The Oscar ceremony was completed last Sunday and there were hardly any surprises, at least as far as the main award categories were concerned. The King's Speech picked up the best of the awards - Best Movie and Best Director apart from Colin Firth winning the Best Actor award for his portrayal of the stammering King George VI. Natalie Portman took the Best Actress award for her role in Black Swan, another well-deserved accolade. But the one award that deserved a lot of adulation was the Best Supporting Actor award won by Christian Bale for his role in The Fighter. To go back a few months, the trailer for the movie itself had piqued my interest and boldly I had made a prediction. Read the last line from my old post... http://bucksandcorn.blogspot.com/2010/09/it-is-100-for-stallone.html. This is what it says "Too early to say, but looking at the trailer I wonder if... Oscar buzz for Christian Bale?" Well, the prediction turned true and The 
Fighter has put another feather on this talented actor's cap. Christian Bale has hardly done anything wrong since he broke into the A-list of actors in 2005 with the role of the caped crusader in Batman Begins. What has followed have been various kind of roles ranging from the competitive magician in the classy The Prestige to the disgruntled rancher in the westerner 3:10 to Yuma to the portrayal of the legend Bob Dylan in I'm Not There. Another bumper commercial success with The Dark Knight was followed by the portrayal of the iconic character of John Connor making Christian Bale part of the Terminator Series. And now the commercial and critical success for his performance in The Fighter has been perfectly capped with the Academy Award. What's next? True to his ability to play an enormous range of characters, Bale would be part of a low-budget Chinese film, The 13 Women of Nanjing, on the Nanking Massacre that occurred during World War II when Japanese soldiers attacked the former capital of China. After this, Christian Bale would again reprise his role as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, scheduled to be released in July 2012. Wow, that is some diversity! And the best part is that this British actor is only 37 with a long career ahead of him, one that no doubt going to continue to impress and entertain.
Fighter has put another feather on this talented actor's cap. Christian Bale has hardly done anything wrong since he broke into the A-list of actors in 2005 with the role of the caped crusader in Batman Begins. What has followed have been various kind of roles ranging from the competitive magician in the classy The Prestige to the disgruntled rancher in the westerner 3:10 to Yuma to the portrayal of the legend Bob Dylan in I'm Not There. Another bumper commercial success with The Dark Knight was followed by the portrayal of the iconic character of John Connor making Christian Bale part of the Terminator Series. And now the commercial and critical success for his performance in The Fighter has been perfectly capped with the Academy Award. What's next? True to his ability to play an enormous range of characters, Bale would be part of a low-budget Chinese film, The 13 Women of Nanjing, on the Nanking Massacre that occurred during World War II when Japanese soldiers attacked the former capital of China. After this, Christian Bale would again reprise his role as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, scheduled to be released in July 2012. Wow, that is some diversity! And the best part is that this British actor is only 37 with a long career ahead of him, one that no doubt going to continue to impress and entertain. As for the movies of this weekend. March starts off with a range of movies, and some bigger and better names are now being heard, which is a good sign. The two big movies of this weekend would surely be the animated flick Rango with the voice of Johnny Depp behind the lead, and The Adjustment Bureau starring Matt Damon that has the blend of thriller and romance in it. One animated movie has already done reasonably well this year, the lesser known Gnomeo and Juliet, which has raked in $78 million so far and was #2 on the US box office charts for the last weekend, and Rango would be looking at keeping the interest in animated flicks still going. While both these movies may not take the box office by storm, it could mark the beginning of better things to come. Or so we can hope!
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