Sentence examples for dern from inspiring English sources

Payne told me that it was easy for him to direct Dern, because Bruce's acting style is so similar to that of Laura Dern, his daughter.

I wouldn' give a dern for a million un um".

Nebraska looks like a splice of that film (George Clooney family saga) and Payne's previous, Sideways (ill-fated vineyard holiday) – it's a father/son road trip with the booze-addled Dern driving from Montana to Nebraska with estranged offspring (Saturday Night Live regular Will Forte) on the trail of a million-dollar prize.

Mr Dern gives a flawless performance, which secured him an acting prize at this year's Cannes film festival, but it's an understated one, with none of the histrionics which tend to attract award voters.

It could be an unofficial sequel to Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show", another black-and-white elegy for small-town America.Bruce Dern stars as Woody, a dishevelled, irascible retired car mechanic who is being befuddled by alcohol and dementia.

The 74-year-old actress will be up against Laura Dern for Recount, Melissa George for In Treatment, Rachel Griffiths for Brothers & Sisters and Dianne Wiest for In Treatment.

Sometimes I would lose her in the middle of a conversation: her phone would go brinnng or pwomp or dernalernadern-dern, and she would look away from me, midsentence, to see if her opponent had set her up for a triple word score.

Robert Duvall (in The Judge) and Laura Dern (in Wild) were outsider shots in the best supporting categories whose inclusion was met with cheers as the nominees were read out.

According to influential blogger Anne Thompson, Douglas also sees the Emmy as compensation for his performance being passed over at Cannes for the best actor award, in favour of Bruce Dern in Nebraska.

More pertinently, this year also marks the first Oscar nomination for British actor Sally Hawkins for her supporting role in Blue Jasmine, while Bruce Dern, nominated for best actor for Nebraska, last troubled the Oscar voters in 1979 for the Hal Ashby-directed Vietnam vet drama Coming Home.

In a kind of fever dream, the film flickers between the present on the road and the past, where we meet Ms Witherspoon's character being happy with her mother (Laura Dern in a very memorable turn) and then desperate after her death.