While Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell continue to rack up awards, as we edge towards the Oscars, there are other actors who deserve to be included
With that flexibility in mind, here’s a selection of outstanding performances that haven’t been getting nearly enough attention this awards season: some may be the longest of long shots, but if we don’t celebrate them, who will?SS Rajamouli’s Telugu-language spectacular RRR has made rare inroads for a Bollywood film in awards season, landing prizes from major US critics’ groups and even being talked up as a dark-horse best picture nominee.
He’s the year’s most pathetic villain, in the best possible way.Scottish star Lowden is tremendous throughout Terence Davies’ impassioned biopic of English war poet Siegfried Sassoon, negotiating the man’s battle-scarred trauma, floridly lyrical imagination and burgeoning sexuality with a fluency that never takes glib short cuts to feeling.
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