Saturday 3 February 2024

Best Actor 2023: Results

 5. Bradley Cooper in Maestro - Cooper gives into every possible artificial excessive choice in one of his worst performances. 

Best Scene: Getting into bed with his dying wife. 
4. Colman Domingo in Rustin - Domingo gives a passionate and convincing performance even if it is constantly limited by a weak script.

Best Scene: Training the police. 
3. Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction - Wright delivers a nuanced turn creating a sense of every family relationship and bringing the right humor on the satire side in his portrayal of both exasperation and the caricature he is tasked with playing.

Best Scene: Fighting with his girlfriend. 
2. Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers - Giamatti gives an absolutely wonderful performance where he is a hilarious grump, but also a very moving portrayal of an over the hill teacher finding a real connection again. 

Best Scene: Goodbye to Angus. 
1. Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer - Good predictions, basically everyone. Although I will say this was not a blowout because I do LOVE Giamatti's performance as well, and would be perfectly fine if he ends up taking home the win. Having said that Murphy's performance is just outstanding on every level, in creating such a convincing and wholly captivating portrayal of every potent complexity within the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Best Scene: Cross examine. 
Next: 2023 Alternate Supporting

23 comments:

Shaggy Rogers said...

The easiest prediction ever on this blog.

Michael McCarthy said...

Paul Mescal/Jamie Bell
Holt McCallany
Milo Machado Graner
Colman Domingo
Willem Dafoe

Alt. The Oppenheimer guys

Robert MacFarlane said...

Milo Machado Graner
Holt McCallany
Joe Magaro
Jason Clarke
Alden Ehrenreich

Perfectionist said...

Shaggy: I forgot to predict lol. I was like, "yeah that's painfully obvious, there's no urgency, will do it later on". "Later on" never came due to busy 2 days and I don't even mind it.

Perfectionist said...

That Cooper review is just genius. Complete annihilation lol.

Jonathan Williams said...

My request is Bill Nighy in Dead Man's Chest

Luke Higham said...

Louis : My request is Mark Rylance in Dunkirk.

And for Alternate Supporting, whoever your favourites of the year were.

Lucas Saavedra said...

Jonathan Tucker in Palms Trees and Power Lines
John Magaro in Past Lives
Milo Machado-Graner in Anatomy of a Fall
Holt McCallany in The Iron Claw
Jamie Bell in All of Us Strangers

Anonymous said...

Louis, your ranking of the 20 nominated performances this year?

Michael McCarthy said...

My request is Wesley Snipes in To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar. I watched it for the first time a couple months ago and boy did it age like wine, at the very least it’s my ensemble win for 1995.

Marcus said...

Louis: Your top 5 performances by Giamatti, Murphy and Wright?

Tim said...

My request is for 2017 Lead: Josh Brolin in Only The Brave (the second best movie of that year btw) in the hopes that Miles Teller gets reviewed alongside him

Psifonian said...

Welp, I tried.

Ytrewq Wertyq said...

Michael: Personally I'd rather go with Patrick Swayze in TWFTFEJN, but whatever, I'm curious to see how will Snipes fare.

BRAZINTERMA said...

My request is for 2017 Lead: Vladimir Brichta - Bingo: The King of Mornings

Luke Higham said...

The Cooper review was another classic to be remembered. :)

Calvin Law said...

That Cooper review feels like sweet, cathartic vindication for all those months I've had to sit and stew over how much I hate that film and performance.

I'll give my performance request later, but for now my 2023 Supporting Actor suggestions:

Ben Whishaw - Passages
Jamie Bell - All of Us Strangers
Willem Dafoe/Ramy Youssef - Poor Things
John Magaro - Past Lives

Matthew Montada said...

Dafoe/Youssef
Milo Machado-Graner
John Magaro
Jamie Bell/Paul Mescal
Holt McCallany

Bonus: The Oppenheimer ensemble

Jonathan Williams said...

Louis: Your top ten tracks of 2023.

Robert MacFarlane said...

Psifonian: This might be the only time I saw you be the only one who DIDN'T get the prediction right.

Emi Grant said...

The Cooper review overdelivered, ngl. Bro even looks flabbergasted at his own review in the screencap.

I can only suggest Youssey/Dafoe, Machado Graner, McCallany and the Oppenheimer gang (Clarke, Damon, Conti, Safdie, Ehrenreich, Krumholtz).

Michael McCarthy said...

Ytrewq: I actually think Swayze and Leguizamo are both review worthy as well, but Snipes is my favorite of the three because I believe he accomplishes the most drastic transformation from his usual screen persona in a way that feels entirely natural, and because he is consistently hilarious in the role without robbing the character of her humanity.

Louis Morgan said...

Marcus:

Giamatti:

1. The Holdovers
2. John Adams
3. Sideways
4. American Splendor
5. Private Life

Murphy:

1. Oppenheimer
2. Peaky Blinders
3. 28 Days Later
4. The Wind Shakes the Barley
5. Breakfast on Pluto

Wright:

1. Westworld
2. Basquiat
3. Angels in America
4. The French Dispatch
5. American Fiction

Jonathan:

Ask again in the alternate results.

Anonymous:

1. Emma Stone - Poor Things
2. Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
3. Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
4. Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
5. Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
6. Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
7. Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Robert Downey Jr. - Oppenheimer
9. Ryan Gosling - Barbie
10. Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
11. Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
12. Jodie Foster - Nyad
13. Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
14. Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
15. Sterling K. Brown - American Fiction
16. Colman Domingo - Rustin
17. Annette Bening - Nyad
18. Carey Mulligan - Maestro
19. America Ferrera - Barbie
20. Bradley Cooper - Maestro