Hollywood Film Festival salutes Dustin Hoffman, Josh Brolin and Kristin Scott Thomas
The Hollywood Film Festival is honoring Dustin Hoffman with a lifetime achievement award and has named Josh Brolin and Kristin Scott Thomas as actor and actress of the year. All three appear in potential Oscar contenders this fall. These laurels, along with the previously announced breakthrough awards to James Franco and Sally Hawkins, will be handed out on Oct. 27.
Dustin Hoffman is hoping for his eighth Academy Award nomination for "Last Chance Harvey," a charming romance that pairs him with Emma Thompson, another two-time Oscar winner. (Read more about the film's late entry into the Oscar race here.) Should Hoffman make it into the final five, he will have been an Oscar nominee for five consecutive decades. That's a record, isn't it? Katharine Hepburn's 12 bids spanned five decades, but not consecutively. She skipped the 1970s.
Kristin Scott Thomas was a best actress Oscar nominee back in 1996 for best picture winner "The English Patient." This year she could become the sixth actress to win an Oscar and a Tony in the same year, starring on Broadway now in an acclaimed revival of "The Seagull" and opening soon in the highly anticipated "I've Loved You So Long." (Read more about that double distinction here.)
Last year Josh Brolin had the lead role in best picture winner "No Country for Old Men" and a supporting role in "American Gangster." This year, he returns in the title role in "W." and as the nemesis of "Milk." Were he to get nominated for both performances, he would be the 12th performer to pull off this double act. (Read about the first 11 here.)
Oscar-winning scripter Paul Haggis ("Crash," "Million Dollar Baby") co-chairs these awards, which are proving prescient at predicting the major Oscar players. Last year, they honored eventual nominees Ellen Page ("Juno") and Casey Affleck ("The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") as the breakout performers and winner Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose") as best actress. Of course, coming so early in the season, these cannot foresee all the winners, and chose Richard Gere ("The Hunting Party," "I'm Not There") as best actor and Jennifer Connelly ("Reservation Road") as best supporting actress.
Photo credits, left to right: Overture Films, Sony Pictures Classics, Lionsgate
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Posted by: Leone | October 16, 2008 at 01:01 AM
I am really hoping that Kristin Scott Thomas wins the long-time-deserved Oscar and Tony this year. She is such an extraordinary and exceptional actress with her beauty and elegance. It was so heartbreaking that she didn't bring the Oscar home for English Patient back in 1996.
Posted by: L. | October 15, 2008 at 01:21 PM
Well, about the 5 consecutive decades record, Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine did it.
Posted by: AcademyAwardsGuru | October 14, 2008 at 04:34 PM