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...edge of weirdness comes with some of the other selections. Clint Eastwood, Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson make the top 10, though they haven't been seen on the big screen in several years. And the #3 movie star of 2006: John Wayne, who died in 1979. Here's where you begin to wonder if Americans think that film is a medium, or if they used a medium to contact the ghosts of celebrities past. And if so, where's Garbo...
...Clint Eastwood's Japanese-language Letters from Iwo Jima, will not even be nominated in that category, since the Academy's foreign-language finalists are selected from a list of films submitted by their home countries. A non-English-language film from the U.S., like Iwo Jima and Mel Gibson's Mayan massacre movie Apocalypto (also a Globe nominee), is eligible only for Best Picture. The other Globe runners-up - The Lives of Others from Germany, Pan's Labyrinth from Mexico and Volver from Spain - would all be honorable choices for the foreign Oscar...
...case in point was the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ...
...group I was looking for, early 20s, there weren't any obvious guys. The character is a former Marine who's a paraplegic and has just been kind of thrown away. The actor Sam is one of these young Australian guys who's gonna be the next Mel Gibson or Russell Crowe. They grow 'em different down there, you know? In Gladiator, you understood why those guys stood behind Crowe. I needed to find a guy in his 20s who had that quality. And it's not an easy thing. It was about being able to stand up and lead...
...character is a former Marine. The actor Sam [Worthington] is one of these young Australian guys who's gonna be the next Mel Gibson or Russell Crowe. It was about being able to stand up and lead men in battle. A lot of these up-and-coming guys don't have that strength...