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...Murray Lerner ’48, 1981, Best Documentary...
...year in every one of the big six categories—and I can’t remember the last year when that was the case. It’s hard to imagine Mystic River’s Sean Penn being upset for Best Actor, by Bill Murray or by anybody else; Penn’s been nominated four times, so he’d be due even if Academy voters didn’t already see him as his generation’s greatest talent. Renee Zellweger’s on her third Oscar nomination?...
...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...
Kingsley won’t win the Oscar, but will likely siphon enough tragedy-embracing voters from Penn, whose chances aren’t improved by the fact that he has stopped campaigning for the award, to give Murray the win. You speak of Penn’s four nominations; well, Murray hasn’t been nominated once despite the often remarkable work he’s done in the past, and all of the Lost in Translation fans that pushed it to a Best Picture nod will vote for his nuanced work. I think there?...
...Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation traveled to Asia to make moola doing whiskey ads. No wonder he was so unhappy: he left behind his cause. Post-Richard Gere, entertainment figures have zeroed in on just about every injustice on the continent, and hardly a week goes by without a high-profile visit or statement of outrage. Over the weekend, one of the original bad girls of rock, the Pretenders' lead singer and vegetarian Chrissie Hynde, was scheduled to make an appearance at a Bangkok outlet of KFC?accompanied by a protester in a giant chicken suit...