Word: sean
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...boring Oscars in history? There are hard favorites this 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?...
...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...
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...
...soon, he discovers that she has complete short-term memory loss: therefore, obviously, he must woo her anew every day, often with the help of his animal coterie or his wacky friends like gay Polynesian Ula (Rob Schneider) and Lucy’s oddly lisping muscleman brother Doug (Sean Astin). The film comes equipped with the usual Sandlerian dynamics, but a special surprise ending partially redeems the general boorishness...
...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...