Actor Paul Giamatti has appeared in numerous films since the 1990s, including performances in the half-fictional/half-documentary biopic American Splendor, the wine-themed buddy comedy Sideways and Ron Howard's period boxing drama Cinderella Man.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316079/bio In 2008, he starred in the HBO miniseries John Adams as America's second president, a role for which he won his first Emmy Award. He also won a Golden Globe for the role in 2008.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316079/bio
Giamatti won a further Golden Globe in 2011 for his role in Barney's Version.http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/race/golden-globe-upset-paul-giamatti-72370 The film was well received by critics and generated considerable Oscar buzz but neither Giamatti nor the movie recieved a major nomination.http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.htmlc Though the movie did recieve the most nominations for Canada's Genie Awards with 11, including one for Giamatti in the Best Actor category.http://www.straight.com/article-371133/vancouver/31st-genie-awards-barneys-version-incendies-lead-nominees
Paul Giamatti's Film and Television Career
Giamatti's father was Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, a president of Yale University who also became a commissioner of Major League Baseball.http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=1674650&m=1674651 http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019623/bio He married Toni Smith, Paul's mother, in 1960.http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00B15F738551A7A93CBA8178DD85F448685F9 http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019623/bio Paul has a brother, Marcus, and a sister, Elena.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019623/bio
It was the role of real-life comic book writer Harvey Pekar in 2003's hit indie film American Splendor that started getting Giamatti larger roles.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019623/bio The following year, he starred in Alexander Payne's Sideways, followed by his turn in Cinderella Man. In 2006 he starred in three films: the Tom Hanks animated comedy The Ant Bully, the period mystery The Illusionist and the M. Night Shyamalan "fairy tale," Lady in the Water.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019623/biohttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316079/
In 2007 he was the disgruntled brother of Vince Vaughn's Santa Claus in Fred Claus, and the next year he played the title role of John Adams in an HBO miniseries of the same name, for which he earned a SAG nomination for Best Actor.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019623/bio
Paul Giamatti Selected Timeline
- 1992: Singles
- 1995: Mighty Aphrodite
- 1995: Sabrina
- 1996: Before and After
- 1996: Breathing Room
- 1997: Donnie Brasco
- 1997: Private Parts
- 1997: My Best Friends Wedding
- 1997: Deconstructing Harry
- 1997: A Further Gesture
- 1998: The Truman Show
- 1998: Doctor Dolittle
- 1998: Saving Private Ryan
- 1998: The Negotiator
- 1998: Safe Men
- 1999: Cradle Will Rock
- 1999: Man on the Moon
- 2000: Big Momma's House
- 2000: Duets
- 2001: Planet of the Apes
- 2002: Big Fat Liar
- 2002: Thunderpants
- 2003: American Splendor
- 2003: Confidence
- 2003: Paycheck
- 2004: Sideways
- 2005: Robots (voice)
- 2005: Cinderella Man
- 2006: Hawk is Dying
- 2006: The Illusionist
- 2006: Lady in the Water
- 2006: The Ant Bully
- 2007: Shoot Em Up
- 2007: The Nanny Diaries
- 2007: Too Loud a Solitude (voice)
- 2007: Fred Claus
- 2008: Pretty Bird
- 2009: Cold Souls
- 2009: Duplicity
- 2009: The Last Station
- 2009: The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (voice)
- 2010: Barney's Versionhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316079/
- 2011: Win Win c
Paul Giamatti Quotes
"I make considered career decisions, I won't do any crap that comes along, but I don't think about awards. I think about whether the script is good and the people will be fun to hang out with. I've done things where I've said, "There's a mortgage to pay and a kid to put through school, and it will probably blow," but there's still something about it that will be a good time. I don't think I've ever said, "This is just going to blow,"—Interview with Rebecca Ascher-Walsh for the Los Angeles Times on January 6, 2011http://theenvelope.latimes.com/news/la-en-giamattiqa-20110106,0,6777536.story
"I’d never do most of what this guy does. The opening shot of the movie, calling the guy at three o’clock in the morning and basically telling him to go f--k himself — I would absolutely love to do something like that. But that was a lot of the appeal to me: getting to be a kind of person that I’m not,"—Discussing why he did the movie Barney's Version with National Post writer Mark Medley on December 27, 2010http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Giamatti+Version/4029895/story.html
Paul Giamatti on His Role in "John Adams"
Scenes from the HBO series John Adams accompany interviews with Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. Giamatti plays John Adams in the series and Laura Linney plays his wife, Abigail Adams. The actors touch on how the letters of John and Abigail Adams were used as inspiration for their acting and some background on the couple and the time period in which they lived.
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