.tnyfrontrow gathers the films that *should* have been included in the Academy’s nominees this year—“Benediction,” “Nope,” and more.
If this year’s contenders for Best Actress cast a spotlight on the relationships, whether glorious or abject, between performers and directors, those for Best Actor call into question the very nature of performance and what makes it good. My pick for the year’s best lead performance by an actor is that of Jafar Panahi, in “No Bears,” which he also wrote and directed.
I’ve always considered directors to be, intrinsically, actors, albeit ones who reserve their performances for their cast and crew. “No Bears” is a scripted movie, and Panahi relies on a cast composed both of professional actors and nonprofessionals recruited from the places where he filmed.
Of the more classically crafted performances, the one I’d put in second place, were there such an option, is Christian Bale’s in “Amsterdam.” Like Robbie’s, it ricochets and zings with surprising gestures, inflections, and mannerisms. And it has yet another dimension, which is dimensionality itself: Bale fills the movie, prevents it from feeling merely staged or merely acted, and creates a kind of one-man stage setting that underpins and energizes the performances of the rest of the cast.
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