Tag: Best Actor

Welcome to the lead actor race for 2024. With the fall film festival season now in the distance and a few potential contenders still to…

From the beginning of awards season, most pundits seemed to underestimate the chances of a Best Actor win for Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer. Naturally, everyone…

With the Academy’s nominations announcement drawing closer by the day, it’s time to lay it all on the line with my final Oscar nomination predictions….

It’s a crowded field in the race for Best Actor and it’s tough to pick which five will make the Academy’s final nominees. It hasn’t…

Well, well, well. Isn’t Best Actor shaping up to be quite the unpredictable category? It’s the comeback kid versus the new kid on the block….

With the Academy’s nominations announcement drawing closer by the day, it’s time to lay it all on the line with my final Oscar nomination predictions….

From the moment we heard Will Smith (King Richard) would be playing the role of Richard Williams, father of tennis superstars Venus and Serena, we…

We always knew the fifth spot for Best Actor was open to all sorts of possibilities, but few of us expected it to be claimed…

As with many categories this year, four of the five spots for Best Actor have felt sewn up for quite a while now. With nominations…

In last month’s Best Actor piece, I prophesied Benedict Cumberbatch would be the darling of the critics awards, and that’s certainly been the case in…

Not to blow my own trumpet, but Andrew Garfield has been in my Best Actor predictions since August. In my October piece, I suggested keeping…

For years we held aloft Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton as examples of how the Academy can somehow elude greatness. Not only are both men…

Back in 2001, Will Smith earned his first Academy Award nomination for his role as Muhammad Ali in the biopic Ali. While many expected Smith…

After almost completing a clean sweep of the major televised awards, the late Chadwick Boseman is poised to be the first posthumous acting Oscar winner…