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New Star Reactions to Ed McMahon's Death

Entertainment Tonight: Topstories - Found Jun. 24, 2009
Stars such as Matt Dillon , Liev Schreiber and Josh Lucas shared their thoughts with ET about the late Ed McMahon while at a design exhibition in New ...

Posted on June 24, 2009, 4:25 am

Matt Dillon fined for speeding

Now Magazine - Found Apr. 1, 2009
April 2009 Matt Dillon has been ordered to pay 582 for a speeding offence.

Posted on April 1, 2009, 4:04 am

Matt Dillon pleads guilty speeding, pays $828 fine

Town Hall - Found Apr. 1, 2009
... if the company received bailout money No Yes (0 %) Yes, if the company received bailout money (10 %) Matt Dillon had his case dismissed after...

Posted on April 1, 2009, 6:46 am

Diaz glad to play mom, happy not to be one

London Free Press - Found 45 minutes ago
... to having her personal life speculated about -- not after high-profile relationships with Justin Timberlake, John Mayer and Matt Dillon.

Posted on July 4, 2009, 10:54 am

Films of the fifty states: Oklahoma to South Carolina

Examiner.com - Found Jul. 2, 2009
The film is most noted for his cast of hearthrobs, including C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio...

Posted on July 2, 2009, 6:24 am

Nimrod Antal to direct Predators

Ananova - Found Jul. 2, 2009
... other films also include the Hungarian comedy thriller Kontroll and the upcoming action movie Armored with Laurence Fishburne and Matt Dillon.
Nimrod Antal to direct 'Predators' - Variety
Nimrod Antal chases down 'Predators' - Hollywood Reporter
Nimrod Antal Confirmed for Predators - Rotten Tomatoes
Predators Director Confirmed By Rodriguez - Coming Soon!
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Posted on July 2, 2009, 5:10 am

Movie Review: "Herbie Fully Loaded"

About - Found Jul. 1, 2009
Samuel L Jackson, Julianne Moore and Edie Falco - Danny Elfman and Tim Burton Team Up for the 11th Time Matt Dillon takes his place in a long...

Posted on July 1, 2009, 10:33 am

Top Ten Most Overrated Hollywood Hunks

Associated Content - Found Jul. 1, 2009
... man looks like a convict with his pale skin and lack of hair.6) Matt Dillon - Though never a stand out leading man, Matt has managed to keep...

Posted on July 1, 2009, 1:30 pm

Diaz achieves star power

stuff.co.nz - Found Jun. 29, 2009
Since the break-up from Paul, the blonde star - who has previously had relationships with Matt Dillon, Jared Leto and Justin Timberlake - is...

Posted on June 29, 2009, 6:54 am

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Creative Loafing - Found Jun. 27, 2009
Hamer?s previous film Factotum had a similar picaresque quality as it followed Matt Dillon through the seedy routine of a Charles Bukowski...

Posted on June 27, 2009, 1:51 pm

Matt Dillon Biography

Matt Dillon
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Matt Dillon

Dillon at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Born Matthew Raymond Dillon
February 18, 1964 (1964-02-18) (age 45)
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1979 – present

Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe Award-, and BAFTA Award-nominated American actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as a mature actor in the decades following, culminating in an Oscar nomination for his performance in the movie Crash.

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Early life

Matthew Raymond Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York, to second-generation Irish American Catholic parents Mary Ellen, a homemaker, and Paul Dillon, a portrait painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a packing material manufacturer.12 Through his father, Dillon is related to comic strip artist Alex Raymond.3 Dillon has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin Dillon, is also an actor, from the hit TV series Entourage. Dillon grew up in Mamaroneck, New York and before dropping out in junior year he attended Mamaroneck High School.

Career

In 1979, casting director Vic Ramos went to Mamaroneck High School and spotted Dillon cutting class. He asked Dillon to audition for a role, and Dillon made his film debut in the violent teen drama Over the Edge. The film received a regional, limited theatrical release in May 1979, and grossed only slightly over $200,000.4 Dillon's performance was well-received, which led to his casting in two films released the following year; the teenage sex comedy, Little Darlings, in which Kristy McNichol's character loses her virginity to a boy from the camp across the lake, played by Dillon, and the more serious teen drama, My Bodyguard, where he played a high-school bully opposite Chris Makepeace. The films, released in March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes5 and raised Dillon's profile among teenage audiences.

Dillon at the San Sebastian Festival, in San Sebastián, Spain (2006).

Another of Dillon's early roles was in the Jean Shephard PBS special The Great American Fourth of July. The only available copies of this film are stored at UCLA, where a legal dispute makes it unavailable to the public.

His next role was in the 1982 film, Tex, followed two months later by Liar's Moon, where he played Jack Duncan, a poor Texas boy madly in love with a rich banker's daughter. In the mid-1980s, Dillon had prominent roles in three adaptations of S. E. Hinton novels: Tex (1982) The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983). All three films were shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown. The Outsiders and Rumble Fish had Dillon working with Francis Ford Coppola and Diane Lane. He followed it up with The Flamingo Kid

In 1987, Dillon appeared briefly as a policeman in the music video for the song Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, a major hit in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.

Dillon continued to work in the early 1990s with roles in movies like Singles (1992). He had somewhat of a career resurgence when he played Nicole Kidman's husband in To Die For (1995), as well as large roles in Wild Things (1998) and There's Something About Mary (1998), for which he received an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.

In 2002, he wrote and directed the film City of Ghosts, starring himself, James Caan and Gérard Depardieu. That same year he starred in Factotum, a film adaptation of an autobiographical work by Charles Bukowski. Two years later he received critical praise and earned a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe along with Oscar nominations for his role in Crash, a film co-written and directed by Paul Haggis. In 2005 Dillon co-starred in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded and on March 11, 2006 the actor hosted Saturday Night Live, where he impersonated Greg Anderson in a "SportsCenter" sketch, Rod Serling in Bill Hader's "Vincent Price St. Patrick's Day Special" sketch and played a redneck conman named Perdy Spotley in the recurring sketch "Appalachian Emergency Room".

Dillon's most recent role is in the comedy You, Me and Dupree, opposite Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson. The film opened on July 14, 2006. On September 29, 2006, Dillon was honored with the price Premio Donostia in the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Other work

Dillon is mentioned on Jeff Buckley's Live at Sin-é: Legacy Edition CD. On the fifth track Buckley mentions that he cut his hair because people thought he looked like Matt Dillon. Dillon also made voice acting in 1987 documentary film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. He made his Broadway debut with the play The Boys of Winter in 1985.

Dillon also contributed his voice as Sal Paradise in Jack Kerouac's famous novel On the Road. In 2006, he narrated Once in a Lifetime.

Matt Dillon also made cameo appearance as detective in Madonna's Bad Girl music video which also stars Christopher Walken. Dillon also appeared in the music video of "Fairytale Of New York" by the Irish folk-punk band The Pogues playing a cop who escorts lead singer Shane MacGowan into the drunk tank.

As of 2007, the band Dinosaur Jr. hired Dillon to direct their new video and single "Been There All The Time", off of their upcoming album Beyond. He guest stars in The Simpsons episode "Midnight Towboy" and also appeared on an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air playing a half-man, half-albatross hybrid who constantly taunted Carlton with passages from the Torah.

Personal life

Matt has dated several prominent women of Hollywood, including actress Cameron Diaz and Diane Lane. Matt is the older brother of actor Kevin Dillon.

He is a fan of the band The Replacements, contributing to the liner notes of their compilation album All For Nothing/Nothing For All. He is also a big Mets fan, on October 18, 2006 he threw out the ceremonial first pitch to Game 6 of the NLCS at Shea Stadium

Legal trouble

On December 30, 2008, Dillon was arrested by the Vermont State Police after he was clocked traveling at 106 miles per hour northbound on Interstate 91 near Newbury, Vermont. 6 He was charged with negligent operation of a vehicle. His attorney, Mark Kaplan, entered a plea of not guilty on Dillon's behalf in a January appearance in Orange County Court in Chelsea, and also appeared in court on February 25, 2009.7 He faced a maximum of one year in jail, and a fine of $1,000. He pleaded guilty to speeding and paid a $828 fine on March 30, 2009; in return, the negligence charge was dismissed by prosecutors.8

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Other notes
1979 Over the Edge Richie White
1980 My Bodyguard Melvin Moody
Little Darlings Randy Adams
1981 Gunmen's Blues Lake short film
1982 Tex Tex McCormick
Liar's Moon Jack Duncan
1983 Rumble Fish Rusty James
The Outsiders Dallas 'Dally' Winston
1984 The Flamingo Kid Jeffrey Willis
1985 Target Chris Lloyd/Derek Potter
1986 Native Son Jan
Rebel Rebel
1987 The Big Town J. C. Cullen
1988 Kansas Doyle Kennedy
1989 Drugstore Cowboy Bob Independent Spirit Award - Won - Best Male Lead
Bloodhounds of Broadway Regret
1991 A Kiss Before Dying Jonathan Corliss
1992 Singles Cliff Poncier
1993 The Saint of Fort Washington Matthew
Mr. Wonderful Gus
1994 Golden Gate Kevin Walker
1995 To Die For Larry Maretto
Frankie Starlight Terry Klout
1996 Grace of My Heart Jay Phillips
Albino Alligator Dova
1996 Beautiful Girls Tommy 'Birdman' Rowland
1997 In and Out Cameron Drake
1998 There's Something About Mary Pat Healy MTV Award - Won - Best Villain
Wild Things Sam Lombardo
2001 One Night at McCool's Randy
2002 Deuces Wild Fritzy
City of Ghosts Jimmy also director and writer
2003 Abby Singer Himself
2004 Employee of the Month David Walsh
2005 Herbie: Fully Loaded Trip Murphy
Crash Sgt. John Ryan Academy Award nomination - "Best Supporting Actor"

Independent Spirit Award - Won - Best Supporting Male

2006 Factotum Henry Chinaski playing Charles Bukowski
You, Me and Dupree Carl Peterson
Loverboy Mark limited release
2008 Nothing But the Truth Patton Dubois
2009 Old Dogs TBA awaiting release
Armored TBA awaiting release
2010 Takers Det. Jack Welles post-production
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1982 The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters Ralph PBS TV-Movie
1991 Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules Eddie Megeffin HBO TV-Movie
1999 Oz Director of Episode:
Napoleon's Boney Parts
2007 The Simpsons Louie Voice/Episode:
Midnight Towboy

Awards and nominations

Matt Dillon won several awards in his career including Screen Actors Guild Award, MTV Movie Award and Independent Spirit Award. He also nominated for many awards which includes Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA with the film Crash. He also honored in San Sebastián International Film Festival where he get "Donostia Lifetime Archievement Award". This list includes his awards and nominations for his works. In the category, "Best Ensemble" he usually shared award with cast.

Year Ceremony/Award Nomination Film Result
1981 Young Artist Awards Best Young Motion Picture Actor My Bodyguard Nominated
1983 Best Young Actor - Motion Picture Tex Nominated
1990 Independent Spirit Awards Best Actor Drugstore Cowboy Won
1999 MTV Movie Awards Best Villain < small> (tied) There's Something About Mary Won
Best Kiss < small> (shared) Wild Things Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Film - Funniest Scene There's Something About Mary Won
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Supporting Actor - Comedy There's Something About Mary Won
2005 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actor Crash Won
Gotham Awards Tribute Award - Won
Best Ensemble Cast Crash Nominated
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards Best Supporting Actor Crash Won
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Crash Nominated
Hollywood Film Festival Ensemble of the Year Crash Won
Satellite Awards Best Ensemble Crash Won
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Best Cast Crash Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Cast Crash Won
2006 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Crash Nominated
BAFTA Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated
Black Reel Awards Best Ensemble Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated
Critics' Choice Award Best Supporting Actor Nominated
Best Ensemble Won
Empire Awards Best Actor Nominated
Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor Nominated
Independent Spirit Awards Best Supporting Actor Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated
SAG Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated
Best Cast Won
San Sebastián International Film Festival Donostia Lifetime Archievement Award - Won
2007 Cairo International Film Festival Special Award - Won

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