Viggio Mortensen, with 79.7% of votes for sexiest man of the year at Hollywood.com:
How He Did in Our Poll Last Year: He didn’t. This year, however, Viggo rules with a landslide victory over every other guy in our 2003 poll. Just goes to prove that when it comes right down to it, forget the baby faces–we like our men manly.
Sexiest Role: Hands down, his stoic, brave Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings movies–he only seems to get better with each one. (Although he was sexy as hell as a jealous, passionate artist in A Perfect Murder)
Best Quote: “It’s always strange when you’re lying there in bed naked with someone you don’t know very well. In my opinion, actors who say that is an unpleasant thing are all full of s***.” — from the Chicago Sun-Times, May 31, 1998
Sexiest Scene: Forget the particulars, he does it for us in just about every close-up in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, but there was one moment shot in slo-mo that captured Aragorn galloping uphill atop his stately steed, hair streaming across his face as he looked over his shoulder at the enemy closing in. Breathtaking.
Physical Feature We Love: It’s a tie between those piercing baby blues and the rock-solid square jaw that lends him a tremendously commanding, if slightly sinister, presence.
In His Future: Look for Viggo this fall starring in a movie called Hidalgo, the true story of Frank T. Hopkins, a long-distance horse rider in the Pony Express who traveled to Saudi Arabia to compete in a dangerous, global race for an enormous prize. Then of course there’s his final appearance as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
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Thain Brandybuck sends this article in to us from Horse Trader Magazine, take a look! [More]
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Thain Brandybuck writes:
“Nazghul horse for sale”
The Black Horse is actually an 8 year old Thoroughbred gelding, born and raised in Aoteaora/New Zealand and is up for sale now. As the ad states the horse is “untried competitively … due to movie committments”. But the horse is said to show a “bold jump” – probably acquired after avoiding stepping on Hobbits for 2 years?
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Matt sends along this article from Woman’s Day Magazine. The editors should have thier hands slapped for missing a glaring error by calling TTT ‘The TWIN Towers’, especially considering the amount of Aussie actors, and the location that the films were made. Plus they make the error more than once, sad really. [More]
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“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” towered over the competition Wednesday night, winning eight of the nine Visual Effects Society awards for which it was nominated. Among TV entries, “Dinotopia” picked up four awards, the only other multiple winner. [More]
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Pic nabs 8 awards including actor, character animation
By DAVID BLOOM
“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” towered over the competition Wednesday night, winning eight of the nine Visual Effects Society awards for which it was nominated. Among TV entries, “Dinotopia” picked up four awards, the only other multiple winner.
Award program was the first for the 6-year-old org, which comprises about 800 f/x specialists worldwide. Four panels of VES members slogged through dozens of entries in movies, TV, musicvideos and commercials in January to pick nominees in 20 categories. Then, roughly 100 members spent the first weekend in February watching demo reels from 56 noms across all the categories.
Towering triumph
The resulting selections were an overwhelming endorsement of the work by New Zealand-based house Weta on “The Two Towers.” Their only loss in nine categories was matte painting in a motion picture, nabbed by Industrial Light & Magic for “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones.”
“Towers” rung up wins for special effects, effects art direction, visual effects photography, models and miniatures, performance by an actor in an effects film, character animation in a live-action motion picture, compositing and visual effects in an effects-driven motion picture. In most cases, it beat out ILM.
“I’m blown away,” said “Towers” f/x producer Dean Wright, who traveled with effects supervisor Jim Rygiel and models and miniatures specialist Paul Van Ommen from New Zealand to attend the event.
Rygiel, who won an Oscar for the first “Rings” movie and is nominated for the second, said he was stunned when he and others at Weta, which created most of the film’s f/x, had been notified of its nominations. He was named with Weta’s Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke for the visual effects in an effects-driven picture.
But, Rygiel insisted, “if we didn’t win a single award, I am so proud of this film. The rest is sort of meaningless to me. It’s all about the work.”
Wright quickly chimed in, “That being said, it’s a fantastic honor, and we can’t thank our peers enough.”
Taking spotlight
The two, and others, said they particularly appreciate that the VES kudos honor so many different slices of their industry, so that professionals in different corners of the fast-expanding effects business could have a chance to be honored for their work.
No one from Framestore CFC was present to pick up the awards the London-based house received for work on the “Dinotopia” mini and TV series. “Dinotopia” lumbered to wins for visual effects, character animation, matte painting and compositing.
Other winning projects include the following:
“Stuart Little 2,” and Sony’s Imageworks unit, for character animation in an animated motion picture.
“The Sum of All Fears,” whose work was lead by Rhythm & Hues, for supporting visual effects in a motion picture.
“Firefly” pilot episode “Serenity,” for visual effects in a series.
“Enterprise” episode “Dead Stop,” for models and miniatures in a televised program, musicvideo or commercial.
The Xbox “Mosquito” ad for visual effects in a commercial.
The Adidas “Mechanical Legs” ad for effects art direction in a televised program, musicvideo or commercial.
“So to Speak,” by Astropolitan Pictures, for visual effects in a musicvideo.
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