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Alan Arkin: Miss Sunshine
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Alan Arkin is presenting at the SAG Awards™ for the first time. Arkin is nominated this year for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, both for Little Miss Sunshine.
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Guide Note: Alan Arkin is an American actor and author, who has starred in Catch-22, The In-Laws and Glengarry Glen Ross. In 2007, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Little Miss Sunshine.
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Little Miss Sunshine Oscar-winner Alan Arkin confessed on the red carpet before the show that he hoped his young costar, Abigail Breslin, would not win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. (His wish came true – Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson won the award.)
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Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning and four-time Emmy nominated American actor and director. He is best-known for starring in such films as Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Glengarry Glen Ross and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007. He is the father of actor Adam Arkin.
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Oscar winner Alan Arkin is reuniting with his Little Miss Sunshine co-star Steve Carell in the big-screen version of Get Smart. I’m glad to see that Arkin hasn’t sold out after getting that gold statuette.
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Arkin had a strong 2006, starting with a brief appearance in the heist thriller, “Firewall†(2006), starring Harrison Ford as a grizzled security specialist forced to help a group of thieves rob a bank he helped build the security system for. He then had a raucously funny supporting role in the surprise indie comedy hit “Little Miss Sunshine†(2006), playing the foul-mouthed grandfather of a young girl (Abigail Breslin) taken on a road trip by her dysfunctional family so she can compete in a fiercely competitive beauty contest for prepubescent girls. Though he was snubbed by the Hollywood Foreign Press at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards for “Little Miss Sunshine,†Arkin was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor – an award he would go on to win, despite a highly predicted win for Eddie Murphy's role in "Dreamgirls" (2006).
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