It’s award season! Do you know how I know this? Every week there’s a new awards show honoring anyone and everyone who’s ever acted in television, movies, commercials, music videos, Broadway, a school play, YouTube videos, and anything where someone watched someone else do something and that’s just the USA. Trip across the pond and there’s ten more awards show you’ve never even heard of, except for Cannes. If you were an average actor you would be busy the entire year just going to awards ceremonies where people love to honor you for.

Yes, I’m all wound up about this because it drives me crazy. Don’t even get me started on reality TV. The housewives of anywhere send me right over the edge. To me these shows pass over the really talented people who actually deserve to be recognized like – Javier Bardem.

This is one crazy good actor and if you saw the movie “No Country for Old Men”, you know exactly what I mean. He’s been up for best everything anytime he makes a movie and is in big demand when serious roles are called for. I’ve never seen him do a comedy so I can’t speak for him on that.

I like Bardem because he’s cool, a little controversial, and married to Penelope Cruz. He’s always well dressed and stylish and although he doesn’t consider himself an actor: he considers himself a worker. Hmmm! Ok! what do I know. Bardem didn’t really make it big in Hollywood until 2000 and spent all of his acting career in Europe winning dozens of awards. It wasn’t until John Malkovich approached Bardem in 1997 to do a movie that anyone even heard of Bardem in the U.S. Bardem tunred down the role because he couldn’t speak English. He was then approached for several more leads in Hollywood and Bardem decide to learn to speak English as well as dropping thirty pounds.

In 2008 “No Country for Old Men” won Bardem an Oscar for best supporting actor and the rest is history. Those freaky eyes from that movie made me buy the poster and frame for my movie room. I had to have it.

Craig

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