Viggo Mortensen wins the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 32nd Annual Genie Awards Gala at Westin Harbour Castle Hotel on March 8, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. You can go to the gallery to take a look to the photos and enjoy!
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Viggo Mortensen showed his support for his favorite Canadian ice hockey team by waving its flag onstage as he picked up a top prize at the 32nd Annual Genie Awards in Toronto on Thursday.
Mortensen, a longtime hockey fan, drew cheers as he unfurled the Montreal Canadiens (sic) flag and wrapped it around the best supporting actor trophy he received for his role in A Dangerous Method.
He said, “It’s a very beautiful trophy and I think in order to cross the border safely I’ll have to wrap it very, very carefully so I brought some very strong material with me.”
The actor also thanked Canadian director David Cronenberg for taking a gamble by casting him as Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the drama. Read the rest of this entry »
Viggo Mortensen is honored at the 2012 Coolidge Award presentation at the Coolidge Theater on March 5, 2012 in Brookline, Massachusetts. You can go to the gallery to take a look to the photos.
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– 2012 Coolidge Award Presentation – Press Conference
Actor Viggo Mortensen took the stage at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline Monday afternoon to accept the theater’s ninth annual Coolidge Award, given to artists who advance “the spirt of original and challenging cinema.”
Prior Coolidge Award winners include Jonathan Demme, Meryl Streep, and film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who has collaborated with director Martin Scorsese for decades.
Dressed as if he might be preparing for a role as a sailor — in black pea coat, striped nautical shirt, and boat shoes — Mortensen faced a throng of cameras and journalists, thanking everyone “for showing up.”
With that the extent of his acceptance speech, Mortensen alternately joked with reporters and fielded questions — most of them, inevitably, about his role as Aragorn in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Mortensen has also starred in “A History of Violence,” “Eastern Promises,” “A Walk on the Moon,” and will appear this year in the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Read the rest of this entry »
David Cronenberg’s latest drama will analyze Blu-ray next month.
In an early announcement to retailers, Sony has slated ‘A Dangerous Method’ for Blu-ray on March 27.
The film centers around the disintegrating relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) as they treat a disturbed young woman (Keira Knightly).
The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack, and supplements include: Commentary with David Cronenberg, The Making of A Dangerous Method featurette com and AFI’s Harold Lloyd Master Seminar with David Cronenberg.
Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $35.99.
You can find the latest specs for ‘A Dangerous Method’ linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where it’s indexed under March 27. [Source]
Total Film sat down with Viggo Mortensen this morning to discuss A Dangerous Method, the Danish-American actor’s third collaboration with director David Cronenberg.
Mortensen received a Golden Globe nomination for his superb portrayal of Sigmund Freud in the psychoanalysis-themed period piece, but the film failed to earn any nominations for the BAFTAs or the Oscars.
We asked the former King of Gondor if he was disappointed that the film had been overlooked?
“[It’s been] totally overlooked, hasn’t it? I was particularly surprised at the BAFTA, y’know? It’s an English movie and, well, I guess when I look at some of the things that are nominated, the fact that we didn’t even get on the longlist of 15 candidates… I have to assume that it’s owing to not enough people having seen the movie.
“I’d hate to think it was simply a question of general ignorance and lack of individual imagination on the part of the voters [Smiles]. I’d hate to think it was that. I’d have to assume that [enough of them] didn’t see the movie. [Laughs] I hope that’s why! Because otherwise it’s baffling.” Read the rest of this entry »
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