Adam Driver

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.

Dusk was imminent on the Lido but the lights were bright outside the Mostra Internazionale D’Arte Cinemagrafica. It was opening night for the 79th annual Venice Film Festival and the world’s media had come to capture the celebration for the premiere feature, White Noise.

Marriage Story marks the fourth collaboration between director Noah Baumbach and actor Adam Driver. Though the film is about a couple going through a divorce, Adam Driver found his character Charlie very relatable because the story is “really specific but at the same time universal to anybody that has been in love.

Venice 2019 is hot. Very hot indeed - and we're not talking about the quality of the films on offer, or the usual debates and controversies: temperatures are spectacularly high.

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Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion PictureAn unlikely hero in his own success story, a former US marine not only was accepted to the most prestigious acting school in the country, but continued on to become a three-time Emmy nominee for his breakout role in Girls and has worked with the greats of our generation such as, but not limited to, Noah Baumbach, The Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Originally from San Diego, Adam Driver grew up with his mother and stepfather in Mishawaka, Indiana where he was an occasional theater actor and church choir singer.

In  Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, Adam Driver plays Colorado Springs cop Philip Zimmerman, who steps in to pretend he is his colleague Ron Stallworth – played by John David Washington – in an undercover effort to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Together – Zimmerman, in person, Stallworth, over the phone – they would attempt what seemed to be impossible in the 1970s’ Colorado.