2023 Oscars: What to know about the best actor nominees
Associated PressLOS ANGELES — It’s always fun when an Oscars category is filled with first-time nominees at varying stages of their careers. “He has an innocence where he can’t comprehend why his friend of so many years has cut him out,” Farrell said of his character last year at the Venice Film Festival, where he’d go on to win the best actor prize. And I understand myself more through my interactions with Brendan.” Age: 46 Notable Wins: Venice Film Festival, New York Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review, Golden Globes AUSTIN BUTLER Austin Butler spent so much time and mental and emotional energy in preparing to play and playing Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s colorful drama that he finds it difficult to talk about without “sounding incredibly pretentious and self-important,” he told The AP. BILL NIGHY Bill Nighy plays a British civil servant who receives a terminal diagnosis in 1953 London in Oliver Hermanus’s remake of the Kurosawa classic “Ikiru.” “I was very moved by it when we were making it, the fact that we were making it, that we were back and that it was the first thing I’d done since the pandemic,” Nighy told The AP. “I find it difficult to get enthusiastic about a world which is not going to include me.” Age: 73 Notable Wins: Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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