Oscars 2010: Christoph Waltz - Best Supporting Actor Inglourious Basterds
March 8th, 2010 - 9:26 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Los Angeles, Mar 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Christoph Waltz has won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in the Quentin Tarantino film, “Inglourious Basterds.”
Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna Austria. His parents were set designers by the names Johannes Waltz and Elisabeth Urbancic. His grandparents were also actors and his great grandparents worked in the theatre as well.
He is an award winning Austrian Actor, who studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He played the role of Standartenführer Hans Landa aka “The Jew Hunter” in Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. He won the Best Actor Award at the 2009 Cannes Festival, and received much acclaim for the role.
In 2009, he began receiving awards for Best Supporting Actor role from the New York Film Critics Circle, Boston Society of Film Critics,Los Angeles Film Critics Association and for Best Supporting Actor at the 67th Golden Globe Awards and the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is fluent in three languages, German, French, and English, and speaks all three in the movie “Inglourious Basterds.” Although he also spoke Italian in the movie, he does not speak the language.
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