... Now we may have a new contender.  Just this week, there was a bunch of buzz about Jeff Bridges "career best" performance as a country western singer in the film Crazy Heart.  Here's ... at a Toby Keith concert last year for the movie: Colin Farrell as a country singer? Well, okay, I suppose he can sing, so I'll withhold judgment till I see the film.

... a lot of support. Jeff Bridges plays a broken-down, hard-living country music singer in a kind of Wrestler-like ... of In Contention and Jeffrey Wells supporting him. "Jeff Bridges is definitely in the Best Actor derby… best since The Big Lebowski but ... is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many ...

... a haunting soundtrack for today's strip mining impact on families and heritage--and the beloved Grammy-Award singer Kathy Mattea, Coal Country Music includes some of the finest singer-songwriters working today on Nashville's better half. With an unaffected ease, singer Celeste Krenz performs a wonderful version of "Big Coal River," yearning for the ...

... in an early release of Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges, in a blatantly obvious attempt at winning an Oscar. Crazy Heart tells the story of a broken alcoholic country singer (Bridges) who gets his life back on track after finding an emotional ... ) is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too ...

... Hirsch. Do you remember when I compared Jake Gyllenhaal with singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy here? Actually, I just compared both's style more than their physical appearance (Jake doesn't look like Jeff at all). Seeing this recent cover of Emile Hirsch in GQ Style Italy: I think he's so similar to Wilco's lead in this picture!Jeff Tweedy (Wilco in concert). Jeff Tweedy: ...

... country-and-western musical genre of yesteryear. A second cowboy singer - played by Colin Farrell - was not inspired by Billy Ray Cyrus ... it will stagger the sensibilities of all filmgoers Jeff's acting is seamless, believable, and downright rivetting. ... the parallels got more intriguing. For instance, at one point the Jeff Bridges character is barrelling down the highway, when ...

The trailer for Crazy Heart notes that both stars Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal have been nominated for Oscars , and the ... -livin’, lovin’, and drinkin’ country singer/songwriter who’s known for his amazing music, and Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the ... race, just read more. See the original post here:  Movie Preview: Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart See the ...

... even inserted the phrase "broken-down" into the movie's synopsis. The film stars Jeff Bridges as an alcoholic country singer named Bad Blake, who takes one last shot at redemption after meeting a journalist (Maggie ... in order to make a push for the Oscars. I'm sure we'd all love to see Jeff Bridges win one at this point in his career, but the field is ...

... poster, and a couple of photos for CRAZY HEART starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, ... Cooper Crazy Heart Synopsis: Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti- ... Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks ...

... 8221; looks to be the latter as I had never heard of this film and now after seeing the trailer and poster, this looks to be a serious contender for the Oscars at least for Jeff Bridges as Best Actor. The story centers on a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic country music singer (Bridges) who is able to get his life and career back on ...