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The Academy Awards, with a focus on the acting categories and performance contenders. Oscar Nominees and Winners: for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress___By Dana Kaminski___
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and actress Zooey Deschanel from 500 days of summerActor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and actress Zooey Deschanel from 500 days of summer

But your quiet, authentic acting gave this rom-com emotional truth; seriously elevating it from a simple confection. It made us all become you. Identify, with you.
As an actor, it put all the attention on you. Soul-to-soul.
That’s what emotional truth does, anyway.

chris mckay thumbchris mckay thumb

Christopher McKay’s performance in Orson Welles was unheralded, all around. I think it slipped by in the press, and that movie was released at an unfortunate time, which, no one could’ve foreseen.
Along with the film, the other big news that got pushed aside was the acting ability, the performance, of this actor, brand new to film; who really deserved, far and away, much more notice than he got.

viggo mortensen the roadviggo mortensen the road

Actor Viggo Mortensen in The Road. Let’s start with this actor…I think he’s so artistic, and so un-Hollywood, that he gets overlooked…
He used to be married to Excene, the lead singer in a punk band. (That must really freak them out.)…I applaud your body of work…

Actor Cary Grantactor_cary_grant1

The following actors never won an Academy Award: Joseph Cotton, Dana Andrews, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Margaret Sullavan, Deborah Kerr, Ida Lupino, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre…Anthony Perkins, Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, Orson Welles…

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