Jeff Bridges News

A few weeks ago "Crazy Heart" was just another invisible movie, one with so little promise that the company that made it refused to put it into theaters.

JEFF BRIDGES "Crazy Heart" Has four prior Oscar noms . Co-stars in "The Men Who Stare at Goats." Was given the National Board of Review Career Achievement Award in 2004.

Jeff Bridges is an actor who's overdue for an Oscar.A He's been nominated four times before and has a wealth of great performances in his filmography.A It looks like Bridges is adding another one to his filmography as he's getting some serious Oscar-buzz for his performance as a hard-living country singer in Crazy Heart .

When I reported on Crazy Heart in 2008, the film was affiliated with the CMT network, yet drew my interest with a cast that included Jeff Bridges , Maggie Gyllenhaal , and Robert Duval .

The Oscars took a look back, and some Oscar hopefuls took a step forward. Three lifetime achievement Academy Awards were presented Saturday night to Lauren Bacall , B-movie mogul Roger Corman and The Go dfather cinematographer Gordon Willis , and the black-tie bash came packed with some of the biggest names in the business.

Seen below is Fox Searchlight's official poster for Crazy Heart from the LA Times .

As first reported on Blotch , the Oscar-winning Coen brothers will be holding open auditions tomorrow at Billy Bob's from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a white girl between the ages of 12 and 16 for the lead role in the brothers' forthcoming remake of John Wayne's 1969 Western True Grit .

This week we are going back to a new release with The Men Who Stare At Goats . Ewan McGregor stars as a reporter researching a secret government program that fosters the creation of psychic warriors during the Iraq war.

By no means is "The Men Who Stare at Goats," an ordinary movie. Ewan McGregor stars as Bob Wilton, a newspaper reporter who heads for the Middle East in order to develop a story on the Iraq War.

'The Men Who Stare at Goats' Soundtrack and Poster Contest! By: John Halecky on November 9, 2009 at 4:28PM For all of you George Clooney fans, enter here to win a copy of the The Men Who Stare at Goats original motion picture soundtrack and poster, courtesy of ABKCO Records.

TORONTO a ' In "The Men Who Stare at Goats," Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong a ' the whole Aquarian Age, flower power, altered states of consciousness thing.

Directed by Grant Heslov. Written by Peter Straughan. Photographed by Robert Elswit.

Actor Jeff Bridges said he had a bit of a flashback while filming The Men Who Stare at Goats, which fictionalizes the oddball odyssey of a U.S. military program that tried to train soldiers to use mental powers as a weapon .

Earlier this week I posted about a trio of last-minute Best Actress contenders .

The White House says detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not yet receiving vaccinations against the swine flu.

"The Men Who Stare at Goats," starring Jeff Bridges as an army shaman and George Clooney as his best pupil, is a refreshingly unpredictable and fizzy comic fantasy.

It's the day after the Toronto Film Festival premiere of The Men Who Stare At Goats , and Jeff Bridges is a happy guy.

Lyn Cassady George Clooney Bill Django Jeff Bridges Bob Wilton Ewan McGregor Larry Hooper Kevin Spacey Todd Nixon Robert Patrick Gen.

The Men Who Stare At Goats is all set to come out on Friday and we now have the third of four trailers featuring the main characters.

TORONTO - Somewhere along the line, Jeff Bridges went from young actor to grizzled veteran.