Christoph Waltz won the SAG Award for best supporting actor for his multilingual Nazi in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. In his acceptance speech, Waltz talked about the difference between stage acting and screen acting, and between a movie projectionist and Harvey Weinstein. I think. See below:
"Thank you so much. A stage actor acts on a stage, but a screen actor doesn’t act on the screen. The stage actor just walks on by himself, but the screen actor is put on by projectionist. Yet, we dedicate our lives to our contribution of the whole. And yes, in occasional fits of megalomania we consider ourselves worthy of a script like Inglourious Basterds, or a director like Quentin Tarantino, or men like Harvey Weinstein, or David Linde, or a studio like Weinstein or Universal …We work towards what can only be hoped for in utmost secrecy.”
Waltz will next play Sigmund Freud in The Talking Cure, to be directed by David Cronenberg. Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender are set to co-star.
George Clooney didn't win any awards (though he was in the running for Up in the Air), but the telethon he helped to organize for the Haiti earthquake relief efforts has reportedly earned nearly $60 million.
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Christoph Waltz is a great actor, congratulations!