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Christopher Plummer wins LA Critics Award!
The Los Angeles Critics Association earlier today named Christopher Plummer the winner of its best supporting actor award for his performance as a gay man who comes out late in life in the film Beginners.
Plummer had already been named best supporting actor by The National Board of Review and appears to be a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination, according to awards season handicapper Scott Feinberg.
‘He is far and away the front runner for best supporting actor, there really isn’t anyone that comes close,’ Feinberg told me for a Gay Star News story. ‘Part of that is because he’s never won and is now in his eighties. But it’s also an excellent performance.’
Other winners include:
Best picture: The Descendants Runner-up: The Tree of Life.
Best director: Terrence Malick for The Tree of Life. Runner-up: Martin Scorsese for Hugo.
Best actor: Michael Fassbender for his work in A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame and X-Men: First Class. Runner-up: Michael Shannon for Take Shelter.
Best actress: Yun Jung-hee for Poetry. Runner-up: Kirsten Dunst for Melancholia.
Best supporting actress: Jessica Chastain for her work in six films (Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields and The Tree of Life. Runner-up: Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs.
Best supporting actor: Runner-up: Patton Oswalt for Young Adult.
Also Sunday, the American Film Institute released its list of the year’s top-10 films: Bridesmaids, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Help, Hugo, J. Edgar, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life and War Horse.
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Christopher Plummer website says:
A very Happy 82nd Birthday to Canadian acting legend Christopher Plummer
After appearing in over 150 movies, Christopher Plummer received his first Academy Award nomination two years ago at the age of 80 for playing Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station. Since then he has been incredibly busy with nine movies since the beginning of 2009 and numerous voice acting performances for video games. Plummer might be back to win the prize this year for his deeply moving performance in Mike Mills’ Beginners.
Plummer does so marvelously and should have enough respect from the Academy to at least score a nomination and he is the closest thing we have right now to a lock.