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Brave Art.(Brief article)
Byline: HAMISH BOWLES EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR
Newly minted BAFTA winner Tilda Swinton has a penchant for making intriguing choices in both film and fashion--with often entrancing results.
With the Titian-red hair, lint-white skin, and aristocratically angular features of an Elizabethan miniature, Tilda Swinton' s physical presence has always set her apart from the crowd, and so has her highly individual sense of style. Married to her distinguished looks is a searching intelligence that has always led her to take risks in her roles, from her earliest performances in the provocative films of Derek Jarman to her latest, as the unconscionable lawyer Karen Crowder in Tony Gilroy' s Michael Clayton. For her chilling performance (for which she gained weight, explaining "it was important that [Crowder] feel uncomfortable in her skin"), Swinton garnered the Supporting Actress award at the BAFTAs in London. The actress also stole Best Dressed honors, channeling mid-century Irving Penn poise in John ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 25, 2008 700+ words
...the leading Italian fine jewelry house, was present, once again, at the Academy Awards yesterday as Scottish actress Tilda Swinton accepted her Oscar as Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Ms. Swinton, whose impressive theatre and film career has been...
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- Magazine article from: Spectator Bartholomew, Carolyn November 29, 2008 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: W Solway, Diane September 1, 2008 700+ words
...AVENUE MATRON AND THE NEXT LIKE A PUNKED-OUT ARTIST, TILDA SWINTON IS DOING WHAT SHE COMMONLY DOES WHEN SHE ALIGHTS IN A CITY...year, when she went home with an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her turn in Michael Clayton. "I really can't remember...
- Tilda Swinton to lead Berlin film festival jury.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 12, 2008 700+ words
...Worldstream) Byline: H. JOSEF HEBERT British actress Tilda Swinton will head the jury at the Berlin film festival in...The 48-year-old Swinton this year won a best supporting actress Oscar for her part in "Michael Clayton." She also...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Meza, Ed November 13, 2008 700+ words
Tilda Swinton has been tapped to head the international jury of the Berlin Film...runs Feb. 5-15. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Swinton, who won the supporting actress Oscar this year for her role in "Michael Clayton," has also starred...
- BAFTA/LA plaudits to trio.(British Academy of Film and Television/Los...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Stewart, Andrew October 3, 2008 700+ words
...Film and Television/Los Angeles will honor Don Cheadle, Tilda Swinton and Stephen Frears at its annual awards gala Nov. 6 at...socially conscious doc "Darfur Now." Swinton, who won the supporting actress Oscar for her role in last year's "Michael Clayton...
- British artist of the year: versatile and unique Swinton impossible to...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Christon, Lawrence November 6, 2008 700+ words
...got together to choose its artist of the year for 2008, Tilda Swinton's name came up so often, "You couldn't not give it...s "Michael Clayton," for which she won an Oscar for supporting actress. But the core of her roles is more often mysterious and...
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- Magazine article from: WWD March 5, 2008 700+ words
...LABEL: "I've been around alcoholics all my life," Tilda Swinton, wearing an Yves Saint Laurent smoking and swilling Champagne...kidnapping a child for money. Fresh from her Oscar for best supporting actress in "Michael Clayton," Swinton delivers an intense performance...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 3, 2005 700+ words
...Aviator," "Six Feet Under"), Tilda Swinton ("Constantine," "Adaptation...Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, and Tilda Swinton). Unannounced visits to each of these...Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, and Jeffrey Wright, "Broken Flowers...
- THE DEEP END and SEXY BEAST Awarded Golden Globe Nominations; Tilda Swinton for...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 21, 2001 700+ words
...The nominees are THE DEEP END's Tilda Swinton for Best Performance by an Actress...Motion Picture. In THE DEEP END, Tilda Swinton plays Margaret Hall, a mother who...Pictures President Peter Rice said, "Tilda Swinton has so mastered the art of expression...