Three of 2018’s four acting winners depicted real-life characters, and Rami Malek was playing easily the most well known: Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. Image Credit: 20th Century Fox/Moviestore/REX/ Though expectations were low before it caused a sensation at the Venice Film Festival, it earned more than $1 billion at the box office and universal praise for star Joaquin Phoenix, who made Joker/Arthur Fleck into a character who was sympathetic, yet scary.
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The film could only be described as a comic-book movie in the broadest sense, as director and co-writer Phillips made it a tale of people who suffer from mental illness and feel alienated. “Joker,” directed by Todd Phillips, is an origin story about how the Batman villain came to be. The film marked Florian Zeller’s directing debut, an adaptation of his own play. But Hopkins’ depiction of dementia proved unforgettable, giving him a second best actor win after 1991’s “The Silence of the Lambs,” and making him the oldest acting winner at age 83. During the next 15 months, the competition became more intense and he seemed a probable also-ran to the late Chadwick Boseman. When Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Father” debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, critics predicted Anthony Hopkins would win the Oscar. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sean Cleason/Sony Pictures Classic After five days of Academy meetings, rumors, speculation, theories and gossip, Smith resigned from the Academy - a first for a brand-new winner. When presenter Chris Rock joked about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, the actor strode onstage and smacked the comic, then returned to his seat and twice shouted, “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!” When Smith’s name was announced as the winner, he got a standing ovation and, in a tearful speech, said he was “overwhelmed by what God is calling me to do and be in this world.” Social media exploded over the event, while generally ignoring other aspects of the overlong and awkward Oscar show. Less than an hour before winning for “King Richard” (his third acting nomination), he set off one of Oscars’ all-time jaw-dropping moments. Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros./Everett Collectionįew best actor winners had an evening as memorable as Will Smith’s.
Though critics were divided on Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” Oscar voters agreed that Brendan Fraser’s performance as a 600 lb. Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Here are all the best actor winners since the beginning. Some of the actors’ wins were groundbreaking, while others are mystifying. Now there are 24, and while the categories have changed over time, the honors for best actor and actress have remained steady for 90 years. The first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 had 13 categories.
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