Tag: The Whale

A stunned Brendan Fraser could barely speak after winning Best Actor at the Oscars

Brendan Fraser has won an Academy Award.

Brendan Fraser is now an Academy Award winner.

In one of the absolute warmest moments of the 95th Academy Awards, Fraser completed his Hollywood comeback by taking home the Best Actor trophy for his performance in The Whale.

A visibly emotional Fraser accepted the award with a touching speech that talked about his journey to the gold and gave credit to his fellow creatives and his family.

If you’ve grown up on Fraser’s films, you’re likely celebrating such a fantastic moment in the longtime actor’s career. Not many thought Fraser would ever storm back like he has, but he now has the film industry’s highest honor to show for it.

Fraser joins an elite group of actors who have taken home the Best Actor Oscar, and he’ll next get a chance to star in a possible Oscar film in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, slated to come out later this year.

Brendan Fraser’s awards history at the Oscars

Has Brendan Fraser won an Oscar?

Brendan Fraser has become one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors.

On Sunday, Fraser could complete his stellar comeback and win a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale.

However, would this be Fraser’s first time walking across the Oscars stage, or has he been here before?

The Mummy and George of the Jungle star has never been nominated for an Academy Award, although he won a Screen Actors Guild ensemble award for his performance in 2005’s Crash.

Fraser has raked in the accolades this year for The Whale, winning the SAG award for Best Actor among other honors.

Could Fraser take home an Oscar next? It’d be the biggest award of his rejuvenated career. He’s primarily competing with Austin Butler’s performance in Elvis, which earned Butler a BAFTA and Golden Globe.

Time will tell if Fraser will be the next Best Actor winner, following 2022’s Will Smith (King Richard) and 2021’s Sir Anthony Hopkins (The Father).

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Predicting the 95th Academy Awards, which looks good for Everything Everywhere All at Once

Which films will take home Oscars this weekend? We have our guesses.

With the 95th Academy Awards just around the corner, it’s time we roll up our sleeves and make some predictions.

While it’s impossible to really know what will win (outside of a few locked-in categories), we here at For The Win have a hunch as to what will take home the Oscar gold on Sunday.

Predicting the Oscars is kind of like predicting the Super Bowl. You can size up stats, watch film (literally) and make your best-educated guess, but it’s anyone’s game.

The Academy Awards have long defied perfection on the prediction board; you’re always more lucky to get things right than expectant to.

We’ve gone through all the non-short film categories and rounded up who we think will win. If we’re right, we’re smart and knew all along. If we’re not, blame the Academy not us!

An emotional Brendan Fraser delivered a powerful Best Actor speech at the SAG Awards

Everybody loves Brendan Fraser, and he’s now got a SAG Award to prove it.

Everybody loves Brendan Fraser, and now he’s got a Screen Actors Guild award to prove it.

The longtime actor edged Elvis star Austin Butler and The Banshees of Inisherin co-star Colin Farrell for SAG’s Best Actor honor, positioning him to possibly repeat at the Academy Awards in March.

Fraser’s on-screen turn in The Whale has earned him the best reviews of his career, and his fellow actors rewarded him handsomely for the performance on Sunday night.

Fraser became overwhelmed with emotion during his fantastic acceptance speech, one of those moments that you don’t forget anytime soon. An Oscar moment could be next.

Fraser has long been one of the warmest personalities in Hollywood and is the object of plenty of nostalgic love for his many notable performances from the ’90s and ’00s.

With Butler winning the BAFTA last weekend in the same category, it figures that Fraser and Butler will be the two vying for Best Actor next month.

Brendan Fraser exchanged gummies for Mummy-themed bumper stickers on BAFTAs red carpet

Brendan Fraser’s awards season is the gift that keeps on giving.

Academy Award nominee Brendan Fraser continues to be one of the absolute stars of this film awards season.

While doing red carpet across the pond for Sunday’s BAFTA ceremony, Fraser shared an absolutely wonderful moment with British film personality Ali Plumb.

As Plumb prepared to do a brief interview with Fraser as he headed into the awards show, he gave The Whale star a set of very Fraser-appropriate bumper stickers.

They read: “Honk if you’d rather be watching the 1999 cinematic masterpiece The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.”

Fraser was elated to receive the bumper stickers, but he didn’t let Plumb leave the interview empty-handed. Fraser shared a packet of Haribo gummy bears as a token of his appreciation.

Seriously, can you find a better red carpet interview? Fraser is beloved on the internet and with film fans young and old, and his awards run for The Whale has sparked renewed appreciation for his varied career.

While it’s yet to be seen if he’ll actually win the Oscar for Best Actor in March, it’s hard to argue that he’s not a huge winner no matter what happens.

10 key takeaways from the 95th Oscar nominations, including Top Gun’s surprising misses

Breaking down the 2023 Academy Awards nomination’s surprises, snubs, favorites and more.

The 95th Academy Award nominations have made their way to the forefront of the culture conversation as of Tuesday morning.

While some of the awards love was expected (Top Gun: Maverick! Everything Everywhere All at Once!), other beams of approval came with a bit of a surprise (All Quiet on the Western Front! To Leslie?!).

After Oscar winner Riz Ahmed and Girls alum Allison Williams revealed this year’s slate of nominees, it became clear that some films are in perfect positioning for easy awards. Others, however, will remain in the dark as campaigning continues on for the little gold men.

In a post-pandemic Academy landscape, anything is possible, and no race is settled.

Let’s look at 10 key takeaways from this year’s nominations and what they mean for the 95th ceremony and the Oscars as a whole.

The show itself will take place on Sunday, March 12. 

The Whale: Where to stream, how to watch

There’s only one way to catch The Whale… for now.

In the middle of awards season, the list of nominations for the 2023 Academy Awards was announced Tuesday, and The Whale was nominated in three categories: Best Actor (Brendan Fraser), Best Supporting Actress (Hong Chau) and Makeup and Hairstyling.

In the Best Actor category, Fraser is up against Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin, Austin Butler in Elvis, Bill Nighy in Living and Paul Mescal in Aftersun. For Best Supporting Actress, Chau is competing against Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin, Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once and Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

This year’s Academy Awards aren’t until March 12, so if you’re looking to catch up on some of the top films honored this year, we’ve got you covered.

The Whale, however, isn’t available to stream anywhere yet, but it’s still in theaters. Director Darren Aronofsky recently wrote on Instagram that the film “WILL NOT be streaming anytime soon.”

So for now, here’s the trailer:

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