Oscar: ‘Best Actor’ will debut at the award

For the first time in decades since 1935, the top five actor nominees are all Oscar debutants, with recurring Brendan Fraser (Kit) and Austin Butler (Elvis) as favourites, not to mention Irishman Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin).

The quintet of nominees – made up of white people – is completed by veteran British actor Bill Nighy (Living), who at the age of 73 is applying for an Oscar for the first time, and Irishman Paul Mescal (Aftersun), the youngest, at 27 years old.

The magnificent role of Elvis

A few days before the biggest film gala in dolby theater from Angels (USA) Butler is the biggest bet for his role Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s film that follows the rise and fall (and death) of the king of “rock and roll”.

Butler, 31, doesn’t hold back or overdo it when it comes to playing an artist who undoubtedly has more imitators in the world, with permission from Michael Jackson.

“It’s the biggest responsibility I’ve ever felt, that’s how you feel responsibility to him, to his family, to all the people around the world who love him so much and it’s scary,” Butler explained in an interview with the comedian. Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show.

He got so into the role that Butler still sometimes speaks like the King of Rock, which gave rise to all sorts of jokes, although he takes it in stride. humorand went so far as to joke about it in a December monologue on an American comedy show. live on saturday nights.

This Californian artist arrives at the Academy Hollywood after winning Best Actor at the British BAFTAs and Golden Globes, among others.

Back through the Fraser front door

It doesn’t seem like it, though Brendan Fraser He will make it easier with his interpretation a Professor of English with morbid obesity in “Whale”Darren Aronofsky, in one of those roles that Hollywood loves so much as a tormented character who lives redemption and that requires a big one physical transformation an actor.

To lend credibility to the role, Fraser, who this year won the Critics’ Choice Awards and allocation Association of film actorshe was helped by a 136-kilogram prosthesis that allowed him to become Charlie, a fat man trying to woo his daughter in the most painful days of her life.

Thanks to Charlie, the American-Canadian actor is back in the spotlight after being one of the handsome officers on the big screen in the 90s with hits like “George of the Jungle” and “The Mummy” and then disappear for years.

During this time Fraser went through a costly divorce, health problems for injuries suffered during the filming of action scenes and reported sexual abuse by the former person in charge of Golden Globes Philip Berck.

In a recent interview with the specialized media Deadline, Fraser said that he could not participate in “The Whale” before: “I had no life experience nor trouble. Ten years ago, I wouldn’t have had enough experience as a parent to appreciate what it means to have someone young in your life.”

Farrell should not be ruled out at the Oscars

Butler and Fraser will have to deal with Colin Farrell, who plays a resident of a remote town, the imaginary Inisherin, on an island in Ireland in “Banshees of Inisherin”Martin McDonagh, in an interpretation different from the roles he had in his 25-year career.

Farrell, 46, prints sweetness and vulnerability Pádraic, a parishioner who has never left his town and is trying to save his relationship with his best friend Colm (Brendan Gleeson). A performance that brought her awards such as the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival.

In this tape, he reunited with old acquaintances such as Gleeson, with whom he appeared in “Bravehart” (1995). In fact, as Farrell pointed out in an interview with the media Gold Derby, if he wins, the best thing for him would be to celebrate with his whole “gang”, in relation to his fellow actresses in ” Banshees”.

An Irishman is fighting in front of them Paul Mescal in the intimate film “Aftersun”, where he immerses himself in the skin of Callum, a young father who takes his 11-year-old daughter to some Unforgettable holidays in Turkey.

Mescal, who will soon be filming Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, expressed “great pride” to be nominated with a film that was not “typical for Oscar”: “It’s the kind of movie I’d like to see as an actor,” said Mescal, whose performance in “Aftersun” is more nuanced and subtle than big fanfare.

Nighy’s work experience

Complete Bill Nighy’s list with “Living room” by Oliver Hermanus, where he plays a civil servant, Mr. Williams, who decides to take a break after receiving a harsh punishment diagnosis doctor, in a screenplay adapted by Nobel Prize in Literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro from Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 play “Ikiru.”

When it came to portraying the perfect English gentleman of the 1950s, Nighy held back well, though he clarified in an interview that he was born into that environment: “I’m not unfamiliar with that level of restraint, the extremely humble demeanor that some people, especially from the middle class, demanded of themselves at that time”.