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Jim Broadbent Wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

Jim Broadbent was awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 74th Academy Awards held Sunday at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood for his role in the movie Iris.


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Jim Broadbent was awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 74th Academy Awards held Sunday at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood for his role in the movie Iris.

As one of England's most versatile character actors, Broadbent has been giving reliably excellent performances on the stage and screen for years, particularly known for his numerous collaborations with director Mike Leigh.

Born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1949, Broadbent began his professional career on the stage after the 1972 graduation from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Broadbent made his film debut in 1978 with a small part in The Shout, but he became famous internationally in 1991 for starring in Leigh's Life Is Sweet, a domestic comedy that cast him as a good-natured cook who dreams of running his own business.

Broadbent gained further visibility for his various roles in The Crying Game, Enchanted April, Bullets Over Broadway, Richard III, and Little Voice, in which he played the role of a seedy nightclub owner. Broadbent took center stage for Leigh's Topsy- Turvy in 1999, imbuing the mercurial W.S. Gilbert with emotional complexity and comic poignancy.

The year of 2001 was especially successful for Broadbent, who played roles not only in Iris, but also in two other top films, Bridget Jones's Diary and Moulin Rogue.

In Iris, which tells the love story of the author Iris Murdoch and her husband in her battle with Alzheimers disease, Broadbent played the role of the Mordoch's husband John Bayley, which already won him the Best Supporting Actor award at the 59th Annual Golden Globes.


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