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Plummer's film career began in 1958 with a role on Stage Struck. This was followed by a number of successful films, including Battle of Britain (1969), Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Malcolm X (1992) and Twelve Monkeys (1995). In 1999 he won many awards for his portrayal of a television journalist in The Insider. But he is best known for his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music from 1965. In 2010, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the first time in his career for his performance as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station. Before that he had already been nominated for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2012 he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Beginners, where he plays a gay man who comes out of the closet in old age. He is the oldest Oscar winner ever to date.
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