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He is also a winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his portrayal of John Forbes Nash Jr. in the biographical drama A Beautiful Mind (2001). Major associations. Academy Awards. AACTA Awards. BAFTA Awards. Golden Globe Awards. Screen Actors Guild Awards.
YearCategoryNominated WorkResult2020Best Supporting Actor – CinemaNominated2019Best Supporting Actor – CinemaNominated2014Best Lead Actor – CinemaNominated2009WonBest Actor in a Leading Role. The Insider. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. 2001 Nominee Saturn Award. Best Actor. Gladiator. Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. 2015 Nominee FCCA Award. Best Director. The Water Diviner. 2015 Winner FCCA Award. Best Actor. The Water Diviner. 1993 Winner FCCA Award. Best Actor - Male.
- April 7, 1964
Crowe won an Academy Award in the Best Actor category for his performance in Gladiator, and has been nominated two more times for Best Actor for The Insider and A Beautiful Mind, making him the ninth actor to have received three consecutive Academy Award nominations.
- Who Is Russell Crowe?
- 'Blood Oath,' 'The Crossing,' 'Proof,' 'Romper Stomper'
- 'The Quick and The Dead,' 'Virtuosity'
- 'L.A. Confidential'
- 'The Insider'
- Oscar Win For 'The Gladiator'
- 'A Beautiful Mind'
- 'Master and Commander,' 'Cinderella Man'
- 'Robin Hood,' 'Les Misérables'
- 'Man of Steel,' 'Noah,' 'The Water Diviner'
Born on April 7, 1964, in Wellington, New Zealand, Russell Crowe first made a name for himself acting in Australian cinema. He eventually became an international star with projects like L.A. Confidential, The Insider, Gladiator (for which he won an Oscar), A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man, while also becoming known for his combustible behavior. ...
A role in the stage musical Blood Brothers in 1989 led to Crowe's first feature film, Blood Oath (1990, released in the U.S. as Prisoners of the Sun). His other early films included The Crossing (1990), which marked his first leading role, and The Efficiency Expert (1991, released in the U.S. as Spotswood), with Anthony Hopkins and Toni Collette. H...
In 1995, Crowe made his American film debut, appearing with Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman and Leonardo DiCaprio in the offbeat Western The Quick and the Dead. That same year, he played SID 6.7, a virtual reality outlaw created as a composite of more than 150 serial killers who is hunted by Denzel Washington in the sci-fi thriller Virtuosity. He also t...
Though some insiders pegged him as "one to watch," Crowe didn't truly capture the attention of American movie-goers until L.A. Confidential, the highly acclaimed 1997 neo-noir film that probed the dark underside of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Crowe played the brutal, forthright cop Bud White, one of a trio of very different policemen—the film also st...
Crowe’s first starring role of 1999 came in Mystery, Alaska, a poorly received comedy written by David E. Kelley and co-starring Burt Reynolds. He had a good deal more success with his next film, The Insider, based on the true story of an ex-tobacco company executive, Jeffrey Wigand, who is convinced by a TV news producer to blow the whistle on the...
In 2000, Crowe vaulted to A-list Hollywood stardom with his charismatic performance as a Roman general turned vengeful slave in Gladiator, the ambitious Roman epic and blockbuster summer hit directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Joaquin Phoenix. The film garnered 12 Academy Award nominations, including a second straight Best Actor nod for Crowe....
In 2001, Russell Crowe starred in A Beautiful Mind, an acclaimed biopic about the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. The film, directed by Ron Howard, co-starred Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly. For the third year in a row, Crowe's bravura performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
After Crowe's lead role in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), he and Howard teamed up again for the boxing drama Cinderella Man(2005) about Jim Braddock, the Depression-era pugilist who defeated heavyweight champ Max Baer in a 15-round bout. Other releases for the decade included A Good Year (2006), American Gangster (2007), Bo...
Crowe reunited with Scott for the fifth time in the director’s 2010 adaptation of Robin Hood, which co-starred Cate Blanchett. After being featured in 2012’s martial arts flick The Man With the Iron Fist, the actor put his singing chops to use in the musical Les Misérables, released in December. The Oscar-nominated Tom Hooper film, co-starring Hugh...
Crowe’s next major roles came in 2013 with the winter release of Broken City, in which he portrayed a mayor up for reelection, and the summer release of Man of Steel. Directed by Zack Snyder, Steelretells the story of Superman, starring Henry Cavill in the title role and Crowe as his Kryptonian father, Jor-El. In 2014, Crowe dove back into big-budg...
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The movie, directed by Ron Howard and based loosely on Sylvia Nasar’s 1998 biography of Nash, won four Academy Awards, including that for best picture. The movie begins in 1947 at Princeton, where Nash (played by Russell Crowe ) has arrived as a graduate student, together with Martin Hansen (Josh Lucas), Richard Sol (Adam Goldberg), Ainsley ...
Russell Crowe. 2002 Winner Oscar. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Jennifer Connelly. 2002 Winner Oscar. Best Director. Ron Howard. 2002 Winner Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. Akiva Goldsman. 3 more. American Cinema Editors, USA. 2002 Nominee Eddie. Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic.
