He was awesome in Flight and worthy of that nomination. I haven't seen Roman J. Israel, but he got rave reviews for it, which is all the more impressive because the movie itself was not well-received by critics or audience -- but everyone seems to agree that Denzel was great. I haven't seen Fences either, but it's an artsy film adaptation of a Pulitzer-prize winning play by a great playwright, and Washington had already played the role on stage, so he was comfortable with it. In other words, the nomination for Fences was no surprise. Viola Davis, who played the female lead both on stage and in the film, was nominated for and won an Oscar for her role. It's one of those movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis gets nominated for pretty much every role he plays (well-deserved, in my opinion), but he is much less prolific than Denzel. Washington takes an interesting role pretty much every year.
I’m not saying Denzel’s bad by any means, but it just seems like he’s become another one of those Oscar favorites; almost anything he does is sure to get him nominated, kinda like how Meryl Streep gets nominated nearly every year because she’s Meryl Streep.
Then again, what do I know? I don’t choose who gets nominated and I’m not an acting critic. I’m just some dude who loves movies. Not mad or anything, just spitballing.
To add to that, Oscar nominees and winners should always be associated with the year of the film, not the ceremony, as per official Oscar rules. For instance, "Moonlight" is the Best Picture of 2016, Daniel Day-Lewis is the Best Actor of 2012, etc.
I can see both sides of the issue. It's a little confusing for the vast majority of us plain old movie-goers. For example the 86th Annual Academy Awards was in March 2014, but it honored films from 2013. Kind of like all of the years of the 18th century start with a 17 - well except for the last one. I always have to think about those things for a second before I answer.
Of all the ridiculous spellings allowed on this site, this quiz isn't going to allow some variation on McConaughey??? Probably the hardest to spell last name. You should just accept matthew mc, or McC, McCaunahey, or about a million other combos.
Daniel Day-Lewis gets nominated for pretty much every role he plays (well-deserved, in my opinion), but he is much less prolific than Denzel. Washington takes an interesting role pretty much every year.
Then again, what do I know? I don’t choose who gets nominated and I’m not an acting critic. I’m just some dude who loves movies. Not mad or anything, just spitballing.
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Clint Eastwood.
Geez, I can't even play my own game right...