Oscars

Taking a look at the acting categories from this year’s Academy Awards, here are my picks for the best performances from this year’s Best Actor nominees.       CASEY AFFLECK  BEST PERFORMANCE – MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016) I love Casey Affleck more than most people.  After a spectacular 2007, starring in films like Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (which was almost my pick here), he was a…

Continuing to look at the best performances from this year’s Oscar nominated actors, here are my picks for the best performances from this year’s Best Actress nominees.     ISABELLE HUPPERT (Nominated for Elle) BEST PERFORMANCE – ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) Look, I understand Isabelle Huppert is an international icon with over 100 films to her name as an actress.  But, before Elle, I had only seen her in I Heart Huckabees (2004) and briefly in Amour (2012), which has since forced…

Continuing to look at 2017’s nominated actors, I am now going to list my favorite performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actor category.  We’ve got three fresh faces in this group, a Hollywood legend, and one of the finest and most unique actors in the game today.  Check out my picks for the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actor nominees.       MAHERSHALA ALI (Nominated for Moonlight) BEST PERFORMANCE – MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, 2016) Mahershala…

Continuing Oscar week, I am now going to break down each acting category and list the best performances from each nominated actor.  I will first break down the Best Supporting Actress category, which is loaded with established veterans and a breakout star of 2016.  Here are my picks for the best performances from the 2017 Best Supporting Actress nominees.     VIOLA DAVIS (Nominated for Fences) BEST PERFORMANCE – DOUBT  (John Patrick Shanley, 2008) Viola Davis is…

Oppenheimer is the most recent winner of Best Picture at the Academy Awards! Oppenheimer was my favorite movie of 2023 and my favorite of the Best Picture nominees. Christopher Nolan finally got his due and, along with Best Picture, the film won seven total Oscars, including Best Director for Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., as well as a few technical awards. It was a great night for…

The final entry of the “Best of the 2016 Oscar Nominees” series concludes with the best performances from this year’s Best Actor nominees.  Let’s have a look.     BRYAN CRANSTON (Nominated for Trumbo) BEST PERFORMANCE – TRUMBO (2015) Cranston is a television icon for his performance as Walter White in Breaking Bad.  However, this isn’t a list for television, it’s for movies, so that didn’t qualify.  Cranston has had some good supporting performances in some really…