Brendan Fraser for “The Whale”, Colin Farrell for “The Banshees of Inishreen”, Austin Butler for “Elvis”, Bill Nye for “To Live” and Paul Mezcal for “After the Sun” will compete for the Oscar for the best actor. .
Fraser wears a 136kg suit to look like Charlie, a 300kg English teacher suffering from the loss of his student.
Austin Butler has already won a Golden Globe for his role in Elvis – he gives a brilliant performance, and the film itself deserves every standing ovation.
Colin Farrell also took home a Globe, but in a different category, because his performance in “The Banshees of Inishrein” is perfect – you want to watch it over and over again, even though it’s in the role of the seemingly country bumpkin.
Both Austin and Colin, considered favorites in the category, give themselves away for the role – Austin learns to talk and sing like Elvis, which affects his vocal cords, and Pharrell manages to remove any sexiness from himself and sculpt a very unusual image .
Bill Nye is such, such a wonderful actor that this role also deserves recognition. To Live, an English-language remake of the Japanese cinema masterpiece Ikiru (1952) by director Akira Kurosawa, is set in London in the 1950s.
The last thirty years of the life of the main character, a petty bureaucrat named Williams, have passed like a dream, and at the same workplace. When he learns that he has cancer and doesn’t have much time left, he decides to give meaning to his life.
Paul Mezcal, the charmer known from “Normal People”, in “After the Sun” is the father of Sophie, who remembers the vacation with him twenty years ago. Real and imagined memories fill the gaps between them as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
Which actor deserves to win the Oscar for Best Actor this year?
Brendan Fraser for “The Whale”
Colin Farrell for The Banshees of Inisherin
Austin Butler for “Elvis”
Bill Nye for “To Live”
Paul Mezcal for “After the Sun”
