The Case for… Jonathan Pryce in ‘The Two Popes’
When I first saw the trailer for Netflix's The Two Popes, I wasn't particularly encouraged. I felt the streaming network ...
Tag: BEST ACTOR
George MacKay Joins the Impossibly Crowded Best Actor Race
One of the reasons 1917 is so good is because of Sam Mendes' long history with theater and his ability ...
Best Actor Is a Fluid Race, Despite Conflicting Narratives
There are, it appears to be, several schools of thought where Best Actor is concerned. Theory #1 - Adam Driver ...
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Best Actor – It’s More About the Star than the Performance [poll]
Right now, at Gold Derby and mostly everywhere online, there are two competing stories for who will win Best Actor. ...
Best Actor — Too Many Contenders, with No Frontrunner … Yet
The Best Actor race has been packed at every stage this year, with no end in sight, and other promising ...
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is Tarantino’s Most Accomplished Film
Quentin Tarantino is an American treasure. With Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he has finally made a film that ...
Early Look at the Best Actor Race
Now that the Oscars have been pushed up by almost a month, the talk about them is going to have ...
A Last Bid for A Star Is Born
At last week’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Paul Schrader praised Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born calling her “a ...
Best Actor — Real People, Mostly True Stories
Dick Cheney, Vincent van Gogh, Tony Vallelonga, and Freddie Mercury walk into a bar. The only one of the five ...
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Best Actor – So Many Strong Performances Makes for a Real Competition [Poll]
There have been so many leading male performances worthy of an Oscar win this year, starting with Chadwick Boseman as ...
Variety Announces Actors on Actors – Here is the Lineup
Variety partners up with PBS So Cal for Actors on Actors for their ninth season. The Oscars have always been ...
Rami Malek Astonishes as Freddie Mercury – Can He Win?
Our friend Michael Grei told me after seeing Bohemian Rhapsody that he thought Rami Malek was winning the Oscar for ...
Lucas Hedges Talks Boy Erased And His Hopes For Raising Awareness About The Damage Inflicted By Gay Conversion Therapy
In Boy Erased, Lucas Hedges plays Jared Eamons, a 19-year-old boy sent by his parents to Gay Conversion Therapy. The ...
Best Actor: On Heroes, Failed Heroes, Anti-Heroes
The Best Actor race usually hinges on two things. It's linked to Best Picture by an unseen umbilical cord, and ...
Critics Mostly Go Their Own Way When It Comes to Acting Awards
The next phase of the awards race will be the critics awards. As is almost always the case, they will ...
Best Actor – You Know When You Know
It's odd that so many observers are concluding they know beyond any doubt who is going to win Best Actor ...
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Willem Dafoe Joins the Best Actor Race [Best Actor Poll!]
Willem Dafoe has never won an Oscar. It was surreal watching the awards community get so firmly behind him with ...
Venice Dispatch – First Man
"FIRST MAN chronicles nearly a decade of work that went into accomplishing something that, even when you think about it ...
As Darkest Hour and Roman Israel Open, the Best Actor Race Waits for One More
Gary Oldman's pitch perfect performance as Winston Churchill might be one of the last of the great performances where the ...
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Best Actor – Gary Oldman’s Astonishing Work and Those Who Could Upset [Poll!]
Every so often the Best Actor race has one performance that is unequivocal. The weight of the performance, the perfection ...