Tag: Best Actor

Too many contenders. Too few spots. Picking just five performances for Best Actor this year is difficult, to say the least. Regardless of who the…

Riz Ahmed has dominated the slew of awards this month for his revelatory performance in Sound of Metal including key wins from the National Board…

Much like last year’s race, Best Actor is shaping up as a category with too many deserving contenders to fill just five spots. The only…

Now that we know Chadwick Boseman is considered the lead of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the first reactions to his performance have been incredibly…

UPDATE: With confirmation from Netflix that Chadwick Boseman’s upcoming performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will be submitted as a lead performance, he’s now been…

There are actors, and then there is Christian Bale. This is an actor who is a living embodiment of The Method. Bale transforms himself into…

And so we have a scan of those actresses and actors front and center of their movies. The Lead Actor and Actress races are as…

On the eve of our hotly anticipated 50th podcast, we talk some more Academy Awards with number 49. Robin is the host for the second…

Now that I did some dissecting of the current state of the Best Picture race, I shall once again put on my surgical gloves, and…

The 90th Academy Awards are all done and dusted. Oh how far we have all come. Here are the winners in case you were on…

Status in the industry, body of work, relevance and “importance” of the character, and, ultimately, how the Academy wants to be viewed, all come into play. All are understandable, with one exception – that is the reverse ageism that exists specifically targeted at male actors. Unlike the other three acting categories, there is not a single portrayal of a character under 30 in Oscar’s Best Lead Actor lexicon.

The 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are revealed. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the stand-out winner, taking three of the five film awards….

Merging my recommended links chunks with the ongoing Oscar snubbery series seemed like a great idea – there is after all so much content on…

Perspectives of the Oscar race clearly differ from year-to-year, person-to-person, trends and momentum can mean everything, they can mean nothing. Franchises can be misrepresented by…