You know Bill Oberst Jr., right? Yeah, you do… He’s really worked his ass off to become one of the leading men in the indie horror scene. In just five years, Mr. Oberst has raked up over 81 acting credits – with the overwhelming majority of them being in horror related projects.
And now Bill Jr. is getting recognized to some extent as he just won the ‘Best Actor Award’ for his role in Children of Sorry at Shockfest 2012. You can find the press release below with all the good news, including how he beat out Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) and Martin Sheen’s brother for the award.
“Children Of Sorrow Wins Again; Oberst Kills Again
(Nov 21, 2012) Director Jourdan McClure‘s Children Of Sorrow has won the top prize at Hollywood’s Shockfest Film Festival. The found-footage horror feature about a desert cult received The Shocker Award following its Los Angeles premiere at Shockfest.
Bill Oberst Jr. won the Best Actor Award for his role as cult leader Simon Leach in a surprise win over better-known nominees Tom Sizemore and Joe Esteves, brother of actor Martin Sheen. The Shockfest awards, in the form of ghoulish decapitated zombie heads created by make-up artist Shaun Martin, were awarded in a midnight ceremony in Hollywood at historic Raleigh Studios.
It’s the second time in a row that Children Of Sorrow has had multiple wins at a festival. McClure’s movie won Best Feature and Best Acting awards in it’s first showing at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival last month. For Bill Oberst Jr. the Best Actor win is his third major award of 2012, following a Daytime Emmy Award for Facebook’s Take This Lollipop and the Golden Cobb Award for Best Rising B-Movie Actor.
In the film’s first published review, film critic Mike Thomas gives Children Of Sorrow 5 stars, calling it “a study in true horror.” McClure says that Children Of Sorrow will continue to make the festival rounds with an eye towards a 2013 release date. The film’s trailer is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_FRa5HhNE.
Children Of Sorrow brings Oberst’s onscreen death count to 75, by methods ranging from cannibalism in 2009’s Dismal to a fireman’s axe in the just-wrapped horror feature Ditch, now in post for a 2013 release.”
