Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman, Golden Globe nominee as Best Actor in a drama for playing Citizen Kane’s screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz in Mank by David Fincher, spoke with journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1995 about The Scarlett Letter, directed by Roland Joffé from the 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, where he played Arthur Dimmesdale opposite Demi Moore as Hester Prynne. “I get very much linked and associated with the people that I play, maniacs, crazy policemen and psychopaths, so there’s a strange perception of me out there in the world that I must be a crazy maniac, and I’m not.

Gary Oldman is one of the most celebrated actors of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television and an impressive repertoire under his belt. With movies such as Sid and Nancy, True Romance, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Darkest Hour, in which his portrayal of Winston Churchill won multiple awards, including a Golden Globe and Oscar, Oldman is without a doubt a force of nature.

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Darkest Hour)Gary Oldman has had a long and successful career in independent films such Sid and Nancy and, Nil by Mouth, which he also directed, wrote, and produced. That film won Best British Film and Best original screenplay.

  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy star Gary Oldman, mingling with HFPA members and other guests at a reception at Soho House, revealed that a sequel to the spy thriller could be in the works. Oldman, who star as George Smiley, said that the idea of merging Smiley's People with The Honorable Schoolboy to make one movie has already been discussed, author John Le Carre approves and the director Tomas Alfredson is willing to return.