Hi all, Jaylan is back! Surprise! I am also covering Best Actor at Insession Film for the Awards season!
Compared to Best Hair and Makeup, the Best Actor award is a gargantuan mountain, a climb unlike any other. It requires analysis of what the whole world perceives as the top-performing male actors of the year assigned. This category has seen season favorites like Tom Hanks, Laurence Olivier, and Spencer Tracy, as well as, Marcello Mastroianni and Adrien Brody. But admiring lead actors and tracking their progression or evolution is worth all the time-stealing research involved (someone –ahem Jay- as also to work and report to managers outside La La Land).
There are award seasons when the best actor is guaranteed, with no other nominee slated to get even close to the main contender (e.g. F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus) and there are heated seasons when neither the Academy nor us poor critics can decide with a clear conscience which is the most deserving of the win (e.g. Anthony Hopkins for The Father “the ultimate winner” vs. Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal vs. Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom). Award season conversations not only polarize audiences and critics but spark important topic discussions like representation and visibility, and what better category to showcase than the Best Lead Actor in a feature film?
So I hope you enjoy my Best Actor seasonal analysis throughout the upcoming exciting award race, and that you embark on this wild journey with me, seatbelts fastened and all!)
