Jamaal Finkley sits down with Academy Award® Winner Russell Crowe to discuss the importance of this tail of Robin Hood. Academy Award® winner RUSSELL CROWE (Robin Longstride/Produced by) is considered one of the finest actors of his generation. Originally from New Zealand, he started making waves in the Australian film industry with his performance in the controversialf ilmRomper Stomper—for which he became critically acclaimed around the world. He has received three consecutive Academy Award® Best Actor nominations for his performances in The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001)—taking home the Oscar® for his performance in Gladiator. In addition to winning the Best Actor Oscar® for his performance as Maximus, the Roman general- turned-gladiator, in Ridley Scotts Gladiator, he earned Best Actor honors from several critics organi- zations, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association, and he received Best Actor nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA. In Ron Howards A Beautiful Mind, Crowes masterful portrayal of Nobel Prize-winning John Forbes Nash, Jr., earned him his third Academy Award® nomination and garnered him Best Actor awards from the Golden Globes, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and other critics groups. Crowe received his first Academy Award® nomi- nation for his work in Michael Manns nonfiction drama The Insider, as tobacco company whistle- blower Jeffrey Wigand. He also earned Best Actor Broadcast Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review, and nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Recently, Crowe appeared in Universals State of Play, along with Rachel McAdams and Ben Affleck; in Ridley Scotts drama Body of Lies, for Warner Bros., which also starred Leonardo DiCaprio; in Lionsgates 3:10 to Yuma, opposite Christian Bale; and reteamed with director Ridley Scott for Universals American Gangster, with Denzel Washington. Before his award-winning acclaim, Crowe made his mark on Hollywood in Curtis Hansons crime drama L.A. Confidential, as vice cop Bud White. His other film credits include Ron Howards Cinderella Man, in which he starred as Jim Braddock; A Good Year, directed by Ridley Scott and based on the book by Peter Mayle; Jay Roachs Mystery, Alaska; Taylor Hackfords Proof of Life; and Virtuosity, opposite Denzel Washington. He made his American film debut in the Western The Quick and the Dead, with Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone. Additional film credits include Heavens Burning, Breaking Up, Rough Magic, The Sum of Us, For the Moment, Love in Limbo, The Silver Brumby, based on the classic Australian childrens novel, The Efficiency Expert and Prisoners of the Sun. Born in New Zealand, Crowe was raised in Australia where he has also been honored for his work on the screen. He was recognized for three consecutive years by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), beginning in 1991, when he was nominated for Best Actor for The Crossing. The following year, he won the Best Supporting Actor award for Proof. Also in 1992, he received Best Actor awards from the AFI and the Australian Film Critics for his performance in Romper Stomper. In 1993, the Seattle International Film Festival named Crowe Best Actor for his work in both Romper Stomper and Hammers Over the Anvil. awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Crowe currently resides in Australia.(more)
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