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Eric top Bana-na at GQ awards
AUSSIE screen hunk Eric Bana clinched GQ magazine's actor of the year at a gala bash at Fox Studios last night - and the man himself didn't even have to be there.
The Romulus, My Father star - currently out of Australia due to filming commitments - edged out a tight field including Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger and Guy Pearce to secure the gong.
And while Channel 7 may not love The Chaser boys, but magazine and its readers clearly do.
Not necessarily stacked with style but certainly kings of comedy, the small-screen heroes of 2007 were also up on stage at the swanky Men of the Year Awards.
Joining the likes of A-list regulars Silverchair (best band) and Tom Williams (most stylish) in the 13 accolades, The Chaser team received an award created especially for them - simply titled Headliners.
"The impact of The Chaser in 2007 was something which we felt could not go unacknowledged," GQ editor Grant Pearce said
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/film/romulus-my-father-wins-top-afi-awards/2007/12/06/1196812910625.html
Eric Bana won a best actor showdown against his young Romulus, My Father co-star Kodi Smit-Mcphee as the movie picked up four major awards at the AFI Awards tonight.
Richard Roxburgh's film adaptation of Raimond Gaita's critically-acclaimed memoir, Romulus, My Father, was crowned the best film of 2007 at the awards dinner at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre.
Bana took out the best lead actor award ahead of co-star Smit-McPhee, but the 11-year-old did not leave empty-handed, walking away with the young actor award.
When nominations were announced in late October, Smit-McPhee said he was looking forward to facing off against his famous co-star, but didn't think Bana would take it seriously.
"It's pretty exciting and ... it is pretty funny," Smit-McPhee said at the time.
"I think he'll say: 'real funny joke'."
The film, which tells the story of new migrant Romulus and his wife Christina's struggle in the face of adversity to bring up their son, Raimond, in Australia, also won the award for best support actor for Marton Csokas.
But the movie won only four awards from a total of 15 nominations after it failed to pick up any "craft" awards at the AFI Industry awards last night.
The Home Song Stories tonight added another three awards to its impressive haul of five AFI Industry gongs.
Tony Ayres received the best direction award for his semi-autobiographical story about a Chinese nightclub singer who brings her two children to Australia in the 1970s, as well as best screenplay.
Joan Chen picked up yet another award for her portrayal of Ayres' mother Rose, winning the best actress trophy less than a week after taking home the same award at the Turin International Film Festival in Italy.
Hosted tonight by Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush, the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards celebrate excellence in Australian film and television production.
The award for best supporting actress was presented to acting newcomer Emma Booth, for her role in the sexy and poignant coming of age flick, Clubland.
Love My Way received the award for best television drama series for the third year in a row, while Claudia Karvan won best lead actress in a television drama for her starring role in the show.
Damages star Rose Byrne collected the international award for best actress, and Dominic Purcell won the male equivalent for his role as Lincoln Burrows in Prison Break.
Stephen Curry's turn as Graham Kennedy in The King earned him the award for best lead actor in a television drama.
Sally Regan and Anna Broinowski were recognised in the best documentary category for their real-life thriller, Forbidden Lie$, about con artist Norma Khouri, and Happy Feet director George Miller received the global achievement award.
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The Australian Film Industry celebrated its biggest night of the year last Thursday, with the AFI Awards ceremony. The ceremony, in Melbourne, honours outstanding achievement on television and in the cinema. Many of Australia's top stars flew home from far flung parts of the world just to attend.
Eric Bana rushed home from the Toronto set of his new film. Bana said he's grateful for the overseas work but is glad to be back to support the local industry.
Eric Bana said, "I mean I feel just as privileged to get to work with all those people, but I do, I feel blessed I get to work with great people internationally and to get a chance to come back and do an Australian film is something I don't take for granted."
Performers from the wildly successful stage play adaptation of Stephen Elliot's 1994 film "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" kicked off the awards ceremony.
The AFIs proved a triumph for "The Home Song Stories." The film won for best direction, best screenplay, cinematography, editing, original score, production design and costumes; and the film's star Joan Chen won the best actress award.
But it was "Romulus, My Father", the memoir of a son trying to define his relationship with his immigrant dad, that won the hearts of the judges.
The film, which scored a record 15 nominations, saw 39-year old Eric Bana take his second best actor prize.
"Romulus, My Father" also won Best Film and Best Supporting actor. It has grossed the equivalent of 2.1 million U.S. dollars at the Australian box office.
The night's global achievement award went to director George Miller for the hugely successful animation "Happy Feet".
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Film hope for tennis, golf star Scott Draper
HOLLYWOOD may make a movie of Scott Draper - the Australian who played elite tennis and has a promising golf career despite tragedy and obstacles.
Eric Bana, Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon have been linked to playing Draper.
Draper, 33, yesterday said Bana had read his book Too Good -- The Scott Draper Story and "could be one of the people who could interested".
"It's great to think someone would want to make a movie about my life," he said, adding five film adaptations of his book were being written.
The Queenslander reached a world ranking of 42, beating Andre Agassi and Pat Rafter.
"Too good" was his on-court praise of opponents' shots.
Draper's book tells of his depression after his wife Kellie lost her cystic fibrosis battle.
It also tells of his obsessive compulsive disorder.
Draper would fold and unfold a piece of paper 27 times and rearrange furniture several times a day.
He coached Lleyton Hewitt last year, won the NSW Open golf in February and wants to play on the US PGA Tour.
He will play the Victorian PGA this month
source:http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23008492-3162,00.html
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http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Interview-Eric-Bana-7828.html
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I,m post the last interviews of EB in my livejournal
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7280000/7280871.stm
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http://www.thecheers.org/news/Celebrity/news_14811_Eric-Bana-loves-being-surrounded-by-women.html
Eric Bana loves being surrounded by women
'The Other Boleyn Girl' actor - who is married to Rebecca Gleeson - says being "outnumbered" by his female friends and family has led to him having a better understanding of the opposite sex.
Eric said: "I feel like I know women pretty well. Even though I am one of two boys, I am a bit outnumbered with a lot of sister-in-laws and wife-friends. So I get to overhear a lot. The more you know about women, the more of a mystery they become.
"I think there is no real way either sex can fully understand the other. Which I like - it's interesting."
The 39-year-old 'Hulk' star also revealed his six-year-old daughter Sophia has a special nickname for him.
Eric added to Britain's Glamour magazine: "My daughter occasionally calls me Hulk-man. She hasn't even seen the movie but she thinks it's cool.
"But when you are trying to discipline them it means nothing. There is no sheriff's badge you get to pull out of your back pocket, trust me! I am as powerless as the best of them."
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Eric Bana suspends moral judgement for The Other Boleyn Girl
March 13, 2008 12:00am
AS his latest film The Other Boleyn Girl opens in cinemas, Eric Bana explains how he combines worldwide fame with a normal Melbourne life, including the odd motor rally.
Eric Bana admits he suspended all moral judgment to play Henry VIII.
ERIC Bana's first reaction to the characters in the all-bonking, all-scheming, all-executing The Other Boleyn Girl?
‘‘Oh my god, what a pack of heathens,'' Bana says, laughing. ‘‘I love it.''
Bana plays Henry VIII in the film. It's the buff, rugged version as opposed to the tubby, flaccid one suggested by the best-known portrait of the much-married king, but his Henry is still portrayed as weak-minded, easily influenced and dragged hither and yon by the competing charms of Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) and her sister Mary (Scarlett Johansson).
It's a role many Hollywood stars with an eye on their image might have turned down.
‘‘I firmly believe that when you're an actor playing these parts, it's the one time in your life that you get to be the person who's not burdened by the moral responsibility of someone's behaviour,'' Bana says.
‘‘I can watch someone go about their lives and sit in moral judgment of them, but when I play a character, that completely disappears.
‘‘You're trying to find a connection which is only possible by there being no moral judgment.''
The most famous example of Bana separating his morals from his job is in the film that took him from being a comedian to an actor, Chopper.
He spent time getting to know the famous Melbourne crime identity before the shoot, but hasn't kept in touch.
‘‘I haven't bumped into him,'' he says when asked about Mark Brandon ‘‘Chopper'' Reid's recent claims he should have received more money from the film.
‘‘How can I put this? Doing films in Australia for financial gain is not really a reality. It's always been a controversial one with him,'' Bana says.
Bana knows all about not doing films for financial gain in Australia. He gives a wry smile when asked if his US agents were horrified when he followed the high-budget high-profile Hulk and Munich with Romulus, My Father -- a low-budget, low-profile family drama shot in Maldon.
‘‘If I could only tell you the ones I missed as a result,'' he says.
‘‘They would absolutely be, well, not spewing, but the reality is no matter how well a film does here in Australia, for them over there it's out of sight, out of mind. They don't even consider you're working if you're doing a project here. If you're at home you're on holidays.
‘‘But I learnt a long time ago you can't do everything. For every film you do there are three or four you can't and you have to live with your decision. I don't know any actor who doesn't say yes to the best thing that's offered to them at the time. I didn't do that film because it's Australian or because
it was shot in Victoria, I did it purely and simply because at the time I read that script and a bunch of other scripts, and in my eyes that was the best available.''
Which isn't to say he didn't enjoy the opportunity to work from home. Bana lives a low-key life in Melbourne. With most freelance paparazzo based in Sydney and Bana's status as a suburban family man, his appearances in gossip magazines are infrequent. He smiles when asked if he has a strategy for combining world fame with a normal life.
‘‘Not giving it up. No way,'' he says.
‘‘I feel nothing I do is unnatural but there are a lot of things that if you think twice you can avoid a lot of attention, put it that way.
‘‘I think I have a fairly realistic attitude to it. I think I'm fair game. I think people who do what we do, you can't pretend.
‘‘There are some things that are going to happen as a result of you doing your job, but I draw the line when it comes to family and there is no logical argument on the face of the Earth for people's babies and children being photographed. I'd go to the front line on that one.
‘‘There are websites now dedicated to people commenting on people's babies and kids. It's so obviously over the line. It's not someone being photographed leaving a hotel with a mistress.''
In fact, about the most controversial aspect of Bana's life is his motor racing. Last April he crashed out of the Targa Tasmania in his lovingly restored 1974 XB Ford coupe. He and his navigator were uninjured. The car was not.
‘‘It's metal, isn't it, so technically there's no such thing as a write-off,'' Bana argues.
‘‘That's a term insurance companies use, not optimistic rev heads.''
Bana hasn't started the task of restoration yet.
‘‘That's the work of an artisan,'' he says. ‘‘The first 20-something years it was just me and mates, but the last rebuild was done by a very skilled craftsman.''
The crash came as a disappointment, but not a shock to Bana.
‘‘I'm not a Sunday driver,'' he says. ‘‘I don't do these events for fun. We're driving, we're going for it, so you know at the back of your mind that as careful as you are -- or you think you are -- in a rally it only takes a very small mistake to have a very big consequence.
‘‘The most important thing is the navigator was OK. The rest is just hard work and a hassle.''
Although Bana was intending the Targa to be his last rally, he has no intention of giving up circuit racing. He can't race while making a film, for both logistical and insurance reasons.
‘‘The day I wrap a film I'm my own boss again so I can do whatever the hell I like. So long as my wife and I are OK with it it's really no one's beeswax.''
The Other Boleyn Girl opens today
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23367919-5006023,00.htm l
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