Father Stu Oscar Nominations (2024)

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Did Father Stu get any nominations? ›

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.

In the early 2000s, Wahlberg ventured into big-budget action movies, such as The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), and The Italian Job (2003). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed (2006).

Wahlberg was searching for a story to tell about his Catholic faith when a priest at his parish told him about Long's life and how he redeemed himself through the church. Wahlberg saw similarities in his own life and decided to give Long's legacy the Hollywood treatment. But it wasn't easy.

At the 93rd Academy Awards, The Father received six nominations, including Best Picture; Hopkins won Best Actor and Zeller and Hampton won Best Adapted Screenplay.

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...

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.

The film composer has won five Oscars, four Golden Globes, seven BAFTAs and 25 Grammys. With 52 Oscar nominations, he is second only to Walt Disney as most nominated person ever.

The iconic Glenn Close and the late Peter O'Toole are the actors who have received the most nominations without winning, eight each. Close had her last opportunity in 2021 when she was nominated for Best Supporting Role for her turn in Netflix's 'Hillbilly Elegy,' but lost out to Yuh-Jung Youn for her part in 'Minari'.

The film is way more than just an acting gig for Wahlberg, who recently told Insider that he spent “millions and millions of dollars” of his own money to partially self-fund “Father Stu” when no other financial backer would take on the project.

Despite its smaller budget, “Father Stu” struggled to make a significant impact in terms of financial performance. Critical reception for “Father Stu” has been moderate, as evidenced by its IMDb rating of 6.5/10 and a 42/100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 121 reviews.

Did Father Stu marry his girlfriend? ›

He had brain swelling and was not expected to survive, but recovered. 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.

1. Meryl Streep. Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times.

The first to achieve the record was Ben-Hur (USA 1959) which won from 12 nominations on 4 April 1960, followed by Titanic (USA 1997) from 14 nominations on 23 March 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (NZ/USA 2003) which won all 11 of its nominations on 29 February 2004.

With 54 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person, and is the second most nominated person in Academy Awards history behind Walt Disney with 59, as well as the only person in the history of the Academy Awards to have received nominations in seven ...

But God had very different plans for Stu. And everything happened for a reason. “I think the most important thing, and a story that I love to share, is that not only did he reconnect with his dad and get his mom and dad back together, he also had both of his parents baptized while he was on a hospital bed.

Spud Nut, Father Stu (R, 124 minutes) is based on a true story about Stuart Long, played by Mark Wahlberg, who eventually became a Catholic priest despite having developed a Lou Gehrig's type fatal disease. Stu was an amateur boxer who left the profession after suffering a broken jaw.

The new film is called “Father Stu: Reborn.” While the original film — released this April ahead of the Easter holiday — was dinged with an R-rating for “language throughout,” the new cut still features “language, an accident scene, sexual references, some violence and smoking.” A perfect evening for the whole family.