Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal enter the Oscar Race

Check out the trailer for the new Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal flick, Crazy Horses. Current buzz is both are serious contenders for Academy Award nods -- and Bridges (with four nods behind him) is considered a front-runner in his category.

Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.

Bridges has four Academy Award nominations and two Screen Actor's Guild nominations. Gyllenhaal has been nominated twice for the Golden Globe and Indy Spirit, and she should have gotten an Academy Award nod for her work in SherryBaby.



See the trailer at http://www.foxsearchlight.com/crazyheart/

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