This is quite difficult to imagine ha?Maybe Johnny Depp? or Tom Cruise?...or Will Smith with Morgan Freeman as his father?Pitt's performance is out of this World one of his best if not the best he deserved the Oscar that year
shareyou mean with actors of that time period or all time? and yes that was pitt's best perfomance of his career.
shareBrad Dourif
shareYou kid surely?
Here are the contenders that year:-
WINNER
KEVIN SPACEY
The Usual Suspects
NOMINEES
JAMES CROMWELL
Babe
ED HARRIS
Apollo 13
BRAD PITT
12 Monkeys
TIM ROTH
Rob Roy
He was equal to Willis, I think...
Either way, Cromwell should have won. That dude deserves it.
Yeah there is no way Brad Pitt was better than Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects. There are not many performances, ever, that top that.
That's very interesting, they were all extremely memorable roles. Rob Roy is a criminally under-rated movie, much better than the other Scottish period piece that won best picture. Like any movie about a hero, it's usually the quality of the villian that can make it truly great, and Roth did just that.
Pitt was great. Maybe others could have done it as well, but none better. Maybe crazy has been done as well, but when it is, it gets nominations and wins awards.
Ed Harris was solid as usual, but i think a lot of actors could have done as well. Cromwell appeal was that he totally underplayed his part to perfection. It was charming but isn't the type of performance that will win many awards.
Spacey - it was very unusual (no pun intended). His parts in flashbacks was so-so, but what got him the award was the scene where he's just sitting and talking. I think the script won that award more than the acting performance.
Stopped reading at better than the other Scottish period piece that won BP...You really are brain dead.
sharePlaying insane isn't that hard. Jim Carrey would have been just as easy but a Brit actor like Michael Sheen or Gary Oldman could have done just as well. Pitt's overrated performance was just that; Overrated, just like his "Mickey" schtick in "Snatch"
shareWell, one movie where Jim Carrey went insane, The Number 23, got him nominated for a Razzy, so maybe it's not that easy.
Saying Oldman could have done a better job is no knock on Pitt since Oldman is one of the best actors on the planet.
Yeah, but I was talking specifically about Pitt's performance in 12M's. I actually think Pitt's a solid actor and in roles like Early from "Kalifornia" he was far more visceral but that performance went unrecognized for the most part.
shareMaybe Jeff Goldblum
sharePitt was good in this but he was basically just copying Dennis Hopper's performance in Apocalypse Now. The mannerisms were uncanny.
shareI could see Crispin Glover in the role, although it probably would've been too much a copy of his character from Rivers Edge.
Maybe Christian Bale?