Best Scene: One of the songs I guess.
4. Ralph Fiennes in Conclave - Fiennes elevates every moment of his potboiler and brings an emotional honesty to an often very silly film that takes itself very seriously.
Best Scene: Confronting Aldo about Tremblay
3. Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice - A very close #3/#2 because I think both are great in very different ways. Stan delivering on tremendous challenge of playing Trump without falling into caricature. Instead artfully builds towards the Trump we know, while also successfully showing the steps into corruption.
Best Scene: After his brother's death.
2. Colman Domingo in Sing Sing - Domingo gives such soulful and genuine work in portraying such endearing and infectious energy for the healing power of acting. Finding that though with a moving portrayal of the weight of living behind bars for a crime you know you didn't commit.
Best Scene: Parole hearing.
1. Adrien Brody in The Brutalist - Good predictions Anonymous, Calvin, Lucas, Michael McCarthy, Emi Grant, Maciej, Harris & Perfectionist. But as much as I loved Stan and Domingo, there was no competition for me here in Brody just giving one of those performances where you just feel you meet this person, every bit of his complicated traumatic history, and through every bit of his life including his ambition, his moments of joy, and his many moments of intense hardship.
Best Scene: Car breakdown.
Next: 2024 alternate supporting.
21 comments:
Adam Pearson
Skarsgård/Dafoe/McBurney
Mark Eydelshteyn
Chaplin/Sarsgaard
Clarence Maclin
Jason Bateman
Richard Roundtree
Franz Rogowski
I don't mind not having a Washington review because I doubt you'd want to revisit it.
My request would be (if you don't mind adding a performance from a year you've covered before for one of your bonus interim rounds), Koji Yakusho in Shall We Dance?
Supporting Suggestions:
Clarence Maclin - Sing Sing
Adam Pearson - A Different Man
Franz Rogowski - Bird
Richard Roundtree - Thelma
My winning request is Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here
Richard Roundtree - Thelma
Clarence Maclin - Sing Sing
David Jonsson - Alien: Romulus
Adam Pearson - A Different Man
Mark Eidelstein - Anora
Franz Rogowski - Bird
Ben Chaplin - September 5
Jason Bateman - Carry-On
Simon McBurney - Nosferatu
Selton Mello - I'm Still Here
Louis: Any idea when you'll be watching I'm Still Here?
Dammit, knew I shouldn't have switched.
Don't really have any hard suggestions outside of Pearson, unless you plan on giving Hemsworth and Burke a second chance for Furiosa. Or upgrade Butler in Dune Part II.
Louis: I predicted this lineup too.
Two questions, Louis
1. Would you say The Brutalist is Adrien Brody's career-best performance?
2. Between Brody and Chalamet, whose performance would you say is more Academy friendly when it comes to the win?
Louis: Your ranked top 5 performances by Guy Pearce, Adrien Brody and Ralph Fiennes.
Haven't seen enough to make any recommendations, but the ones I'm most interested in are the Nosferatu gentlemen and Bateman.
Calvin:
Absolutely.
Anonymous:
Yes.
I'd say they kind of cancel each other out in terms of pros/cons. Chalamet has the gimmick of playing his own songs and plays a well known person, but Brody has a far greater emotional range and dramatic journey. As looking at it, Chalamet really isn't like Foxx or Malek, as Foxx had the whole drug addiction storyline and blindness, and Malek had the whole closeted homosexuality and AIDS storyline. So even by the rote musical biopic standard Dylan's story is especially limited, and here's hoping he can't win just by doing a pretty low grade singing impression.
Tahmeed:
Pearce:
1. L.A. Confidential
2. Memento
3. The Rover
4. The Brutalist
5. The Proposition
Brody:
1. The Brutalist
2. The Pianist
3. Winning Time
4. Hollywoodland
5. The French Dispatch
Fiennes:
1. In Bruges
2. Schindler's List
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. The Menu
5. Spider
Brazinterma:
First chance I get, but don't know when that chance will be at this point.
Thrilled Domingo got his 5, he’s my #3 for the year behind Stan and Brody.
Denzel Washington in Gladiator II (My NGNG is that he takes the overall)
Clarence Maclin in Sing Sing
Adam Pearson in A Different Man
Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe and Simon McBurney in Nosferatu
Austin Butler in Dune Part Two
For the record, I still say Hoult is supporting in Nosferatu. Sometimes screentime is irrelevant when a character is clearly not a protagonist.
I didn't suggest him because I don't know when Louis will get to see the film but I definitely second Brazinterma on Selton Mello, he makes a huge impact in his screentime to create a haunting, lingering impact on the film.
Robert: He is THE protagonist for at least the entire first act.
Hoult is a borderline lead imo, his perspective in the first act is more than enough for that. It's clearly Rose-Depp's story though.
He's a decoy protagonist at best. Harker (or his equivalent in this case) has never been considered the protagonist of Dracula. Never. After the castle, he is dicked around by every other character driving the plot.
I think part of the confusion is that Thomas Hutter/Jonathan Harker is a born supporting character who is forced by circumstance into a leading role. And Hoult does an *amazing* job of showing us how overwhelming that is for him.
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