Oscars season isn’t the one factor coming again to shake issues up. Brendan Fraser is falling proper again into his prime, and his return has been met with love, admiration, and lots of, many nominations.
The actor has made a resurgence along with his function as Charlie in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, with a number of nominations and wins already forward of his bid for Best Actor in a Leading Role from the ninety fifth Academy Awards. He is up towards different large names for some of the prestigious awards of the season: Austin Butler (Elvis), Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Paul Mescal (Aftersun), and Bill Nighy (Living).
Fraser most just lately gained Male Actor in a Leading Role on the Screen Actors Guild Awards on February 26. Filled with tears and making an attempt to include his bewilderment throughout his acceptance speech, Fraser mentioned, “I never would’ve believed that I would’ve been offered the role of my life in this character, Charlie, in The Whale. He’s someone who is on a raft of regrets, but he’s in a sea of hope. I’ve been at that sea and I’ve rode that wave lately.”
He fell off for a number of years after the mid 2010s due to private points and an alleged 2003 sexual assault dedicated towards him by Phillip Berk, the then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Fraser refused to attend the 2023 Golden Globe Awards, though he was nominated for Best Actor for his efficiency in The Whale. To GQ, the identical publication to which he publicly revealed his sexual assault, he mentioned, “I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. No, I will not participate.”
Fraser can be set to star in Killers of the Flower Moon alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone. The Martin Scorsese directed crime drama, which was initially set to launch in May 2023, follows the mysterious murders of oil-wealthy members within the Nineteen Twenties.
Below, we check out his finest performances, from oldest to most up-to-date.
2023 Oscars, Sunday, March 12, 8/7c, ABC