in the blank with a movie or TV title of your choosing" and you'd probably be right. A fiercely prolific...
I interviewed Melissa Leo in January of 2009 for her much-buzzed about (and Oscar-nominated) turn in "Frozen River," in many ways a fitting precursor to her Oscar-winning role as Mark Wahlberg's overbearing mother in David O. Russell's "The Fighter." During our talk, Leo was engaging, dramatic, and mercurial, much like her performance on the Oscars. She remains one hell of an actress, and we at The Interview congratulate her on this well-deserved win.
Melissa Leo: Many Rivers to Cross
By
Alex Simon
Born and raised in New York City, Melissa Leo is one of those faces you always see popping up on the big or small screen at least once a year, and you invariably find yourself asking "Wasn't she in fill in the blank with a movie or TV title of your choosing" and you'd probably be right. A fiercely prolific...
- 2/28/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
By J. Rentilly
(Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)
Not many actors appreciate being compared to puppets, and yet Oscar nominee Melissa Leo says she owes her entire career to the worlds of make-believe she enjoyed growing up down the street from Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater in New York City. “I was a child, but I could see that we were all working together, suspending disbelief, creating truth in imaginary circumstances,” she says. “The curtain would lift, and we made a real world out of nothing at all. That has guided my life, for sure.”
Now 50 and nominated for a second Oscar for her uncompromising, full-blooded turn opposite Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell’s acclaimed “The Fighter,” Leo has quietly forged a career of truth and make-believe, offering a steady flow of breathtaking performances in films like “Frozen River” and “Lullaby” and television series like...
(Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)
Not many actors appreciate being compared to puppets, and yet Oscar nominee Melissa Leo says she owes her entire career to the worlds of make-believe she enjoyed growing up down the street from Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater in New York City. “I was a child, but I could see that we were all working together, suspending disbelief, creating truth in imaginary circumstances,” she says. “The curtain would lift, and we made a real world out of nothing at all. That has guided my life, for sure.”
Now 50 and nominated for a second Oscar for her uncompromising, full-blooded turn opposite Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell’s acclaimed “The Fighter,” Leo has quietly forged a career of truth and make-believe, offering a steady flow of breathtaking performances in films like “Frozen River” and “Lullaby” and television series like...
- 2/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By J. Rentilly
(Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)
Not many actors appreciate being compared to puppets, and yet Oscar nominee Melissa Leo says she owes her entire career to the worlds of make-believe she enjoyed growing up down the street from Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater in New York City. “I was a child, but I could see that we were all working together, suspending disbelief, creating truth in imaginary circumstances,” she says. “The curtain would lift, and we made a real world out of nothing at all. That has guided my life, for sure.”
Now 50 and nominated for a second Oscar for her uncompromising, full-blooded turn opposite Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell’s acclaimed “The Fighter,” Leo has quietly forged a career of truth and make-believe, offering a steady flow of breathtaking performances in films like “Frozen River” and “Lullaby” and television series like...
(Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)
Not many actors appreciate being compared to puppets, and yet Oscar nominee Melissa Leo says she owes her entire career to the worlds of make-believe she enjoyed growing up down the street from Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater in New York City. “I was a child, but I could see that we were all working together, suspending disbelief, creating truth in imaginary circumstances,” she says. “The curtain would lift, and we made a real world out of nothing at all. That has guided my life, for sure.”
Now 50 and nominated for a second Oscar for her uncompromising, full-blooded turn opposite Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell’s acclaimed “The Fighter,” Leo has quietly forged a career of truth and make-believe, offering a steady flow of breathtaking performances in films like “Frozen River” and “Lullaby” and television series like...
- 2/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
This month, "Extra" is spotlighting the top 2011 Academy Award nominees, beginning with the Best Supporting Actress category. After seeing "The Fighter," many asked, "Who was the actress who played Mark Wahlberg's mom?" The answer is Melissa Leo, a character actress with a long and illustrious career in Hollywood, with appearances in many highly acclaimed films.
Here's the "Extra" scoop on this talented actress!
Oscar Nominee Trivia File: Melissa LeoHer Early Years
Melissa always knew...
Here's the "Extra" scoop on this talented actress!
Oscar Nominee Trivia File: Melissa LeoHer Early Years
Melissa always knew...
- 2/2/2011
- Extra
THR have posted the first image from Winnie, a film based on the life Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The film, currently shooting in South Africa. Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) is portraying Winnie Madikizela-Mandela opposite Terrance Howard’s (Iron Man) Nelson Mandela. The supporting cast is set to include Elias Koteas (Shutter Island), Wendy Crewson (24) and Jonathan Taylor (Skin).
The official synopsis is as follows:
Though Madikizela-Mandela fought for years to win her husband’s release from prison, the couple divorced in 1996, which might be worth a reprise or two of Hudson’s “Dreamgirls” anthem, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.”
Winnie is being directed by Darrell Roodt (Lullaby), and is a co-production between Ma-Afrika Films and Equinoxe Films. A release has yet to be finalised, but is likely to hit cinemas sometime in 2011.
Check out the image below:...
The official synopsis is as follows:
Though Madikizela-Mandela fought for years to win her husband’s release from prison, the couple divorced in 1996, which might be worth a reprise or two of Hudson’s “Dreamgirls” anthem, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.”
Winnie is being directed by Darrell Roodt (Lullaby), and is a co-production between Ma-Afrika Films and Equinoxe Films. A release has yet to be finalised, but is likely to hit cinemas sometime in 2011.
Check out the image below:...
- 7/22/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sometimes it takes a movie like Lullaby to highlight what kind of treasure a really, really good actor is. Take Melissa Leo, for instance. Sure, she was all fiery intensity in Homicide: Life on the Street a decade ago, and she’s still riveting us in films like Frozen River, for which she very justly was nominated for an Oscar. But those were profoundly well written works. I don’t mean to imply, of course, that just any actor could have taken her roles in those projects where Leo took them, but it doesn’t hurt to have to first boost up. But Lullaby... It means well, I’m sure, this tale of motherly love and kickass momness and the lengths a mother will go to when her child is threatened, all of which is stuffed inside a burrito of gritty inner-city drug-fueled hellishness. But it’s ridiculous. Really. It...
- 2/25/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Film releases certainly aren't limited to theaters these days -- here's a rundown of titles making their way to you via alternative pathways.
On Demand
Our sister company IFC Films made a splash at this year's Sundance with the announcement of a partnership with the SXSW Film Festival to premiere four of the festival's picks concurrent with their debut in Austin. Joe Swanberg's latest, "Alexander the Last," headlines the group making their on demand debut on March 14, along with Australian comedy "Three Blind Mice," Bulgarian noir "Zift" and SXSW '08 alums "Medicine for Melancholy" and "Paper Covers Rock."
On DVD
It's a sign of the times that a serviceable Tommy Lee Jones thriller can sit alongside the latest from Steven Seagal at your local Blockbuster, but "In the Electric Mist" is far more interesting than the actor's paycheck output of the late '90s, even if it is missing...
On Demand
Our sister company IFC Films made a splash at this year's Sundance with the announcement of a partnership with the SXSW Film Festival to premiere four of the festival's picks concurrent with their debut in Austin. Joe Swanberg's latest, "Alexander the Last," headlines the group making their on demand debut on March 14, along with Australian comedy "Three Blind Mice," Bulgarian noir "Zift" and SXSW '08 alums "Medicine for Melancholy" and "Paper Covers Rock."
On DVD
It's a sign of the times that a serviceable Tommy Lee Jones thriller can sit alongside the latest from Steven Seagal at your local Blockbuster, but "In the Electric Mist" is far more interesting than the actor's paycheck output of the late '90s, even if it is missing...
- 2/19/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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