Best Actor 2020: Results

5. Gary Oldman in Mank - Oldman gives a great performance where he manages to deliver on a role that asks of him qualities rarely asked of him, which is charm and wit. Oldman carries the film wonderfully and makes up for many of its weaknesses. 

Best Scene: Final talk with Marion.

4. Steven Yeun in Minari - You know this is an amazing lineup when this performance is 4th.Yeun delivers a great understated turn. This in finding the emotional complications but also simple joys of a man trying to achieve the American dream.

Best Scene: Final argument.

3. Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal - Ahmed gives a great performance here. This finding so much history and honesty in depicting an entirely convincing journey of a man quickly losing his hearing but slowly discovering himself.

Best Scene: Final talk with Joe.

2. Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Boseman will be a deserving winner, in this amazing swan song of a performance. Boseman steals the film entirely, in his charismatic, but also deeply emotional and tragic portrait of a man burdened by hate, ambition and sadness.

Best Scene: Story of his father.

1. Anthony Hopkins in The Father - Good Predictions Anonymous, Michael McCarthy, Razor, Emi Grant, Tahmeed, Luke, Glenn, Omar, David Jones, Shaggy, and Michael Patison. As much as I adore this lineup, this was an easy choice. This as Hopkins delivers his greatest performance that contains all that makes him great and more, in his complex, captivating and altogether devestating portrait of a man slowly losing his mind. 

Best Scene: "Mommy"

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