It goes to justify that many of the excellent Oscar winners ever have been from the United states of america. Not surprisingly, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is located and headquartered in Beverly Hills (on La Cienega Boulevard). What lots of people don’t realize is the fact that there have been various fine actors who originated from other countries around the world around the world.

 

Heath Ledger, an actor from Australia, received the best actor award posthumously the year 2009~last year} for his exceptional portrayal of the crazy Joker motion picture} The Dark Knight, a Batman motion picture unlike any other ever produced. It turned out depressing and ironic that right after a quick yet great career, Ledger would win the award but not live to get it. It absolutely was a clean sweep that season for foreign Oscar winners as British born actress Kate Winslet (Titanic) received Best Actress for her part as a German woman who seduces a boy and is eventually discovered to have ties to the Nazis and tried as a collaborator. She also earned a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a SAG award exactly the same year.

 

In 2008 Marion Cottilard from France came into the growing list of international Oscar winners when she received Best Actress for her remarkable performance as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. Moreover in ‘08 one more Australian, the actress Cate Blanchett was nominated for Best Actress honors for her part as the besieged Queen in the movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Spanish born hunk Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for the ultra violent No Country for Old Men, this earned Best Picture.

 

Back in 2003, yet another Aussie actress~actress from Australia}, the fabulous Nicole Kidman, received Best Actress in The Hours. Another of the Oscar winners that very same year was Welsh born Catherine Zeta-Jones who received Best Supporting Actress for her role in Chicago, the musical, in which she portrayed Velma Kelly. More Oscar winners that aren’t from the U.S. feature Jim Broadbent who won Best Actor in 2003 for a foreign flick that no one saw called Iris, and 2002 saw New Zealander Russel Crowe win Best Actor awards for the motion picture all people saw, Gladiator. What’s more , it won for Best Picture that very same year. Best Supporting actor in the year 2002 went to the flexible Puerto Rican actor, Benicio del Toro, who impressed people in 2010 as The Wolfman. In the year 2002 British actor Michael Caine eventually joined the ranks of Oscar winners the moment he won Best Supporting Actor for his part as the loving doctor in the poignant Cider House Rules, a wonderful movie.

 

Throughout the years, several international born actors and actresses have been counted as Oscar winners and you can expect the exact same in many years to come. The United States has no lock on the odds of bagging this award, regardless of where they came from. Movie making nowadays faces its toughest problem ever facing the economic issues worldwide. We are vulnerable to losing this much needed industry and people have to get out and support movie making by paying to watch these movies, of which some use green screen and green screen backgrounds, when they come to cinemas.

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