It's an understated and charming performance, and one which surely puts Dafoe among favourites for Best Supporting
Actor at next year's Academy Awards.
Not exact matches
For the
next fifty
years, he showed a flair for bringing out the best in
actors, particularly women, although that specialty could occassionally work against him, as when he was removed from the production of Gone With the Wind
at the insistence of Clark Gable.
Back in February I would not have looked
at Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig — deserving as they are of their own vehicle — as contenders for Best
Actor / Actress for
next year, and I certainly would not have predicted this honor being bestowed upon them for their contributions to drama.
So we've decided to kick off our On The Rise selection for 2012 by looking
at some of the
actors who we're tipping for big things in the
next few
years.
The festival has proved to be a reliable launching pad for the
next blockbuster (Apocalypse Now), hit filmmaker (Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh), and under - the - radar Oscar darling (it was
at Cannes last
year that surprise Best
Actor nominee Javier Bardem won his first raves for his performance in Biutiful).
As the best
actor winner, Affleck is expected to present the best actress award
at next year's Academy Awards, as is tradition.
At 25, English
actor, Nicholas Hoult is having one of his best
years yet, seeing Mad Max: Fury Road become a major hit while he was filming his role in
next year's X-Men: Apocalypse.
Apparently Tarantino shared the screenplay with a «small circle of
actors» and got so upset that someone let it loose that he decided not to make the film
next at all and instead plans to publish the script with the potential to revisit the idea of bringing it to the big screen in the
next five
years.
As seemed to be the convention for Italian thrillers for the
next twenty
years, Bava had an American
actor playing the love interest who may or may not be involved in a crime that veers,
at the film's precise midpoint, towards a series of implausible, ridiculous twists endemic of a standard giallo.
It was funny to hear Schrader allude to «awards season»
at the screening, when explaining why the film will be held back to
next spring because Hawke would've given this
year's crop of best
actor hopefuls a run for their money.
Furthermore, MLS boards had already put together their budgets for the
next year at that point, and such a change would surely cost thousands of dollars to implement (not to mention the staff time needed to create waivers, educate members, and ensure bad
actors aren't taking advantage of the new system).