Daniel Day-Lewis on verge of historic Oscar treble thanks to method acting (DAILY RECORD)

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS has gone from big screen oddball to become the golden boy of the Oscars.

Tonight, if – as the bookies expect and most critics predict – he collects the Academy Award for his perfect portrayal of Abraham Lincoln, he will have created history.

It will mean that the London-born star – who previously won for My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood – is the first to complete a hat-trick of best actor Oscars.

With tonight’s triumph seeming a virtual certainty, it has caused at least one critic to ask whether Daniel Day-Lewis might just be the greatest screen actor of all time.

I would certainly place him up there with screen greats such as Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando, James Stewart and James Cagney.

Like those iconic figures, Day-Lewis, 55, has the ability to so absorb himself in a performance that you forget that he is acting.

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COLIN FIRTH! Oscar Winner! Best Actor!"King's Speech" Stephen Holt Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAFUWm2JuPQ

Colin Firth finds 'bliss' in Queensland (THE CANBERRA TIMES)

Oscar winning actor Colin Firth talks to reporters on the Gold Coast about his new movie The Railway Man which is being filmed in Queensland, saying "it has just been bliss".

http://media.canberratimes.com.au/national/selections/colin-firth-finds-bliss-in-queensland-3386989.html?&exc_from=strap

Kate Winslet Breaks One Fan's Heart Big Time!! (PEREZ HILTON)

And we're not sure if it can go on… (badum psshhh)


According to one distressed fan, Kate Winslet totally snubbed a hundred fans waiting to get her acknowledgement when she arrived in their small town to shoot Labor Day
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Shanna Swan had been waiting in the rainy cold with her children and other fans (including a number of senior citizens) when the Cadillac finally pulled up with the Oscar winner.

And that's when everyone's pretty little bubble burst.

Shanna explains:


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Kenneth Branagh Recalls a Most Unusual LA Script Read By Richard Horgan on April 27, 2012 10:30 AM (FISHBOWL LA)

Five-time Oscar nominee Kenneth Branagh has made his way to the San Francisco International Film Festival to accept the Founder’s Directing Award (last night) and participate in a Q&A screening of his 1991 film Dead Again (tonight).

Branagh told San Francisco Chronicle regular contributor Pam Grady that after the success of Henry V, he had hoped to convince Hollywood to let him adapt Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native. Instead, Paramount pointed him in the direction of Scott Frank’s long-in-development tale of a modern-day Los Angeles private detective juxtaposed with a 1940s-era German composer


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Downton Abbey: Allen Leech, My moment with MacLaine (BELFAST TELEGRAPH)

Downton Abbey star Allen Leech has confessed he fluffed his lines when Hollywood actress Shirley MacLaine turned up on set.

The Irish actor - who plays Branson the chauffeur in the hit ITV1 show - got starstruck when he filmed a scene with the Oscar winner, who will appear in series three as Martha Levinson, the wealthy mother of Lady Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern).

"I sat down and the first line I did with her, it came out as 'Blah blah blah' and she went, 'Darling I think you got that wrong'," Allen revealed.

READ MORE:  http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/leech-my-moment-with-maclaine-16133000.html

Colin Firth Racks Up Another Old-Timey Acting Honor (E ON LINE)

Colin Firth Racks Up Another Old-Timey Acting Honor
Fri., Mar. 09, 2012 10:31 AM PST
by Gina Serpe


The Oscar winner yesterday was named a Freeman of the City of London, accepting the recognition given to people who've made a significant impact in their field of work—in Firth's case, acting. "London is my home and I'm hugely touched and honored by this gesture," The King's Speech star said when accepting the honor, which once (but no longer) carried with it such privileges as the ability to be drunk and disorderly in public without fear of arrest.


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