Empire of the Sun had won Christian Bale the award of Best Young Actor!
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The troubled star Christian Bale had joined the film industry at a very small age of 12 years and had done a couple of movies. Within a year he was the talk of the town with his role of Jim Graham in Empire of the Sun. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg.
The movie Empire of the Sun is based on the novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard; the film’s screenplay being adapted by Tom Stoppard and Menno Meyjes. The film was critically acclaimed, being nominated for six Oscars and winning three BAFTAs (for Cinematography, Music and Sound). Bale received a special citation for Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor from the National Board of Review — an award specially created for his performance in Empire of the Sun.
The plot of the story revolves around a young boy Jamie Graham, who lives with his rich parents in a luxurious Shanghai suburb. The good times comes to an abrupt end in 1941 when the Empire of Japan, having more or less occupied China since 1937, launch war against United States, Great Britain and Holland.
Jamie is separated from his parents, who are evacuated. He spends some months living in his deserted house, living on the remnants of packaged food. He ventures into Shanghai and finds it bustling with Japanese troops who ignore his attempts at surrender. Eventually, he falls in with an American, Basie (Malkovich), who renames him “Jim,” and when they are captured Jim uses great ingenuity to stay with Basie. The story moves with lots of twists and turns and He is sent back to Shanghai and meets his parents.
However, this was not Bale’s first attempt at acting. His first foray into acting was a commercial for the fabric softener Lenor in 1982, when he was eight years old. He appeared in a Pac-Man cereal commercial playing a child rock star a year later and in 1984 made his stage debut in the The Nerd, opposite Rowan Atkinson.
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