Jeff Bridges won the Oscar for ‘Best Actor’ at the Academy Awards last weekend for his outstanding performance in Crazy Heart.

“A juicy, career-crowning role. Bridges – a master of subtle brilliance – plays the hell out of it.” – Rolling Stone

In Crazy Heart, Bridges stars as down-and-out country music singer/songwriter Bad Blake, who struggles to put his drinking and cheating ways behind him after starting a relationship with a young journalist (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

The soundtrack is also a thing of beauty, winning the Oscar for ‘Best Original Song’ with ‘The Weary Kind’ by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett. It was actually the involvement of T Bone Burnett that convinced Bridges to take a second look at the script.

It is impossible to watch the film without noticing Bad Blake’s absolutely gorgeous guitar, the 1959 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman. Any guitarist (with even a speck of country in their soul) will probably drool a little at the sight, as Bridges brandishes his Country Gentleman with unparallelled country-cool.

The film is a must-see for all musicians, not just country fans, and is well worth catching on the big screen. You can see the Gretsch G6122II Chet Atkins Country Gentleman II on our site. If there were an Oscar for “Best-Looking Guitar” the Gretsch Country Gent II would have walked it.