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Canarian Actor in Oscars Limelight
Javier Bardem won his tenth Best Supporting Actor award of the season for his portrayal of a psycopathic serial killer in the Cohen Brothers’ ‘No country for old men’ when this year’s Golden Globe winners were announced at a press conference held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
The Canarian actor, who was competing against the likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War), John Travolta (Hairspray), Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) and Casey Affleck (The murder of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford), is now a strong favourite for an Oscar.
In a statement, Bardem said “It is a great honour to have been recognised with this award” and less than 24 hours after being named in the same category by the New York Film Critics’ Circle, the Canarian actor, picked up the Best Supporting Actor award from the National Association of US Film Critics at a ceremony in Santa Monica (California).
“I’m a very lucky man,” said the actor in perfect English during his acceptance speech, “I feel like I’ve won the lottery, above all given that there are so many quality rivals.” Bardem won the award for his portrayal of an implacable serial killer active in Texas during the 1960s in the Cohen brothers’ ‘No country for old men’.
He has also been nominated for Best supporting actor in the upcoming Oscars for his role in No Country for Old Men. His role in the film is as Anton Chigurh, a sociopathic killer on the trail of a young man who has stolen a bag of drug money.
This is the second Academy Award nomination for Javier Bardem. He was previously nominated for Before night falls in the year 2000 where he was nominated as, Best actor in a leading role.
FILM SYNOPSIS
When Llewellyn Moss comes upon a corpse-strewn drug-deal-gone-wrong in the middle of the barren West Texas range, he takes the bag of cash he finds at the scene and soon draws the attention of the county sheriff investigating the crime. Sheriff Bell will become Llewellyn’s best hope for survival, however, when he finds himself the object of a relentless pursuit by hired killer Anton Chigurh, a murderous sociopath.