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New York, NY -- December 2, 2002 -- The National Board of Review
of Motion Pictures will present Christopher Plummer with the 2002 Career Achievement
Award at the annual gala on Tuesday, January 14, 2003. The event will take place
at Tavern on the Green in New York City.
From his debut in the 1950's, Christopher Plummer has been regarded
as one of the most brilliant actors of his generation. He has achieved extraordinary
success in all facets of his acting career including work on stage, television,
and film.
A Shakespearean trained veteran of the Montreal stage, he is adept at both comedy
and drama. Plummer is fondly remembered on screen for many outstanding performances:
The Fall Of The Roman Empire (1964), The Sound of Music
(1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), The Royal Hunt Of The Sun (1969),
The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Silent Partner (1978), Murder
by Decree (1979), Eyewitness (1981), Dragnet (1987), Malcolm
X (1992), Dolores Claiborne (1995) and Twelve Monkeys (1995).
In 1999 he received many accolades for his uncanny portrayal of 60 Minutes anchor
Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's The Insider. In 2001 he appeared in A Beautiful
Mind and in 2002 he gave
dazzling performances in Nicholas Nickleby and Ararat, both films
being honored tonight by the NBR.
Plummer won an Emmy Award for the 1977 TV miniseries The Moneychangers.
For his stage work he
has won Tony Awards for Cyrano (1974) and Barrymore (1997). Other
theater honors include The Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award by The Players
in 1997 and the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre by the Roundabout
Theatre in 2002.
In December 2002, Plummer joined with his Sound Of Music co-star Julie Andrews
for a Royal Christmas tour through the United States with the Royal
Philharmonic, and the Kiev, London and Bolshoi Ballets.
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