Mark Wahlberg and wife Rhea Durham: Academy Awards’ Red Carpet
Mark Wahlberg and wife Rhea Durham are pictured above on the 2011 Oscars’ Red Carpet, just outside the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Oscar ceremony was held on Sunday, Feb. 27.
Wahlberg, decades ago known as underwear model Marky Mark, was a nominee as one of the producers of Best Picture contender The Fighter – which ultimately lost to odds-on favorite The King’s Speech.
Mark Wahlberg was the only major player in the David O. Russell-directed boxing drama who failed to be nominated for an Academy Award in the acting categories. Costars Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, and Christian Bale were all shortlisted; Leo and Bale ended up winning in their respective supporting categories.
Wahlberg, however, was a Best Supporting Actor nominee four years ago: For his performance in Martin Scorsese’s Best Picture Oscar winner The Departed (2006). He lost to veteran Alan Arkin in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Little Miss Sunshine.
Paramount Pictures released The Fighter, which to date has grossed more than $90 million in the U.S. and Canada.
Other notable Mark Wahlberg movies include Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (1997), opposite Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore; Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001), opposite Helena Bonham Carter; and Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones (2009), opposite Rachel Weisz and Saoirse Ronan.
Rhea Durham
The wife of Mark Wahlberg since August 2009, Rhea Durham is a fashion model who has been featured in magazines such as French Vogue, Marie Claire, and ELLE.
Rhea Durham also took part in the 2000 and 2001 Victoria’s Secret Fashion shows.
Photo of Mark Wahlberg and wife Rhea Durham on the Oscars’ Red Carpet: John Selig | © A.M.P.A.S.
Mark Ruffalo and wife Sunrise Coigney on the Red Carpet.
Mark Ruffalo and wife Sunrise Coigney
Mark Ruffalo and wife Sunrise Coigney arrive at the 83rd Academy Awards on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre at (almost) the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in downtown Hollywood.
Ruffalo was a 2011 Best Supporting Actor nominee for his role as a chauvinistic male slob who disrupts the family life of a lesbian couple in Lisa Cholodenko’s Best Picture contender The Kids Are All Right. The dramatic comedy co-stars Best Actress nominee Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Josh Hutcherson, and Mia Wasikowska. This was Ruffalo’s first Academy Award nomination.
As it turned out, The Kids Are All Right didn’t win a single statuette on Sunday night. But at the 2011 Spirit Awards held the day before, Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg’s screenplay was chosen as the best of the year among independent films.
Mark Ruffalo and wife Sunrise Coigney were married in 2000.
Mark Ruffalo movies
According to the IMDb, Mark Ruffalo made his film debut in Christopher Speidel’s 1992 short Rough Trade. To date, he has been featured in about 40 movies.
Notable Mark Ruffalo movies include Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey; David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007), with Jake Gyllenhaal; and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010), with Leonardo DiCaprio and Michelle Williams.
In the not too distant future Mark Ruffalo will be seen as Bruce Banner a.k.a. The Incredible Hulk in Joss Whedon’s blockbuster-to-be The Avengers.
Mark Ruffalo and wife Sunrise Coigney photo: Ivan Vejar | © A.M.P.A.S.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at the 2011 Academy Awards held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Paltrow’s latest movie, Country Strong, was up for a Best Song Oscar. It lost to the Toy Story 3 ditty “We Belong Together,” by Randy Newman.
More than a decade ago, Gwyneth Paltrow took home the Best Actress Oscar for John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love (1998), a romantic comedy-drama also featuring Joseph Fiennes (as William Shakespeare), Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, and this year’s Best Actor Oscar winner, Colin Firth (The King’s Speech). Paltrow’s (modestly) gender-bending Shakespeare in Love heroine remains her only Oscar-nominated performance to date.
Directed by Shana Feste, Country Strong fared decently at the U.S. box office, but not as well as some had expected. Besides Gwyneth Paltrow, the cast includes Tim McGraw (The Blind Side) and Garrett Hedlund (TRON: Legacy).
Other Gwyneth Paltrow movies include: Douglas McGrath’s Emma (1996), with Toni Collette and Ewan McGregor; Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), with Matt Damon and Jude Law; and John Madden’s Proof (2005), with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anthony Hopkins.
Also: Ryan Murphy’s Running with Scissors (2006), with Annette Bening and Joseph Cross; Jon Favreau’s Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010), opposite Robert Downey Jr.; and Steven Soderbergh’s all-star drama Contagion (2011), with Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, and Jude Law.
In the near future, Gwyneth Paltrow will be seen in Joss Whedon’s superhero action flick The Avengers (2012), starring Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, and Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr.
Gwyneth Paltrow photo: Ivan Vejar | © A.M.P.A.S.
Daphne Zuniga on the Oscars’ Red Carpet.
Daphne Zuniga
Pictured above is Spaceballs actress Daphne Zuniga on the 83rd Academy Awards’ Red Carpet.
Besides appearing as Princess Vespa in Mel Brooks’ aforementioned 1987 Star Wars spoof, Zuniga has been featured in about 20 movies. Titles include Rob Reiner’s The Sure Thing (1985), with John Cusack; Donald P. Bellisario’s Last Rites (1988), with Tom Berenger; and Thom Eberhardt’s Gross Anatomy (1989), with Matthew Modine and Christine Lahti.
In the last decade, Zuniga had recurring roles in the television series American Dreams, Beautiful People, and Spaceballs: The Animated Series (voice only). She can currently be seen as Victoria Davis in the drama series One Tree Hill, with Bethany Joy Lenz, Sophia Bush, and James Lafferty.
Daphne Zuniga photo: John Selig | © A.M.P.A.S.
Rachid Bouchareb: Director of Best Foreign Language Film nominee Outside the Law.
Outside the Law director Rachid Bouchareb
Parisian-born filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb, whose French-Algerian political drama Outside the Law / Hors-la-loi was a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominee, is pictured above on the Oscar 2011 Red Carpet outside the Kodak Theatre. Outside the Law lost to Susanne Bier’s Danish drama In a Better World.
Curiously, although submitted as an Algerian film, Outside the Law is in reality mostly a French production.
Besides winner In a Better World, the other 2011 Oscar nominees in the Best Foreign Language Film category were:
- Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies (Canada).
- Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (Greece).
- Alejandro González Iñarritú’s Biutiful (Mexico).
Rachid Bouchareb Oscar nominees
Two Rachid Bouchareb movies have been previously shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, both as Algerian entries:
- Dust of Life / Poussières de vie (1995).
Winner: Marleen Gorris’ Antonia’s Line / Antonia (The Netherlands). - Days of Glory / Indigènes (2006), competing with Susanne Bier’s After the Wedding.
Winner: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others (Germany).
Rachid Bouchareb photo: Richard Harbaugh | © A.M.P.A.S.
Sharon Stone dress on the 2011 Oscars’ Red Carpet.
Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone arrives at the 83rd Academy Awards held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Stone wasn’t nominated for anything, but back in early 1996 she was a Best Actress contender for Martin Scorsese’s Casino, also featuring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and James Woods. She lost to Susan Sarandon, playing a kindly (real-life) nun in Tim Robbins’ anti-capital punishment drama Dead Man Walking.
After the blockbuster Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone has been featured in nearly 40 films. With the exception of Casino, none of those were big box office hits and only a handful received critical praise.
Most of Sharon Stone’s movies, in fact, have been critical and box office misfires (or downright bombs), including Mark Rydell’s Intersection (1994), with Richard Gere and Lolita Davidovich; Sam Raimi’s Western The Quick and the Dead (1995), with Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe; and Pitof’s Catwoman (2004), a disaster that earned Halle Berry the Razzie Award for Worst Actress of the year and Stone a nomination as Worst Supporting Actress.
Catwoman seemed as low as it could get for Sharon Stone’s career, until Basic Instinct 2 came out in 2006 – a critical and box office cataclysm also featuring David Morrissey and Neil Maskell. The Basic Instinct sequel earned Razzies for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay (Leora Barish and Henry Bean), in addition to Worst Actress for Sharon Stone herself.
Sharon Stone dress photo: Darren Decker | © A.M.P.A.S.
Sharon Stone photo: John Selig | © A.M.P.A.S.
Best Short Subject Oscar nominee ‘The Confession’ director Tanel Toom and writer Caroline Bruckner.
The Confession director Tanel Toom and screenwriter Caroline Bruckner
Tanel Toom, whose The Confession was an Oscar contender in the Best Live Action Short Film category, is pictured above with Caroline Bruckner on the 83rd Annual Academy Awards’ Red Carpet. Bruckner wrote the short film from an idea by director Toom.
The Confession follows a 9-year-old worried about making his first confession. The problem is not the boy’s sinful past, but the lack of one, something he feels is a shortcoming. A little prank should remedy the situation, but instead things take a dark turn.
The Confession was produced by Emily Williams. Cast: Lewis Howlett. Joe Eales. Aran Bell. James Simmons.
The 2011 Oscar winner for Best Live Action Short Film was Luke Matheny’s God of Love.
Caroline Bruckner and Tanel Toom photo: Ivan Vejar | © A.M.P.A.S.
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3 comments
I don’t care if most of her movies have flopped, she’s still gorgeous!
You’re absolutely right, of course.
Corrected. Thank you.
Stone was a “contender” in 1995, not 2005. It is an embarrassment for her to keep showing up on the red carpet year after year after year. She is a has been and an old fur hag who craves attention.