{"id":50789,"date":"2023-01-16T19:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/brendan-fraser-gives-emotional-tearful-speech-at-critics-choice-awards-national\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T19:30:25","slug":"brendan-fraser-provides-emotional-tearful-speech-at-critics-choice-awards-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/brendan-fraser-provides-emotional-tearful-speech-at-critics-choice-awards-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser provides emotional, tearful speech at Critics Choice Awards &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/brendan-fraser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brendan Fraser<\/a> delivered a passionate speech after he took house the Best Actor trophy on the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/critics-choice-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Critics Choice Awards<\/a> for his starring function in <em>The Whale.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The much-beloved actor accepted the award throughout Sunday night time\u2019s ceremony, beating out a variety of different titan performances, together with Austin Butler, nominated for <em>Elvis<\/em>, and Colin Farrell, who was up for T<em>he Banshees of Inisherin.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fraser, 54, started to cry when his identify was known as. After he was handed the award on stage, Fraser referenced American author Herman Melville.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" data-sophi-feature=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-test=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-variation=\"control\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\">Read extra: <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9406904\/lisa-marie-presley-cardiac-arrest\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Lisa Marie Presley dies at 54 after suffering cardiac arrest, family says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tLisa Marie Presley dies at 54 after struggling cardiac arrest, household says\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" data-sophi-feature=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-test=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-variation=\"test\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\">Read subsequent: <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9413451\/quebec-vaudreuil-deaths-investigation\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Bodies inside home near Montreal may have been there for days or weeks: police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tBodies inside house close to Montreal could have been there for days or even weeks: police\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was Herman Melville who once wrote that there are only five critics in America \u2014 the rest are asleep. I don\u2019t know what it means, either, but I\u2019m sure glad you woke up for me,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fraser then spoke on to <em>The Whale<\/em> director Darren Aronofsky, who beforehand stated it <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/video\/the-whale-darren-aronofsky-brendan-fraser-toronto-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took 10 years<\/a> to forged the proper actor within the movie\u2019s main function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDarren Aronofsky, I was in the wilderness, and I probably should have left a trail of breadcrumbs, but you\u2019ve found me,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd like all the best directors, you merely just showed me where to go to get to where I needed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated <em>The Whale, <\/em>which marked Fraser\u2019s triumphant return to Hollywood<em>, <\/em>is about \u201clove,\u201d \u201credemption\u201d and \u201cfinding the light in a 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l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After accepting his award, Fraser, who was nonetheless visibly emotional, informed reporters that the Critics Choice honour meant \u201cmore than I know how to say with words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tlRFto0Lqw4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tlRFto0Lqw4<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is anticipated to be nominated for an Oscar for<em> The Whale.<\/em> When requested what a possible nomination would imply for him, Fraser joked that he must get one other go well with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would mean a lot to me, like any other actor who dared to hope and to dream,\u201d Fraser stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar nominations will probably be introduced on Jan. 24, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Fraser\u2019s efficiency in <em>The Whale<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9397850\/golden-globes-2023-winners-list-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">misplaced to Butler\u2019s portrayal of Elvis Presley<\/a> for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) on the Golden Globes. Fraser himself was <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9286104\/brendan-fraser-golden-globes-sexual-assault-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not in attendance<\/a>, having stated prior that he would skip the occasion after he claimed he was sexually assaulted\u00a0by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group that organizes the Golden Globes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Brendan Fraser delivered a passionate speech after he took house the Best Actor trophy on the Critics Choice Awards for his starring function in The Whale.\u00a0 The much-beloved actor accepted the award throughout Sunday night time\u2019s ceremony, beating out a variety of different titan performances, together with Austin Butler, nominated for Elvis, and Colin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}