{"id":293415,"date":"2014-03-03T01:27:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T07:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293415"},"modified":"2014-03-04T02:06:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:06:01","slug":"mcconaughey-wins-oscar-for-best-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293415","title":{"rendered":"McConaughey Wins Oscar for Best Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/Matthew-McConaughey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/Matthew-McConaughey-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew McConaughey\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-293416\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Former Longview Resident Matthew McConaughey has won the Academy Award for best actor for his performance as a desperate and determined AIDS patient in &#8220;Dallas Buyers Club.&#8221; McConaughey lost some 40 pounds for the role, which capped a remarkable recent career transformation for the 44-year-old actor, once a regular in lightweight romantic comedies. It was his first Oscar nomination; he won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama earlier this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The other nominees Sunday night were: Christian Bale, &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;; Bruce Dern, &#8220;Nebraska&#8221;; Leonardo DiCaprio, &#8220;The Wolf of Wall Street&#8221;; and Chiwetel Ejiofor, &#8220;12 Years a Slave.&#8221; The 86th Academy Awards aired live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with host Ellen DeGeneres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Former Longview Resident Matthew McConaughey has won the Academy Award for best actor for his performance as a desperate and determined AIDS patient in &#8220;Dallas Buyers Club.&#8221; McConaughey lost some 40 pounds for the role, which capped a remarkable recent career transformation for the 44-year-old actor, once a regular in lightweight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McConaughey Wins Oscar for Best Actor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 10:56:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293418,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293415\/revisions\/293418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}