Staff Writer: Ann Stieglitz
The audience stood and clapped for ten minutes at the end of Tom Ford´s first film, A Single Man, at the Venice Film Festival. This reaction augured well for a prize, and an award was duly given to Colin Firth, for Best Actor. The award was highly deserved, not only for his performance in this film, but for a string of moving and insightful performances, from Easy Virtue, Genova and Dorian Gray.
Colin Firth could not have been more delighted as evidenced from his speech, where he thanked Italy for giving him his wife, his children and this prize, but also because this award was a wonderful birthday present, his 49th birthday having been celebrated the day before.
I wonder, too, did he know, that internet fans had collected a substantial sum for Oxfam America, of which he is an ambassador (actually, of Oxfam as a whole), in honour of his 49th birthday? All around, we can only wish him the best, and hope that he is nominated for both a BAFTA and an Oscar – it would be high time!
For more information about Colin Firth, please visit our Aft Tracker page.
rected by Michael Winterbottom and written by Laurence Coriat. Both have partnered together before with Firth on Genova. Though Promised Land is no quiet family drama.
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