Richard E Grant and Glenn Close get late Oscars boost with Spirit Awards wins

The actors, hoping for glory at Sunday night’s Oscars, took top honours at the alternative ceremony, which gave best film to Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could TalkA late surge in momentum for Richard E Grant ahead of Sunday night’s Oscars peaked on Saturday with victory at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.The actor, 61, said he was “absolutely astonished and emotional” to have won in a category also containing Paul Castillo for We The Animals, Adam Driver for BlacKkKlansman, Josh Hamilton for Eighth Grade and John David Washington for Monsters And Men.

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