unfortunately our dear hero didn’t receive the Academy Awards, but he looked amazing on the red carpet. He’ll always be a winner according to us in everything he does.

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So, here it is, the Oscars- the Academy Awards are coming not only so soon, but tomorrow.

Before watching the big ceremony tomorrow and stopping our breaths for the big final moment we are all waiting, let’s talk about the chances of our dear hero. What are the chances Colin has in winning this great award?

I’ve been reading a lot of articles all around saying that Jeff Bridges is expected to win the award for he has won plenty of great awards for his role in the movie “Crazy Heart”. And the only chance Colin got is winning the BAFTA. surely the BAFTA is a highly appreciated award, but we still don’t know. It’ll be a great surprise for the Magazines journalists to see Colin winning, and it’ll be great for us the fans to be proud of this amazing man.

I can’t compare between Jeff Bridges and Colin Firth, for I haven’t seen the movie and the role yet (shame on me) and I’ll wait and see till tomorrow.

Couldn’t find the video, but found articles on Oprah’s website, with few pictures.

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FOR a man who got famous swimming through a pond in a smock 15 years ago, Colin Firth’s career has been surprisingly long-lived.

But it’s never been in QUITE as good a shape as it is now.

With this year’s Bafta Best Actor gong under his belt for his new film A Single Man, the 49-year-old Brit is now in with a serious chance of picking up an Oscar next month.

So is he quietly confident? Of course not.

“I’m not very hopeful, I’m afraid,” he tells me. “It’s just nice to get the nomination, frankly.”

We’re at a hotel bash to toast another one of his awards – the London Critics’ Circle’s British Actor of the Year.

And Colin – with his tailored grey suit and a gramophone voice that crackles with sex appeal – seems totally unaware of the many women, and a good few men, who are swooning left, right and centre.

The last time he was the subject of such a global stir was when he appeared as a sexy Mr Darcy in 1995’s Pride and Prejudice.

This time he’s playing an academic coming to terms with his boyfriend’s death in California in 1962 – when being gay was not OK, even in LA.

Mr Darcy, it ain’t. But it is the best hour-and-a-half of acting that Firth’s done in his life.

And it is also the shot in the arm that his career’s been crying out for.

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“I’m almost 50 and, I must say, I am really rather happy with where I am ,” explains actor Colin Firth sitting opposite me over breakfast in the Mayfair Hotel. “When I was 25 I was very conscious of being featureless of having no texture. I was very bland – just like your average 25 year old – and I used to look at these older actors and think, ‘that’s where I’d like to be. Obviously I do not relish deterioration but there is a wealth of knowledge and experience, and hopefully wisdom, one can pull on as an older man which just isn’t there as a young man.”

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Colin Firth admits he likes growing old as he finally has features.

Colin Firth likes growing old.

The ‘A Single Man’ actor – who has played leading roles in ‘Bridget Jones’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ – admits he prefers his looks as he gets older because he now has features.

He said: “When I was 25 I was very conscious of being featureless of having no texture.

“I was very bland – just like your average 25-year-old – and I used to look at these older actors and think, ‘That’s where I’d like to be’.

“Obviously I do not relish deterioration but there is a wealth of knowledge and experience and hopefully wisdom one can pull on as an older man which just isn’t there as young man.”

Colin also revealed his iconic role as Mr Darcy in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ gave him the career boost he needed.

He told the Big Issue: “I certainly wouldn’t knock my role as Darcy. Because it doesn’t happen to many of us but I am still bewildered why is struck a chord.

“Even today sometimes when I walk down the street men still shout, ‘Look it’s Mr Darcy!’ But without Darcy I might not be here now.”

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Meryl Streep and Colin Firth are all smiles at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010.

Best Actress nominee Meryl Streep is in the running for the comedy Julie & Julia, in which she plays Julia Child. It’s Streep’s 16th Oscar nod and her 13th in the Best Actress category. Streep currently has more overall acting nominations, nominations as a leading performer, and losses (13 times) than any other actor or actress. Colin Firth received his first Oscar nod for his bereaved gay college professor in Tom Ford’s A Single Man.

The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. In the United States, it’ll be televised live by ABC.

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British star Colin Firth is tired of being known as the character he first portrayed in a BBC TV drama 15 years ago. Firth gained attention when he played the role of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the romantic hero in an adaptation of Jane Austen’s timeless novel, ‘Pride and Prejudice’.

The actor is disappointed that that particular role has overshadowed all his other achievements. “I’m not remotely interested in Pride and Prejudice in any way and haven’t watched it since doing it.

“But the word Darcy is like a phantom that won’t leave me alone, like a school nickname that sticks with you for years afterwards. It was as if I hadn’t existed before Pride and Prejudice. I was hailed as a new arrival even tough I’d arrived ten years earlier.”

It also probably didn’t help much when he was casted as Mark Darcy in an adaptation of ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’, a character that was loosely based on the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ character and Firth’s portrayal in the TV drama.

However, the 49-year-old is hoping that his new role as a gay lecturer in fashion designer Tom Ford’s directorial debut, ‘A Single Man’, will make his fans see him in a new light, especially since the role garnered him an Oscar nod. Firth says on his nomination, “Being nominated for this small but special film is like being in a daze. I’m probably euphoric about it but I’m too dazed to know how I feel.”

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London (ANI): Oscar nominee Colin Firth has confessed he is sick and tired of being repeatedly referred to as Mr. Darcy. The British actor expressed his fury at being stuck with the name of the Pride and Prejudice character that he played 15 years ago. “I’m not remotely interested in Pride and Prejudice in any way and haven’t watched it since doing it,” the Sun quoted him as saying.

“But the word Darcy is like a phantom that won’t leave me alone, like a school nickname that sticks with you for years afterwards. “It was as if I hadn’t existed before Pride and Prejudice. I was hailed as a new arrival even tough I”d arrived ten years earlier,” he added.

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