Ellar Coltrane is the movie critics' new darling. Acclaimed for his breakthrough starring role in the Golden Globe-winning Boyhood, the 20-year-old with his pouty lips, occasional nose ring and diffident air heats up red carpets wherever he goes. Already he has been named Best Young Actor at the Critics' Choice Awards and is nominated by the Screen Actors Guild along with his onscreen parents Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette and sister Lorelei Linklater for best ensemble cast. 'Boyhood' is considered one of the leading contenders for Best Movie at next month's Oscars. But Coltrane's Hollywood high life is all a world away from the rusting 50-year-old school bus that his maternal grandmother calls home.
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Kathy Horton, Boyhood star Ellar Coltrane's maternal grandmother, hasn't seen him in three years but he is 'happy, happy' with his new-found fame
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She pays $125 a month to park her $500 bus on a plot on a dead-end road
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One neighbor is trying to get her to leave. He fires his 20-gauge shot gun eight times a day
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She hasn't left the property in months; she won't get into her SUV
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Breaking into tears, she explains that her beloved black Labrador Abigail died of heat exhaustion when she accidentally left him in the Isuzu Trooper
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Parts of her grandson's life are woven into film - his mother was married and divorced three times
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Kathy was involved with Ellar's mom's first husband - but she didn't tell him she loved him and he then married her daughter
The reel deal: Ellar Coltrane in a scene from @placeholder with 'reel' mom Oscar nominated Patricia Arquette