Christopher Plummer Refutes 'Oldest Oscar Winner' Label
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BY LAUREN ZIMA
Critics are saying Sunday night’s Oscars read a little too old as a show, but there’s one elderly part of the broadcast that no one had a problem with -- Christopher Plummer. The 82-year-old actor won the Best Supporting Oscar for ‘The Beginners’ -- it was his first statue.
“You’re only two years older than me, darling -- where have you been all my life?”
The Today Show has his speech from the press room post show.
“It’s sort of a renewal. Not a beginning exactly, but it has recharged me, and I hope I can do it for another 10 years at least.”
And he’s being called the oldest actor ever to win an acting Oscar -- though The Baltimore Sun notes, Plummer himself refutes the title.
“‘I don't believe that for a second,’ Plummer said, claiming that Charlie Chaplin was older when he received an honorary Oscar in 1972. ‘An honorary Oscar is an Oscar after all,’ Plummer insisted, before adding, ‘We hope.’”
Plummer is perhaps most widely known for ‘The Sound of Music,’ but his work includes more than 100 films. As a writer for Yahoo! Movies puts it …
“With a career spanning nearly six decades, it's hard to believe that the nomination was only the veteran Canadian actor's second. … a loss here would have been the definition of an upset. … A well deserved and long overdue win …”
Plummer told reporters backstage that he plans to never retire -- instead, he’ll, quote, “drop dead wherever I am, on stage or on the set.”
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