I thought his performance was good, but I didn't feel it lived up to all of the hype. he seems to be the dead set winner for the Oscars, and i'm still not sure why. Does anyone care to explain their views?
shareHow about explaining why a movie listed as 2010 is up for awards for 2011? Max von Sydow should have won this award.
shareI'm only addressing the OP.
Christopher Plummer has given a career of excellent performances that have never gotten him past a nomination at the AA.
Much like Peter O'Toole, Morgan Freeman, and Alan Arkin, the award was given to Plummer because he'd gone so long and been nominated multiple times, but had never won.
I thought many of the supporting cast in Midnight In Paris truly did a superior job to Plummer (not to take anything away from him, but he didn't do anything I haven't seen in Philadelphia, Milk, or any other gay topical film), and many other Oscar related films featured similarly powerful performances.
I'm ecstatic he finally won, though.
I will admit it seemed cruel to give Plummer a "gimme" Oscar, then give Streep her 18th Oscar (over Viola Davis, who blew me away in The Help).
Christopher Plummer won because he was damn good in this movie!
shareI'm going to be my usual contrarian self here, but if anyone deserved an acting award for "Beginners" it was Goran Visnjic as Hal's partner Andy. I've been a fan of his since "The Deep End" (another Gay-themed movie!) and I thought he overshadowed and out-acted the leads here.
shareVisnjic was good...but he didn't go through the same transformation that Plummer's character experienced...but I do agree with you, Goran was very good also...
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You should know by now that the Oscars are not just about acting skills, it's about politics, lobby and give old actors the recognition they haven't received before they die.
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Believe it or not but if there's an actor play such character like gay, nazi, or jews who suffer from war or holocaust, so they'll have more chance to get nomination and big potential to win Oscar, and almost every year there's a movie nominated for that sort of story or the actors who play that sort of character.
shareI really love this movie but I couldn't figure that out either.
Sat and forever am at work here.