How do you even begin NOT to nominate the kid...
I watched it last night and my hands were still trembling with emotion when I went to bed. Yes, Im a 33yo guy and I was touched by the movie, and I watch films almost every day, that's saying something.
Brie Larson was phenomenal and she deserves the Oscar they will probably give her, but I cannot believe that everyone talks about her performance more than that of Jacob Tremblay.
His perfomance as Jack is THE performance of the year, and probably the decade and I would dare say even more than that. I cannot understand for the life of me, how everyone was commenting on Larson's and not so much on Tremblay (even though yes, she was indeed phenomenal), and even LESS that he wasn't nominated for the Oscars.
What he did was more difficult and complex. First, he was an 8yo playing a 5yo. I have kids and anyone can tell you there is WORLD between a 5 and 8yo. I just watched an interview where he said he used his cousins (who were 5) as a reference and noticed how the jump all the time, so he did that to act like a 5yo. Outstanding!
Now, the thing with child actors is that they have to act like a child, and that's easy because that's what they are. But Tremblay had to act like a 3 years younger kid who did not know the outside world, and then is thrown into it and every discovery was a journey, and he did it SO convincingly I was in awe the whole movie, I could never see through his acting, the deep psychological endeavor he conveyed was incredible, like when he is on the truck, you believe he is seeing everything for the first time, and you believe he is, while coping with all these new things, trying to escape and follow his mums instructions, when he lands and doesn't even know how or where to run and just clashes into someone, and then assumes fetal position, when he is in the cop car, WOW, you really believe he is someone who never talked to someone else before and is mentally "limited", when he hears a phone ring for the first time and gasps, when he doesn't even know how to use the stairs, he so believable and he was 8 F*! years old. ANY actor would find it hard to pretend they don't know the world, and this kid did just that.
How!? I am so impressed. Sorry Leo, this kid got the better of you. I will still watch the oscars and be glad for Leo because he also deserves it, even though Tremblay gave the performance of the year, no doubt. I am in disbelief that he wasn't even nominated, to me is a real travesty.
Thoughts?