Now in his 81st year, Christopher Plummer could easily choose to rest on his laurels, including the publication last year of his memoirs, In Spite of Myself. Instead, he seems to have gotten yet another wind, strutting and fretting to great effect in an impressive array of movies released in the last 12 months. Critics are raving about his roaring performance as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station . It's already earned him acting nominations from the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. So, of course, Oscar talk is building. These huzzahs follow close on the heels of his applauded turn as the aging titular lead in Terry Gilliam's phantasmagoric The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Earlier in the year, we heard Plummer as the voice of Charles Muntz, the murderous airship commander in Pixar's animated Up . Next season, he returns to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.