Hollywood veteran action star Sylvester Stallone has just won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for reprising his role of Rocky Balboa in the spinoff movie “Creed” starring Michael B. Jordan.
He is again nominated for the same category in the prestigious 2016 Academy Awards better known in the film industry as the Oscars.
Stallone’s latest Oscar nomination comes 39 years after he earned a nomination for lead actor and original screenplay for “Rocky,” which ran away as the winner of the Best Picture during the 1977 Oscars, details the Los Angeles Times.
The only other performer who had a 39-year span between Oscar nominations was Helen Hayes. Hayes won the lead actress Oscars in 1931 for the movie “The Sin of Madelon Claudet” before getting a supporting actress award for the movie “Airport” during the 1970 Academy Awards.
The “Rocky” actor also joined the distinguished company of Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, Peter O’Toole, Al Pacino, and Cate Blanchett as the shortlist of actors who have earned nominations for playing the same role in different films.
Elated over his nomination
Stallone is obviously elated and thrilled with his Oscar nomination. He said that he did not see the nomination coming but since it came, he is just enjoying it.
When he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor on January 10, he thanked his imaginary and best friend Rocky.
While he is thrilled for his Oscar nomination, the 69-year-old actor said he has not bought a tux in 40 years so he does not know what to wear during the awarding rites.
He recalled that he possessed a lot of naivete when he was nominated in 1977, saying that it was such a long shot back then because he was so naïve and new to the business, and so green too.
He said that the competition is so extraordinary at the Oscars and he is just happy that after almost 40 years, his acting has been recognized yet again. He said that it is very difficult to maintain any sense of longevity in the business and then be brought back into drama from basically spending so much time in the action genre. Stallone really finds it amazing.
Stallone’s finest drama films
The Guardian, meanwhile, listed five of the finest drama moments of Sylvester Stallone on film including “Rocky,” “F.I.S.T.,” “First Blood,” “Cop Land,” and “Rocky Balboa.”
Of the five drama moments where Stallone delivered superb performance, it was only in “Rocky” where he earned a nomination and an award from the Oscars.
Observers say that the actor got the nod of the critics and the Golden Globe award because his performance as Rocky Balboa in “Creed” is his most complex and moving yet to date.
The more modern-day stories felt reassuringly old-fashioned from the appealingly warm and self-effacing “Creed.”
It is actually a spinoff movie of the “Rocky” franchise and it is obvious that Sylvester Stallone does not have full hands on the movie as he is just a supporting actor on it.
“Creed” may have been the titular movie for upstart young actor Michael B. Jordan as he plays the role of Adonis Johnson, the son of Apollo Creed, but Sylvester Stallone’s signature were all over the film.
Critics feel that Sylvester Stallone really deserves the 2016 Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor because the veteran action star showed a kind of maturity and self-confidence that people don’t see too often in Hollywood or any place else these days.
Amid the triumph of “Rocky Balboa” back in 2006, Sly released the reins of the character that made him famous, turned them over to a young director named Ryan Coogler, and did not even participate in the writing of the screenplay.