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Thursday, 24 February 2022

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2021: Results

10. Andre Holland in Passing - Holland offers the right blunt quality that contrasts the more guarded performances of his co-stars.

Best Scene: Talking about a lynching.

9. David Strathairn in Nightmare Alley - Strathairn gives a brief but moving portrayal of a man with the slight spark of the former spiritualist, but now just a lost soul.

Best Scene: A warning to Stan.

8. Tony Leung Chiu Wai in Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings - Though his film does not quite use him to his full potential, Leung brings so much depth and presence to what could've been a wholly stock villain.

Best Scene: The importance of names.

7. Jeffrey Wright in The French Dispatch - Wright gives a literal wonderful delivery of a story, but also gives a moving portrayal of the emotional woes behind the writer's work.

Best Scene: A new flavor.

6. Al Pacino in House of Gucci - Pacino once again delivers here bringing an endearing energy as the representation of the Gucci family empire, then a tragic power as the man sees that empire slip away.

Best Scene: Signing the company away.

5. Ben Affleck in The Last Duel - Affleck brings the right change of pace, that still fits within his film's tone, as the one man who seems to find joy in a mostly miserable world.

Best Scene: Discussing the rape charge.

4. Anders Danielsen Lie in The Worst Person in the World - The power of Lie's work slowly reveals itself in his portrait of a man defined by uncertainty who only finds certainty when it is too late.

Best Scene: Final scene.

3. Masaki Okada in Drive, My Car - Okada's work crafts a proper enigma which slowly reveals itself in both nefarious and strangely poignant ways.

Best Scene: Backseat revelations.

2. Mike Faist in West Side Story - Faist puts his all into his performance that is exceptionally compelling and creates a deeply moving portrait of a man defined by hate.

Best Scene: The rumble.

1. Bradley Cooper in Licorice Pizza - Good predictions Aidan and 8000's. Although working with the least amount of screentime, no other performance in this category left a greater visceral impact on me than this one. I simply laughed every moment Cooper was on screen through every insane variation he brought in his portrayal of certifiable lunatic Jon Peters, and Cooper for me delivered one of the very best purely comic turns in some time. I loved every second of this turn, and even though there's only so many seconds he has total, I never thought there was anything lacking for it. If I were not to give him the win here it would be lying to myself, because my favorite scene in my favorite film of the year is his sequence in Licorice Pizza, a sequence built upon the glorious madness of his performance. Yes he essentially only has one scene, but the same is true for the challenge, of only having one scene to be as memorable as Cooper is here. Although this is a year with many worthy candidates, despite what the academy would lead you to believe, and I certainly easily see the logic in choosing really anyone in my top five, my choice goes to Cooper without reservation for his work of 24karat comedic gold.

Best Scene: Peters returns.

Overall:

Bradley Cooper in Licorice Pizza
Mike Faist in West Side Story
Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Power of the Dog
Masaki Okada in Drive, My Car
Anders Danielsen Lie in The Worst Person in the World
Ben Affleck in The Last Duel - 5
Alex Hassell in The Tragedy of Macbeth
Ciaran Hinds in Belfast
David Alvarez in West Side Story
Al Pacino in House of Gucci
Jeffrey Wright in The French Dispatch
Tony Leung Chiu Wai in Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings
David Strathairn in Nightmare Alley
Anthony LaPaglia in Nitram
Kelvin Harrison Jr. in Cyrano
Willem Dafoe in Nightmare Alley
Richard Jenkins in Nightmare Alley
Andre Holland in Passing - 4.5
Sean Penn in Licorice Pizza
Adrien Brody in The French Dispatch
Willem Dafoe in Spider-Man: No Way Home
Sean Harris in The Green Knight
Jason Momoa in Dune
Tom Waits in Licorice Pizza
Barry Keoghan in The Green Knight
Benicio Del Toro in The French Dispatch
Corey Hawkins in The Tragedy of Macbeth
John Cena in The Suicide Squad
Andrew Garfield in Spider-Man: No Way Home
Toby Huss in Copshop
Javier Bardem in Dune
Simon Helberg in Annette
Troy Kotsur in CODA
Terence Stamp in Last Night in Soho
Timothy Spall in Spencer
LaKeith Stanfield in The Harder They Fall
Richard Ayoade in The Souvenir Part II
Jamie Dornan in Belfast
Colman Domingo in Zola
Jon Bernthal in King Richard
Merab Ninidze in The Courier
Oscar Isaac in Dune
Issey Ogata in Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
David Harbour in Black Widow
Robin De Jesus in Tick Tick...Boom
Fred Melamed in Shiva Baby
Chaske Spencer in Wild Indian
Jason Flemyng in Boiling Point
Mohsen Tanabandeh in A Hero
Richard Jenkins in The Humans
Danny McBride in The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
Herbert Nodrum in The Worst Person in the World - 4
Stellan Skarsgard in Dune
Ralph Ineson in The Green Knight
David Knell in Pig
Taigo Nakano in 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Joseph Cross in Licorice Pizza
Ali Ranjibari in A Hero
Bill Murray in The French Dispatch
Corey Hawkins in In the Heights
Joel Kinnaman in The Suicide Squad
Brendan Gleeson in The Tragedy of Macbeth
Alireza Jahandideh in A Hero
Vondie Curtis-Hall in The Night House
Benny Safdie in Licorice Pizza
Jared Leto in House of Gucci
Timothee Chalamet in The French Dispatch
Jeremy Irons in House of Gucci
Jesse Plemons in The Power of the Dog
Steven Yeun in The Humans
Adam Arkin in Pig
Josh Brolin in Dune
Josh Andrés Rivera in West Side Story
Lucian-River Chauhan in Encounter
Joel Edgerton in The Green Knight
Ben Affleck in The Tender Bar
Kiyohiko Shibukawa in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Lil Rel Howery in Judas and the Black Messiah
Sean Harris in Spencer
Yousseff Kerkour in House of Gucci
Rajkummar Rao in The White Tiger
Colman Domingo in Candyman
David Dastmalchian in The Suicide Squad
David Harbour in No Sudden Move
Peter Dinklage in I Care A Lot
Talid Ariss in After Love
Owen Wilson in The French Dispatch
Alex Lawther in The Last Duel
Peter Capaldi in The Suicide Squad
Stephen Park in The French Dispatch
Brian Tyree Henry in Eternals
John Leguizamo in Encanto
Toni Servillo in The Hand of God
Ben Kingsley in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Tobey Maguire in Spider-man: No Way Home
Ray Chase in Malignant
Fred Armisen in The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Beck Bennett in The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Babs Olusanmkun in Dune
Bertie Carvel in The Tragedy of Macbeth
Ray Liotta in The Many Saints of Newark
Mel Gibson in Boss Level
Skyler Gisondo in Licorice Pizza
Hiroyuki Sanada in Mortal Kombat
Paul Anderson in Nightmare Alley
Holt McCallany in Wrath of Man
Jack Huston in House of Gucci
Mahesh Manjrekar in The White Tiger
Michael Gandolfini in The Many Saints of Newark
Jimmi Smits in In the Heights
Izaac Wang in Raya and the Last Dragon
Stephen Henderson in Dune
Christopher Lloyd in Nobody
Sylvester Stallone in The Suicide Squad
Jon Favreau in Spider-man: No Way Home
Ethan Darbone in Red Rocket
Bill Camp in Passing
Jesse Plemons in Judas and the Black Messiah
Trace Adkins in Old Henry
Barry Keoghan in Eternals
Leslie Odom Jr. in The Many Saints of Newark
Danny Deferrari in Shiva Baby
David Dastmalchian in Dune
Alfred Molina in Spider-man No Way Home
Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Scoot McNairy in C'mon C'mon
Gregory Diaz IV in In the Heights
Benedict Cumberbatch in Spider-man No Way Home
Holt McCallany in Nightmare Alley
Enrico Natale in The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Farrokh Nourbakht in A Hero
Stephen Root in The Tragedy of Macbeth
Stephen Dorff in Old Henry
Delroy Lindo in The Harder They Fall
Aditya Geddada in Encounter
Woody Harrelson in Venom Let There Be Carnage
Paddy Considine in Wolf
Benedict Wong in Raya and the Last Dragon
Ed Harris in The Lost Daughter - 3.5
Christopher Lloyd in The Tender Bar
Harry Melling in The Tragedy of Macbeth
Jim Beaver in Nightmare Alley
Joe Taslim in Mortal Kombat
Tony Goldwyn in King Richard
Tim Blake Nelson in Nightmare Alley
Taika Waititi in The Suicide Squad
Jon Bernthal in Those Who Wish Me Dead
Ron Perlman in Nightmare Alley
John Amos in Coming 2 America
Chris Messina in I Care a Lot
Jeffrey Wright in No Time to Die
J.K. Simmons in Being the Ricardos
Brian d'Arcy James in West Side Story
Don Lee in Eternals
Mathieu Almaric in The French Dispatch
Michael Smiley in Censor
Paul Walter Hauser in Cruella
Jesse Plemons in Jungle Cruise
Corey Stoll in West Side Story
Nathaniel Parker in the Last Duel
Ray Panthaki in Boiling Point
Macon Blair in I Care a Lot
Andrew Garfield in The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Matthias Schweighöfer in Army of the Dead
Jamie Foxx in No Way Home
Zeljko Ivanek in The Last Duel
James Earl Jones in Coming 2 America
Joel Fry in Cruella
Ethan Hawke in The Guilty
Bradley Whitford in Tick Tick...Boom
Ralph Fiennes in No Time to Die
Flula Borg in The Suicide Squad
Algee Smith in Judas and the Black Messiah
Mark Strong in Cruella
Brendan Fraser in No Sudden Move
Joshua Henry in Tick Tick...Boom
Joe Alwyn in The Souvenir Part II
Michael Rooker in The Suicide Squad
Matt Smith in Last Night in Soho
Garret Dillahunt in Army of the Dead
Jon Bernthal in The Many Saints of Newark
Ben Whishaw in No Time to Die
Matt Damon in No Sudden Move
Joe Keery in Free Guy
Matthew Goode in The Duke
Lambert Wilson in Benedetta
Vondie Curtis-Hall in Blue Bayou
Eric Andre in The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Bill Murray in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ernie Hudson in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Rob Morgan in Don't Look Up
Harris Dickinson in The Souvenir Part II
Chang Chen in Dune
Tony Hale in Being the Ricardos
J.K. Simmons in Spider-man No Way Home
John Krasinski in A Quiet Place Part II
Willem Dafoe in The Card Counter
Jacob Batalon in Spider-man No Way Home
Yahya Abdul-Manteen II in The Matrix Resurrections
Idris Elba in The Harder They Fall
Djimon Hounsou in A Quiet Place Part II
Josh Hartnett in Wrath of Man
Bashir Salahuddin in Cyrano
Jamie Dornan in Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar
Anders Danielsen Lie in Bergman Island
Max von Sydow in Echoes of the Past
Israel Elejalde in Parallel Mother
Jeffrey Donovan in Wrath of Man
Dave Bautista in Dune
Fionn Whitehead in The Duke
Eddie Marsan in Wrath of Man
Mike Rianda in The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Forrest Whitaker in Respect - 3
Ben Mendelsohn in Cyrano
Channing Tatum in Free Guy
Ray Liotta in No Sudden Move
Scott Haze in Old Henry
Casey Affleck in The World to Come
Scott Eastwood in Wrath of Man
Kit Harington in Eternals
Tyler Perry in Don't Look Up
Peter Sarsgaard in The Lost Daughter
Wyatt Russell in The Woman in the Window
Kyle Chandler in Godzilla vs. Kong
Cliff Curtis in Reminiscence
Stephen Graham in Venom Let There Be Carnage
Wesley Snipes in Coming 2 America
Rob Morgan in The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Mauritanian
Brian Tyree Henry in Godzilla vs. Kong
Aleksei Serebryakov in Nobody
Paul Rudd in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Haris Patel in Eternals
Nicholas Hoult in Those Who Wish Me Dead
Lil Rel Howery in Free Guy
Martin Sheen in Judas and the Black Messiah
Florian Munteanu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings
Billy Magnussen in No Time To Die
Arsenio Hall in Coming 2 America
Demian Bichir in Godzilla vs. Kong
Ludi Lin in Mortal Kombat
Logan Kim in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Thomas Haden Church in Spider-man: No Way Home
Michael Gandolfini in Cherry
Daniel Durant in CODA
Billy Magnussen in The Many Saints of Newark
Omari Hardwick in Army of the Dead
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in CODA
Will Patton in Halloween Kills
Dwight Yoakam in Cry Macho
Timothee Chalamet in Don't Look Up
Michael Ajao in Last Night in Soho
Steve O'Connell in The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Finn Wolfhard in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Anthony Michael Hall in Halloween Kills
Julian Dennison in Godzilla vs. Kong
Gary Oldman in The Woman in the Window
Jonah Hill in Don't Look Up - 2.5
Danny Pino in Dear Evan Hansen
Eduardo Minett in Cry Macho
RZA in Nobody
Neil Patrick Harris in The Matrix Resurrections
Josh Lawson in Mortal Kombat
Ben Chaplin in The Dig
Tracy Morgan in Coming 2 America
Johnny Flynn in The Dig
Zachary Levi in The Mauritanian
Himesh Patel in Don't Look Up
Christoph Waltz in No Time to Die
Christopher Abbott in The World to Come
Cedric Joe in Space Jam: A New Legacy
Raul Castillo in Army of the Dead
Jonathan Groff in The Matrix Resurrections
Peter Sarsgaard in The Guilty
Alexander Skarsgard in Godzilla vs. Kong
Max Huang in Mortal Kombat
Kumail Nanjiani in Eternals
Finn Little in Those Who Wish Me Dead
George Young in Malignant
Tadanobu Asano in Mortal Kombat
John Michael Higgins in Licorice Pizza
Jake Lacy in Being the Ricardos
Colton Ryan in Dear Evan Hansen
Leslie Odom Jr. in Music
Emory Cohen in Blue Bayou
Charlie Heaton in The Souvenir Part II
Don Cheadle in Space Jam: A New Legacy
Mark O'Brien in Blue Bayou
Theo Rossi in Army of the Dead - 2
Jared Leto in The Little Things
Michael McDonald in Halloween Kills
Scott MacArthur in Halloween Kills
Chin Han in Mortal Kombat
Jack Reynor in Cherry
Douglas Booth in My Salinger Year
Ray Winstone in Black Widow
Tye Sheridan in The Card Counter
Jack Whitehall in The Jungle Cruise
Eugenio Derbez in CODA
John McCrea in Cruella
Ben Marten in The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Fred Hechinger in The Woman in the Window
Mark Rylance in Don't Look Up - 1.5
Daniel Wu in Reminiscence
Taika Waititi in Free Guy
Max Martini in The Tender Bar
Garrett Hedlund in The United States vs. Billie Holiday
John Magaro in The Many Saints of Newark
Ben Schwartz in Music - 1
Rami Malek in No Time to Die - Wiseau
David Dencik in No Time to Die - 0

Next: 2021 Alternate Lead

Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2021: Anders Danielsen Lie in The Worst Person in the World

Anders Danielsen Lie did not receive an Oscar nomination, despite winning NSFC, for portraying Aksel in The Worst Person in the World.

The Worst Person in the World follows the relationships and choices of a young woman Julie (Renate Reinsve) who struggles with the direction of her life.

Anders Danielsen Lie plays Aksel one of the several relationships we see Julie go through throughout the film, though their relationship is the most substantial one within the film. Aksel is a successful underground comics artist which includes edge humor and has what is considered sexist tone. Danielsen Lie portraying a Robert Crumb type, in artwork only, Danielsen Lie actually plays Aksel as a pretty normal guy more or less. Danielsen Lie and Reinsve have fantastic chemistry with one another, and the nature of the chemistry is so much of the film. This is because while we certainly see the moments of ease in their relationship in terms of mutual attraction to one another and their intensity sexual chemistry, it is very much just a given within their performances. What the film ends up really being about though is the challenges for Julie to really stick to a decision in her life and not change her mind. This creating a challenge in the relationship with Danielsen Lie's Aksel, as a man who is trying to find some consistency in his life as he approaches middle age. Their initial breakup of many breakup Danielsen Lie delivers as this in a way overly logical though with the undercurrent of emotion, decision to trying to move on from Julie to find a greater maturity himself, while in turn this only leads Julie right back to him and their relationship becomes only more aggressive.

Lie, though not being the central focused character, portraying basically a similar experience as Julie is going through but just in a slightly different way. Danielsen Lie too portrays that Aksel's defined too by uncertainty of his choices, even as he speaks towards his desire to settle down exactly, there is that same inconsistency of the needs and desires in the way he articulates them. What Danielsen Lie does in his work is effectively present the sort of more potent emotional need about this uncertainty in a way compared to Julie where Reinsve portrays many of her more questionable choices as these sorts of flights of fancy. Danielsen Lie's performance accentuates a man who believes he wants this consistency yet in a way he is just as inconsistent as the woman he accuses of doing the same thing that he says is because of her youth. This as Danielsen Lie shows the natural push and pull in his performance of a greater emotional desperation and need that will randomly develop in the man as suddenly he seeks for a certain thing in his relationship even if a moment later he'll drop the very same thing as being essential the next. Together with Reinsve they show why their relationship is in a way doomed because both of them portray people who have no idea what they want, but they certainly are sure they want something. In turn their chemistry creates the natural sense of the cycle of the two of people who are consistent in their uncertainty, yet the troubles are in a way created that their points of changing what they want are never consistent with one another.

The key really with both Danielsen Lie and Reinsve's work is making this state so tangible and really emotional in their interactions with one another despite the natural consistency of it. They do have that potent connection but at the same time just as potent is their moments of random distress because it is basically impossible for them to be on the same page for long. Their second breakup scene being an excellent example of really both the pains and the joys of their relationship. This as Julie wants to move on, yet still gives herself up to him sexually as he pleads for her to stay. Danielsen Lie throughout the scene portraying the desperation of the need in the mode but also the lack of articulation in him, that matches Julie's own lack of articulation, that leads them to both in a way display their ever still need for another even in the middle of a breakup. What is so remarkable about both performances is every step in this unfortunate, and theoretically illogical display, is wholly logical in terms of the emotional place both Julie and Aksel are. Throughout the scene each change where one is in terms of who is more invested, and in this instance Danielsen Lie portrays the intensity so well in terms of the desperate need he has for Julie in this moment, even though earlier moments he seemed to take her presence for granted while his delivery stays filled with an inconsistency of someone who truly has no idea what to say. Danielsen Lie's performance succeeds in creating the sense that there is no hypocrisy because it is all emotionally honest in his work, even if there is hypocrisy in terms of the character's actual actions.

After this breakup we see the downward spiral of Aksel which we first see him trying to defend the edgy humor of his comic book. Danielsen Lie's terrific in the scene in portraying of someone completely failing at trying to articulate their point they're trying to make. Danielsen Lie presenting the fall into emotional ad hoc attacks as he tries to deliver his message initially with a strict attempt at logic before falling into this deep emotional turmoil. His delivery being this cascade from passionate artist, to defensive artist to just angry man so naturally as this breakdown. We find that likely part of that breakdown might've come as we learn that Aksel is suffering from a terminal illness. And it is in this last act where it basically forces both of our lovers to confront their relationship without compromise in a way, since now Aksel has no time to change his mind or turn his mind around. Danielsen Lie is very powerful for his particularly somber if not wholly morbid delivery of his life as he tells about his ways of passing his time and realizes what he sees as the waste of it. Danielsen Lie's work is truly stunning in the way his voice shakes and there is such a palatable sense of a man who believes he's waste so much time now dealing with that fact with the little time he has left. His speaking of his fate Danielsen Lie is heartbreaking as portraying the man without pretense as his eyes are that of someone looking towards an unpleasant void he is so desperately fearful of.

There's something especially poignant though that even in this monologue of a fatalistic depression there is these moments of glints of his love towards Julie even as he is fixated naturally on his desperate woes. When the two finally speak abut their relationship Lie continues to be so moving by in a way delivering the words of what he saw in Julie more cogently than he ever did in their relationship. Danielsen Lie portraying the man no longer fixated on that uncertainty but rather now just speaking with the authority of the certainty that he will die soon. As quick as this shift is in terms of the narrative, which I'd say is wholly intentional and wholly works as the film is from Julie's perspective, we don't see the change in Aksel, however what we do see is the result of the man who never quite made his decisions and now it is too late. This is realized with a tragic potency through once again the chemistry between the two actors, who are as convincing in their final desperate scene together as they were of the two lovers just blithely having their fun with one another. While we see in Reinsve the regret and struggle of suddenly dealing with such a situation, Danielsen Lie is incredible in his final moment in the film. This as he delivers now this certain clarity in his words, the sadness still so potent, but also the thoughts of happiness as he speaks to Julie one more time. Danielsen Lie finding such power in the man in a way finally knowing what to say in this most important relationship of his life, clearly articulating his needs as Danielsen Lie accentuates in his delivery filled with sorrow but also conviction, yet doing so in what are the final moments of the relationship because they are the final moments of his life.

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2021

And the Nominees Were Not:

Bradley Cooper in Licorice Pizza

Jeffrey Wright in The French Dispatch

Al Pacino in House of Gucci

Ben Affleck in The Last Duel

David Strathairn in Nightmare Alley

Predict these five, those five or both:

Anders Danielsen Lie in The Worst Person in the World

Masaki Okada in Drive My Car

Tony Leung Chiu Wai in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Mike Faist in West Side Story

Andre Holland in Passing

Best Actor