Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams were also recognised for their work on the film.
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Actor Joaquin Phoenix was supposed to appear on the Late Show With David Letterman in February.
Mr. JOAQUIN PHOENIX: (As Johnny Cash) Me and my brother Jack, we always listened to your songs.
It was a tough role for Adams this year, playing against Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in The Master.
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Sheriff (Vince Vaughn) and Tony (David Conrad) fly back to New York, leaving behind the sweetly spaced-out Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix) and, more important, a stash of hash.
The Master's Paul Thomas Anderson is also recognised in the director and screenwriter categories, with additional nominations going to cast members Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
In fact, he and Joaquin Phoenix will lose the golden statue to a two-ton gorilla who can only grunt thanks but won't blather on past his 30-second TV time allotment.
As Lucilla, the sister of the villainous Emperor Commodus, Nielsen brought some much-needed subtlety to the swords-and-sandals epic and held her own sharing the screen with Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crowe.
The Best Actor category is a race between Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook, Daniel Day Lewis for Lincoln, Hugh Jackman for Les Miserables, Joaquin Phoenix for The Master, and Denzel Washington for Flight.
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The Echo is a cool little club on the east side of Los Angeles, just grimy enough, with dark blue walls and a crowd that on a recent Monday night included movie stars Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix, bobbing their heads to an all-girl band called The Like.
In "We Own the Night" Joaquin Phoenix is the prodigal son -- a nightclub manager in New York City in the late '80s -- who returns home to the fold, eventually earning the respect of his father and his brother, both of them detectives in the NYPD.
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