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...other hand, Best Actor seems like it will end in a photo finish, with Lost in Translation’s Bill Murray a nose ahead of Sean Penn. I personally felt Ben Kingsley had the performance of the year, and his visceral anguish in House of Sand and Fog was a masterfully controlled performance, especially when contrasted with Penn’s rather blunt stabs at the agony of child loss (slam table here, deliver choked up yelp there...
...SOSKIN: Yep, The Pianist’s Oscar wins were stunners. They weren’t entirely unexpected, though—the normally off-the-wall National Society of Film Critics predicted all three of its big wins (Director, Actor and Screenplay) two months before the Oscars...
Speaking of jaw-droppers, the SAGs gave Best Actor to Johnny Depp, whose role as Captain Keith Richards in Pirates of the Caribbean thankfully attracted more voters than Bill Murray’s work as a low-wattage Tom Hanks and Sean Penn’s performance as an Actor playing A Suffering Man. I would love to see Depp win the Oscar—he’s one of those rare actors incapable of giving a bad performance—but my money’s still on Sean and his loyal following. Bill Murray is a comic...
...Clint Eastwood proved anything in Unforgiven, it was that actors don’t have to be showy to be effective. Too bad that nobody told Sean Penn, who brings his full actor-y powers to bear in Mystic River, Eastwood’s latest effort. Too often, the film feels less like the well-crafted whodunit at its center and more like an freshman acting class: Penn thrashes and grimaces, Tim Robbins acts numb, and Marcia Gay Harden wobbles her voice so much that you wonder if she’s standing on the San Andreas Fault...
...place yourself in the position of a young tenure track faculty member at HBS,” Watkins says. “As a rational actor playing a high stakes game, how would you respond to a realization that the rules of the game have changed...