Javier Bardem Becomes First Spanish Actor To Win An Academy Award, Get Depressed Over A Haircut

Javier Bardem became the first Spanish actor to receive an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem, who won for his role in No Country For Old Men, took the opportunity to, once again, remind everyone how awful his haircut was in the film:

In “No Country,” a violent modern western thriller written and directed by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, Bardem plays a peculiarly coiffed killer who cuts a violent swathe across small-town Texas, often deciding the fate of random victims with the toss of a coin.

“Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think I could do that and put one of the most horrible hair cuts in history on my head,” Bardem said in his acceptance speech.

Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman had to get prosthetics done to achieve their respective awards, but Javier’s skills are so powerful, so finely honed that all he needed to achieve his Oscar-mandated uglification was the same bowl cut every boy had in third grade.

Javier Bardem becomes first Spanish actor to win Oscar [Reuters]