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Melissa Leo Wins Best Supporting Actress at the 83rd Academy Awards

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Just three years after being nominated for her first Oscar, Melissa Leo has won, taking home the statue for her work in The Fighter . Leo was nominated in 2008 for her work in Frozen River, but it was her turn as brassy Boston mother Alice Ward that truly won over critics. Leo had already won the Golden Globe and Broadcast Film Critics award this season. Holding her trophy, the 50-year-old Leo thanked presenter Kirk Douglas. Leo said she was "shaking in her boots" as she accepted the award...Read Full Story

Best Supporting Actress Nominee Melissa Leo on the Red Carpet at the 2011 Oscars (PICTURES)

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Best Supporting Actress nominee Melissa Leo arrived at the Oscars in a lovely Marc Bouwer gown this evening. The actress is up for an award for her role in The Fighter this evening, and she's very excited just to be at the show. Leo says she'll be happy for whichever lady wins the prize, though we think it might be her! She's the front runner in the buzz department, and if she gets the win, it would be her first. It's a big night! The 83rd Annual Academy Awards were held February 27, 2011 at...Read Full Story

Melissa Leo Drops an Eff Bomb at 2011 Oscars

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We'd guess Melissa Leo feels pretty effing good right now. The actress took home her first Oscar tonight, and dropped an eff bomb while doing it. "I really am so speechless," she said, saying she remembered thinking that it looked "so f---ing easy" when Kate Winslet won the award. Luckily, the Academy was ready with a profanity delay on the airing. The 83rd Annual Academy Awards were held February 27, 2011 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted the...Read Full Story

Melissa Leo Apologizes Backstage for her F-Bomb

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So the big "Oops" moment at last night's Academy Awards was when Melissa Leo said the F-word (Gasp!) during her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress. But right when she got off stage, The Fighter star was already doing damage control. "Those words, I apologize to anyone that they offend. There's a great deal of the English language that is in my vernacular," she said in the backstage press room. "I really don't mean to offend, and probably a very inappropriate place to use that...Read Full Story

Movie Review: Frozen River

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Single mother Ray Eddy tries to survive after her husband disappears, leaving her scraping by on her meager salary. The Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec is a frozen wasteland leaving Ray little hope for a better life. Ray struggles to provide for her son and keep from losing her home. A chance encounter with a Mowhawk single mother and an opportunity for fast money involves her in illegal operations taking place at the border. Melissa Leo was nominated for an Oscar for...Read Full Story
Melissa Leo's "Francine," from directors Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on February 13. Check out the new poster for the American-Canadian co-production. Leo stars as woman regaining her foothold in society after being released from prison. The security of temporary jobs proves just as elusive as the relationships she tries to build with the people in her new-found small town in North America...  
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Melissa Leo discusses Red State with Krista Smith at the Sundance Film Festival.  
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One Oscar winner, an Oscar nominee and the actor who made the EGOT famous simultaneously elevate the quirky family drama Predisposed. Melissa Leo plays a drug addicted mother whose son, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is forced on a madcap adventure on the most important day of his life. On his way to drop mom off at rehab, he's taken hostage by a a crazy drug dealer (Tracy Morgan), takes oxycontin, is forced to parent his little sister and even...  
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BERLIN – Francine, a drama about a recently released convict starring Oscar-winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter ... as a struggling musician fighting his wife for custody of his young daughter, will also screen in the Forum line up in its international ...  
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Written and directed by Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, it will premiere in the festival's Forum sidebar for independent and experimental cinema.  
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