Melissa Leo Articles

Melissa Leo Melissa Leo, Oscar nominee for Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for The Fighter, arrives at the 83rd Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland. Leo took home the Oscar, receiving the statuette from the hands of veteran Kirk Douglas. Leo’s fellow competitors were Helena Bonham Carter for The King’s Speech, Amy Adams for The Fighter, Jacki Weaver [...]

Melissa Leo in David O. Russell’s The Fighter So far there have been a couple of surprises of sorts, what with Alice in Wonderland winning for Best Art Direction (instead of either The King’s Speech or Inception) and Inception’s Wally Pfister, not True Grit’s veteran Roger Deakins taking home the Best Cinematography Oscar. Melissa Leo won the Best Supporting Actress Award, and seemed in shock [...]

Melissa Leo in David O. Russell’s The Fighter Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, The Fighter Melissa Leo has won most of the North American critics’ awards, in addition to the Golden Globe and the SAG Award for her supporting performance in David O. Russell’s The Fighter. Leo has been around for a couple of decades, and, just as importantly (remember Sandra Bullock?), has come up [...]

21 GRAMS (2003) Direction: Alejandro González Iñárritu Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Danny Huston, Eddie Marsan, John Rubinstein Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, 21 Grams Shot in documentary-style, 21 Grams is a bleak, unnecessarily convoluted, and surprisingly powerful drama about three individuals linked to both one another and the immediacy of [...]