Jason Bateman enjoyed a glamorous date night with his wife Amanda Anka at the newly renamed Actor Awards, which were held at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in downtown LA on Sunday.
The 57-year-old former child star looked dapper wearing a classic tuxedo with patent leather Oxfords for the Netflix-streamed awards show presented by SAG-AFTRA.
For his role as the messy Vince Friedken in Netflix brother drama Black Rabbit, Bateman is nominated for the outstanding performance by a male actor in a TV movie or limited series.
But the SmartLess co-host faces heavy competition against frontrunner – Adolescence’s Owen Cooper – as well as Adolescence’s Stephen Graham, Monster: The Ed Gein Story’s Charlie Hunnam and The Beast in Me’s Matthew Rhys.
Meanwhile, the 57-year-old retired actress served as Bateman’s arm candy for the evening.
Anka bared her toned arms in a mirror-embellished strapless gown with matching heels and no jewelry aside from her wedding ring.
Jason Bateman enjoyed a glamorous date night with his wife Amanda Anka at the newly renamed Actor Awards, which were held at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in downtown LA on Sunday
The New York-born couple – who co-starred in the 2003 rom-com Sol Good – are proud parents of 19-year-old daughter Franny and 14-year-old daughter Maple.
Bateman didn’t get ‘California sober’ until 2004 – three years into his 24-year marriage to Anka, who always encouraged him to quit drinking alcohol and snorting ‘the Scarface stuff.’
‘Amanda and I definitely had a few negotiations about the point at which the [partying] spigot was going to completely turn off,’ the Emmy-winning director told THR Magazine last month.
‘She’d be like, “This drip, drip, drip is annoyingly unpredictable, Jason.”‘
At the time, Bateman felt like his sobriety ‘ETA was six months away’ but, after some back and forth, he decided ‘if I could land this plane now, it would alleviate a lot of the tension, so let’s just f***ing do it.’
In fact, when Bateman originally met Anka at an LA Kings game in 1988, she delayed dating him for an entire decade due to his hard-partying Hollywood lifestyle.
‘I just wasn’t into where he was at,’ the nepo daughter of Paul Anka told GQ in 2013.
‘[Now] I can’t get him off the couch to go to a party. This is a guy who wants to go get frozen yogurt and come home.’
The Zootopia 2 star – who’s not above a marijuana gummy – was incredibly disciplined and responsible in his youth acting in projects like Little House on the Prairie, Silver Spoons and Teen Wolf Too in order to help financially support his family.
By the time Bateman had wrapped his six-season run as David in NBC sitcom The Hogan Family in 1991, he went wild.
The 57-year-old former child star looked dapper wearing a classic tuxedo with patent leather Oxfords for the Netflix-streamed awards show presented by SAG-AFTRA
For his role as the messy Vince Friedken in Netflix brother drama Black Rabbit, Bateman is nominated for the outstanding performance by a male actor in a TV movie or limited series
But the SmartLess co-host faces heavy competition against frontrunner – Adolescence’s Owen Cooper – as well as Adolescence’s Stephen Graham, Monster: The Ed Gein Story’s Charlie Hunnam and The Beast in Me’s Matthew Rhys
Meanwhile, the 57-year-old retired actress served as Bateman’s arm candy for the evening
Anka bared her toned arms in a mirror-embellished gold strapless gown with matching heels and no jewelry aside from her wedding ring
The New York-born couple – who co-starred in the 2003 rom-com Sol Good – are proud parents of 19-year-old daughter Franny and 14-year-old daughter Maple
The eighties teen idol recalled: ‘Fortunately, I was living at a time without social media and camera phones, so I got away with a lot, but it was definitely close a few times.’
Bateman’s career resurgence didn’t come until he portrayed straight man Michael Bluth in Mitchell Hurwitz’s satirical sitcom Arrested Development, which ran for five seasons spanning 2003-2006 on Fox and 2013-2019 on Netflix.
The Ice Out activist then expertly parlayed that success into his prestige era producing, directing and starring in Netflix drug drama Ozark followed by his lucrative $100 million deal co-hosting the podcast SmartLess.
‘Having been on the outside looking in for so long, I’d gotten a real good sense of what it was that provided longevity, and it wasn’t fame or money, it was respect,’ Bateman noted.
‘I still feel like I’m trying not to be a child-actor failure. I’m still trying to make it out.’
The three-time Actor Award winner will next executive produce and star as Clark, who gets entangled in a love triangle, in Steve Conrad’s seven-episode series DTF St. Louis premiering Sunday night on HBO Max.
Linda Cardellini, Richard Jenkins, Joy Sunday and Peter Sarsgaard will also be featured in the black comedy/murder mystery where one middle-aged character (David Harbour) winds up dead.
Bateman didn’t get ‘California sober’ until 2004 – three years into his 24-year marriage to Anka, who always encouraged him to quit drinking alcohol and snorting ‘the Scarface stuff’ (pictured in 2002)
In fact, when the Emmy-winning director originally met Anka at an LA Kings game in 1988, she delayed dating him for an entire decade due to his hard-partying Hollywood lifestyle
Bateman will next executive produce and star as Clark, who gets entangled in a love triangle, in Steve Conrad’s seven-episode series DTF St. Louis premiering Sunday night on HBO Max
Bateman’s production company Aggregate Films is also behind Courteney Cox’s second directorial feature Evil Genius starring David Harbour, Patricia Arquette, Ryan Eggold and Thomas Michael Allen.
The indie crime thriller is based on the 2018 Netflix docuseries about the 2003 death of pizza delivery man Brian Wells.
Meanwhile, Anka’s last IMDb-credited gig was producing Apple TV+ newsroom drama The Morning Show in 2019-2021.
