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We're going to the Oscars,
breaking down the films and performances
nominated for the six major awards
ahead of the 2021 Academy Awards.
I'm Jackson Floyd and I'm David Lynch
and in this video we're breaking
down the best lead actor
race who we think will win.
Who should who we think should win,
and some of the narratives
have evolved in recent months.
So this year, the nominees for Best
Actor are Anthony Hopkins for the Father,
Steven Young from Minority Chadwick Boseman.
Hermann Rainey's black bottom.
Gary Oldman from Bank and Ryzom, Ed.
For sound of metal Jackson.
What are your thoughts when
you look at that lineup?
I mean, it's it's got potential
to be a groundbreaking award.
I mean, if you look at Steve and Jen first
Asian American nominated RZA Med first
Muslim nominated and then Anthony Hopkins,
I think you're saying recorded
could be the oldest winner.
Best actor category here.
I don't think any of those
guys are going to win.
We'll get to that a little bit later,
but I I'm pretty stacked category.
All of them.
I think standing on the shoulders
of all of that is Chadwick Boseman.
Though.
Yeah, yeah,
I think I think that's
a good way to put it.
You know, for for obvious reasons,
kind of meta textual in our world,
but also just 'cause he put in a.
Fantastic performance in my Rainey's
Black Bottom and you're just going
over a little bit of of history here.
You know, obviously Heath Ledger was
the last person at the less actor
that is to win an Oscar posthumously
for The Dark Knight in Tweet in 2009,
but previously just over the
course of Oscars history,
there have been eight actors or
actresses who have been posthumously
nominated for their performances.
So if if and when I think
both Chadwick Boseman wins,
he would be the third behind after a
Heath Ledger and Peter Finch for network.
Interestingly, though,
he would be the first of those three
who was not nominated previously.
This is his first Oscar nomination, so.
It would be his first time at that,
as it were, and you know, I.
I think when you think about that,
you know the way they were
talking about the Oscars.
That damn he's the Golden Globes.
The Grammys.
Whenever Oscar Award
ceremony are talking about.
You know,
those awards aren't aren't decided on handed
out on a whim on that ceremonies night,
right?
So there are always in a way,
a reflection of where the the way
of where we are in the evolution
of a conversation surrounding
a certain movie album TV show.
Or in this case, performance.
And you just as as was the
case in 2000 and 2008.
You just really can't.
You can't come up with a more potent
narrative than than Chadwick Boseman,
winning for his final and arguably
has his best performance, you know.
It's his death is no less tragic.
It's no less devastating,
no less shocking, several let's on.
And and I think that he's going
to be in line for for the Oscar.
I think he's he's gonna end
up all the precursor awards.
What do you think?
Jackson,
yeah, I think this is bozeman's to win.
I just want to shout out to
young Ahmed who I think put into
fantastic performances. Definitely
quieter, a little bit quieter performances.
But yeah, I'm sure I've Bozeman,
of course is the the loudest performance
from the group as well. I say so.
Wonderful performance on his Part 2.
Like you said,
probably best performance clear.
Then it was clear.
I mean, sure, he's Black Panther,
the star of one of the biggest
movies of all time, yeah,
but reaches new Heights in
my Rainey's black bottom.
I I think will win this award
should he win the award.
I mean,
I think you should.
Yeah, absolutely you know I.
I think for a time for a time the
conversation was around Anthony
Hopkins and I think the main reason
is because the father debuted all the
way back in Sundance over year ago.
So he was really the forefront
of that conversation.
Kind of like, oh, he's, I mean.
If Anthony Hopkins a stellar career,
he's one once before for silence of the
Lambs and he might just want a second one.
People were saying because he just puts
in a fantastic performance in the father,
just monumental form its meaning.
It's really centered on him and then
he puts in just fantastic workseet.
He's runs the gamut of emotions.
He he he almost defies his age and some
moments when he gets up and dances in
certain parts and just is just bouncy.
The bounces performance from 83
year old you're likely to see
in awhile and then in that.
And what that what that movie
culminates in is just heartbreaking.
Scene with him moment with him that
I think I remember writing when I
wrote when I wrote about the Father.
There's just like this. This is.
This puts everything else a little
bit for perspective and he puts
in some of the most heartbreaking
moments he's ever seen on the screen.
So I think for a time he would have been
a rightful contender and he still is.
But I think that while Hawkins
might be taller performance posing
this boesmans is deeper.
I think his performance in Marlenis Black
Bottom is more a little bit informed
by by history of that character a
little more inviting for consideration of.
When you're when you're thinking
about that story,
themes of of black Mens in black women's
spaces and artistry and commercialism,
you know that story is set in
the mid 19 in the mid 1900s,
but still has relevance today.
So I think that Chadwick boseman's
performance definitely shifting.
Speaking of the depth of
that performance too, I,
I think Bozeman brought a lot
of what he was going through.
His experience to it.
There is a scene in a hunger in that role
and striving for the pinnacle of greatness.
And if you you read about Chadwick Boseman,
possibly posthumously,
and why he kept his battle with
cancer under wraps a secret he was
striving for that same greatest,
he wanted to be the best
actor he could bring,
the experiences he could to the screen.
While he could write and
representation as a representative.
For for Black faces on screen,
so he's played some of the biggest
historical figures and biopic rolls.
If you look at Jackie Robinson,
James Brown,
but also what he meant as Black
Panther at as the leader of Wakanda
to a cinema that doesn't have enough
all black casts or enough black leads,
he stroke that same greatness
that you see in the character.
So just a little more heartbreaking.
Looking back on it,
this is his word to win an he
should take that win home.
That being said, David.
If he doesn't win,
where are you on the outrage
meter? If he doesn't win between
a zero to five, I'm just.
I'm just dooming ourselves a little bit here.
I'm putting myself between 1.51 point,
five to two. And just because of this,
I think that you know when you're
talking about the cementing
of movies and performances,
and you know the mainstream optics
of movie and pop culture history.
You don't get much more foundational
and wider wider scope for lack of a
better word than the Oscars, right?
I think children perform Chadwick
Boseman for what we know now
about what he was going through.
As you alluded to,
while he was still shooting movies,
physical movies like the Five Bloods
Black Panther in Monterrey's Black Bottom
all very pretty physical performances.
What was what we know now about what
he was going through when still are
still kind of reckoning with that and
recognizing that fact several months on,
I think that that's one of the few
things that legacy that almost transends
transends him having a gold statue
in his name I you know his name is
going to live on anyway he like these.
Like you said,
just with the famous characters that
he's played while he had so much
to give still and so much to do in
his career in his life, he still.
It's amazing.
Consider that Despite that fact
he already gave so much and did
so much in his career.
And for those who watched him and you
know the kids who watched him growing up
still going forward his Black Panther.
So just kind of keeping ourselves
think he he doesn't need the
Oscar to cement his legacy but you
know it still would be a surprise
for sure if he doesn't win.
Exactly, I think you're exactly right there.
This won't be kind of the cap on it,
you know he's already hit that.
We've got Black Panther.
We've got these stellar performances.
We have the legacy surprise, right?
Word, not outrage, though.
I I do think maybe if Gary Oldman wins,
there might be a little bit more out.
Yeah, I'd say so
I say so, you know,
for as we alluded earlier,
there's a lot of Center for history
be made in this category in a in
a year where a lot of history was
made up and down the categories and
all the Oscars this year beyond.
Beyond the performances,
you know Gary Oldman's one before you
know he's got his Oscar for darkest
hour I would have slotted one or two
other folks in there for and invest
in best Lead actor aside from him
so you know if anyone else wins,
it would be.
It would be interesting.
I'd be a little little suspicious.
Security men want it,
but I think we'll both be
surprised if anyone other woodbin
Chadwick Boseman ones.
Now before we wrap this episode David,
I just want to ask what Bozeman's
nomination an potential to win means
for this year's Academy Awards.
You know, he is one of the
biggest stars in Hollywood,
even after his death.
And I mean, I think his stars
only shone brighter in the seven
months since, right, right?
Yeah? I mean, as you said,
we've had several months to kind
of reckon with his death and kind
of discuss what is legacy means.
And you know, it's interesting to
consider this year because any year
where you know certainly all the
best picture nominees are pretty
small movies not seen by many very.
Many audiences simply simply
because of the fact that some of the
biggest blockbusters were delayed.
The Oscars is pretty much almost certainly
looking at record low viewership.
We're all expecting that for this year,
but I think almost certainly folks
who want to tune in for that moment.
And just with that moment will
mean when most likely his his wife
and his family will get on that
stage as she as she did when she
accepted the Golden Globe for him.
And it's going to be a tragic moment
to watch her, it's going to be a,
you know, a sad moment,
but one that I think will be
will be worth tuning into to
help celebrate his legacy.
For sure.
Conda forever and that wraps up our
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