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Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem, Festimad 2007
Born	Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem 1 March 1969 (1969-03-01) (age 39) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1974 – present
Awards won Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor 2007 No Country For Old Men BAFTA Awards Best Supporting Actor 2007 No Country For Old Men Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture 2007 No Country for Old Men Goya Awards Best Supporting Actor 1995 Días contados Best Actor 1996 Boca a boca 2003 Los lunes al sol 2005 Mar adentro Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture 2007 No Country for Old Men Best Cast - Motion Picture 2007 No Country for Old Men Other awards NBR Award for Best Supporting Actor 2000 Before Night Falls NBR Award for Best Cast 2007 No Country For Old Men NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actor 2007 No Country For Old Men Volpi Cup for Best Actor 2000 Before Night Falls 2004 Mar adentro Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor 2007 No Country For Old Men

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is an Academy Award-winning and critically acclaimed Spanish actor who has starred in over two dozen films in Spain. He had garnered critical acclaim as an actor for films such as Jamon, Jamon, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro.

Bardem has been awarded a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, four Goyas, two European Film Awards and two Coppa Volpis for his work. He is notable as the first Spanish actor to be nominated and win an Oscar, the nomination being for Before Night Falls and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 2007 film No Country for Old Men.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 Nominations and awards 3.1 Nominated 3.2 Won 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Early life

Bardem was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, the son of Carlos Encinas and the actress Pilar Bardem.^[1] Bardem comes from a long line of filmmakers and actors who have been working since the earliest days of Spanish cinema; he is the grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, and the nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem.^[2] Both his older brother and his older sister, Carlos and Mónica Bardem, are actors. His film debut was at the age of six and a half in the film El Pícaro (The Scoundrel) and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, sports. Before acting professionally, Bardem was a member of the underage Spanish national rugby team.^[3]

Career

Bardem starred in his second major motion picture, The Ages of Lulu, when he was 20. In 1992, he made his first international hit with Jamón, Jamón, which also starred Penélope Cruz. After starring in roughly two dozen films in his native country, he would eventually land his international breakthrough performance role in Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls in 2000, as Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, the first time for a Spaniard. This also marked Bardem's first English language speaking role. In 2002 he starred in John Malkovich's directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs.

Bardem won the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in 2004's Mar Adentro, released in the United States as The Sea Inside, in which he portrayed the quadriplegic turned assisted-suicide activist Ramón Sampedro , who unsuccessfully brought his case to the Spanish courts, yet eventually succeeded in persuading several friends to assist him and committed suicide. That year he also made a brief appearance as a vicious crime lord who summons Tom Cruise's hitman to do the dirty work of dispatching witnesses, in Michael Mann's crime drama Collateral, which also starred Jamie Foxx. In 2007 Bardem acted in two film adaptations; the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, based upon the novel of the same name and the adaptation of the classic Colombian novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. In No Country for Old Men, he plays chilling sociopath killer Anton Chigurh. For that role, he became the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Best Supporting Actor, and also won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor as well as the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem's rendition of Chigurh's trademark phrase, "Call it, friendo" was named Top HollyWORDIE of 2007 in the annual survey by the Global Language Monitor that tracks the words from Hollywood that most influenced the English Language.^[4] Anton Chigurh was placed in EW's 50 Most Vile Villains in Movie History in a recent issue at #26.^[5]

He starred in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Bardem was in talks to play fictional filmmaker Guido Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Nine, but the role went to Daniel Day-Lewis instead. Javier is rumoured to be in a project with two up and coming Directors Matt Calabro and Oliver Ritchards.

Personal life

Bardem consistently refers to himself as a "worker" and not an actor.^[6] Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain in 2005, Bardem incited controversy when he stated that if he were gay, he would "get married tomorrow, just to fuck the church" (mañana mismo, sólo para joder a la Iglesia).^[7] Bardem's life's work was recently honored at the 2007 Gotham Awards, produced by IFP (Independent Feature Project). He is also known as a big rugby fan.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Las edades de Lulú	Jimmy
1991	Tacones Lejanos	Regidor T.V.
1992	Jamón, jamón	El chorizo
1993	Huevos de oro	Benito González
	El Amante Bilingüe	El limpiabotas
1994	Running Out of Time (Días contados)	Lisardo
	The Detective and Death (El detective y la muerte)	Detective Cornelio
1995	Mouth to Mouth (Boca a boca)	Victor Ventura
1996	Éxtasis	Rober
1997	Live Flesh	David
	Perdita Durango	Romeo Dolorosa
1999	Second Skin	Diego
	Washington Wolves (Los Lobos de Washington)	Alberto
2000	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas	2000 Academy Award nominee for Best Actor in a Leading Role
2002	The Dancer Upstairs	Agustín Rejas
	Mondays in the Sun	Santa
2004	Collateral	Felix
	The Sea Inside (Mar adentro)	Ramón Sampedro
2006	Goya's Ghosts	Brother Lorenzo
2007	Love in the Time of Cholera	Florentino Ariza
	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh	2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Juan Antonio

Nominations and awards

Nominated

• 1993: Goya Awards, Best Lead Actor, Jamón, jamón
• 1994: Goya Awards, Best Lead Actor, Huevos de oro
• 1998: European Film Awards, Best Actor, Carne trémula
• 1998: Goya Awards, Best Lead Actor, Carne trémula
• 2001: Academy Award for Best Actor, Before Night Falls
• 2001: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, Before Night Falls
• 2002: European Film Awards, Best Actor, Mondays in the Sun
• 2005: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, The Sea Inside
• 2008: MTV Movie Awards for Best Villain, No Country for Old Men (Nominee)

Won

• 1994: Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival, Silver Seashell Best Actor, Días contados and El Detective y la muerte
• 1995: Goya Awards, Best Supporting Actor, Días contados
• 1996: Goya Awards, Best Lead Actor, Boca a boca
• 2000: Venice Film Festival, Best Actor, Before Night Falls
• 2001 - Independent Spirit Awards, Best Male Lead, Before Night Falls
• 2003: Goya Awards, Best Lead Actor, Mondays in the Sun
• 2005: Goya Awards, Best Lead Actor, The Sea Inside
• 2004: European Film Awards, Best Actor, The Sea Inside
• 2004: Venice Film Festival, Best Actor, The Sea Inside
• 2007: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture, No Country for Old Men
• 2008: Broadcast Film Critics Choice Awards, Best Supporting Actor, No Country for Old Men
• 2008: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, No Country for Old Men
• 2008: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, No Country for Old Men
• 2008: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, No Country for Old Men
• 2008: Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, No Country for Old Men

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 2007 for No Country for Old Men	Succeeded by TBD
Preceded by Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine	BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor 2008 for No Country for Old Men	Succeeded by TBD
Preceded by Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture 2007 for No Country for Old Men	Succeeded by TBD
Preceded by Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for No Country for Old Men 2008	Succeeded by TBD

References

External links

• Javier Bardem at the Internet Movie Database
• Javier Bardem Online

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