Jeff Bridges won the Oscars this year for the Best Actor Award in a Leading Role for his role in ‘Crazy Heart’. In the movie , he portrays Bad Blake, a washed-up country-western singer whose encounter with a young journalist helps him to turn his life around.He was nominated nearly 4 times previously for the Academy Awards and it’s the first he has won the honors. His first nomination at the Oscars was for 'The Last Picture Show' ,way back in 1971.
The 60-year-old veteran is one of Hollywood's most identifiable and constantly bankable actors as well as an element of an acting dynasty that includes his parents Dorothy and Lloyd as well as brother Beau.For Crazy Heart,
Jeff Bridges once again confirmed his skill as a musician to play the alcoholic Bad Blake, a man struggling against his interior demons as he battles to bring back his glory days.
It is said that Bridges, who remarkably played a pianist in 1989 in
The Fabulous Baker Boys, initially passed on the script for Crazy Heart after realising that there was no music attached to it.But the participation of musician T-Bone Burnett developed his interest in the project and he rapidly signed on for the role. Many of Burnett's songs performed by Bridges were written with the actor in mind.
Burnett also helped Bridges flesh out his character by teaching him in the sort of music Bad would have listened to at some stage in his formative years. In a latest interview Bridges said that Burnett did a really fantastic thing by giving him a breakdown of the music Bad might have listened to growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, where T-Bone also grew up.
Lately, Bridges has appeared in several successful films, including the Oscar-nominated Seabiscuit and 2008's hit Iron Man. He will next be visible in Disney's Tron Legacy, a sequel to the 1982 film in which he also acted.Bridges is also preparing to reunite with the Coen brothers for a remake of the western True Grit, where he will enact the character of Rooster Cogburn, the role made popular by John Wayne in the 1969 original.
In his acceptance speech,Bridges said "I thank my wonderful director for his ability to instill self-confidence in his actors. Thank you my wonderful team that kept me together. I also want to thank my gorgeous wife (Susan Geston) with whom I have spent more than 33 years and also my three girls without whom I wouldn't be where I am."
