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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 2, 2020 21:35:15 GMT
Peter Mullan in The Vanishing (2018) - 2 guys go nuts in a lighthouse um......... the 2018 version. Mullan in (yet another) tour de force - nothing he does rings false and everything he does has crushing gravity and portent.
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Post by chris3 on Jan 3, 2020 0:08:13 GMT
Essie Davis, The Babadook Tom Hardy, Locke Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas, Blade Runner 2049 Mark Hamill, The Last Jedi Siobhan Finneran, Apostasy Sandra Huller, Toni Erdmann Aisling Franciosi and Baykali Ganambarr, The Nightingale
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 3, 2020 0:14:10 GMT
Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread.
Krieps took on Daniel Day-Lewis who was operating at a very high level, and gave the dominant performance of the movie. Exceptional work from this actress, and she got very little material reward for her efforts.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jan 3, 2020 0:19:22 GMT
Chris Pine, Horrible Bosses 2.
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Post by Drish on Jan 3, 2020 0:50:30 GMT
Didn't De Niro get an Oscar nom for that?
Mia Wasikowska - Only Lovers Left Alive John Gallagher Jr. - Short Term 12 Keira Knightly - Seeking a Friend, Begin Again Nicolas Cage - Joe Asa Buttefield, Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall - A Brilliant Young Mind Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass - Blue Jay Jessica Chastain - Miss Sloane (GOAT level) Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig - The Skeleton Twins Jack Reynor - What Richard Did Ben Whishaw and Cheng Pei-Pei - Lilting Emma Stone - Irrational Man Mark Duplass - Creep, The One I Love James McAvoy - Filth Naomi Watts - Fair Game Alicia Vikander - The Light Between Oceans
I'm missing out many but these are some who came to my mind
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 18:41:57 GMT
Ralph Fiennes, Coriolanus Vincent Cassel, My King Walton Goggins, The Hateful Eight Lior Ashkenazi, Foxtrot Garrett Hedlund, Mudbound
Michelle Yeoh, The Lady Naomi Watts, Birdman Joan Allen, Room Marion Cotillard, From the Land of the Moon Nadine Wrietz, This Crazy Heart
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Post by sirjeremy on Jan 3, 2020 19:53:07 GMT
Martin Savage - Another Year Emma Thompson - Beautiful Creatures Carey Mulligan - Far From the Madding Crowd Vanessa Redgrave - Coriolanus Meryl Streep - Ricki and the Flash
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 3, 2020 20:50:43 GMT
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Post by stephen on Jan 4, 2020 0:40:15 GMT
A true example of the tragedy of the Deep South in more ways than one is Gary Poulter's performance in Joe. Poulter's Wade is a roosterlike strutter, a wannabe tough guy held together by drink but who can’t even hold down a job for a day, and he takes out his boozed-up rage on his family, and woe betide anyone who turns their back on him. Poulter was a homeless drifter with a checkered past who crossed paths with David Gordon Green in the hopes of being a background extra, but Green saw the greatness lurking behind that white snarl of beard and hooded eyes. Poulter brings a pathetic, harrowing realism to the part; he’s lived this life and he seemed like a man who knew little else. Even when Wade lets his fists fly, you can’t help but feel pity for the gnarled old bastard, because Poulter brought an almost beautiful complexity to the role. Poulter died soon after completing filming, having drowned due to alcohol poisoning; the tragedy of his life colors another facet in the character that enriches his performance. This is perhaps the greatest one-shot performance in cinematic history; Poulter was a comet who burned bright and hard in his fall.
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Post by finniussnrub on Jan 4, 2020 0:51:14 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 4, 2020 1:35:46 GMT
what Stephen said. Poulter is so, so good in Joe. I'm also going to highlight one of my favs from 2016 that kinda flew under the radar: Ralph Ineson in The Witch. 2016 really was a burial ground for great underrated perfs (Issey Ogata, Lily Gladstone, Molly Shannon, Agata Buzek, Tracy Letts, etc). Ineson isn't actually my win for 2016 (that would be Ogata) but neither are much talked about and both gave two of the best performances of the decade. Today I'll just talk about Ineson. I would say Ineson's role embodied the themes of The Witch more than any other character, even Taylor-Joy's. He's no less fanatical than the Kate Dickie character but his persona, more measured and initially kindly, contrasts sharply with her fevered zealotry and rage. This makes the film that much more haunting [and relevant] in its depiction of how religious dread and guilt poisons even the outwardly rational. He's the most conflicted and confused of all the characters; his fall from grace the hardest and most devastating and most tragic. Whereas Taylor-Joy's role is passive and reactionary (the horror happens to and around her), Ineson is the true conductor of the film's horror because none of the events in the film terrify the way they terrify William, the staunchly faithful and outwardly righteous husband and father (it's like Eggers engineered the film to specifically torture this character), and Ineson milks the shit out of that complexity. Every word he says in the second half (and he nailed the dialogue) thinly veils an active volcano of horror, doubt and confusion which he in turn projects onto Thomasin (a much-discussed handy parallel to how misogyny operates in religious communities IRL). It's a brilliant go-for-broke performance. You can't talk about the themes of this remarkable film without talking about Ineson.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jan 4, 2020 1:53:59 GMT
Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread.
Krieps took on Daniel Day-Lewis who was operating at a very high level, and gave the dominant performance of the movie. Exceptional work from this actress, and she got very little material reward for her efforts. Yeah, Day-Lewis is great and all, but Krieps practically runs away with the film at several points. I'm actually surprised she didn't get nominated. Such delicate wonderful work. Heck she arguably has the best moment in the entire film during the fitting sequence.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jan 4, 2020 1:56:42 GMT
Oh honey, Marion Cotillard in Rust & Bone and in The Immigrant.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 4, 2020 2:59:14 GMT
Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread.
Krieps took on Daniel Day-Lewis who was operating at a very high level, and gave the dominant performance of the movie. Exceptional work from this actress, and she got very little material reward for her efforts. Yeah, Day-Lewis is great and all, but Krieps practically runs away with the film at several points. I'm actually surprised she didn't get nominated. Such delicate wonderful work. Heck she arguably has the best moment in the entire film during the fitting sequence. Krieps was amazing, and performance-wise, it was clearly her movie. But she was a mostly unknown European actress up against the publicity machine of DDL's "retirement". She couldn't compete with that, and the talk tended to focus about him and what he did to get into character etc etc. It felt a bit ridiculous that everything else was being nominated (including a deserving Lesley Manville in supporting actress), yet not the film's best performance. Krieps probably suffered by being the most unknown element in the film It's unfair in a way, because an actress like her could really have used the leverage of an Oscar nomonation to advance her career. I mean, she's still getting steady work, but you'd imagine a performance of that magnitude would have Hollywood clamouring to turn her into the next Cate Blanchett or whatever (it's certainly comparable in quality to Blanchett's breakout role in Elizabeth), and that doesn't seem to be happening. An Oscar nomination might have seen more producers try to build vehicles around her.
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Post by stephen on Jan 4, 2020 3:26:31 GMT
Yeah, Day-Lewis is great and all, but Krieps practically runs away with the film at several points. I'm actually surprised she didn't get nominated. Such delicate wonderful work. Heck she arguably has the best moment in the entire film during the fitting sequence. Krieps was amazing, and performance-wise, it was clearly her movie. But she was a mostly unknown European actress up against the publicity machine of DDL's "retirement". She couldn't compete with that, and the talk tended to focus about him and what he did to get into character etc etc. It felt a bit ridiculous that everything else was being nominated (including a deserving Lesley Manville in supporting actress), yet not the film's best performance. Krieps probably suffered by being the most unknown element in the film It's unfair in a way, because an actress like her could really have used the leverage of an Oscar nomonation to advance her career. I mean, she's still getting steady work, but you'd imagine a performance of that magnitude would have Hollywood clamouring to turn her into the next Cate Blanchett or whatever (it's certainly comparable in quality to Blanchett's breakout role in Elizabeth), and that doesn't seem to be happening. An Oscar nomination might have seen more producers try to build vehicles around her. I don't know if I quite agree 100% with the analysis here. Day-Lewis's retirement narrative didn't affect Krieps's chances; the fact of the matter is that she was an unknown actress in a late-breaking movie against a very tight lineup of four great performances and Meryl Streep, who has a spot always reserved for her (and even then, it was for one of her better performances). Best Actress was uncommonly strong that year, with all five nominees being in Best Picture contenders (which is a rarity for that category). Krieps just happened to suffer because she wound up against a powerful lineup and didn't have either the name recognition or early enough traction to get a foothold. She definitely deserved the nod and the win against anyone sans McDormand, but I don't know if I could even call her underrated because everyone seems to agree she was excellent and deserved the nomination.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 4, 2020 3:46:46 GMT
Krieps was amazing, and performance-wise, it was clearly her movie. But she was a mostly unknown European actress up against the publicity machine of DDL's "retirement". She couldn't compete with that, and the talk tended to focus about him and what he did to get into character etc etc. It felt a bit ridiculous that everything else was being nominated (including a deserving Lesley Manville in supporting actress), yet not the film's best performance. Krieps probably suffered by being the most unknown element in the film It's unfair in a way, because an actress like her could really have used the leverage of an Oscar nomonation to advance her career. I mean, she's still getting steady work, but you'd imagine a performance of that magnitude would have Hollywood clamouring to turn her into the next Cate Blanchett or whatever (it's certainly comparable in quality to Blanchett's breakout role in Elizabeth), and that doesn't seem to be happening. An Oscar nomination might have seen more producers try to build vehicles around her. I don't know if I quite agree 100% with the analysis here. Day-Lewis's retirement narrative didn't affect Krieps's chances; the fact of the matter is that she was an unknown actress in a late-breaking movie against a very tight lineup of four great performances and Meryl Streep, who has a spot always reserved for her (and even then, it was for one of her better performances). Best Actress was uncommonly strong that year, with all five nominees being in Best Picture contenders (which is a rarity for that category). Krieps just happened to suffer because she wound up against a powerful lineup and didn't have either the name recognition or early enough traction to get a foothold. She definitely deserved the nod and the win against anyone sans McDormand, but I don't know if I could even call her underrated because everyone seems to agree she was excellent and deserved the nomination. Well all the other points you make are true, but I think the DDL retirement tour definitely took up precious PR Oxygen that in other circumstances would have been used to hype up Krieps as this "amazing new discovery stealing a film from the great Daniel Day-Lewis". You can't underestimate how much the right level of publicity could have affected her chances, late breaking film or not. Underrated doesn't have to mean you never have to have heard of it, or the majority of people don't think it's good. In the case of Kreips, her performance can be called underrated because it clearly didn't get the plaudits many feel it deserved in the awards season it was released. I think I likened it once to nominating Gone With The Wind for everything, but forgetting to nominate Vivien Leigh. Krieps missing out like that is egreious enough to keep her work in the underrated category. On balance, I feel she would have been a deserving Best Actress winner. I think DDL was excellent, and purely on quality of performance, he'd be my Best Actor runner-up behind Washington for Roman J Israel Esq. Still after seeing Watchmen, I'd definitely be intruigued by Jeremy Irons (an actor I'm often cold about) in the role of Woodcock.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jan 4, 2020 5:19:17 GMT
I don't know if I quite agree 100% with the analysis here. Day-Lewis's retirement narrative didn't affect Krieps's chances; the fact of the matter is that she was an unknown actress in a late-breaking movie against a very tight lineup of four great performances and Meryl Streep, who has a spot always reserved for her (and even then, it was for one of her better performances). Best Actress was uncommonly strong that year, with all five nominees being in Best Picture contenders (which is a rarity for that category). Krieps just happened to suffer because she wound up against a powerful lineup and didn't have either the name recognition or early enough traction to get a foothold. She definitely deserved the nod and the win against anyone sans McDormand, but I don't know if I could even call her underrated because everyone seems to agree she was excellent and deserved the nomination. Well all the other points you make are true, but I think the DDL retirement tour definitely took up precious PR Oxygen that in other circumstances would have been used to hype up Krieps as this "amazing new discovery stealing a film from the great Daniel Day-Lewis". You can't underestimate how much the right level of publicity could have affected her chances, late breaking film or not. Underrated doesn't have to mean you never have to have heard of it, or the majority of people don't think it's good. In the case of Kreips, her performance can be called underrated because it clearly didn't get the plaudits many feel it deserved in the awards season it was released. I think I likened it once to nominating Gone With The Wind for everything, but forgetting to nominate Vivien Leigh. Krieps missing out like that is egreious enough to keep her work in the underrated category. On balance, I feel she would have been a deserving Best Actress winner. I think DDL was excellent, and purely on quality of performance, he'd be my Best Actor runner-up behind Washington for Roman J Israel Esq. Still after seeing Watchmen, I'd definitely be intruigued by Jeremy Irons (an actor I'm often cold about) in the role if Woodcock. DDL's whole "last movie" definitely played a part in her lack of a nomination, maybe it wasn't the only reason, but it appeared to have an effect. It gave a certain media narration, that left her out in the cold as a result. She's underrated in the sense, that while her performance was heavily praised by reviewers, it was pretty much ignored by the award bodies, and sometimes it feels like people forget that her role is just as important as Day Lewis'. Personally, I think she could have replaced somebody like Margot Robbie, who I liked fine, but not enough to give her a nom.
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Post by isabelaolive on Jan 4, 2020 21:43:54 GMT
Essie Davis - The Babadook Michael Shannon - Take Shelter Adepero Oduye - Pariah Yoon Jeong‑hee - Poetry Nina Hoss - Phoenix
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 5, 2020 4:05:40 GMT
Here's a bunch who came to mind (not yet mentioned) -
Thomas Jane, 1922 - career best, rigid, tormented, drawling
Nicolas Cage, Army of One - nobody else could pull this off, as a shrieking jingo Cage finds nooks of sweetness and gives over so much zested energy to this role it has to be seen to be believed
Pierce Brosnan, The Ghost Writer - love his line readings and how he integrates the outside elements, you sense the thought against the stress and the breaths off being busy
Richard Jenkins, Bone Tomahawk - feeble and amusing not unlike Walter Brennan, a lived-in, affecting perf; actually, whole cast is committed as hell, and worked for scale!
Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman - a perf that stays with you, a stuck, tough perf of a luckless idler given much more responsibility than he's used to
whole cast, Killing Them Softly - from Liotta's pathetic pleading, Gandolfini's no-bullshit heavy, Mendelson's doped dirtbag, Scoot's nasally naivety, Pitt's cool
Javier Bardem, Everybody Knows - there's a lot of wonderful humor in his early scenes, and then a whole deeper questioning of a life, liability, and a necessary sacrifice and he pulls it off like the talent he is
Josh Lucas, The Mend - a shiftless, disheveled role given to fits of literal congestion and ache and immaturity by a very funny, loose Lucas
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Jessica Chastain, Salome - blisteringly sexy and viciously sly, her career best yet
Parker Posey, Irrational Man - a rare case where it's the funniest and saddest perf in the pic, so heartbreakingly built and played
Kate Winslet, Wonder Wheel - downright terrific, a lost loveliness and high-strung busyness off-setting a wracked gloom
Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women - felt a lot to me like an Oscar-winning perf, broken and searching, a "feminist" role that isn't cute or too much
Emmanuelle Seigner, Venus in Fur - she owns the stage, literally, with great wit and perverse humor; "Would your wife like you offering me real coffee?"
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars - an almost satiric level of vanity, to a daring and hysterical degree
Susan Sarandon, The Meddler - a very spot-on East Coast mom perf, hilariously tangled up in all sorts of slapstick and romance
Zofia Wichlacz, Warsaw 44 - overdirected pic but she felt like a find to me, exceptionally felt, physical, and lovely
Cate Blanchett, Manifesto - don't know who else could pull this off, a tremendously exciting exercise of monologues and traits, w great layering of sophistication and sarcasm
Edie Falco, Outside In - meh movie but she pulls off a very internally complex and tricky role with great subtle concern and dithering eyes
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 5, 2020 4:16:55 GMT
Jason Segel in The End of the Tour.
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Post by futuretrunks on Jan 5, 2020 5:05:49 GMT
Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer
Michael Shannon, Premium Rush
Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal the great TV show
Sam Jackson and Walton Goggins, The Hateful Eight
Blake Lively was pretty good in The Town too. Never got her due.
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Post by fiosnasiob on Jan 5, 2020 21:12:51 GMT
Sophie Okonedo as Mrs Mandela. Big Bold Brillant.
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Post by getclutch on Jan 11, 2020 2:08:34 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 8, 2022 19:08:31 GMT
fav perfs I've watched since last posting...... I'd seen HoracePete before but I think I accidentally missed one or two eps, so my rewatch felt new. Cage one isn't "great" but a hilarious gift for fans....... Dench and team Toc Toc also not "great" but such a bunch of purely radiant perfs.
Adele Haenel — The Bloom of Yesterday Alan Alda, Buscemi, Lange — Horace and Pete Judy Davis, Charlotte Rampling — The Eye of the Storm Donald Sutherland, Luca Marinelli — Trust Nicolas Cage — Between Worlds Kang-ho Song — Secret Reunion Judi Dench — Esio Trot Whole cast — Toc Toc
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Post by avnermoriarti on Nov 9, 2022 5:34:04 GMT
Surely these performances got a couple of nominations here and there but nothing major that I recall
Matthias Schoenaerts/Jeroen Perceval - Bullhead Angeliki Papoulia - Alps/The Lobster Aniello Arena - Reality Greta Gerwig - Damsels in Distress Zhao Tao - A Touch of Sin Cecilia Roth - I'm So Excited! Felicity Jones - The Invisible Woman Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Don Jon Helmut Berger/Gaspard Ulliel - Saint Laurent Joaquin Phoenix - Irrational Man Tilda Swinton - Okja Angus Macfadyen - The Lost City of Z Garance Marillier/Ella Rumpf - Raw Vincent Lacoste - Sorry Angel (or most of what he does these days, one of the great deadpan comedy performers) Juliette Binoche - Who You Think I Am Isabelle Huppert - Greta Jean Dujardin/Adele Haenel - Deerskin
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