Christopher Plummer 82 oldest Oscar winner
Christopher Plummer 82 oldest Oscar winner, Christopher Plummer, 82, became the oldest actor to win an Academy Award, receiving the first Oscar of his career Sunday night for his supporting turn in "Beginners."
Addressing the statuette that was handed to him, he began his acceptance speech by joking, "You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?”
Addressing the audience, he said, “I emerged out of my mother's womb, I was already rehearsing my Academy thank-you speech. But it was so long ago, mercifully for you I've already forgotten it."
Despite a storied six-decade career — including a memorable turn in 1965's "The Sound of Music" as Captain von Trapp and as Sherlock Holmes in 1979's "Murder By Decree" — Plummer had been ignored by Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences voters until last year. He received his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2010 for "The Last Station," but lost to "Inglorious Basterds' " Christoph Waltz.
This year, most critics agreed, was Plummer's time.
The category could have marked the milestone even if Plummer had lost. His fellow nominee Max von Sydow (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”) is also 82.
Plummer seemed to bristle at his place in the Academy Awards record books. He's not the oldest winner ever, he insisted.
"I don't believe that for a second," Plummer told reporters backstage after his win Sunday night. "I think that Charlie Chaplin — even though it was an honorary Oscar — wasn't he 83? I mean, an honorary Oscar, after all, is an Oscar."
Addressing the statuette that was handed to him, he began his acceptance speech by joking, "You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?”
Addressing the audience, he said, “I emerged out of my mother's womb, I was already rehearsing my Academy thank-you speech. But it was so long ago, mercifully for you I've already forgotten it."
Despite a storied six-decade career — including a memorable turn in 1965's "The Sound of Music" as Captain von Trapp and as Sherlock Holmes in 1979's "Murder By Decree" — Plummer had been ignored by Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences voters until last year. He received his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2010 for "The Last Station," but lost to "Inglorious Basterds' " Christoph Waltz.
This year, most critics agreed, was Plummer's time.
The category could have marked the milestone even if Plummer had lost. His fellow nominee Max von Sydow (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”) is also 82.
Plummer seemed to bristle at his place in the Academy Awards record books. He's not the oldest winner ever, he insisted.
"I don't believe that for a second," Plummer told reporters backstage after his win Sunday night. "I think that Charlie Chaplin — even though it was an honorary Oscar — wasn't he 83? I mean, an honorary Oscar, after all, is an Oscar."
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