Jeff Bridges #2
Jeff Bridges #2
True Grit, Crazy Heart, The Big Lebowski
Jeff Bridges is one of Hollywood's most successful actors and a six-time Academy Award nominee. His performance in Crazy Heart (2009) garnered the iconic performer his first Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
He earned his first Oscar nod in 1971 for Best Supporting Actor in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, co-starring Cybill Shepherd. Three years later, he received his second Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in Michael Cimino's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. By 1984, he landed top kudos with a Best Actor nomination for Starman; that performance also earned him a Golden Globe nomination. In 2001, he was honored with another Golden Globe nomination and his fourth Oscar nomination for his role in The Contender, Rod Lurie's political thriller, co starring Gary Oldman an Joan Allen, in which Bridges played the President of the United States. He received his sixth Oscar nomination for playing Rooster Cogburn in the 2010 remake of True Grit.
His multi-facted career has cut a wide swathe across all genres. He has starred in numerous films including TRON:Legacy, The Men Who Stare at Goats, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Iron Man, Surf's Up, Seabiscuit, The Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Jagged Edge, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Against All Odds, Blown Away, Fearless, and American Heart which earned him an IFP/Spirit Award in 1993 for Best Actor. In 1998, he starred in the Coen brothers' cult comedy The Big Lebowski.
In the summer of 2004, he appeared opposite Kim Basinger in the critically acclaimed The Door in the Floor which earned him an IFP/Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor.
Coming in 2012, you'll find Jeff as the Narrator/Professor in Pablo, a combo animation-documentary about the "famous unknown" Pablo Ferro, an eccentric 72 year old artist once hailed by Stanley Kubrick as the "Father of the 60s look" and the MTV aesthetics.
In 2013, Jeff will be seen in the films R.I.P.D. with Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Bacon, and Mary-Louise Parker and The Seventh Son with Julianne Moore.
In 1983, Jeff founded the End Hunger Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to feeding children around the world. He produced the End Hunger televent, a three-hour live television broadcast focusing on world hunger. The televent featured Gregory Peck, Jack Lemmon, Burt Lancaster, Bob Newhart, Kenney Loggins and other leading film, television and music stars in an innovative production to educate and inspire action.
Through his company, As Is Productions, he produced Hidden in America (Showtime) which starred his brother Beau. It received a Golden Globe nomination in 1996 for Best TV/Cable Film and garnered a Screen Actors Guild nod for Best Actor for Beau Bridges. The film was also nominated for two Emmy Awards.
One of Jeff's true passions is photography. While on the set of his movies, Jeff takes behind-the-scenes pictures of the actors, crew and locations. After completion of each motion picture, he edits the images into a book and gives copies to everyone involved. His photos have been featured in several magazines, including Premiere and Aperture, as well as in other publications worldwide. He has also had gallery exhibits of his work in New York, Los Angeles, London and San Diego. The books, which have become valued by collectors, were never intended for public sale, but in the fall of 2003, powerHouse Books released Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges, a hardcover book containing a compilation of photos taken on numerous film locations over the years, to much critical acclaim. Proceeds from the book are donated to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a nonprofit organization that offers charitable care and support to film-industry workers.
Several years ago, Jeff fulfilled a life-long dream by releasing his first album, Be Here Soon on Ramp Records, the Santa Barbara, CA label he co-founded with Michael McDonald and producer/singer/songwriter Chris Pelonis.
Blue Rider Press reports that Jeff will co-write The Dude and the Zen Master (prospective publishing date: November 2012) with Zen Peacemakers founder Bernie Glassman. It will explore "the meaning of life, laughter, the movies and trying to do good in a difficult world."
Jeff, his wife Susan and their three children divide their time between their home in Santa Barbara, CA and their ranch in Montana.
Jeff Bridges Official website
Jeff Bridges at the Internet Movie Database
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