Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer, 82, became the oldest actor to ever win an Academy Award on Sunday night, taking home the Best Supporting Oscar for his heartfelt performance in the underrated Beginners. Plummer, who was the odds on favorite to win, was gracious and charming in his acceptance speech, opening by addressing his Oscar statuette with, "Only two years older... Where have you been all my life."Plummer also thanked his wife Elaine Taylor who he suggested "deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for...Read Full Story

Christopher Plummer, 82, became the oldest actor to ever win an Academy Award on Sunday night, taking home the Best Supporting Oscar for his heartfelt performance in the underrated Beginners. Plummer, who was the odds on favorite to win, was gracious and charming in his acceptance speech, opening by addressing his Oscar statuette with, "Only two years older... Where have you been all my life."Plummer also thanked his wife Elaine Taylor who he suggested "deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for...Read Full Story

Christopher Plummer won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in Beginners tonight at the ripe old age of 82. Th star came up and gave a great speech and shared his joy and excitement with the crowd. He's been in the biz a long time, so his brief time at the mic was poised and profound. The actor thanked his co-stars and those he's worked with, and closed his speech by thanking his wife Elaine Taylor. He said she deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for being his wife and thanked her for...Read Full Story

Hot on the heels of Plummer’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar™ for Beginners last year, the octogenarian star of stage and screen delivers his most affecting performance yet. Barrymore was released theatrically by BY Experience and Image Entertainment in New York and Los Angeles in November of 2012. The Los Angeles Times then enthused, “Christopher Plummer is a mischievous delight as the great John Barrymore, intent on a stage comeback.” Barrymore was also recently nominated for two PRISM Awards...Read Full Story

JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK It has been more than a half-century since Christopher Plummer played Henry V; it was 1956, to be exact. If it is hard to believe that this great (and still very busy) actor is now 81, it was even harder to believe it on Saturday evening as he roamed the stage of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center as the young king, reciting excerpts of Shakespeare's famous play as the New York Philharmonic performed from the score of the...Read Full Story