Wednesday 23 June 2021

Alternate Best Actor 2015

And the Nominees Were Not:

Ulrik Munther in The Here After
 
Géza Röhrig in Son of Saul
 
Paul Dano in Love & Mercy
 
Jason Mitchell in Straight Outta Compton
 
Christopher Plummer in Remember 
And reviews of:
 
Tom Courtenay in 45 Years
 
Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road 
 
But who knows who might show up...

81 comments:

Matt Mustin said...

1. Plummer
2. Dano
3. Mitchell (Glad you specifically picked him, he's my favourite of the cast)
4. Rohrig
5. Munther

No clue on Munther honestly, so I put him last just because.

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Luke Higham said...

1. Plummer
2. Dano
3. Mitchell
4. Rohrig
5. Munther

Hope to see some surprises too.

Tahmeed Chowdhury said...

1. Plummer
2. Dano
3. Rohrig
4. Mitchell
5. Munther

Emi Grant said...

1. Plummer
2. Dano
3. Mitchell
4. Rohrig
5. Munther

You can't just tease us like that with that last line, Louis...

Calvin Law said...

Unexpected Louis reviews are my favourite kind of reviews.

Michael McCarthy said...

1. Christopher Plummer
2. Jason Mitchell
3. Paul Dano
4. Géza Röhrig
5. Ulrik Munther

I’m having trouble finding a way to watch The Here After so I won’t worry about it unless he gets at least a 4.5.

Bryan L. said...

Found a link for The Here After in anyone wants to check it out.

www1.soap2day.video/movie/the-here-after-0rq45/9o88wx8

Jack Chung said...

1. Plummer
2. Rohrig
3. Dano
4. Mitchell
5. Munther

John Smith said...

You guys skeeping on my dude Munther hahahaha.

1.Plummer
2.Munther
3.Rohrig
4.Mitchell
5.Dano

Matt Mustin said...

John Smith: We haven't seen him.

John Smith said...

If you guys get the oportunity because like Plummers performance in Remember it is one that unravels during the duration of the movie. Imagine a kettle that has been boiling for a long time and then the water hit its boiling point and explodes. That is Ulrik Munthera performance in The Here After. Incredibly nuanced and naturalistic performance of a young man burdened by memories of his past and the consequences of his actions. His performance are about the things we do for love, the ugly, nagging, selfish, rotten part of love. The toxicity of youth I suppose. But I have always been a sucker of morally ambigious characters in movies.

Calvin Law said...

John: Rest assured, I'm definitely going to watch it.

Anonymous said...

1. Plummer
2. Dano
3. Mitchell
4. Rohrig
5. Munther

Anonymous said...

Plummer in Remember is one of the greatest pieces of acting I've seen, NGL. Really rooting for him

Anonymous said...

Luke, your rating predictions?

Luke Higham said...

Plummer - 5 (Thank you guys for filling me with confidence in him getting his 2nd)
Dano - 4.5
Mitchell - 4.5
Rohrig - 4.5
Munther - 4 (Bryan gave the film 3 stars so that's as high as I'm gonna go)

I'm in the middle of making the films to watch list which I'll be posting later on today.

Since Louis is taking the wait and see approach for a change, I hope Mortensen and The Throne guys are surprise reviews and I predict a 4.5 for Driver.

Luke Higham said...

And if one of Russell or Maguire were to be reviewed and upgraded, I'd rather see the latter right now and the former saved for the next backlog.

Luke Higham said...

Films To Watch

Apologies for the size of the list guys but I'm just not good at trying to cut stuff down.

Louis: Get around to whatever you think is most essential first and try some of the rest with whatever time you have left. Oh and you'll be glad to see I didn't include that one about a Dying Girl otherwise all hellfire would rain upon me from everyone here. :)

Nightingale (David Oyelowo)
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (Re-Watch for Bel Powley)
Far From Men
Hungry Hearts
The Throne
James White
The Measure Of A Man
A Second Chance (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)
A Man Called Ove
Land Of Mine
A War
Embrace Of The Serpent
Maggie (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Disorder
Shaun The Sheep Movie (One of Aardman's very best)
The Little Prince
The Assassin
Tale Of Tales
Tangerine
Dheepan
Our Little Sister
Mia Madre
Heaven Knows What (Safdies)
Theeb
Victoria
Queen Of Earth
Woman In Gold
The Lady In The Van
Rams
The Wave
The Forbidden Room
Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Amy
Right Now, Wrong Then
Veteran
Kumiko The Treasure Hunter
Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
Cemetery Of Splendour
The Second Mother
Mustang
While We're Young
Big Game (Samuel L. Jackson)
A Bigger Splash
The Dressmaker
The Duke Of Burgundy
Mon Roi
Marguerite
Hyena
Spring
The Voices (Ryan Reynolds)
Mistress America
Fires On The Plain
Good Kill (Ethan Hawke)
X+Y
Dope
Court
Chi-Raq
The Falling (Florence Pugh)
Danny Collins (Al Pacino)
Manglehorn
The Humbling
Men & Chicken (Mads Mikkelsen)
Lost River (Ryan Gosling)
Suite Française
Red Amnesia
Revivre
Goodnight Mommy
These Are The Rules
Infinitely Polar Bear
I'll See You In My Dreams
Ricki And The Flash
The Age Of Adaline
The Club (Pablo Larraín)
A Little Chaos
Man Up
Tag
Chronic
We Are Still Here
Backcountry
Summertime
My Name Is Emily
The Keeping Room
The Last Five Years
Madame Bovary
The Fencer
Meadowland
The Brand New Testament
Ned Rifle
Welcome To Me
In Her Place
The Blackcoat's Daughter
The Lure
The Final Girls
The Boy And The Beast
The Fits
Burnt (Bradley Cooper)
Life
Tomorrowland
Fantastic Four
Deathgasm
Hell House LLC
Bill
Louder Than Bombs
Z For Zachariah
Glass Chin
Experimenter
Freeheld
Our Brand Is Crisis
Queen Of The Desert
A Tale Of Love And Darkness
A Royal Night Out
Second Coming
The Hallow
Results
Mountains May Depart
In The Shadow Of Women
My Golden Days
A Perfect Day

Anonymous said...

Luke: I think if louis watches fantastic four, then Toby Kebbell will rank lower than Eddie Redmayne for Jupiter Ascending.

Luke Higham said...

Anonymous: He'll get a 1. I have a hard time believing he'll be a 0 and below Redmayne.

Mitchell Murray said...

1) Plummer
2) Rohrig
3) Munther
4) Dano
5) Mitchell

Also wont complain about Hardy getting a review, since his "Mad Max" performance is a great minimalist effort, and perhaps his most underated turn from 2015.

Mitchell Murray said...

Luke: From what I can recall, "Z for Zachariah" isn't bad - though it may not be to everyone's tastes and I could see how someone might find it boring. For 2015, I think "Grandma" is also worth a watch for Lily Tomlin and Sam Elliott (sort of a warm up to his "A Star Is Born" work).

Louis: Is it possible for me to rescend a winning request in favour of another?

Luke Higham said...

Mitchell: He's already seen Grandma and Sam Elliot was the only thing he liked about it.

He'll allow it as long as it's from the same year.

Luke Higham said...

*Elliott

Mitchell Murray said...

Luke: I knew that, but I was more refering to the year overall, since other people here may not have seen it themselves.

Incidently, I thought the movie was alright since it was briskly paced, and I liked Tomlin and Elliott.

Tahmeed Chowdhury said...

Luke: Glad to see X+Y on the list, Hawkins is great and it's the only time I've ever seen Rafe Spall give a good performance.

Louis: Who would you cast to play these philosophers (in different movies, of course):
Nietzsche
Voltaire
Rousseau

Luke Higham said...

Rylance for Voltaire I think.

Anonymous said...

Tahmeed: Just out of curiosity, have you seen the black mirror episode Rafe Spall was in? I actually thought he was pretty good in that.

Mitchell Murray said...

Louis: Similar question to Tahmeed's - Who do you think should play Teddy Roosevelt in a contemporary film?

I would find it very difficult to cast him, frankly, since Roosevelt was such a larger than life figure.

Tahmeed Chowdhury said...

Anonymous: Haven't seen a single episode of Black Mirror yet, been meaning to get around to it.

Tim said...

I would actually put all the actors from SOC in supporting, but if someone is lead it has to be Mitchell really.


1) Plummer
2) Munther
3) Dano
4) Mitchell
5) Röhrig

Anonymous said...

Louis: Your thoughts on the trailer for The Harder They Fall.

RatedRStar said...

I was in a murder mystery mood yesterday, so for some reason I decided to watch Scream 3... what a silly decision that was lol.

Tahmeed Chowdhury said...

Watched The Here After. The film itself has a few questionable directorial choices, and I'm not sure what rating I'd give Munther. His performance worked as the unrepentant psychopath I thought he played it as, but I'd be surprised if he got more than a 3.5 or 4 for it.

Tim said...

RatedRStar: funny thing is, i have definitely seen that one at least twice, and i don`t even remember who the murderer was

Luke Higham said...

Tahmeed: I guess Louis will keep him until last then.

By the way, for Director guys, I'm only confident in Miller and Nemes. The other 3 spots are a bit of a crapshoot.

Anonymous said...

Tim: I just tried to check the Wikipedia page to find out... and the Wikipedia page does not even have the plot of the move at all!

Aidan Pittman said...

1. Plummer
2. Dano
3. Mitchell
4. Röhrig
5. Munther

Bryan L. said...

Mitchell: He picked Viggo Mortensen to play Theodore Roosevelt once, with Werner Herzog directing him in a film about his Brazilian expedition.

Calvin Law said...

My guess for Louis’ Director top 5:

Miller
Villeneuve
Nemes
Coogler
Inarritu

Mitchell Murray said...

RatedRStar: It goes without saying that the "Scream" franchise should've stopped after the first two.

Bryan: Not my immediate choice, but he'd be as good as one would expect, I suppose.

Mitchell Murray said...

On another note, I just got to the "United States of Smash" moment from "My Hero Academia"...

I always thought it was an awesome scene, but there's now a distinct level of sadness to it having seen everything before.

Tahmeed Chowdhury said...

Well, just watched Remember, and damn. Definitely Plummer's greatest work.

Omar Franini said...

1. Plummer
2. Röhrig
3. Dano
4. Mitchell
5. Munther

Louis: i have a copy of La Terrazza with English subtitles. If you want to watch the movie i can send you the file with WeTransfer, but i need your mail.

RatedRStar said...

Louis: Have you seen Ebert and Roeper's if we picked the winners for 2005? quite interesting to say the least lol.

BRAZINTERMA said...

5º Géza Röhrig
4º Ulrik Munther
3º Paul Dano
2º Jason Mitchell
1º Christopher Plummer

Emi Grant said...

Anonymous: I actually thought Spall was the one aspect that brought that episode down. John Hamm was acting circles all around him. White Christmas is still on my top 5 Black Mirror episodes, though.

Btw, does anyone know what are the chances of ever getting a Hamm review on the blog?

Luke Higham said...

Emi Grant: Unless Louis decided to review TV performances, it's zilch, I'm afraid.

Mitchell Murray said...

Emi: He's been good in stuff like "The Town" and "Million Dollar Arm", but much like Hugh Laurie, he's an actor whose film output pails in comparison to his TV work.

Anonymous said...

Samuel L. Jackson is receiving an honorary Oscar.

Anonymous said...

Mitchell: Baby Driver is by far Hamm's best film work.

Luke Higham said...

Congrats to SLJ.

Mitchell Murray said...

Anonymous: I....still haven't seen "Baby Driver" (Braces for impact).

Mitchell Murray said...

Also, I second Luke in regards to Jackson.

Luke Higham said...

And they're giving one to Liv Ullmann as well. That is Longggggggggg Overdueeeeeee. :)

Luke Higham said...

Louis's favourite actress finally gets the recognition she deserved.

John Smith said...

So Happy about Ullmann!!!

Robert MacFarlane said...

Mitchell: Honestly Baby Driver isn’t THAT essential. Falls apart about halfway through when it keeps trying to make Baby the moral center. Looks and sounds cool, though. Elgort is fine for once, but Joe Keery or John Boyega (who apparently was runner-up for the role) probably could have done more. I’d say Foxx’s performance aged the best since he’s the biggest source of tension within the film.

Anonymous said...

Luke, your top five Liv Ullmann performances

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Anonymous said...

Louis: Do you think Tony Jay would do a good 80’s Judge Turpin?

Maciej said...

1.Plummer
2.Dano
3.Rohrig
4.Munther
5.Mitchell

Tahmeed Chowdhury said...

Also, for any surprise reviews, I'd love it if Louis did a write-up on Gleeson's work in Ex Machina.

Michael Patison said...

1. Christopher Plummer
2. Paul Dano
3. Geza Rohrig
4. Jason Mitchell
5. Ulrik Munther

Anonymous said...

What is your top 10 characters that won the best supporting actress oscar?

Luke Higham said...

1. The Emigrants/The New Land
3. Scenes From A Marriage
4. Autumn Sonata
5. Persona

Tim said...

Changing


1) Plummer
2) Dano
3) Mithell
4) Röhrig
5) Munther

Mitchell Murray said...

Screw it, I'm changing too..

Official pre-first review prediction:

1) Plummer
2) Rohrig
3) Dano
4) Mitchell
5) Munther

Anonymous said...

Is it my print or is this Plummer image very reminiscent of Hopkins in The Father?

Razor said...

Anonymous: It does now that you mention it. And both characters have dementia.

Matt Mustin said...

I watched 45 Years. I though it was great and I have to give Courtenay in particular a lot of credit for giving the performance he gave considering he's often times not even in frame.

Emi Grant said...

Louis: Your thoughts on Succession's opening sequence?

Tahmeed Chowdhury said...

Rewatched Love and Mercy for the first time since 2015. I'd give Dano a 5, and I'd raise Banks to a 4.5 as well.

Anonymous said...

Razor: I actually didn't see Remember. What made me associate The Father is this image of Plummer that Louis used which has some similar elements like: cinematography tone, lighting, clothes and even makeup.

Louis Morgan said...

Tahmeed:

Nietzsche: Christoph Waltz
Voltaire: Mark Rylance
Rousseau: Daniel Auteuil

Mitchell:

If I may sell the Mortensen pick a bit more (Again specifically about the Brazilian expedition so an older Roosevelt). Mortensen has proven sort of the ability for period aspect in A Dangerous Method, but also has the "man's man" style presence essential. Additionally though seeing that fall apart as he falls into an experience that nearly destroy him I feel would be something amazing.

Anonymous:

I mean that's a great cast, not crazy about the overly "clean" look aesthetic however. Tonally seems purposefully over the top, which in turn means it could be entertaining, or could be lousy depending on how they wield it.

Omar:

oscareview@yahoo.com

RatedRStar:

I have, though like 15 years ago.

Anonymous:

An ideal choice honestly.

Anonymous:

Gaye Dawn
Edie Doyle
Holly
Honey
Madame Hortense
Billy Kwan
Pilar
Ruth Popper
Soon-ja
Mona Lisa Vito

Emi Grant:

Love it, already sang my praises for the theme, but love the choice of the merging of the old "rich and famous" documentary clips interspersed with the modern inserts.

Mitchell Murray said...

Louis: Okay, given that premise and time period, I could definitely see Mortensen playing it very well. Granted, Teddy lived such a storied life that you could pick a number of eras to bring to the screen, whether it be his explorations, his presidency, his military service or his early days as a rancher/outdoorsman.

I also had that question regarding our winning requests, and if would be okay to rescind one we've already made?

Louis Morgan said...

Mitchell:

Luke's answer was correct.

Mitchell Murray said...

Louis: Oh, I guess I didn't Luke's response.

Let it be known I'm retracting my request for Patrick Huard from "Bon Cop, Bad Cop". As for a different 2006 request - I'm going to need some time on that.

Mitchell Murray said...

*see Luke's response*