2026年3月11日 / 美国东部时间上午9:36 / CBS新闻
观看本届奥斯卡最佳男主角提名影片的精彩片段，以及以下提名者的采访。第98届奥斯卡金像奖颁奖典礼将于3月15日（周日）举行。
最佳男主角提名者（从左至右）：蒂莫西·柴勒梅德（《Marty Supreme》）、莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥（《One Battle After Another》）、伊桑·霍克（《Blue Moon》）、迈克尔·B·乔丹（《Sinners》）和瓦格纳·马拉（《The Secret Agent》）。
（影片发行方：A24；华纳兄弟；索尼经典影业；Neon）
蒂莫西·柴勒梅德，《Marty Supreme》
鞋匠马蒂·毛瑟（Marty Mauser，松散改编自乒乓球运动员马蒂·赖斯曼的生平）是一个典型的奋斗者角色，他愿意颠覆常规或个人荣誉准则以实现自己的成功愿景。在《Marty Supreme》的世界里，这个角色的目标是掌控一项体育亚文化——而在20世纪50年代的纽约，或许没有比乒乓球更“小众”的体育亚文化了，这使得导演约书亚·萨弗迪的时代电影既贴切又奇特。
奥斯卡提名者蒂莫西·柴勒梅德饰演的马蒂显然具备演技实力，但他要参加世界乒乓球锦标赛，就需要金钱，并且他迫切需要这笔钱。这成为他操纵周围人的基础——从向醉汉兜售（可能指赌博或推销）、扣留黑帮人物的狗以勒索赎金，到与潜在赞助商的妻子发生关系。
https://youtu.be/8QsgMPVH-2I
饰演奋斗者对柴勒梅德而言颇具吸引力。“作为演员，我深知奋斗的艰辛，我的梦想并非像马蒂·毛瑟那样追求金钱，而是追求理想，”他在接受《好莱坞报道》采访时表示。“那种纽约的情结难以言表，我尝试过描述但失败了，但这确实符合我的精神。在纽约经历过类似的挣扎，扮演这个角色时，我深感共鸣。”
七年前他首次与萨弗迪讨论这个项目时，柴勒梅德就决定提升自己的乒乓球技能，甚至在拍摄其他电影期间也坚持训练。是的，在《沙丘》的片场确实有一张乒乓球桌。他表示，这项训练“介于马拉松和短跑之间——它实际上是一项极具运动性的运动。”
在与本·阿弗莱克在美国电影艺术中心的问答环节中，柴勒梅德描述了扮演一个常令人不快的角色的挑战——这个角色说谎、欺骗、抛弃朋友和爱人，同时在一项几乎无人真正尊重的运动中挣扎求存。导演灌输的一个理念是，柴勒梅德不要对马蒂进行评判，而是要站在他的角度，因为他不受完美英雄或可怕反派刻板印象的限制：“这个人物很复杂、真实且人性化。我们都认识像马蒂这样的人，他们有时既令人鼓舞，相信自己的梦想，又像个混蛋，纯粹以自我利益行事。”
柴勒梅德在谈论自己的工作过程时通常比较谨慎。在2025年接受《60分钟》采访时，他表示自己不愿透露技艺的“魔力”：“我如何做到这些与任何人无关。这是合法的！”他笑着说。“否则，可能就不如人们想象的有趣，或者可能比人们想象的有趣得多，甚至比我正在做的事情更有趣。”
30岁的柴勒梅德成为获得三次最佳男主角提名的最年轻男演员（此前获得过《请以你的名字呼唤我》和《Complete Unknown》提名），这一纪录此前由马龙·白兰度保持。
- 《Marty Supreme》获得9项奥斯卡提名，包括最佳影片。
莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥，《One Battle After Another》
保罗·托马斯·安德森改编自1990年托马斯·品钦小说《Vineland》的《One Battle After Another》，以荒诞手法描绘了20世纪60至70年代的革命运动，同时讲述了一位父亲拼命试图与女儿建立联系的故事。影片还加入了一位为非法移民经营地下铁路的武术大师、一名复仇心切的军官，以及一个秘密的白人至上主义者阴谋集团，构成了近年来最大胆的黑色喜剧惊悚片之一。
奥斯卡提名者莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥饰演鲍勃，他以化名在加利福尼亚的一个山区社区躲藏了16年，躲避当局追捕。他仍然遵循革命者的信条，但多年过去，他抽了很多大麻，因此当他试图联系昔日战友的中央指挥部时，他需要记住的密码变得难以捉摸。
https://youtu.be/oQNa-2f5z9E
除了饰演一名堕落的革命者外，鲍勃还有一个更重要、更紧迫的身份——女儿薇拉（Chase Infiniti饰）的父亲。受科恩兄弟《大保龄离奇绑架案》中杰夫·布里吉斯表演的启发，迪卡普里奥在影片中大部分时间衣衫不整，穿着浴袍，要么喝醉要么吸毒。
在英国电影学院的一次对话中，迪卡普里奥表示，当英菲尼迪被聘饰演薇拉、剧本被排演后，他的角色得到了进一步发展。父女间的紧张关系被放大，这反而加剧了两人间的角色反转，突显了薇拉的自立和鲍勃的失控。
其中一个情节是鲍勃偏执地禁止薇拉使用手机。“我认为保罗曾一度想打造一个没有手机的超现实世界，而薇拉出现时，基本上说‘你疯了吗？我必须有手机。不管我父亲是否与世隔绝，是否偏执，是否脱离现实，反政府，我都要有手机。’这成为电影中的关键转折点，引发了一系列紧张时刻……”
“我们进行了很多精彩的排演，这种紧张感源于薇拉几乎扮演了母亲的角色，而我则通过愤怒和药物自我麻痹，拼命试图与女儿建立联系。这些排演非常关键。当我们来到片场时，我们已经明确了家庭动态。”
这种动态在这段场景中显而易见：鲍勃作为父亲的榜样彻底失败了。
https://youtu.be/cK1pm6yRvFs
迪卡普里奥凭借《One Battle After Another》获得第八项奥斯卡提名（他凭借《荒野猎人》曾获最佳男主角奖）。当被《滚石》杂志问及职业生涯时，迪卡普里奥表示，早年感觉就像中了彩票：“我简直不敢相信自己能在这个行业工作，还能为自己做决定。节奏非常快。但现在，随着年龄增长，我变得更加……我不想说是挑剔，但所有这些不同的元素都必须融入电影中，希望它不仅能成功，还能经久不衰，尽管这两者都没有保证。”
- 《One Battle After Another》获得13项奥斯卡提名，包括最佳影片。
伊桑·霍克，《Blue Moon》
理查德·罗杰斯（Richard Rodgers）和洛伦兹·哈特（Lorenz Hart）的作曲组合创作了《我的滑稽情人》（My Funny Valentine）、《淑女如 tramp》（The Lady Is a Tramp）和《蓝月亮》（Blue Moon）等许多美国经典金曲。但到20世纪40年代初，两人的合作关系破裂。罗杰斯随后与奥斯卡·汉默斯坦二世（Oscar Hammerstein II）合作，他们的第一部合作作品成为音乐剧的不朽里程碑——《俄克拉荷马！》（Oklahoma!），其成功远超罗杰斯和哈特之前的任何作品。
理查德·林克莱特的《Blue Moon》以《俄克拉荷马！》首演夜为背景，在著名的百老汇酒吧萨迪（Sardi’s）举行的庆祝活动中展开。哈特（由奥斯卡提名者伊桑·霍克饰演）混杂着自怜、嫉妒和野心，强行闯入。他试图讨好昔日合作伙伴（安德鲁·斯科特饰），但在场的人都认为哈特是“锡盘巷（Tin Pan Alley）的老古董”。
https://youtu.be/NVjoJl2WTDI
哈特试图用魅力打动他喜爱的女人伊丽莎白（玛格丽特·库里饰）。尽管哈特是同性恋，但他痴迷于伊丽莎白，听到她被男人虐待时感到沮丧。他说：“什么是爱？是疯狂。”
https://youtu.be/OagGEjNvJx0
霍克此前曾两次获得奥斯卡最佳男配角提名（《训练日》和《少年时代》），并与林克莱特共同获得《爱在日落黄昏时》和《爱在午夜降临前》的编剧提名。但饰演词作家对他来说颇具挑战性：真实的洛伦兹·哈特身高不足五英尺，因此林克莱特使用镜头技巧让近六英尺高的霍克看起来矮很多。霍克还佩戴假牙齿，剃光头顶以制造逼真的谢顶效果。
他还学习了大量台词，因为这个角色是一个热情洋溢的魅力者，迫切想给别人留下深刻印象。“这绝对是我在电影中台词最多的一次，”霍克在接受《周日早晨》采访时表示。“我记得第一天拍完戏给妻子打电话——我觉得我的台词量比之前五部电影加起来还多。”
根据提名编剧罗伯特·卡普洛（Robert Kaplow）的剧本，影片制作过程耗时约十年，期间林克莱特和霍克不断打磨剧本。据导演介绍，这也让演员能通过时间推移自然呈现角色年龄的变化。随着年龄增长，霍克展现出哈特在目睹罗杰斯成功时的疲惫和过时感。哈特当年因肺炎去世。
在《训练日》广受好评后，霍克出演了更多电影、电视剧和百老汇作品，但他表示曾有一段时间拒绝的角色比接受的还多——而邀约也开始枯竭。“年轻时，”他对《周日早晨》说，“你没有意识到这是年轻人的游戏，这类工作机会都有保质期。”
“保质期”这个概念何时让他醒悟？“大约在胡子开始出现灰白时。”他回答道。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ethan-hawke-on-blue-moon-and-taking-nothing-for-granted/
- 《Blue Moon》获得两项奥斯卡提名，包括最佳原创剧本。
迈克尔·B·乔丹，《Sinners》
演员饰演多个角色的情况已有不少先例：查理·卓别林在《大独裁者》、彼得·塞勒斯在《奇爱博士》、梅丽尔·斯特里普在《法国中尉的女人》、尼古拉斯·凯奇在《改编剧本》中饰演多角。李·马文甚至凭借《Cat Ballou》中饰演兄弟俩而获得最佳男主角奖。
《Sinners》中，迈克尔·B·乔丹饰演双胞胎斯塔克（Stack）和斯莫克（Smoke），他们在种族隔离的南方开了一家偏远的乡村爵士酒吧。起初，这似乎是一个关于两个雄心勃勃的人在残酷的吉姆·克劳（Jim Crow）限制下努力成名的故事。但随后超自然元素介入——吸血鬼成为比周围种族主义暴力更大的威胁。
https://youtu.be/u20kIXIiqCk
乔丹获得了美国演员工会最佳演员奖。
他曾与导演瑞恩·库格勒在2013年的《弗鲁特韦尔车站》合作，并再次联手打造《奎迪》、《黑豹》和《黑豹2：瓦坎达万岁》。当库格勒提出让他饰演两个不同角色的想法时，乔丹告诉《周日早晨》：“我能做到吗？我想当时有点焦虑，有点紧张。但同样充满兴奋。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/michael-b-jordan-on-sinners/
在与《周日早晨》的长时间对话中，乔丹描述了他对角色的研究：
“我开始思考：‘我们该如何做到？’我认为这也是瑞恩知道能让我进步的地方——一个挑战，让我走出舒适区。这是我至今做过的最困难的事情。这让我能够想象最好的版本，但也带来了兴奋——我们如何解决问题？我们如何实现目标？技术上如何处理？我们如何进入角色？我有很多问题和想法，我们停下来，真正回到基础，了解这对兄弟是谁，他们的关系如何。
“这是一种独特的特定关系，只存在于同卵双胞胎之间，”他说。“我有机会与许多同卵双胞胎交谈，这非常有启发性，他们本身就像名人一样，无论你到哪个城镇，只要有双胞胎，他们就被称为‘双胞胎’。……所以，我们想在这部电影中也融入这种同卵双胞胎的名人特质。”
在奥斯卡电影艺术与科学学院的这段视频中，视觉特效总监迈克尔·拉莱解释了创造多个迈克尔·B·乔丹的技术——从将两个拍摄场景合并的分屏技术，到使用安装在光环设备中的多台相机捕捉乔丹的表演，然后将他的头部置于特技替身的身体上。拉莱的特效团队以及摄影师奥顿·杜拉尔德·阿卡波（Autumn Durald Arkapaw）也获得了影片创纪录的16项奥斯卡提名。
瓦格纳·马拉，《The Secret Agent》
瓦格纳·马拉凭借克莱伯·门多萨·菲洛的政治惊悚片《The Secret Agent》获得戛纳电影节最佳男主角奖。该片设定在20世纪70年代末的巴西——一个独裁统治时期（影片讽刺地称之为“大混乱”时代），故事以一名陌生人马塞洛（马拉饰）抵达累西腓（Recife）的一个公寓楼开始，该楼是政治难民的避难所。
和其他对过去讳莫如深的居民一样，马塞洛很容易融入那里的生活，也很容易胜任政府办公室的工作——负责签发身份证。我们发现，他在寻找信息的同时，也有人被高薪雇佣来寻找他。
https://youtu.be/JJJu9ff-_-Q
采访中，马塞洛私下透露了他对导致自己困境的人的暴力行为。
https://youtu.be/7ZTl5unNYVg
曾在《毒枭》中饰演毒枭巴勃罗·埃斯科瓦尔的马拉，已有十年未主演巴西电影（他执导了2018年的《Marighella》，讲述一名游击战士的故事）。
他告诉《名利场》，《The Secret Agent》（故事发生在他出生前后）就像一部回忆录：“电影中的很多场景都能让你联想到某些经历，即使你没有亲身经历，也能感受到。我的思维就是这样运作的：我想到父亲的照片。我有一段父母婚礼的视频，就在这个国家的那个地方。”
“我喜欢易卜生的戏剧《人民公敌》，每当想到《The Secret Agent》时，我总会想到这部戏剧：有人因做正确的事而受到惩罚。这似乎有点天真，但当价值观颠倒时，这就是现实。……这部电影很大程度上讲述了政府价值观如何塑造普通人的思想——而那些不符合这一理念的人确实要付出代价。我认为，克莱伯在这里谈论的是他自己，以及我们在博尔索纳罗执政期间在巴西经历的那个特定时期。我们因为不服从或不认同当时的所作所为而付出了巨大代价。”
在去年5月的戛纳电影节新闻发布会上，马拉（拍摄《Marighella》时博尔索纳罗执政）描述了《The Secret Agent》制作团队的态度：“在反乌托邦世界中，你必须坚持某些东西，维护尊严的价值观，做一个正直的人。独裁统治确实非常艰难，因为你基本上面临死亡威胁，而威胁也关乎你的价值观。你受到权力当局的威胁。如果人们团结起来，我认为这在那个时代是最美好的事情。不仅在反乌托邦时期，即使在和平时期也是如此。幸运的是，在极权政权的反乌托邦时期，我们能够这样团结人们。……
“这部电影非常关注价值观。当权者的价值观被扭曲，大多数人似乎都遵循这些价值观。坚持自我很难，忠于真实的自我很难。在一些社会和国家中，类似情况已经发生。在巴西，作为同性恋、黑人或原住民巴西人，生活可能会变得非常复杂。所以从政治角度来说，这些是我们想要探讨的真实问题。”
剧透警告：与迈克尔·B·乔丹一样，马拉在影片中饰演两个角色。（但我们不会透露另一个角色是谁。）
- 《The Secret Agent》获得四项奥斯卡提名，包括最佳影片。
Behind the scenes with the best actor Oscar nominees at the 2026 Academy Awards
March 11, 2026 / 9:36 AM EDT / CBS News
Watch scenes from the performances nominated for the Oscar for best actor, as well as interviews with the nominees below. The 98th Academy Awards will be presented Sunday, March 15.
Nominees for the best actor Oscar this year are, from left: Timothée Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“One Battle After Another”), Ethan Hawke (“Blue Moon”), Michael B. Jordan (“Sinners”), and Wagner Moura (“The Secret Agent”). A24; Warner Brothers; Sony Pictures Classics; Neon
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Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
The character of shoe salesman Marty Mauser (loosely based on the life of table tennis player Marty Reisman) is a classic example of a striver willing to subvert norms or personal codes of honor in order to achieve their vision of success. In the world of “Marty Supreme,” that character’s goal is mastery of a sports subculture – and in 1950s New York, there was perhaps no sports subculture more “sub” than table tennis, which makes director Josh Safdie’s period film both pertinent and quaint.
Marty (played by Oscar-nominee Timothée Chalamet) clearly has the chops, but what he needs in order to compete at the table tennis world championships is money, and he is desperate to get it. It becomes the basis of his manipulations of those around him, from hustling drunks, holding a mob figure’s dog for ransom, and bedding the wife of a potential sponsor.
https://youtu.be/8QsgMPVH-2I
Playing a striver was the attraction for Chalamet. “Knowing the grind as an actor and not being ignorant to it — my dream wasn’t a financial one like Marty Mauser’s, but it was also in pursuit of an ideal,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s this New York connection that I couldn’t even put into words and I’d fail trying to, but that’s just true to my spirit,” he said. “Having gone through a very similar struggle in New York and playing this guy’s struggle in New York, it was deeply resonant for me.”
Having first discussed the project with Safdie seven years ago, Chalamet decided to amp up his table tennis skills, practicing even as he was in production on other films. Yes, there was a ping pong table on the set of “Dune” The training was, he said, “somewhere between a marathon and a sprint — it’s really a tremendously athletic sport.”
In a Q&A with Ben Affleck at the American Cinematheque, Chalamet described the challenge of playing an often unlikable character – one who lies, cheats, and abandons friends and lovers, all while struggling for success in a sport few truly respected. One idea instilled by the director was for Chalamet not to be judgmental towards Marty, to take his point of view, as he was not limited by the strictures of playing a flawless hero or a horrible villain: “This guy’s messy and human and real. And I feel like we all know someone like Marty who’s equally at times, you know, inspiring, maybe believes in his dreams, as much as he is a scumbag, somebody who operates purely at self-interest.”
Chalamet is routinely reticent when discussing his work process. In a 2025 interview with “60 Minutes,” he said he wasn’t comfortable revealing the magic of his craft: “It’s nobody’s business how I go about these things. It’s within the law!” he laughed. “Otherwise, it might not be as interesting as people think. Or it could be a lot more interesting than people think. It might be more interesting than what I’m doing.”
At age 30, Chalamet became the youngest male to earn three best actor nominations (after “Call Me By Your Name” and “A Complete Unknown”), a title previously held by Marlon Brando.
- “Marty Supreme” is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including best picture.
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Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Loosely adapted from the 1990 Thomas Pynchon novel “Vineland,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is an absurdist take on the revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s, wrapped around the story of a father desperately trying to connect with his daughter. Add a martial arts sensei who operates an underground railroad for undocumented immigrants, a vengeful military officer, and a secret cabal of White supremacists, and you have one of the most brazen comic thrillers of recent years.
Oscar-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Bob, who has been hiding from authorities for 16 years under an alias in a mountain community in California. He still lives by the precepts of a revolutionary, but it’s been years, and he’s smoked a lot of weed, so when he tries to contact the central command of his former comrades, the password he needs to remember to get through to his brethren is elusive.
https://youtu.be/oQNa-2f5z9E
Beyond his role as a lapsed revolutionary, Bob has a more important and immediate function, as a parent to Willa (Chase Infiniti). Inspired by Jeff Bridges’ performance in the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski,” DiCaprio spends much of the film disheveled, in a bathrobe, and drunk or stoned.
In a conversation at the British Film Institute, DiCaprio said his character developed much further once Infiniti was hired to play Willa, and the screenplay was workshopped. The tensions between father and daughter were accentuated, which only magnified a sense of role reversal between the two, underscoring Willa’s self-reliance and Bob’s lack of control.
One element was Bob’s paranoid prohibition against Willa having a cellphone. “I think Paul at one point maybe wanted to do some sort of hyper-realistic world where there were no phones, and she arrived, you know, basically saying, ‘Are you out of your mind? I’m going to have a phone. I don’t care if my father’s off the grid or if he’s paranoid, if he’s disconnected from reality, anti-government, I’m going to have that phone.’ And that became this kind of key moment that strung itself along in the movie and created moments of tension. …
“And a lot of those great workshops that we had, that tension arose between us of her almost playing the mother figure and me just desperately trying to connect with my daughter and doing it through anger and self-medicating myself with drugs. Those workshops, I think, were very key. When we landed on set, I think we were on firm footing of what that household dynamic was.”
That dynamic is evident in this scene, in which Bob fails completely as a parental role model:
https://youtu.be/cK1pm6yRvFs
DiCaprio earned his eighth Academy Award nomination for “One Battle After Another.” (He’d previously won best actor for “The Revenant.”) Asked by Rolling Stone about his career, DiCaprio said that in the early years it felt like hitting the lottery: “It was very much like, ‘I can’t believe I’m working in this industry, and I’m getting to make decisions for myself.’ And there’s this frenetic pace that you have. But now, you know, I think as I’ve gotten older, I’ve just become even more … I don’t want to say selective, but all these different components have to come into play to make a movie and hope that it not only works but lasts, even if there are no guarantees of either of those things.”
- “One Battle After Another” is nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including best picture.
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Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
The composing duo of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart was responsible for many treasured classics in the Great American Songbook, from “My Funny Valentine,” to “The Lady Is a Tramp” and “Blue Moon.” But by the early 1940s, the partnership broke apart. Rodgers then teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein II, and their first collaboration would prove to be an enduring landmark of musical theater, “Oklahoma!” – a success greater than anything Rodgers and Hart had achieved.
Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” takes place on that show’s opening night, at a celebration being held in the famed Broadway watering hole Sardi’s, where Hart, a jumble of self-pity, jealousy, and ambition, horns his way in. As played by best actor nominee Ethan Hawke, Hart tries to ingratiate himself upon his former partner (Andrew Scott), but the room already reads Hart as a Tin Pan Alley dinosaur.
https://youtu.be/NVjoJl2WTDI
Hart tries to lay on the charm with a woman he adores, Elizabeth (played by Margaret Qualley). Never mind that Hart was gay; he is besotted, and moribund to hear of her attraction to a man who mistreats her. What is love, he says, but “madness.”
https://youtu.be/OagGEjNvJx0
Hawke has been Oscar-nominated twice before for supporting roles (in “Training Day” and “Boyhood”), as well as sharing screenwriting nominations for Linklater’s “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight.” But the role of the lyricist was something of a stretch: The real Lorenz Hart was less than five feet tall, so Linklater used camera tricks to make the nearly six-foot actor look much shorter. Hawke also wore fake teeth, and shaved the top of his head to affect a real combover.
He also learned a mountain of dialogue, as he becomes an effusive charmer desperate to impress others. “It’s definitely the most text I’ve ever had in a movie,” Hawke told “Sunday Morning.” “I remember calling my wife after the first day – I think I had more lines than I had in the previous five films.”
Working off a screenplay by the nominated Robert Kaplow, the film’s production process took about a decade, during which Linklater and Hawke workshopped the script. According to the director, that also allowed the actor to age into the role. And with that aging came a weariness to reflect Hart’s sense of increased obsolescence as he witnesses Rodgers’ success. Hart would die of pneumonia later that year.
After the acclaim of “Training Day,” Hawke starred in more films, TV and on Broadway, but he says there was a time he passed on more parts than he took – and the offers started drying up. “When you’re young,” he told “Sunday Morning,” “You don’t realize that this is a young person’s game, and those kinds of job offers, there’s a shelf life on that.”
And when did that “shelf life” notion hit him? “Around the same time gray starts appearing in your beard,” he replied.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ethan-hawke-on-blue-moon-and-taking-nothing-for-granted/
- “Blue Moon” is nominated for two Academy Awards, including best original screenplay.
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Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
There have been several instances of actors being nominated for playing multiple characters in a film, from Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator” and Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove,” to Meryl Streep in “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and Nicolas Cage in “Adaptation.” Lee Marvin actually won best actor for playing brothers in “Cat Ballou.”
For “Sinners,” Michael B. Jordan plays twins, Stack and Smoke, who open a backwoods juke joint in the segregated South. It appears at first to be a story about two ambitious men trying to make names for themselves under the cruel limitations of Jim Crow. But then the supernatural enters the picture, as vampires become an ever greater threat than the racist violence around them.
https://youtu.be/u20kIXIiqCk
Jordan won the best actor award from the Screen Actors Guild.
He had first worked with director Ryan Coogler on 2013’s “Fruitvale Station,” and they teamed up again for “Creed,” “Black Panther,” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” When Coogler shared the idea of playing two different characters, Jordan told “Sunday Morning” his reaction was, “‘I’m a do what?’ I think it was a little bit of anxiety, I think. A little bit nerves. But then, equal amount of excitement.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/michael-b-jordan-on-sinners/
In an extended conversation with “Sunday Morning,” Jordan described his research into the roles:
“It started to run through my head: Okay, how are we going to do this? And I think that’s something that Ryan also knew was going to be good for me, which is a challenge and to kind of push me out of my comfort zone. This was the hardest thing that I’ve ever done to date. And it allowed me to imagine the best version of it, but then also the excitement of figuring out, okay, how do we problem solve? How are we going to get this done? What’s the technicality? How are we going to get into it? I had all these questions. I had all these ideas, and we just kind of took a pause, took a moment and really got back into the foundation of like, who are these brothers, you know? What are the dynamics of an identical twin?
“That’s such a unique specific relationship that only exists between identical twins,” he said. “I had an opportunity to talk to a lot of identical twins, and it was very informative and they’re kind of like celebrities in their own right, you know? Like, no matter what town you go to or wherever the twins are from, they’re known as the twins. … So, there’s a little bit of that celebrity, I guess, that comes along with being identical twins that we wanted to tap into in this movie as well.”
In this video from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, VFX supervisor Michael Ralla explains the techniques used to create multiple Michael B. Jordans – from split-screens that merge two filmed performances into a single shot, to using multiple cameras built into a halo rig to capture Jordan’s performance and then place his head onto the body of a stunt double. Ralla’s effects team, as well as cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, were among the film’s record 16 Oscar nominations.
- “Sinners” is nominated for a record 16 Academy Awards.
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Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”
Wagner Moura won best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller “The Secret Agent.” Set in Brazil in the late 1970s, a period of dictatorship (what the film ironically refers to as a time of “great mischief”), the story opens with a stranger, Marcelo (Moura), arriving at an apartment complex in Recife, which appears to be a haven for political refugees.
Like the other residents who are vague about their pasts, Marcelo easily slips into the fabric of life there, as easily as he slips into his job as a functionary at the government office responsible for issuing ID cards. We discover that, just as he is on a search for information, there are also men being paid handsomely to try to find him.
https://youtu.be/JJJu9ff-_-Q
During an interview, Marcelo goes off the record about his capacity for violence towards the man he blames for his plight.
https://youtu.be/7ZTl5unNYVg
Moura, who played drug lord Pablo Escobar in “Narcos,” had not starred in a Brazilian film in a decade. (He directed 2018’s “Marighella,” about a guerrilla fighter.)
He told Vanity Fair that “The Secret Agent,” which takes place around the time of his birth, is like a memory piece: “A lot of [the film] connects you to something where, even if you didn’t live it, you feel it,” he said. “My mind worked in that sense: I thought about the photos of my father. I have this video of my parents’ wedding, and it’s in that part of the country.”
“I love the Ibsen play called ‘An Enemy of the People,’ and I always think about that play when I think about ‘The Secret Agent’: Someone is punished for doing the right thing. It feels a little naïve, but it’s what happens when values are upside-down. … This film is a lot about how the values of a government can shape the minds of people in general – but the ones that are not in conformity with that idea really pay a price. I think here, Kleber is talking about himself and that specific time when we all lived in Brazil under Bolsonaro. We all paid a big price by not obeying or not agreeing with what was going on.”
At a Cannes Film Festival press conference last May, Moura, who had shot “Marighella” when Bolsonaro ruled, described the attitude of the filmmakers making “The Secret Agent”: “In a dystopia, you have to try to hold on to something, uphold the values of dignity, remain an upstanding person. A dictatorship is very difficult indeed because you’re under threat of death basically, and the threat concerns your values as well. You’re being threatened by the powers that be. And if you group together, I think that’s what’s most wonderful in times like that. Not only when there’s a dystopia but even in happy good times. It’s lucky we can set up groups of people in this manner when there is a dystopian period of time in a very authoritarian regime. …
“The film focuses a lot on values. Values that come from the powers that be are twisted, and most people seem to align with these values. It’s hard to remain who you are. It’s hard to remain loyal and faithful to the person you actually are. There are societies and countries where similar situations have occurred. In Brazil, to be gay, Black or a native Brazilian, life may become very complicated. So politically speaking, these are real issues we wanted to talk about.”
Spoiler alert: Like Michael B. Jordan, Moura plays two characters in the film. (But we won’t tell you who the other one is.)
- “The Secret Agent” is nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture.
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