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  Philip Seymour Hoffman Pictures, Philip Seymour Hoffman Photo Gallery and Biography - Celebrity Pictures by ...
Philip Seymour Hoffman has established himself as one of the most respected and acclaimed character actors in Hollywood, and recently received a Best Actor Oscar for his terrific performance in 2005’s “Capote”.
Hoffman’s reputation as a talented and daring actor solidified with memorable turns in the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski”, the disturbing drama “Happiness”, and as a drag queen opposite Robert De Niro in the rarely-seen “Flawless”.
Philip Seymour Hoffman at The Savages Premiere at the AFI FEST 2007 at ArcLight Cinemas on...
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 CNN.com - 'It wasn't easy being him' - Oct 12, 2005
For Philip Seymour Hoffman -- almost 6 feet tall, often appearing rumpled and quiet, better known as a supporting actor in such films as "Magnolia" and "Almost Famous" -- playing the author in the movie "Capote" was not going to be an easy transformation.
Hoffman was approached by two old friends -- director Bennett Miller and actor Dan Futterman, the latter making his screen-writing debut -- to star as Capote.
Hoffman's performance is creating early Oscar buzz for best actor, but he doesn't really want to go there just yet.
www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/11/hoffman.capote/index.html   (1073 words)

  
 EI > Interviews > Philip Seymour Hoffman
I guess I rebelled in a silly youthful way.” Hoffman added that his mother is now a judge and has been a wealth of information to him in that he has gone to her with questions he needed answered.
Hoffman indicated that he is very interested in how many people actually vote in the California recall election.
Hoffman told me that one of the enlightening things he learned was that the volunteers at the polls were predominately part of an older generation of Americans that may have a greater appreciation for the act or privilege of voting.
www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/philipseymourhoffman.php   (794 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Columbia Film Division Shines at Oscars
SoA adjunct film professor Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy Award for best actor in a motion picture for his indelible portrayal of Truman Capote in the film "Capote." Hoffman dominated the best actor category in all of the major awards ceremonies of 2006.
Philip Seymour Hoffman has been an actor for stage and screen for 20 years, as well as a stage director.
Hoffman, an adjunct professor with the Film Division for two years, taught a workshop on directing actors last year and plans to lead a master class for advanced students later this spring.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/06/03/oscar_philipSHoffman.html   (525 words)

  
 CNN.com - Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'Just another actor' - January 17, 2002
Philip Seymour Hoffman's latest film is "Love Liza," showing at Sundance.
But Hoffman is no stranger to movie audiences -- even if his character-actor looks prompt people to think, "Hey, isn't that...?" without coming up with his name.
Hoffman portrays a man who loses his wife to suicide in "Love Liza," written by his brother.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/17/sun.hoffman   (804 words)

  
 Philip Seymour Hoffman: Chasing Philip, Rochester Magazine
Hoffman - who has now lived in Manhattan for half of his life and is a graduate of New York University's drama program - remembers spending time in our city with his mother, especially to attend local theater.
But Hoffman, a gentleman, would only reveal she was from Rochester and works as a scientist in the south.
Hoffman O'Connor recalls the night her 17-year-old son put on horn-rimmed glasses and transformed into a 57-year-old man facing death.
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 Fametracker :: Hey! It's That Guy! :: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman is enough of a chameleon that it's hard to pin him down to a single signature role, which is the hallmark of a great Hey!
He is among the generation of young, up-and-coming Hey, It's That Guy!s for the millennium and, let's face it, will never be a leading man because he's identified himself as a man with three names.
If he were Philip S. Hoffman he could at least aspire to Samuel L. Jackson status.
www.fametracker.com /hey_its_that_guy/hoffman_philip_seymour.php   (253 words)

  
 Interview : Philip Seymour Hoffman - MoviesOnline
Widely acclaimed, Hoffman was honored by eighteen critics’ groups as the best actor of the year for his performance in the title role and earned a Golden Globe for best actor (drama), a SAG Award, and an Academy Award.
Hoffman explains, "The darker, more evil, more vicious this man is toward the hero, the more you want the hero to take this man down.
According to Hoffman, Davian plays a pivotal role in the central tension of "Mission Impossible 3." "Ethan and Julia – Tom’s and Michelle Monaghan’s characters – are two people who have a lot of fear as they get married," says Hoffman.
www.moviesonline.ca /movienews_8598.html   (780 words)

  
 Philip Seymour Hoffman: Oscar hopeful talks rehab and stardom | Interviews | guardian.co.uk Film
Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York, in 1967, one of four children (his parents divorced when he was nine).
For his part as Capote, Hoffman did the usual actorly rigmarole - he read the Gerald Clarke biography on which the film draws, he read the George Plimpton oral history ('basically a book of gossip, which made it excellent') and he got hold of all the tapes of Capote being interviewed and performing.
The reason why Hoffman is now being garlanded with awards is because he has achieved not just an impersonation but an embodiment: the delicate voice is there, of course, and the fey posturing, but there is also a deep empathy with his inner turmoils.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,,1717993,00.html   (2075 words)

  
   philip seymour hoffman web   |   your #1 source for the academy award winning actor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hoffman, which includes a well updated Gallery with over 4,000 additions, media, & personal & movie news.
Academy Award winners Sir Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman have also joined the cast, while fellow Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is in talks to play The Penguin in the new film.
Hoffman, I can't put you directly in contact with him, and I don't know anything about his personal life except what is on this site.
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 Philip Seymour Hoffman-Spout
In 2000, Cameron Crowe cast Hoffman as Crowe's childhood hero Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, and David Mamet tapped him to be part of the impressive ensemble in State and Main.
Hoffman maintained his status as one of the most respected and hardest-working actors in the new decade by delivering an excellent supporting turn in Red Dragon as an unctuous tabloid reporter.
Hoffman was in theaters again at the beginning of 2004 as the best friend in the Ben Stiller comedy Along Came Polly.
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 An interview with Philip Seymour Hoffman. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Well, I think the only thing that we know was fabricated was the end, the scene at the Clutters' grave.
Hoffman: One of the things I've heard Danny [Futterman] say is that what intrigued him was not so much Capote himself but the relationship between a journalist and a subject, and Capote was a perfect vessel for exploring that relationship.
Hoffman: Well, it seemed to us that if you could actually see him at work in many different ways, ultimately that would suggest to you a lot of what you're saying, both the discipline and the dissipation.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Actor Hoffman's brush with Capote
The term scene-stealer might have been invented for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who - thanks to films as diverse as Boogie Nights, Happiness and The Talented Mr Ripley - has cornered the market in eye-catching supporting roles.
Hoffman lost a reported 40lbs to play the legendary author and spent months perfecting his mannerisms and distinctive way of speaking.
Hoffman, who previously played Rolling Stone journalist Lester Bangs in the 2000 film Almost Famous, says he felt some pressure portraying such a well-known personality.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4619674.stm   (674 words)

  
 Philip Seymore Hoffman - Interesting Motherfuckers - Acid Logic ezine
Don Cheadle will most likely be next, given time.  There is a certain freedom to the roles they play because they are exempt from the trappings of marquee stardom.  They avoid (either voluntarily or otherwise) being typecast, so they are free to sharpen their talents.
A few years prior to “Hannibal” Hoffman played Lester Bangs, in Cameron Crowe’sAlmost Famous” (2000), a movie that made the critics collectively wet their pants hot on the heels of “Jerry Maguire.”  It’s a tremendously personal movie for Crowe, who spent most of the ‘80s writing for Rolling Stone.
Hoffman’s twisted role as Allen in the brilliantly disturbing “Happiness” (1998) sticks with the viewer.
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 Philip Seymour Hoffman at The Insider
I know Philip Seymour Hoffman's job involves playing creepy, pasty, unattractive men who give you a well-justified awful feeling in the pit of your...
Philip Seymour Hoffman is seen out with his son Cooper Alexander, 4, [Spiderman] and a friend trick or treating in the West Village, NYC.
Philip Seymour Hoffman welcomes a daughter, says children are 'a revelation'
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 Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hoffman could be the best character actor of his generation.
He's unusually willing to walk the tightrope of audience sympathy: the parts he chooses aren't obviously likeable, but he plays them with such unflinching honesty that you can't help but be drawn in.
With meaty roles in David Mamet's State And Main and Joel Schumacher's Flawless, Hoffman is deservedly moving centre stage.
www.thecontext.com /docs/1284.html   (101 words)

  
 Natural    »    philip seymour hoffman fanlisting
Welcome to Natural, the Philip Seymour Hoffman fanlisting, currently listed under the Actors category at The Fanlistings Network.
Philip is an Academy Award winning American actor, who has been in many movies, a few of the more well known one's being Capote (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Almost Famous (2000).
Philip is one of my favorite actors, so I feel honored to own his fanlisting.
www.honest-things.net /philip   (326 words)

  
 At the Movies: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Margaret Pomeranz speaks to Philip Seymour Hoffman about 'Owning Mahowny' and the pantheon of outsiders he's created onscreen over the years.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN: Well, this film really is about the downfall — somebody who's been in the grips of an addiction for a very long time.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN: Acting sometimes is spinning… You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air?
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 Charlie Wilson's War Now on DVD
Hoffman won an Oscar in 2006 for his starring role in Capote and was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for his role in Charlie Wilson’s War.
Cast often in oddball roles, Philip Seymour Hoffman never fails to make a lasting impression, no matter how small or big his role may be in any given film.
Fans of Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman will enjoy seeing their favorite actors at work and will be able to have images to supplement the Charlie Wilson’s War plot synopsis on this website.
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 Character actor is Oscar’s golden boy - Academy Awards - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LOS ANGELES - Philip Seymour Hoffman, a chameleon-like performer celebrated for his diverse supporting roles, won the Oscar as best lead actor Sunday for his vivid portrait of the brilliant but conflicted author Truman Capote in “Capote.”
Hoffman’s latest victory came on his first nomination ever for an Academy Award, and marked a rare Oscar win for an overtly gay role.
Hoffman’s work has been much admired since he began appearing in a wide range of film roles in the early 1990s, often playing physically unattractive but distinctive characters.
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 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Salon.com
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke lead the outstanding cast of the overheated "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." Plus: Jimmy Carter charms.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's Truman Capote keeps the blood coursing through this otherwise somber biopic.
With lead roles in three new films, Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the great character actors of the '90s, is about to hit the big time.
dir.salon.com /topics/philip_seymour_hoffman   (542 words)

  
 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - The New York Times
From All Movie Guide: One of the most original, versatile, and steadily employed actors in Hollywood, Philip Seymour Hoffman has made a name for himself playing some of the most dysfunctional characters in movie history.
Although he had been acting for years, most audiences were first introduced to the actor in the award-winning Boogie Nights, where he played a nebbishy soundman with a jones for Mark Wahlberg's Dirk Diggler.
Imbuing his character with both humor and poignant complexity, Hoffman was one of the more memorable aspects of an unforgettable film.
movies.nytimes.com /person/32716/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman?inline=nyt-per   (237 words)

  
 OSCAR.com - 78th Annual Academy Awards - Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Philip Seymour Hoffman portrays author Truman Capote in the years leading up to the writing of his best-known book, "In Cold Blood."
This is the first Academy Award nomination for Philip Seymour Hoffman.
When the murder of a family in Kansas captures the interest of celebrated writer Truman Capote, he travels to their small hometown to research what will become his best-known book.
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 Philip Seymour Hoffman
Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born...
Philip Seymour Hoffman has 1 in-development credit available on IMDbPro.com.
Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (1991) (as Phil Hoffman)....
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 Bloomberg.com: Muse   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Oscar-winning actor and co- artistic director of the LAByrinth Theater company, enlisted Belber's wife, Lucie Tiberghien, to direct the play.
Set in Washington, D.C., it tells of a widow named O, (Quincy Tyler Bernstine) who's reluctant to reengage in life after the death of her husband.
To contact the writer on this story: Philip Boroff in New York at pboroff@bloomberg.net.
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