Best Actor Nominees For Oscar 2010
The Buzz: Hot off Firth’s Best Actor win at the Venice Film Festival, this gay-themed drama became a must-see at Toronto and was scooped up for distribution by the Weinsten Company. Says IndieWire’s Anne Thompson, “Firth is a slam dunk for his first Oscar nomination.”
The Buzz: It’s not just the love handles and ’stache that have people excited about Damon’s performance in Steven Soderbergh’s corporate crime dramedy. Variety calls him “excellent.”
The Buzz: What’s this, a potential battle between pals Damon and Clooney? Where’s Pitt? Clooney is said to be in top form as a corporate downsizer whose life revolves around racking up frequent flyer miles.
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The Buzz: Not only does the relatively unknown Stuhlbarg carry the Coen brothers’ latest (in their most personal tale, he portrays a fictional version of their father), he also gets his heads slammed against the chalkboard. Repeatedly.
The Buzz: Well, buzz has not been stellar around the long-delayed adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, but Viggo is still drawing props. “Another Oscar nomination seems likely, if only because Mortensen feels overdue,” writes Anne Thompson.
The Buzz: Considering he turns everything he touches into gold, should we have any doubt that the two-time Best Actor winner can’t sing and dance like the best of them as well? We wouldn’t bet against it.
The Buzz: Six-time nominee Duvall looks to have found another ‘Apostle,’ a quiet Southern-set drama with award potential. IndieWire’s Anne Thompson calls it a “heartbreaking, Oscar-worthy performance.”
The Buzz: Oscar loves when performers flip the script, and here Owen does do something remarkably different: He refrains from kicking ass. Still, the onetime nominee is still a long shot for this family drama from the director of ‘Shine.’
The Buzz: Wahlberg can thank Ryan Gosling, who stepped down from the role of a father searching for his daughter’s killer, if he scores his second Oscar nom in four years.
The Buzz: Director Jane Campion (’The Piano’) deliberately went with a “lesser known” face to portray ill-fated English poet John Keats, and with the attention his performance has been getting, it was a damn good call.
The Buzz: Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, in a film directed Clint Eastwood? This is a biopic match made in heaven; cue the stars ready to align.
The Buzz: There’s a great back story — unknown actor headlines one of summer’s unlikeliest hits. But for now Copley remains a horse as dark as the (SPOILER ALERT!) “prawn” he transforms into.