French Actress, 85, Nominated for Oscar
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If French acrtress Emmanuelle Rova, 85, wins the Oscar on Feb. 24 for best supporting actress in Amour, she can also celebrate becoming the oldest winner of any competitive Oscar award – and on her birthday. Click here to view article.
When Emmanuelle Riva was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Amour, she became, at age 85, the oldest actress ever nominated for such an honor. Her performance as Anne, a woman who suffers a stroke, has been praised by critics as exhibiting courage and honesty in portraying the deterioration of Anne’s body and soul.
If Riva wins, she could become the oldest winner of any competitive Oscar award, beating out Christopher Plummer, who last year, at age 82, won best supporting actor for Beginners. Other actors who continue to work into their 80s include Hal Holbrook, who, at 83, was the oldest man to ever receive an acting nomination when he was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his brief but moving role in 2007’s Into the Wild.
Eve Marie Saint, who is 88 and won her first Oscar in 1954 for On the Waterfront, is in a new movie with Russell Crowe. Prior to this film, her latest role was Superman’s mom in Superman Returns (2006). Laurel Bacall, the 1940s screen siren who is now 88, is still working, most recently in the films Dogville and Birth.
Like Bacall and Saint, Riva got an early start in acting, although her parents discouraged her at first. Growing up in a small town in France, Riva dreamed of being an actress, but was forced to settle for being a seamstress. Disheartened by her life, she convinced her parents to let her go to Paris to enter an acting contest, where she won a scholarship and started her acting career in the theater
In 1958, Riva got her big break in film. Director Alain Resnais chose her to play the female lead in his film,Hiroshima Mon Amour, which became one of the most acclaimed and representative movies of the French New Wave and launched Riva’s career. From that point, she became a star in French cinema, as well as in TV, throughout the 1960s.
In the 1970s and ‘80s, Riva’s career slowed down, although she was still able to find occasional good roles. Her reentry into the international film scene came after Austrian director Michael Haneke found her doing a theater production. Amour follows Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignan) and Anne (Riva), a long-time married couple whose life changes drastically when Anne suffers a stroke and Georges must cope with her decline. The film has won numerous awards, including the Palme d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and from the National Society of Film Critics.
If Riva wins the Oscar award on Feb. 24 for the best actress, she’ll have two things to celebrate; it’s also her 86th birthday.
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