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The Screen Actor's Guild Award, March 10, 2002
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From Variety: "Crowe's win reinforces his status as the front-runner, topping Kevin Kline for 'Life as a House'; Sean Penn, 'I Am Sam'; Denzel Washington, "Training Day"; and Tom Wilkinson, 'In the Bedroom.' Crowe now has a strong chance of becoming the first actor to win back-to-back Oscars since Tom Hanks took the awards for 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump.'
"Continuing his low-key behavior after his recent spat at the BAFTA Awards, Crowe told the audience at the Shrine Auditorium, 'This is a great job. I encourage you to give everything you can to the job.'" (Variety 3/11/02)
"'No, I won't. No, I won't.' That was Russell Crowe's response backstage when asked by a journalist to recite and explain that now-infamous poem that was cut from the telecast of last month's Orange British Academy Film Awards in London, where he won best actor kudos for his role as John Nash Jr. in 'A Beautiful Mind' and later got into a physical run-in with the show's producer Malcolm Gerrie for cutting that part of his speech for time. Crowe did, however, share a little about the aftermath of his run-in with Gerrie and subsequent apology. 'From a mutual friend, I found out that Malcolm Gerrie's son was being hassled at school. So I called Malcolm, and we had a conversation that was very simple, and I apologized to him, and he very graciously apologized to me. And I asked to speak to his son Oliver. We talked for a half an hour, and he asked me 101 questions about 'Gladiator.' And the next day, he was able to go to school with undeniable evidence about Maximus (Crowe's Oscar-winning character in 'Gladiator')." (Hollywood Reporter, 3/11/02)
LOS ANGELES --American actors may be patriotic but they proved Sunday night at the 8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium that they aren't jingoists..
British actors Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, and Ben Kingsley and New Zealander Russell Crowe shared highest honors voted by secret ballot by 98,000 members of the actors union --awards which often predict the outcome of the Oscars. And the predominately British cast of ãGosford Parkä went home with best ensemble kudos (though the film was helmed by renegade American director Robert Altman). . .
. . . Crowe, who was named best actor for "A Beautiful Mind," was his usual caustic self after the show, refusing to recite a poem he'd given at a previous event and sending advance warning to the press to have their questions ready before he came in.
He admitted that he still grows nervous before he starts a film. "That's the thing you look for, the thing you get addicted to --the performance adrenaline," he said. He's continually excited by the prospect of acting, he added. "That drives me to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning. With awards it can be a lot of fun," he acknowledged.
"But the last two years I've been marketing movies while shooting a movie while on the circuit of awards. This year I'm marketing 'A Beautiful Mind' but not shooting at the same time and it's very enjoyable."
Being honored by his peers sports an added bonus, he thinks. "They pat you on the back and say they've noticed you work at a high level of commitment. You could get your head turned if you're a certain type of person, but it's not going to happen to me," he boasted. "I'll be OK. I know the difference."
He says while he was filming "A Beautiful Mind" he harbored the feeling it was something important. "We just passed the $140 million mark at the box office --a movie about a schizophrenic mathematician, that says something to me about the intelligence of audiences."
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