Best Actor: Russell Hornsby

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Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2018: Results

10. Russell Hornsby in The Hate U Give - Hornsby gives a very strong performance realizing the intense determination of his character based around both his past hardships and his genuine love for his family.

Best Scene: How to behave when pulled over.

9. Peter Bogdonavich in The Other Side of the Wind - Bogdonavich's performance, 40 years in its making, is a surprisingly nuanced portrayal of the vulnerable ego of a man who built his own legacy by imitating his mentor.

Best Scene: Trying to tell Hanneford the truth.

8. Brian Tyree Henry in If Beale Street Could Talk - Henry gives the highlight of his banner year in his moving portrayal of essentially memory both those of a loving friendship and a harrowing traumatic experience.

Best Scene: His scene.

7. Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience - Nivola disappears into his role as one of the pillars of a Jewish community and gives a particularly powerful portrayal of a man coming to terms with his beliefs and how they relate to his friendship and his marriage.

Best Scene: "Choose"

6. Linus Roache in Mandy - Roache gives an amazing turn capturing both the hilarity and the horror of a wannabe prophet with severe delusions and pathetic desperation.

Best Scene: Presenting himself.

5. Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite - Hoult once again is given a meaty role and once again makes the most of it in his masterful portrayal of a vicious wit and ambition.

Best Scene: Abigail's Offer.

4. Russell Crowe in Boy Erased - Crowe gives one of his best performances in his nuanced portrayal of a father failing then slowly learning to understand his homosexual son.

Best Scene: Ford Dealership.

3. Tom Waits in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Waits delivers a wonderful one man show that creates such an empathetic journey in one man's search for gold.

Best Scene: "You Didn't Hit Nothin' Important"

2. Steven Yeun in Burning - Yeun gives a masterful portrayal of an egotistical detachment that creates a most unnerving sort of possible evil.

Best Scene: Burning Greenhouses.

1. Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale - Good prediction Michael McCarthy, and AnonymousBridges takes the top spot overall for me as he delivers one of his best performances. This is giving a thoroughly engaging turn in giving so much life to every facet of his character from the various levels of the facade he puts on, the camaraderie he finds, and most of all his absolutely heartbreaking depiction of a man with dementia.

Best Scene: Describing his memory loss.

Overall Ranking:

Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale

Steven Yeun in Burning
Tom Waits in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lewis Pullman in Bad Times At the El Royale
Russell Crowe in Boy Erased
Tim Blake Nelson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite
Linus Roache in Mandy
Lily Franky in Shoplifters
Bill Heck in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - 4.5
Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience
Jonathan Pryce in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Harry Melling in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Jonjo O'Neill in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Grainger Hines in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Brian Tyree Henry in If Beale Street Could Talk
Peter Bogdonavich in The Other Side of the Wind
Daniel Kaluuya in Widows
Chris Hemsworth in Avengers: Infinity War
Robert Forster in What They Had
Anton Yelchin in Thoroughbreds
Russell Hornsby in The Hate You Give
Josh Brolin in Avenges: Infinity War
Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther
Jesse Plemons in Game Night - 4
Mark Rylance in Ready Player One
Riz Ahmed in The Sisters Brothers
Kairi Jō in Shoplifters
Sam Elliott in A Star is Born
Dolph Lundgren in Creed II
Florian Munteanu in Creed II
Josh Brolin in Deadpool 2
Josh Hamilton in Eighth Grade
James Smith in The Favourite
Brian Tyree Henry in Widows
Gabriel Byrne in Hereditary
Liev Schreiber in Isle of Dogs
Sylvester Stallone in Creed II
Tom Waits in The Old Man and the Gun
Sean Harris in Mission Impossible: Fallout
Armie Hammer in Sorry to Bother You
Wyatt Russell in Overlord
Cameron Mitchell in The Other Side of the Wind
Richard Brake in Mandy
Topher Grace in Blackkklansman
Dave Bautista in Hotel Artemis
Ron Livingston in Tully
Ben Whishaw in Mary Poppins Returns
Robert Downey Jr. in Avengers: Infinity War
Adam Driver in Blackkklansman
Jake Johnson in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Christian Slater in The Wife
Matthew McConaughey in White Boy Rick
Ed Helms in Chappaquiddick
Benedict Cumberbatch in Avengers: Infinity War
Harry Belafonte in Blackkklansman
Paul Bettany in Avengers: Infinity War
Joel Edgerton in Boy Erased - 3.5
Sebastian Stan in Destroyer
Jake Gyllenhaal in Wild Life
Tom Holland in Avengers: Infinity War
Kyle Chandler in Game Night
Joe Alwyn in The Favourite
Sterling K. Brown in Black Panther
Mads Mikkelsen in At Eternity's Gate
Bruno Ganz in The House That Jack Built
Jon Hamm in Bad Times At the El Royale
Steve Buscemi in Nancy
Edoardo Pesce in Dogman
Masaharu Fukuyama in Mirai
Michael Shannon in What They Had
Bradley Cooper in Avengers: Infinity War
Bruce Dern in Chappaquiddick
F. Murray Abraham in Isle of Dogs
Lin Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns
Henry Cavill in Mission Impossible: Fallout
Julian Dennison in Deadpool 2
Brendan Gleeson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Norman Foster in The Other Side of the Wind
Edward Norton in Isle of Dogs
Jeff Goldblum in Isle of Dogs
Bill Murray in Isle of Dogs
Bob Balaban in Isle of Dogs
Chelcie Ross in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in Avengers: Infinity War
Andrew Dice Clay in A Star is Born
Jude Law in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Cedric the Entertainer in First Reformed
Anthony Welsh in Journeyman
Jason Clarke in First Man
Brian Tyree Henry in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Ben Mendelsohn in Ready Player One
Bill Camp in Wild Life
Jasper Paakkonen in Blackkklansman
Paul Stewart in The Other Side of the Wind
Stephen Root in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Colin Farrell in Widows
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins Returns
Corey Hawkins in Blackkklansman
Stephen Dillane in The Outlaw King
Nicolas Cage in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
James Franco in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Steven Yeun in Sorry to Bother You
Simon Pegg in Mission Impossible: Fallout
Rob Delaney in Deadpool 2
Gregory Sierra in The Other Side of the Wind
Ned Dennehy in Mandy
Saul Rubinek in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Noah Jupe in A Quiet Place
Paul Sparks in Thoroughbreds
Joe Alwyn in Boy Erased
Willie Watson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Mark Ruffalo in Avenges: Infinity War
Rupert Friend in At Eternity's Gate
T.J. Miller in Deadpool 2
Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Outlaw King
Colman Domingo in If Beale Street Could Talk
Flea in Boy Erased
Michael Beach in If Beale Street Could Talk
Trevante Rhodes in Bird Box
Michael Douglas in Ant-Man and the Wasp
J.K. Simmons in The Front Runner
Jeff Goldblum in Hotel Artemis
Bill Duke in Mandy - 3
Rory Cochrane in White Boy Rick
Jeffrey Donovan in Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Tom Hiddleston in Avengers: Infinity War
Ving Rhames in Mission Impossible: Fallout
Tamuera Morrison in Aquaman
Blake Jenner in American Animals
John Leguizamo in Nancy
Chris Evans in Avengers: Infinity War
Roland Møller in Papillon
Corey Stoll in First Man
Winston Duke in Black Panther
Benedict Wong in Avengers: Infinity War
Dave Chappelle in A Star is Born
Liev Schreiber in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Kevin J. O'Connor in Widows
Tom Hollander in A Private War
Dave Bautista in Avengers: Infinity War
Ted Danson in Hearts Beat Loud
Steve Buscemi in Lean on Pete
Alfred Molina in The Front Runner
Edmond O'Brien in The Other Side of the Wind
Lamorne Morris in Game Night
Udo Kier in American Animals
John Magaro in Overlord
Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
John Mulaney in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Steve Zahn in Lean on Pete
Tom Hollander in Bird Box
Ryan Eggold in Blackkklansman
Pedro Pascal in If Beale Street Could Talk
Mahershala Ali Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Allan Corduner in Disobedience
Lukas Haas in Widows
Danny Glover in Sorry to Bother You
Pilou Asbaek in Overlord
Brad Bird in Incredibles 2
Liam Neeson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Travis Fimmel in Lean on Pete
Sebastian Koch in Never Look Away
Chris Hemsworth in Bad Times At the El Royale
Tom Hollander in Bohemian Rhapsody
Alec Baldwin in Mission Impossible: Fallout
Harvey Keitel in Isle of Dogs
Paul Walter Hauser in Blackkklansman
Liam Neeson in Widows
Sebastian Stan in Avengers: Infinity War
Jamie Dornan in A Private War
David Krumholtz in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Mark Gatiss in The Favourite
Woody Harrelson in Solo
John Malkovich in Bird Box
Wood Harris in Creed II
Yorick van Wageningen in Papillon
Clancy Brown in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Algee Smith in The Hate U Give
Chadwick Boseman in Avengers: Infinity War
Russell Hornsby in Creed II
Jon Øigarden in 22 July
Bruce Dern in White Boy Rick
Xavier Dolan in Boy Erased
Garrett Dillahunt in Widows
Alec Baldwin in Blackkklansman
Brian Tyree Henry in White Boy Rick
Billy Howle in Outlaw King
Joseph Mazzello in Bohemian Rhapsody
Stellan Skarsgard in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Sam Rockwell in Vice
David Kross in Sorry to Bother You
Kyle Chandler in First Man
James LeGros in Support the Girls
Danny Glover in The Old Man and the Gun
Gwilym Lee in Bohemian Rhapsody
Terry Crews in Sorry to Bother You
Forrest Whittaker in Black Panther
Billy Magnussen in Game Night
Walton Goggins in Ant-Man and the Wasp
Tyler Perry in Vice
Courtney B. Vance in Ben is Back
Patton Oswalt in Sorry to Bother You
Wayne Knight in Blindspotting
Colin Firth in Mary Poppins Returns
Mandy Patinkin in Life Itself
Laurence Fishburne in Ant-Man and the Wasp
Jonah Hill in Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot
Bob Odenkirk in Incredibles 2
Ben Kingsley in Operation Finale
Don Cheadle in Avengers: Infinity War
Donald Glover in Solo
Clancy Brown in Chappaquiddick
Jack Lowden in Mary Queen of Scots
John Cena in Bumblebee
Stacy Keach in Gotti
Benedict Wong in Annihilation - 2.5
Robert Duvall in Widows
Willem Dafoe in Aquaman
Will Patton in Halloween
Jude Law in Vox Lux
Joe Alwyn in Mary Queen of Scots
Nick Kroll in Operation Finale
Timothy Hutton in Beautiful Boy
Gen Hoshino in Mirai
Anthony Mackie in Avengers: Infinity War
Jake Gyllenhaal in The Sisters Brothers
Henry Golding in A Simple Favor
Dan Fogler in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Yahya Abdul-Manteen II in Aquaman
Jim Gaffigan in Chappaquiddick
Jack Black in Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot
Stanley Tucci in A Private War
Xavier Dolan in Bad Times At The El Royale
Ben Falcone in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Bob Random in The Other Side of the Wind
Daniel Kaluuya in Black Panther
Ezra Miller in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Mark Duplass in Tully
Jared Abrahamson in American Animals
Common in The Hate U Give
John Ortiz in Bumblebee
Ben Hardy in Bohemian Rhapsody
Paul Bettany in Solo
Dimitar Marinov in Green Book
Andy Serkis in Black Panther
Chris Pratt in Avengers: Infinity War
Patrick Wilson in Aquaman
Oscar Issac in At Eternity's Gate
Martin Freeman in Black Panther
Rufus Jones in Stan & Ollie
Dolph Lundgren in Aquaman
Dave Franco in If Beale Street Could Talk
Anthony Mackie in The Hate You Give
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Mamoudou Athie in The Front Runner
Aidan Gillen in Bohemian Rhapsody
K.J. Apa in The Hate U Give
Antonio Banderas in Life Itself
Jorge Lendeborg Jr. in Bumblebee
Danny Huston in Stan & Ollie - 2
James Cromwell in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Joe Alwyn in Operation Finale
Riz Ahmed in Venom
Steve Carell in Vice
Ted Levine in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Guy Pearce in Mary Queen of Scots
Jimmy O. Yang in Crazy Rich Asians
David Gyasi in Annihilation
Toby Jones in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Michael Pena in Ant-Man and the Wasp
Justin Theroux in Mute
Ken Jeong in Crazy Rich Asians - 1.5
Jefferson Hall in Halloween
Alex Monner in Life Itself
Allen Leech in Bohemian Rhapsody
Haluk Bilginer in Halloween
Benedict Hardie in Upgrade
Rafi Gavron in A Star is Born
Harrison Gilbertson in Upgrade
David Tennant in Mary Queen of Scots
Charlie Day in Hotel Artemis
Max Irons in The Wife
Oscar Isaac in Life Itself
Harry Lloyd in The Wife
Oscar Isaac in Annihilation
Shea Whigham in Vice - 1
Spencer LoFranco in Gotti
Jesse Plemons in Vice
Mike Myers in Bohemian Rhapsody
Justice Smith in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
Toby Kebbell in Destroyer
Rafe Spall in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

Next: 2018 Lead

Monday, 11 February 2019

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2018: Russell Hornsby in The Hate U Give

Russell Hornsby did not receive an Oscar nomination, despite being nominated and winning a few critic awards, for portraying Maverick 'Mav' Carter in The Hate U Give.

The Hate U Give follows a teenage girl, Starr (Amanda Stenberg)'s, struggle after witnessing the death of her best friend by a the hands of a police officer. The film certainly has many more than decent elements however struggles a bit by funneling all of these through YA trappings.

Russell Hornsby, who made a fine impression a couple years ago as Denzel Washington's much older son in Fences, plays Mav Carter the father to Stenberg's Starr. A role similar in intention to Laurence Fishburne's Furious Styles in Boyz n the Hood. A man who has made mistakes in his past and intends to make sure his family survives and thrives. This is made abundantly clear through the film's striking opening scene where Mav outlines how to handle when being pulled over by the police. Hornsby's in turn makes quite the impression in this scene delivery through this monologue with a strict intensity. He creates the right sense of the danger of it through his hollow method, though shows within it the sort of conviction with his work to support the sense that all for the good of children. Hornsby lays it down bluntly with all the seriousness of a man preparing them to survive most of all, and doesn't even make a glint of anything else. Within this also there is this sort of inherent harshness he brings within his presence that effectively suggests a man who has had his own hard life, and that this too is part of this point blank conditioning. Hornsby in his eyes captures this certain weight of a difficult life as he explains this, making quite the powerful first impression in the film.

Hornsby naturally reduces that overt intensity in his next scene, though it is always something inherent in his performance, effectively so. This is as he manages to convey the loving father who tries to give his children a blunt truth for their lives. Hornsby brings this warmth just as this rather subdued yet potent quality in the character. Hornsby almost makes this the exceptions in a sense as these moments of ease when he can find them to show his affection for his children openly. Hornsby finds the right balance in this and does a particularly good job of in finding just brief subtle moments when watching his children this sense of an unconditional love. This is always intertwined with the harshness of the man's past and how that has influenced Mav's present view. Hornsby again though portrays well the way this informs a certain adamant passion in the character. This is as we see it as he explains his views of the drugs being pushed into the neighborhood by outside forces where Hornsby's delivery accentuates this as another blunt truth to Mav who wishes to instill an understanding to this perspective in his children. These moments could fall into posturing, but Horsnby really ground it well through his performance which always makes it this expression of this internalized experience of the man.

After the inciting incident occurs Hornsby's is perhaps too much of a secondary character much of the time. Every moment he appears though is a strong one due to his devoted work. One of the best moments being when he comforts his daughter from a nightmare after the shooting. Hornsby's great in the scene as he plays it more like a soldier comforting a fellow comrade with PTSD than just a concerned father. He importantly doesn't overplay this though again making it rational by making the state of Mav such a vivid one. This is not shown to be always a positive thing as we see him fight with his wife (Regina Hall), and shows his own limits of tolerance when Starr brings home a white boyfriend. The former scenes Hornsby brings the right determination again within the spirit of the character that he attaches to a conviction to protect his home, much as he protects his family, that he shows to be stubborn though based within an earnest belief. The latter Hornsby is great in as it could've been a moment that easily devolved to some over the top act. Thankfully Hornsby realizes this so well as he portrays not so much a disappointment in his daughter, but rather in himself in his expression of the scene as one of self-loathing surrounding the mistakes of his past. I wish the film had focused more on his character as his scenes are the best in the film. The film gets unfortunately a little muddled in its portrayal of the conflict between the family and an old drug dealer acquaintance of Mav's where that YA influence becomes evident. This in that the drug dealer, despite being played by the reliable Anthony Mackie, feels more like a YA villain than a realistic menace. This simplifies the interactions of the conflict and unfortunately makes most of Hornsby's late scenes pretty limited in scope and potential for him. Now he's still very good in every moment he does have and brings as much of a reality and weight to even the more contrived moments. This is especially in the scene of the "giving hate" speech, that while it seems more reminiscent of something more like a speech from the Hunger Games, than something from Boyz N the Hood, in its approach. Hornsby's though is so very genuine in his switch from an intense hate to an adamant love that he does make up for that to an extent. Hornsby's consistently grants an honesty to these moments even as the narrative becomes a little unwieldy in its overarching tone. His performance though is a consistently potent element in the film that is frankly of a greater film than the one he appears in.

Friday, 1 February 2019

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2018

And the Nominees Were Not:

Tom Waits in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Tim Blake Nelson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience

Russell Hornsby in The Hate U Give

Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite

Peter Bogdanovich in The Other Side of the Wind

Predict those five or these five:

Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale

Lewis Pullman in Bad Times At the El Royale

Linus Roache in Mandy

Steven Yeun in Burning

Brian Tyree Henry in If Beale Street Could Talk

Russell Crowe in Boy Erased

Or Both, and for Prediction purposes:

Waits from Scruggs

Bridges from Bad Times

Best Actor