The big four awards were in fact split between four movies, with Will Smith (King Richard) and Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) winning Best Actor and Best Actress respectively, while Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) picked up Best Director. Oscars shouldn't be given for "Most Eating" or "Most Willing To Hurt Themselves For Art." And yet, watching De Niro in Raging Bull, you can understand why serious actors abuse themselves for greatness: it's a staggering achievement of transformative truth seeking, inside and out.As expected, CODA took home the biggest prize at the 2022 Oscars, giving Apple TV+ its first Best Picture award ever. In theory, we shouldn't be too impressed by this. Taking Method acting to a new extreme, De Niro famously put on 60 pounds to play pudgy, post-prime LaMotta. Not everyone was awed by the performance, although Pauline Kael's famous denunciation ("a swollen puppet with only bits and pieces of a character inside") may have ironically summed up everything poignant and terrifying about De Niro's imagining of this jaundiced soul. Playing boxer Jake LaMotta, Robert De Niro gave all of his mind and body to this portrait of a man destroyed by his anger, his jealousies, his pride, his retrograde notions of manhood. Raging Bull (1980), directed by Martin Scorsese God help me, I do love it so." – Anthony Breznican Surveying a smoldering battle scene, he is moved not to tears, but to a grim satisfaction: "I love it. Omar Bradley, absorb the senseless loss of life of war with regret and resolve that the sacrifice was necessary, Scott's Patton reveals the darker side of humanity that craves conflict, that lives for it. While most old soldiers, like Karl Malden's superb, empathetic Gen. At times, Scott's Patton seems insane with zeal other times we see the tender cluster of neuroses shielded by this hardened, bellicose exterior. Seventh Army through the Mediterranean and into the hellfire of Europe through sheer force of will. Vain, ambitious, and intolerant of the suffering of others, he pushed the U.S. Patton was not constrained by such humility. Still, there's no denying that his performance as the eccentric, explosive World War II general was one of the greatest ever filmed. His refusal to even allow the statue to be sent to him is a kind of grit and integrity seldom found in an industry fueled by ego. He considered the show a " goddamn meat parade," and didn't feel acting should be turned into a sport. Scott didn't attend the Oscars to collect his honor. Related: Lincoln Q&A with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis Now, it's Day-Lewis' portrayal that belongs to the ages. Day-Lewis (along with director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner) cut through the mythology of the Civil War commander in chief to give us such a true portrait of Abraham Lincoln, we almost didn't recognize him. But according to historians, that higher-pitched voice contributed to his power as an orator in that pre-microphone era, since the sound would carry further in a large crowd. Finally, we heard him speak with a reedy delivery that contradicted the stentorian voice subsequent generations applied to Lincoln's almighty presence in the history books. Then came the first breathtaking image-a photo of the actor in full Lincoln make-up and costume. Lincoln (2012), directed by Steven Spielbergįirst came the stories-that Daniel Day-Lewis had stripped his life of all modern conveniences and was trying to inhabit the mindset of a man from the mid-19th century.
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