And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

The star is located outside the El Capitan Theatre. He received his third Academy Award nomination and second Best Actor nomination for the film Biutiful. They have one son named Leo Encinas Cruz (in keeping with Spanish naming custom) born in January 2011.

He has also garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón jamón Carne trémula Boca a boca Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro. In 2007 he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. As well as the Academy Award Bardem has been awarded a Golden Globe a Screen Actors Guild Award a BAFTA five Goya awards two European Film Awards a Prize for Best Actor at Cannes and two Coppa Volpis at Venice for his work.