BlackTree TV covers The 80th Annual Academy Awards

Best Supporting Actress

Saoirse Ronan

Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chukua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1941, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's tea plantation before being sent to England for her education. Finishing her studies in Paris, where she had moved to improve her French with an eye to possibly becoming a linguist (she is fluent in French and Italian), the teenager became enamored of the freedom of the Continent. She also was smitten by the bohemian life of artists and planned on becoming an artist before she enrolled in London's Central School of Speech Training. She made her debut as a professional in 1957 as a member of the Frinton Repertory of Essex.

Cate Blanchett

Ruby Dee

Amy Ryan

Tilda Swinton

Away From Her

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.

Cast

Gordon Pinsent
Stacey LaBerge
Julie Christie
Olympia Dukakis
Deanna Dezmari
Clare Coulter
Thomas Hauff
Alberta Watson
Grace Lynn Kung
Lili Francks
Andrew Moodie
Wendy Crewson
Judy Sinclair
Tom Harvey
Carolyn Heatherington

Production Team

Directed by Sarah Polley
Written by Sarah Polley