Javier Bardem for Biutiful - after winning the Cannes Film Festival award of best male performance, Bardem seems to be in the lead of the race for the Oscar of Best Leading Actor. He got all the praises in Cannes and his precedents are simply statements about how great his acting skills are and starring a movie directed by a great director as Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams and Babel) is an advantage in this race. Portraying a man involved in illegal activities who's dying is the kind of juicy role that the Academy usually loves, but audiences say that the movie is very sad, and may be too sad for the Academy, but it seems that Bardem's performance is too good to be ignored.
Robert Duvall for Get Low - Duvall's performance in Get Low has generated a lot of early Oscar buzz, being already described as an "acting gem". There's no secret that Mr. Duvall is one of the best actors alive in Hollywood, for sure, and I wouldn't be surprise if he would be nominated for the Best Actor Oscar and take the golden statue home, just because his role as a man who makes his own funeral in order to "put his older himself seven feet under" seems a juicy role that combined with Duvall's acting skills may become into gold. But there's a problem that appeared some weeks ago: Get Low is loosing some Oscar traction and I'm afraid that the Academy forgets Duvall's performance. By now, he keeps in the race, but the competition is serious this year and Duvall needs an Oscar campaign in order to not be forgotten by the Oscar voters!
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network - Eisenberg got raves for playing Mark Zuckerberg, the guy who founded the Facebook, in the movie of the year. In fact, The Social Network was a commercial and critical sucess and Eisenberg may benefit from the favoritism that the Facebook movie is getting in the Oscar race, getting a nomination. He's very talented and reviews described his "nuanced performance" as something like "awesome", but he's young (27), and may be too young to get the love from the Oscar voters. By now, he's has a great chance to get a place between the 5 Best Leading Actor nominees.
Colin Firth for The King's Speech - playing English royalty have been helping a couple of actors to get an Academy Award nod and, in Helen Mirren's case, a win. Firth seems amazing in portraying the King With a Speech Problem (George VI) and the critics seems to agree, raving him like they did last year, or even more! In A Single Man, Firth delivered a "performance of a lifetime", but the Academy didn't gave him the Oscar, the voters decided to give the gold to the very overdue Jeff Bridges. At the moment, Firth is THE frontrunner for the Oscar will be nominated in the end of this race (certainly) and, maybe, take the gold home, which is the most likely thing to happen!
James Franco for 127 Hours - while the Academy loves to give an Oscar nod to an actor/actress' breakthough performances, some actors that are overdue for some recognition must wait and this year may be James Franco's opportunitie. He's very well-known in the cinema business and named a good actor by the critics in general and he has a good body of work, but no Oscar nod. His role in the Academy winner director Danny Boyle's 127 Hours as the mountain climber Aron Ralston (who had to cut his own arm during one of his adventures) may be his best chance ever to see his talent recognized by the Academy. This is a juicy role that the Academy may like, but a similiar one wasn't recognized some years ago: Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless in the acclaimed Sean Penn's Into the Wild. James Franco is overdue for an Oscar nod (did you ever watched his performance in Milk?) and his performance in this "one man show" have been receiving raves from the critics and compliments from audiences, too. The Academy must recognize him this year!
Robert Duvall for Get Low - Duvall's performance in Get Low has generated a lot of early Oscar buzz, being already described as an "acting gem". There's no secret that Mr. Duvall is one of the best actors alive in Hollywood, for sure, and I wouldn't be surprise if he would be nominated for the Best Actor Oscar and take the golden statue home, just because his role as a man who makes his own funeral in order to "put his older himself seven feet under" seems a juicy role that combined with Duvall's acting skills may become into gold. But there's a problem that appeared some weeks ago: Get Low is loosing some Oscar traction and I'm afraid that the Academy forgets Duvall's performance. By now, he keeps in the race, but the competition is serious this year and Duvall needs an Oscar campaign in order to not be forgotten by the Oscar voters!
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network - Eisenberg got raves for playing Mark Zuckerberg, the guy who founded the Facebook, in the movie of the year. In fact, The Social Network was a commercial and critical sucess and Eisenberg may benefit from the favoritism that the Facebook movie is getting in the Oscar race, getting a nomination. He's very talented and reviews described his "nuanced performance" as something like "awesome", but he's young (27), and may be too young to get the love from the Oscar voters. By now, he's has a great chance to get a place between the 5 Best Leading Actor nominees.
Colin Firth for The King's Speech - playing English royalty have been helping a couple of actors to get an Academy Award nod and, in Helen Mirren's case, a win. Firth seems amazing in portraying the King With a Speech Problem (George VI) and the critics seems to agree, raving him like they did last year, or even more! In A Single Man, Firth delivered a "performance of a lifetime", but the Academy didn't gave him the Oscar, the voters decided to give the gold to the very overdue Jeff Bridges. At the moment, Firth is THE frontrunner for the Oscar will be nominated in the end of this race (certainly) and, maybe, take the gold home, which is the most likely thing to happen!
James Franco for 127 Hours - while the Academy loves to give an Oscar nod to an actor/actress' breakthough performances, some actors that are overdue for some recognition must wait and this year may be James Franco's opportunitie. He's very well-known in the cinema business and named a good actor by the critics in general and he has a good body of work, but no Oscar nod. His role in the Academy winner director Danny Boyle's 127 Hours as the mountain climber Aron Ralston (who had to cut his own arm during one of his adventures) may be his best chance ever to see his talent recognized by the Academy. This is a juicy role that the Academy may like, but a similiar one wasn't recognized some years ago: Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless in the acclaimed Sean Penn's Into the Wild. James Franco is overdue for an Oscar nod (did you ever watched his performance in Milk?) and his performance in this "one man show" have been receiving raves from the critics and compliments from audiences, too. The Academy must recognize him this year!
in consideration: Stephen Dorff (Somewhere); Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine); Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter);
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