{"id":25426,"date":"2010-03-13T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=25426"},"modified":"2010-03-13T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:14:38","slug":"jeff-bridges-finally-wins-long-deserved-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/03\/13\/jeff-bridges-finally-wins-long-deserved-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bridges Finally Wins Long-Deserved Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bridges, who has been starring in movies for the past four decades, was finally and rightfully recognized with an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis &#8216;Bad&#8217; Blake, a drunken country singer seeking redemption, in &#8216;Crazy Heart.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>After being nominated for Oscars four times before, for the movies &#8216;The Last Picture Show,&#8217; &#8216;Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,&#8217; &#8216;Starman&#8217; and &#8216;The Contender,&#8217; Bridges was seen as the front-runner in the Best Actor category this year.  He set the precedent by winning the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards. <\/p>\n<p>Bridges also had the best chance of winning because he was up against two actors who have already won Oscars: George Clooney for &#8216;Up in the Air,&#8217; a dark horse going into the awards, and Morgan Freeman for &#8216;Invictus.&#8217;  Also nominated were Colin Firth for &#8216;A Single Man,&#8217; which fared better in his native England; and Jeremy Renner, who has been acting for 15 years but just recently gained widespread fame, for &#8216;The Hurt Locker.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The win was deserving, as Bridges has not shown his diversity in comedies and dramas, but action and animated movies as well, including &#8216;Tron,&#8217; &#8216;The Big Lebowski,&#8217; &#8216;Stick It,&#8217; &#8216;Surf&#8217;s Up&#8217; and &#8216;Iron Man.&#8217;  He has also perfected characters that are not only naturalistic, but unpredictable and unstable as well.  Bridges even showed his musical side by singing all of his own songs in &#8216;Crazy Heart.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Also, &#8216;Crazy Heart&#8217; isn&#8217;t a biography, so Bridges only had a novel to base his character on, as opposed to a real person.  Other recent nominees and winners based on their performances on real people, including Feeman, who starred as Nelson Mandela in &#8216;Invictus.&#8217;  Joaquin Phoenix played Johnny Cash in an Oscar-nominated role in 2005.  Last year&#8217;s Best Actor Academy Award winner Sean Penn portrayed Harvey Milk in &#8216;Milk.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>What made the win even more noteworthy was that &#8216;Crazy Heart&#8217; was produced for $7 million by Country Music Television.  Paramount Vantage originally picked it up for a direct-to-video release, but Fox Searchlight Pictures later purchased it for a limited theatrical release.  The movie only ended up making a little more than $29.5 million at the box office, against a $7 million budget.<\/p>\n<p>The win would have made Bridges&#8217; parents proud, and he thanked them first in his acceptance speech.  His mother, Dorothy, was an actress, writer and drama teacher, who died a year before her son&#8217;s win.  Bridges&#8217; father, Lloyd, an actor, died in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Written by: Karen Benardello<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25439\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jeff_bridges_oscar.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Bridges Wins Oscar\" title=\"Jeff Bridges Wins Oscar\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jeff_bridges_oscar.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jeff_bridges_oscar-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Bridges Wins Oscar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bridges, who has been starring in movies for the past four decades, was finally and rightfully recognized 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