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Del Toro, Davies Capture Awards
Benicio Del Toro ’85 won the Cannes Film Festival’s best actor prize for his performance in Steven Soderbergh’s Che. The film, which is scheduled for release sometime in 2008, casts Del Toro in the title role of Latin American revolutionary figure Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
Che marks the second collaboration between Soderbergh and Del Toro. In 2000, Del Toro (right) was propelled into the limelight when he won a best supporting-actor Academy Award for his role in Traffic.
“I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara,” Del Toro said after accepting his award in Cannes. Actor and director Sean Penn, who headed up the jury at Cannes and co-starred with Del Toro in the movie 21 Grams, told the Associated Press that Del Toro’s victory was “a unanimous decision among the nine-member jury.”
Known for his quiet but powerful presence, Del Toro was involved from the start on Che, which took nine years of research and $60 million to complete. He is now ifilming The Wolf Man with co-star Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Also in entertainment news, Power of 10, a game show created by Del Toro classmate Michael Davies ’85, captured the prestigious Rose d'Or for best game show. Davies, a member of Mercersburg's Board of Regents and CEO of Embassy Row Productions, is executive producer of the show, which airs in the U.S. on CBS and is hosted by Drew Carey.
Read Mercersburg magazine's 2007 profiles of Davies and Del Toro.
Benicio Del Toro ’85 won the Cannes Film Festival’s best actor prize for his performance in Steven Soderbergh’s Che. The film, which is scheduled for release sometime in 2008, casts Del Toro in the title role of Latin American revolutionary figure Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
Che marks the second collaboration between Soderbergh and Del Toro. In 2000, Del Toro (right) was propelled into the limelight when he won a best supporting-actor Academy Award for his role in Traffic.
“I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara,” Del Toro said after accepting his award in Cannes. Actor and director Sean Penn, who headed up the jury at Cannes and co-starred with Del Toro in the movie 21 Grams, told the Associated Press that Del Toro’s victory was “a unanimous decision among the nine-member jury.”
Known for his quiet but powerful presence, Del Toro was involved from the start on Che, which took nine years of research and $60 million to complete. He is now ifilming The Wolf Man with co-star Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Also in entertainment news, Power of 10, a game show created by Del Toro classmate Michael Davies ’85, captured the prestigious Rose d'Or for best game show. Davies, a member of Mercersburg's Board of Regents and CEO of Embassy Row Productions, is executive producer of the show, which airs in the U.S. on CBS and is hosted by Drew Carey.
Read Mercersburg magazine's 2007 profiles of Davies and Del Toro.
