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Russell Crowe: Academy Award
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While Russell Crowe was discovering how to stand up, The Academy gave a standing ovation to these movies and actors: 'On The Waterfront'- Directed by Elia Kazan won the Best Movie Academy Award in 1954. Also this year, the Academy Award for Best Actor went to Marlon Brando for his role in 'On the Waterfront' and the Best Actress Award went to Grace Kelly for her role in 'The Country Girl'.
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Crowe received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations for The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind. All three films were ... 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, though he was nominated for neither. 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, due for release 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.[11]
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Crowe received his first Academy Award nomination for his work in Michael Mann's non-fiction drama The Insider, as tobacco company whistleblower, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. He ... earned Best Actor Awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics, Broadcast Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review and nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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The Story of “Cinderella Man:” A movie that’s sure to receive attention when award season rolls around, “Cinderella Man” is based on the inspirational true story of Depression Era boxer Jim Braddock (played by Russell Crowe). Forced to retire from the ring and, along with the rest of America, having a difficult time making ends meet, Braddock takes whatever job he can get and even swallows his pride and goes on Public Relief just to keep the electricity turned on and his kids fed. Then a miracle happens. Boxing manager Joe Gould (Paul Giamatti) gets him one more shot in the ring and underdog Braddock becomes the Cinderella Man, a working class hero Americans look to to help lift the nation’s spirits.
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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 apologized, 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."[23] Later that year, Crowe was alleged to have been involved in a "brawl"[24] inside a trendy Japanese restaurant in London.
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Awards and Recognition: Crowe earned Screen Actors Guild and a Golden Globe nominationS for "The Insider" (1999). He won top honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics, the National Society of Film Critics and the Broadcast Film Critics Association for the same role.
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