'LA VIE' ROLE TRANSLATES TO OSCAR WIN.Byline: >Bob Strauss No one enjoyed this year's snakebit snake·bit also snake·bit·ten adj. Experiencing a period of misfortune or inability to succeed. awards season more than Marion Cotillard Marion Cotillard (born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, perhaps best known for portraying Édith Piaf in 2007's La Môme (also known as La Vie En Rose). . The "La Vie en Rose" best actress winner and the first Oscar winner ever for a French-language performance came from her Paris hometown to attend the nonexistent non·ex·is·tence n. 1. The condition of not existing. 2. Something that does not exist. non Golden Globes ceremony and kept a smile on her face through the whole anticlimactic an·ti·cli·max n. 1. A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise: the anticlimax of a brilliant career. 2. event. Sunday, Cotillard was still smiling but now awestruck awe·struck also awe·strick·en adj. Full of awe. awestruck Adjective overcome or filled with awe Adj. 1. when the movie academy awarded her for her moving portrayal of chanteuse chan·teuse n. A woman singer, especially a nightclub singer. [French, feminine of chanteur, singer, from chanter, to sing; see chant.] Edith Piaf. The role had previously earned the actress a Golden Globe, a British BAFTA Baf´ta n. 1. A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export. and a Cesar, France's top cinema award. "Thank you, life; thank you love," a stunned Cotillard said from the Kodak Theatre stage. "It is true: There are some angels in this city." Born in Paris in 1975, Cotillard started to become known alongside her parents when she was very young. Her mother is also an actress in France, and her father is an actor, award-winning director and former mime. Cotillard's first break came in 1998 when she won the role of Lilly Bertineau in Luc Besson's award-winning production of the French film "Taxi." Cotillard becomes only the fifth performer to win an acting Oscar for speaking in a foreign language. The others were Sophia Loren's best actress win for "Two Women" (1961), Robert De Niro's best actor in a supporting role for his Italian-speaking Vito Corleone in "The Godfather: Part II" (1974), Roberto Benigni's best actor award for "Life is Beautiful" (1998) and Benicio del Toro's Spanish-speaking role in "Traffic" (2000). Hosting a reception at Chateau Marmont earlier this month, Cotillard was the picture of French charm as she greeted everyone (famous or not) with a smile and, again, didn't complain, even though she was decked out in a shoulderless, flowery flow·er·y adj. flow·er·i·er, flow·er·i·est 1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of flowers: a flowery perfume. 2. Abounding in or covered with flowers. 3. print nothing of a dress in 40-degree weather. But if you look at this as evidence that the girl would do anything to win an Oscar, think again. All she could say at that party was how wonderful she thought fellow Oscar nominees Cate Blanchett, Julie Christie, Laura Linney and Ellen Page were. Of course, having won for playing her nation's most beloved chanteuse, Cotillard knows something about respecting great artists. "I didn't know much about her life before, so I did a lot of reading, watched movies she made, her interviews, intimate footage," Cotillard explained when we spoke last spring. "All I could watch was interesting to me. And I listened to Piaf a lot, of course. But then, with all this, my aim was to understand her, not imitate." CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Marion Cotillard won best actress for her portrayal of chanteuse Edith Piaf. Associated Press |
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