Veteran actor Christopher Plummer won the evening's first award for his supporting role in Beginners.

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And in 1966 he had his moment of glory in the Christopher Plummer film.

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Christopher Plummer is also on the shortlist for the movie Beginners, in which he plays an elderly father who comes out of the closet.

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The allusion-mongering soars only when the full-throated Klingons played by David Warner and Christopher Plummer brush up their Shakespeare over dinner with Kirk and crew.

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The 1, 000-year-old Doctor Parnassus (played by veteran actor Christopher Plummer), finds himself on a journey to undo a deal he has made with the devil.

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And, I got to work with Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer.

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Christopher Plummer, her first childhood crush, presented her with the award.

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Christopher Plummer, who played Tolstoy, is up for best supporting actor.

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With Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Amanda Peet, and many, many others.

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He plays Will Randall, the senior editor at a New York publishing house, who gets sacked by the big boss (Christopher Plummer) in favor of the slimy Stewart (a fine turn by James Spader) and vows revenge.

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The cast as a whole is impressive, especially Jeffrey Wright and Christopher Plummer as devious Washington attorneys, Matt Damon as an energy analyst living in Geneva, and Alexander Siddig as the young prince who proves more adept at falconry than at petropolitics.

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