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- In whatever he appears in, Paul Giamatti makes an impression, whether that's in films or television, or as lead or character actor. Last month he won a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the film, “The Holdovers," a role that has also brought him his first best actor Oscar nomination.
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Feb 19, 2024 · In whatever he appears in, Paul Giamatti makes an impression, whether that's in films or television, or as lead or character actor. Last month he won a Golden Globe Award for his performance in...
- He Grew Up Wanting to Be A Professor.
- He Had A Strange Obsession with Baseball Umpires.
- His Father Is The Man Who Banned Pete Rose from Baseball.
- He Likes Playing Supporting roles.
- M. Night Shyamalan Sees Him as A Tom Hanks Type (with Beautiful Eyes).
- His Most Challenging Role Required Him to Sit in poop.
- He Got Food Poisoning While Making sideways. He Also Got Very drunk.
- He Didn’T Care About His So-Called “Oscar Snub.”
- He Was Approached About Playing Michael Scott on The Office.
- He Has Portrayed Two Different Presidents.
Growing up in a family surrounded by academics, Paul Giamatti considered following his father’s career path and becoming a professor. In 1978, at the age of 40, Giamatti’s father—Bart—was appointed president of Yale University (the youngest person to ever hold the position). “I was never the class clown, or put on shows at home,” Giamatti told The ...
Growing up, Giamatti was oddly fascinated with baseball umpires. “I don’t think it had anything to do with their authority,” he told The Believer. “It was more a fascination with the appearance of the home-plate umps. They wear those old-school chest protectors and the mask and they’re always dressed in black … There’s something weirdly sinister ab...
Giamatti’s obsession with baseball’s supporting players might make more sense when you consider that, after leaving his position at Yale in 1986, Bart Giamatti became the president of the National League and, in 1989, was appointed MLB Commissioner. Though he only held the position for five months (the elder Giamatti passed away on September 1, 198...
Though he emerged as more of a leading man in the early 2000s with movies like American Splendor and Sideways, Giamatti is content to play a supporting role. "I think you're given more license to have fun, in a way,” he told The Guardianof being a supporting player. “You're supposed to be more vivid, your job is to be more eccentric. I think I just...
M. Night Shyamalan, who directed Giamatti in 2006’s Lady in the Water, doesn’t see Giamatti as a bit player. “He is very much a leading man," Shyamalan told The New York Times. "For me, he is like Tom Hanks—he can carry a movie. Paul's eyes are very beautiful in a puppy-dog way. The audience is compelled to want what that person wants and that is a...
When asked about the biggest challenge he has faced as an actor, the ever-self-deprecating Giamatti said it was one of his earliest roles. “I believe the character was called ‘Man in Sleeping Bag,’” he said. “A homeless guy. It may have just been ‘man.’ Who knows. It was an episode of NYPD Blue. We were in a squatters village below the Manhattan Br...
In the DVD commentary for Sideways, Giamatti and his co-star, Thomas Haden Church, discussed how they both got food poisoningafter filming the dinner scene with Giamatti’s on-screen mom. On another occasion, Giamatti got very, very drunk. “There was one dinner scene where I had to drink a sh*tload and by the end of the night I was completely hammer...
Speaking of the Oscars: While much of the movie-watching world was taken aback when both Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen received Academy Award nominations for their work on Sideways, while Giamatti got nothing, the actor wasn’t at all fazed or disappointed. “That was an odd dilemma to be in,” he told the Independent. “I didn't expect to ge...
In 2006, The New York Times reported that when adapting Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s The Officefor American television, Paul Giamatti as Michael Scott was on the top of at least one NBC executive’s dream casting list. Giamatti declined the part.
Six years after playing the title role in HBO’s John Adams miniseries (a part that earned him a Golden Globe Award), Giamatti took on the role of another POTUS when he voiced Teddy Roosevelt for Ken Burns’s The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Jan 21, 2024 · Movies. The Many Contradictions of Paul Giamatti. He’s a Yale man and an Everyman, a star for playing schlubs, the best actor who had never been nominated for Best Actor. How does it all add up?...
For his performance in The Holdovers, Giamatti received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor.
Dec 4, 2023 · Movies. 20 years after ‘Sideways,’ Paul Giamatti may finally land his first best actor Oscar nomination. Dec. 4, 2023 at 8:26 am Updated Dec. 4, 2023 at 9:24 am. By. JAKE COYLE. The...
Mar 10, 2024 · For a 20-something stage actor named Paul Giamatti, that was a bit role as a lisping, bumpkin eyewitness to murder in a forgotten neo-noir. ... Giamatti is so good at being bad that you’re ...
Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella Man (2005), The Illusionist (2006), and San ...
