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Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April
1964) is a New Zealander Australian[3][4] actor,[5] film producer and
musician.[6] He came to international attention for his role as Roman General
Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by
Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film
Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a
London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for
Best Actor. Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in
1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as Best Actor and seven
nominations in the same category. In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician
and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him
numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen
Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading
Role. Crowe's other films include L.A. Confidential (1997), Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Cinderella Man (2005), American
Gangster (2007), 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and Robin Hood (2010). Crowe's work has
earned him several accolades, including a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
three Academy Award nominations in a row (1999–2001), one Golden Globe Award for
Best Actor, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award. Due to his success and character
variety, critics have often called him a "virtuoso" actor. He is also co-owner
of South Sydney Rabbitohs, an Australian National Rugby League team.
****
Background Information
Born Russell Ira Crowe
7 April 1964
Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation Actor and musician
Years active 1986–present
Spouse Danielle Spencer
(2003–present)
****
Early
life
Crowe was born on 7 April 1964 in
Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Jocelyn Yvonne (née Wemyss) and John
Alexander Crowe,[7] both of whom were movie set caterers; his father also
managed a hotel.[8] Crowe's maternal grandfather, Stan Wemyss, was a
cinematographer who was named an MBE for filming footage of World War II.
Crowe's maternal great-great-grandmother was Māori,[7] and his paternal
grandfather was from Wrexham, Wales;[9] Crowe also has Scottish, Norwegian,
English, and German ancestry.[7][10][11][12] His cousins, Martin and Jeff Crowe,
are former New Zealand cricket captains.[citation needed]
When Crowe was four years old, his
family moved to Australia, where his parents pursued a career in film set
catering.[7] The producer of the Australian TV series Spyforce was his mother's
godfather, and Crowe at age five or six was hired for a line of dialogue in one
episode, opposite series star Jack Thompson (in 1994 Thompson played Crowe's
father in The Sum of Us).[citation needed] Crowe also appeared briefly in serial
The Young Doctors.
He was educated at the Sydney Boys
High School.[7] When he was fourteen, Crowe's family moved back to New Zealand,
where he (along with his brother Terry) attended Auckland Grammar School with
cousins Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe. He then continued his secondary education
at Mount Roskill Grammar School, which he left at the age sixteen to pursue his
ambitions and childhood dreams of becoming a successful actor.[13]
Career
Australia
Crowe began his performing career
as a musician in the mid-1980s, under guidance from his good friend Tom
Sharplin, when he performed as a rock 'n roll revivalist, under the stage name
Russ Le Roq. He had a New Zealand single with I Just Want To Be Like Marlon
Brando.[14] He managed an Auckland music venue called "The Venue" in the mid
'80s.[15]
Crowe returned to Australia at age
21, intending to apply to the National Institute of Dramatic Art. "I was working
in a theatre show, and talked to a guy who was then the head of technical
support at NIDA," Crowe has recalled. "I asked him what he thought about me
spending three years at NIDA. He told me it'd be a waste of time. He said, 'You
already do the things you go there to learn, and you've been doing it for most
of your life, so there's nothing to teach you but bad habits.'"[16] From 1986 to
1988, he was given his first professional role by director Daniel Abineri, in a
production of The Rocky Horror Show.[7] He played the role of Eddie/Dr Scott.[7]
He repeated this performance in a further Australian production of the show. In
1987, Crowe spent six months busking when he could not find other work. In the
1988 Australian production of Blood Brothers, Crowe played the role of
Mickey.[17] He was also cast again by Daniel Abineri in the role of Johnny, in
the stage musical Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom in 1989.
After appearing in the TV series
Neighbours and Living with the Law, Crowe was cast in his first film, The
Crossing (1990), a small-town love triangle directed by George Ogilvie. Before
production started, a film-student protégé of Ogilvie, Steve Wallace, hired
Crowe for the film Blood Oath (1990) (aka Prisoners of the Sun), which was
released a month earlier than The Crossing, although actually filmed later. In
1992, Crowe starred in the first episode of the second series of Police Rescue.
Also in 1992, Crowe starred in Romper Stomper, an Australian film which followed
the exploits and downfall of a racist skinhead group in blue-collar suburban
Melbourne, directed by Geoffrey Wright. For the role, Crowe won an Australian
Film Institute (AFI) award for Best Actor, following up from his Best Supporting
Actor award for Proof in 1991.[7]
USA
After initial success in Australia,
Crowe began acting in American films. He co-starred with Denzel Washington in
Virtuosity and with Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead in 1995.[7] He went
on to become a three-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award as Best Actor
in 2001 for Gladiator.[7] Crowe was awarded the (Australian) Centenary Medal in
2001 for "service to Australian society and Australian film production."[18]
Crowe received three consecutive
best actor Oscar nominations, for The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful
Mind.[7] Crowe won the best actor award for A Beautiful Mind at the 2002 BAFTA
award ceremony, as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for
the same performance. However, he failed to win the Oscar that year, losing to
Denzel Washington. It has been suggested by the Guardian and Entertainment
Weekly that his attack on television producer Malcolm Gerrie for cutting short
his acceptance speech[19] may have turned voters against him.[20]
All three films were also nominated
for best picture, and both Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind won the award. Within
the six year stretch from 1997–2003, he also starred in two other best picture
nominees, L.A. Confidential and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
In 2005, he re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard for Cinderella
Man. In 2006 he re-teamed with Gladiator director Ridley Scott for A Good Year,
the first of two consecutive collaborations (the second being American Gangster
co-starring again with Denzel Washington, released in late 2007). While the
light romantic comedy of A Good Year was not greatly received, Crowe seemed
pleased with the film, telling STV in an interview that he thought it would be
enjoyed by fans of his other films.[21]
In recent years, Crowe's box office
standing has declined.[22] The Hollywood stock market (HSX) share Russell Crowe
(RCROW), issued in 1997, however maintains constant accretion.[23] Crowe
appeared in Robin Hood, a film based on the Robin Hood legend, directed by
Ridley Scott and released on 14 May 2010.[24]
Crowe starred in the 2010 Paul
Haggis film The Next Three Days, an adaptation of the 2008 French film Pour
Elle.[25]
Crowe will be taking on the role of
Inspector Javert in the musical film of Les Misérables.[26]
Music
In the 1980s, Crowe, going under
the name of "Russ le Roq", recorded a song titled "I Want To Be Like Marlon
Brando".[27]
In the 1980s, Crowe and friend
Billy Dean Cochran formed a band, "Roman Antix", which later evolved into the
Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts (abbreviated to TOFOG). Crowe
performed lead vocals and guitar for the band, which formed in 1992. The band
released The Photograph Kills EP in 1995 as well as three full length records,
Gaslight (1998),Bastard Life or Clarity (2001) and Other Ways of Speaking
(2003). In 2000 TOFOG performed shows in London, Los Angeles and the now famous
run of shows at Stubbs in Austin, TX which became a live DVD that was released
in 2001 called Texas. In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and
TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in
Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder,
Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and
the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
In early 2005, 30 Odd Foot Of
Grunts as a group has "dissolved/evolved" with Crowe feeling his future music
would take a new direction and he began a collaboration with Alan Doyle of the
Canadian band Great Big Sea, and with it a new band: The Ordinary Fear of God
which also involved some members of the previous TOFOG line-up. A new single,
Raewyn, was released in April 2005 and an album entitled My Hand, My Heart which
was released and is available for download on iTunes. The album includes a
tribute song to actor Richard Harris, who became Crowe's friend during the
making of Gladiator.
Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear
of God set out to break the new band in by performing a successful sold out
series of dates of Australia in 2005 and then in 2006 returned to the US to
promote their new release My Hand, My Heart with another sold-out US Tour and
major press, radio and television appearances.
In March 2010, Russell Crowe & The
Ordinary Fear of God's version of the John Williamson song "Winter Green" was
included on a new compilation album The Absolute Best of John Williamson: 40
Years True Blue, commemorating the singer-songwriter's milestone of 40 years in
the Australian music industry.
As of May 2011, there are plans to
release a new Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God recording (co-written
with Alan Doyle) and for a US Tour which would be the first live dates in the US
since 2006.
On 2 August 2011, the third
collaboration between Crowe and Doyle was released on iTunes as The Crowe/Doyle
Songbook Vol III, featuring 9 original songs followed by their acoustic demo
counterparts (for a total of 18 tracks). Danielle Spencer does guest vocals on
most tracks. The release coincided with a pair of live performances at the LSPU
Hall in St. John's, Newfoundland.[28] The digital album was released as download
versions only on Amazon.com, iTunes, spotify. The album has since charted at No.
72 on the Canadian Albums Chart.[29]
On 26 September 2011, Crowe
appeared on-stage at Rogers Arena in Vancouver in the middle of Keith Urban's
concert. He sang a cover of Folsom Prison Blues, before joining the rest of the
band in a rendition of "The Joker".[30]
Philanthropy
During location filming of
Cinderella Man, Crowe made a donation to a Jewish elementary school whose
library had been damaged as a result of arson.[31] A note with an anti-Semitic
message had been left at the scene.[32] Crowe called school officials to express
his concern and wanted his message relayed to the students.[33] The school’s
building fund received donations from throughout Canada and the amount of
Crowe’s donation was not disclosed.[34]
On another occasion, Crowe donated
a large sum of money ($200,000) to a struggling primary school near his home in
rural Australia. Crowe's sympathies were sparked when a pupil drowned at the
nearby Coffs Harbour beach in 2001, and he believes the pool will help students
become better swimmers and improve their knowledge of water safety. At the
opening ceremony he dove into the pool fully clothed as soon as the venue was
declared open. Nana Glen principal Laurie Renshall says, "The many things he
does up here, people just don't know about. We've been trying to get a pool for
10 years."[35]
Personal life
From his youth to the present,
Crowe has had a special love of horses. "They're just like people," he told
CraveOnline, "there are some horses that you have a deeper connection with
immediately, and you can work on that over time."[36] He has also noted that he
sometimes finds it difficult to part with his equine co-stars when a film wraps.
Most of the year, Crowe resides in
Australia. He has an apartment in Sydney at the end of the Finger Wharf in
Woolloomooloo and a 320 ha (791 acres) rural property in Nana Glen near Coffs
Harbour, New South Wales. In 2011 the family moved to a house with a garden in
Sydney´s Rose Bay.[37] The Nana Glen property, a cattle farm (700 Black Angus),
includes a chapel that Crowe built for his wedding to Spencer.[38]
Crowe also owns a house in the
North Queensland city of Townsville: he purchased the $450,000 home in the
suburb of Douglas on 3 May 2008.[39] It is believed the home is for his niece,
who is studying at James Cook University.[40]
Crowe stated in November 2007 that
he would like to be baptised as a Christian, and feels that he has put it off
for too long. "I do believe there are more important things than what is in the
mind of a man," he says. "There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm
willing to take that leap of faith."[41]
In July 2010 Crowe, who had started
nicotine consumption on a regular basis during his elementary schooldays,
announced he had quit smoking for the sake of his two sons. By April 2011, it
was officially confirmed that his attempt to quit nicotine consumption after 36
years of smoking was not a success and that he has taken up smoking
again.[42][43]
In preparation for several film
roles in 2012, from June to November 2011 Crowe underwent a gluten-free and
non-alcoholic diet and fitness program that consisted of walking, mountain
biking and workout in the gym. During this period he lost 24 kg (52,8 lbs)
reducing his weight from 114 down to 90 kg (198 lbs). [44]
Al-Qaeda threats
On 9 March 2005, Crowe revealed to
GQ magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents had approached him
prior to the 73rd Academy Awards on 25 March 2001 and told him that the Islamist
terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him. Crowe told the magazine that it
was the first time he had ever heard of al-Qaeda and was quoted as saying:[45]
You get this late-night call from
the FBI when you arrive in Los Angeles, and they're, like, absolutely full-on.
'We’ve got to talk to you now before you do anything. We have to have a
discussion with you, Mr. Crowe.'
Crowe recalled that:[46]
it was something to do with some
recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or
Algiers...it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a
sort of cultural destabilisation plan.
Crowe was guarded by United States
Secret Service agents for the next few months, both while shooting films and at
award ceremonies. Scotland Yard also guarded Crowe while he was promoting Proof
of Life in London in February 2001.
Stamps
series Australian Legends Of The Screen
In the beginning of 2009, Crowe
appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps called "Legends of the
Screen", featuring Australian actors. He, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, and
Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as
their Academy Award-winning character.[47]
Sport
Rugby
league
Crowe has been a supporter of the
rugby league football team the South Sydney Rabbitohs since childhood. Since his
rise to fame as an actor, he has continued appearing at home games, and
supported the financially troubled club. Following the Super League war of the
1990s Crowe made an attempt to use his Hollywood connections to convince Ted
Turner, rival of Super League's Rupert Murdoch, to save the Rabbitohs before
they were forced from the National Rugby League competition for two years.[48]
In 1999 Crowe paid A$42,000 at auction for the brass bell used to open the
inaugural rugby league match in Australia in 1908 at a fund-raiser to assist
Souths' legal battle for re-inclusion in the League.[49] In 2005, he made the
Rabbitohs the first club team in Australia to be sponsored by a film, when he
negotiated a deal to advertise his film Cinderella Man on their jerseys.[50]
Crowe is friends with many current
and former players of the club, and currently employs former South Sydney
forward Mark Carroll as a bodyguard and personal trainer. He has encouraged
other actors to support the club, such as Tom Cruise and Burt Reynolds.[citation
needed]
On 19 March 2006, the voting
members of the South Sydney club voted (in a 75.8% majority) to allow Crowe and
businessman Peter Holmes à Court to purchase 75% of the organisation, leaving
25% ownership with the members. It cost them A$3 million, and they received four
of eight seats on the board of directors. A six part television miniseries
entitled "South Side Story" depicting the takeover aired in Australia in
2007.[51]
On 5 November 2006, Crowe appeared
on Tonight Show with Jay Leno to announce that Firepower International was
sponsoring the South Sydney Rabbitohs for $3 million over three years.[52]
During a Tonight Show with Jay Leno appearance, watched by over 11 million
viewers, Crowe showed viewers a Rabbitoh playing jersey with Firepower's name
emblazoned on it.[53]
Crowe helped to organise a rugby
league game that took place in Jacksonville, Florida between the South Sydney
Rabbitohs and the English Super League champions Leeds Rhinos on 26 January 2008
(Australia Day). The game was played at the University of North Florida.[54]
Crowe told ITV Local Yorkshire the game was not a marketing exercise.[55]
Crowe wrote a letter of apology to
a Sydney newspaper following the sacking of South Sydney's coach Jason Taylor
and one of their players David Fa'alogo after a drunken altercation between the
two at the end of the 2009 NRL season.[56]
Also in 2009 Crowe persuaded young
England international forward Sam Burgess to sign with the Rabbitohs over other
clubs that were competing for his signature, after inviting Burgess and his
mother to the set of Robin Hood, which he was filming in England at the
time.[57]
In the 2010 post-season it was
reported that Crowe's influence was critical in persuading Greg Inglis, one of
the world's best players, to renege on his deal to join the Brisbane Broncos and
sign for the Rabbitohs for 2011.[58]
On 5 December 2010 the Sunday
Telegraph reported that the NRL was investigating the business relationships
Russell Crowe has with a number of media and entertainment companies in relation
to the South Sydney Rabbitohs' salary cap. Salary cap auditor Ian Schubert was
reported to be delving into Crowe's recent dealings with Channel Nine, Channel
Seven, ANZ Stadium and V8 Supercars.[59]
On 26 January 2011 the Sydney
Morning Herald reported that the Rabbitohs were about to embark on a five year
multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with the giant Star City Casino. Souths
also announced a corporate partnership with the bookmaking conglomerate
Luxbet.[60]
Previously Crowe had been prominent
in trying to prevent gambling being associated with the Rabbitohs. Reuters, on 3
January 2008, reported that Crowe was "fighting a new gladiatorial combat to
wean his countrymen off their addiction to gambling machines."[61]
In May 2011 Crowe was credited for
an arrangement with Fox to have the 2011 State of Origin series broadcast live
for the first time in the United States, in addition to the NRL Grand Final.[62]
Other
sporting interests
In football (soccer), Crowe said he
followed Bristol City[63] and Leeds United.[64][65]
Crowe watches and plays cricket. He
played in school, and his cousins Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe are former Black
Caps Captains. Russell Crowe captained the 'Australian' Team containing Steve
Waugh against an English side in the 'Hollywood Ashes' Cricket Match.[66] On 17
July 2009 Crowe took to the commentary box for the British sports channel, Sky
Sports, as the 'third man' during the second test of the 2009 Ashes series,
between England and Australia.[67]
Russell Crowe supports the Leeds
Rhinos[citation needed] in the Super League and Richmond Tigers in the
Australian Football League[68]
Crowe supports the University of
Michigan Wolverines American football team, an interest that stems from his
friendship with former Wolverines coach Lloyd Carr. Carr used Crowe's movie
Cinderella Man to motivate his team in 2006 following a disappointing 7–5 season
the previous year. Upon hearing of this, Crowe called Carr and invited him to
Australia to address his Rugby league team the South Sydney Rabbitohs, an offer
Carr took Crowe up on the following summer. In September 2007, after Carr came
under fire following the Wolverines' 0–2 start, Crowe travelled to Ann Arbor,
Michigan for the Wolverines' 15 September game against Notre Dame to show his
support for Carr. He addressed the team before the game and watched from the
sidelines as the Wolverines defeated the Irish 38–0.[citation needed]
Crowe is also a fan of the National
Football League, and on 22 October 2007 appeared in the booth of a Monday Night
game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars.[69] He is also
a devout fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs which stems from his shooting of
Cinderella Man at Maple Leaf Gardens.
Altercations and controversies
Between 1999 and 2005 Crowe was
involved in three altercations which gave him a reputation for having a bad
temper.[70]
In 1999, Crowe was involved in a
scuffle at the Plantation Hotel in Coffs Harbour, Australia, which was caught on
security video.[71] Two men were acquitted of using the video in an attempt to
blackmail Crowe.[72]
Four years later, when part of
Crowe's appearance at the 2002 BAFTA awards was cut out to fit into the BBC's
tape-delayed broadcast, Crowe used strong language during an argument with
producer Malcolm Gerrie. The part cut was a poem in tribute to actor Richard
Harris who was then terminally ill, and was cut for copyright reasons. Crowe
later apologised, saying "What I said to him may have been a little bit more
passionate than now, in the cold light of day, I would have liked it to have
been."[73] Later that year, Crowe was alleged to have been involved in a "brawl"
with businessman Eric Watson[74] inside a trendy Japanese restaurant in
London.[75] The fight was broken up by British actor Ross Kemp.
In June 2005, Crowe was arrested
and charged with second-degree assault by New York City police, after he threw a
telephone at an employee of the Mercer Hotel who refused to help him place a
call when the system did not work from his room, and was charged with
fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon (the telephone).[76] The employee,
a concierge, was treated for a facial laceration.[77] After his arrest Crowe
underwent a perp walk, a procedure customary especially in New York exposing the
enchained suspect to the news media to take pictures. This procedure was under
discussion as potentially violating Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. Crowe later described the incident as "possibly the most shameful
situation that I've ever gotten myself in... and I've done some pretty dumb
things in my life".[78] Crowe pleaded guilty and was conditionally discharged.
Before the trial he settled a lawsuit filed by the concierge, Nestor
Estrada.[79][80] Terms of the settlement were not disclosed but amounts in the
six-figure range have been suggested.[81]
Crowe's altercations were lampooned
in the South Park episode, "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer"; between
2005 and 2011 the telephone incident caused DPR mass media perpetuation, leading
to the long-term petrification of Crowe´s personal public image, - aside from
his professional public image as "The Gladiator" – as of "the telephone throwing
actor". Crowe commented the ongoing media perpetuation in November 2010, five
years into the process, during an interview led by the well known American
television talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose: "it affected me
psychologically" (min 42:51) (...) "it indelibly changed me". (min 42:00)[82] A
new drive to the topic[clarification needed] brought the actor's participation
in the microblogging service Twitter from April 2010.
In June 2011, Crowe expressed in
the course of a friendly[83] Twitter conversation with his colleague, Jewish
screenwriter Eli Roth, his views against infant circumcision, calling the
practice "barbaric" and asking, "Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that
[God] requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are [born] perfect."[84][85][86]
The comments coincided with a debate to ban the procedure on infants in
California, USA.[87] Crowe, living in New South Wales, Australia, and not being
a member of any church,[88] removed the comments the following day and tweeted
an apology: "My personal beliefs aside I realise that some will interpret this
debate as me mocking the rituals and traditions of others. I am very sorry."[89]
Since 15 November 2011 Crowe
supports the first globally networked protest movement OWS - Occupy Wall Street
movement via Twitter, asking his 310.000 followers to listen to Keith Olbermann
Reading Occupy Wall Street Declaration[90] and stating on 15 November 2011 via
his Twitter account
“ The OWS statement is a very
important moment; like witnessing The Declaration of Humanity.[91] "OWS
statement", Countdown with Keith Olbermann TV broadcast, 14 November 2011,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDZg6cGrn4&feature=share ”
Filmography
Year Film Role Notes
Films 1990 Prisoners of the Sun Lt.
Jack Corbett
1990 Crossing, TheThe Crossing
Johnny Ryan Nominated—Australian Film Institute Award – Best Actor in Lead Role
1991 Proof Andy Australian Film
Institute Award – Best Supporting Actor
Film Critics Circle of Australia
Award for Best Actor – Male
1992 Spotswood Kim Barrett
1992 Romper Stomper Hando
Australian Film Institute Award – Best Actor in Lead Role
Seattle International Film Festival
for Best Actor (also for Hammers Over the Anvil)
1993 Hammers Over the Anvil East
Driscoll Seattle International Film Festival for Best Actor (also for Romper
Stomper)
1993 Silver Brumby, TheThe Silver
Brumby The Man (Egan)
1993 For the Moment Lachlan Currie
1993 Love in Limbo Arthur Baskin
1994 Sum of Us, TheThe Sum of Us
Jeff Mitchell
1995 Quick and the Dead, TheThe
Quick and the Dead Cort
1995 No Way Back FBI Agent Zack
Grant
1995 Virtuosity SID 6.7
1995 Rough Magic Alex Ross
1997 L.A. Confidential Officer
Wendell "Bud" White Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best
Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1997 Heaven's Burning Colin
O'Brien
1997 Breaking Up Steve
1999 Mystery, Alaska Sheriff John
Biebe
1999 Insider, TheThe Insider
Jeffrey Wigand Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
London Film Critics Circle Award
for Best Actor (also for Gladiator)
Los Angeles Film Critics
Association Award for Best Actor
National Board of Review Award for
Best Actor
National Society of Film Critics
Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best
Actor
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best
Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics
Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Las Vegas Film Critics
Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Online Film Critics
Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best
Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
2000 Gladiator Maximus Decimus
Meridius Academy Award for Best Actor
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for
Favorite Actor – Action
Broadcast Film Critics Association
Award for Best Actor
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics
Association Award for Best Actor
Empire Award for Best Actor
London Film Critics Circle Award
for Best Actor (also for The Insider)
San Diego Film Critics Society
Award for Best Actor
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best
Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Las Vegas Film Critics
Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best
Performance
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best
Fight
Nominated—Online Film Critics
Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best
Actor
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best
Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2000 Proof of Life Terry Thorne
Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor – Suspense
2001 Beautiful Mind, AA Beautiful
Mind John Nash BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association
Award for Best Actor
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics
Association Award for Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -
Motion Picture Drama
Screen Actors Guild Award for
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award
for Best Actor
Nominated—American Film Institute
Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best
Actor
Nominated—Australian Film Institute
Award – Best Actor in Lead Role
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics
Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best
Performance
Nominated—Online Film Critics
Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best
Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2003 Master and Commander: The Far
Side of the World Capt. Jack Aubrey Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association
Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
2005 Cinderella Man Jim Braddock
Australian Film Institute Award – Best International Actor
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics
Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
2006 Good Year, AA Good Year Max
Skinner
2007 3:10 to Yuma Ben Wade
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a
Motion Picture
2007 American Gangster Det. Richie
Roberts Nominated—Australian Film Institute Award – Best International Actor
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2008 Tenderness Detective
Cristofuoro
2008 Body of Lies Ed Hoffman
2009 State of Play Cal McAffrey
Australian Film Institute Award – Best International Actor
2010 Robin Hood Robin Longstride
Nominated–Teen Choice Award for Action Adventure Actor
2010 The Next Three Days John
Brennan
2012 Republic of Doyle Boyd Keiley
1 episode[92]
2013 Broken City Kevin Barlow
filming[93]
2013 Man of Steel Jor-El
filming[94][95]
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