Father Stu Oscar Nominations (2024)

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[A] fairly kind of bland Hollywood story. Content collapsed. ... A Christian movie with a bit more heft than the schmaltzy tales routinely served up for middle America's churchgoers.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” also made history with a clean sweep, becoming (and remaining) the only movie to win every category it was nominated in: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, and ...

Mark Wahlberg was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for his performance in the film. The re-cut version of the film received nominations for Best Mature Audience Movie, Epiphany Prize Movies, and Grace Award Movie at the Movieguide Awards.

The late Peter O'Toole holds the record for the most nominated actor without a single win. Across his 44-year career, he, like Close, was nominated for eight Academy Awards, all of which were in the Best Actor category.

Despite meeting the initial projections of industry experts, “Father Stu” fell short of achieving substantial commercial success considering its production budget of $30-40 million. As a result, the film has been criticized and labeled as a box office disappointment by both critics and media outlets.

Stu's humanity comes through, and his growth in the wisdom of the Holy Spirit is obvious throughout the movie. Mark Wahlberg is great, and the supporting cast of Mel Gibson, and Sally Struthers is too! You seldom see a movie like this coming out of Hollywood...

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Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories. Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories.

With 52 Academy Award nominations to his name, Star Wars composer John Williams is the most Oscar-nominated person alive.

Mark Wahlberg isn't a fan of making body transformations for movies. The 50-year-old actor appeared on Australian radio show Kyle & Jackie O where he opened up about his "difficult" experience gaining weight for his role as a boxer-turned-priest in the upcoming film, Father Stu.

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Father Stu had a rich and fruitful ministry, despite contracting a rare debilitating condition—inclusion body myositis—that cut his life short at age 50.

In order to marry his Catholic girlfriend, Long agreed to getting himself baptized as a Catholic, and was baptized at the Easter Vigil in 1994. However, Long felt a call to the priesthood at this time. He decided to forgo the marriage.

The first non-human to win any kind of Oscar was the animated Mickey Mouse. In 1932, the Oscar award was awarded to Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse, and the Mickey Mouse Club had one million fans. Mickey Mouse is a black mouse cartoon character that was made by Walt Disney and also Ub Iwerks in 1928.

Actress Tatum O'Neal was only 10 years old when she won a competitive Oscar in 1974. She became the youngest person to win the award.

Annette Bening, who has never won the coveted award, has been nominated for a fifth time this year, four times for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress, for her leading role in 'Nyad'.

Stu's story was not well-known after his death – until Mark Wahlberg decided to make a movie about the priest. Wahlberg heard about Fr. Stu while at a restaurant with a priest who had been friends with him. The actor decided he had to make a movie, and to pay for most of it himself.

Long was the Montana boxer and ne'er-do-well who became a Catholic and then, against all odds, a priest. Father Stu had a rich and fruitful ministry, despite contracting a rare debilitating condition—inclusion body myositis—that cut his life short at age 50.

These characters show us that even in people of faith, our temptations, anxieties, and failings weigh us down and can get the better of us. But, as the redemptive story of Father Stuart Long and the lives he touched go to show, a deepening of faith can be obtained in Jesus Christ.

As many people have guessed, Father Stu actually is based on a true story. The real figure Wahlberg plays was called Stuart Long, and the movie does a fairly good job at adapting his true life to the screen.