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Making waves last year with two note worthy films, Emil Hirsch has been voted to the first ever FlickSide Spolight. Yes, he did justice giving screen life to Chris McCandless in the riveting, Sean Penn directed gem, Into the Wild. But more than that, Emil made his presence known as an actor with outstanding deliver and bankable promise.

Emil docking while Ledger is at center

We first noticed Emil as one of the skater-punks in the now occult Lords of Dogtown. It’s in this movie that acting skills were proven, as Emil played an emotionally tortured teen that resorted to punk music for comfort. His was the more memorable potrayal of the cast second only to, of course, Heath Ledger.

Next is Alpha Dog, a decent teen crime movie nobody watched mainly because of Justin Timberlake and a balding Bruce Willis on the poster. Couldn’t blame moviegoers for that.

Last year, Into the Wild was a breakthrough both for both Emil and director Sean Penn. Although the film was shunned in major awards, special thanks to the Coen brothers, Into the Wild was given raving reviews and proved to be critical work for both actor’s careers.

Enter 2008. Surrounding much hype and anticipation, the Wachowski brothers written and directed Speed Racer is definitely an impending blockbuster.

But what FlickSide is really excited about is the release of Milk! This movie will once again reunite Sean Penn and Emil in a biopic of American politician Harvey Milk, a gay civil rights activist that was assassinated in the 70’s. (You’re gasping for breath, I know). Hirsch here also plays an activist.

A well deserved spotlight for Emil. This guy is surely someone to look out for. And if his acting choices were to be carefully selected, we believe we got a future Oscar winner in our spotlight.