Well that’s a surprise. Everyone’s been up in arms about who’s going to replace Huge Ackman at this year’s Oscars telecast (apparently the musical numbers were too much for him), and now they have their answers.According to THR, the producers of the Academy Awards telecast announced today that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin have been [...]
4. Alec Baldwin, Glengarry Glen Ross This movie could have taken over this list like its name is Al Pacino, but we'll just make do with one mention, I guess. Baldwin's role of Blake isn't more than 10 minutes of screen time but he nails it because he's got the brass balls. Mamet should have won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar just for the fact that Blake wasn't even a character in his Pulitzer Prize-winning screenplay.
Key moment: "Put. That Coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers."
Alec Baldwin - Best performance
DavidSalomon
7 min - Oct 26, 2006
In Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin plays the character Blake, almost earning Baldwin an Oscar for the role. The salestalk presented is one of the finest ever, allthough sarcastic, it contains the foundations of a well meditated salesmen.