Bohemian Rhapsody

[MAN O STEEL]

Recieved my 4K steelbook edition of Bohemian Rhapsody today only to find out that the full Live Aid performance is only a special feature. Its not incorporated into the film. So pissed off.

 

[InvisibleWoman]

So the Best Actor Oscar is pretty much Malek's to lose at this point, right? Has any actor previously won a Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA for a performance and not gone on to win the Oscar?

 

[Erik Lensherr]

Why? Because Bryan Singer?

 

[Boom]

So the Best Actor Oscar is pretty much Malek's to lose at this point, right? Has any actor previously won a Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA for a performance and not gone on to win the Oscar?

You have to go back a ways. I'm pretty sure the last actor to lose the Oscar after winning the big three precursors was Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001), and it is widely speculated that Crowe lost the Oscar because he assaulted the director of the BAFTA Awards that year.

Did Russell Crowe commit Oscar suicide?

Basically, Malek losing would be as big of an upset as you could get at this point. I don't think the Singer controversy is enough to derail him, as the allegations against Singer have nothing to do with Malek or the performance itself.

 

[Heretic]

Considering that Singer alternated between being a force for chaos on the set and not being on set at all...Malek's accomplishment as an actor is even more impressive. He turned in a major award winning performance DESPITE his director.

 

[Kev4000]

Considering that Singer alternated between being a force for chaos on the set and not being on set at all...Malek's accomplishment as an actor is even more impressive. He turned in a major award winning performance DESPITE his director.

With lip Synchronisation?

 

[lime]

So the Best Actor Oscar is pretty much Malek's to lose at this point, right? Has any actor previously won a Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA for a performance and not gone on to win the Oscar?

Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls) in 2006. He won SAG, BAFTA and HFPA and lost the Oscar to Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)

 

[Heretic]

With lip Synchronisation?

Not sure what you're going at here. I haven't seen the movie, and won't until I can do so in a way that won't benefit Bryan Singer, but yeah...I'm pretty sure that Rami Malek lip synched the vocals. I saw an interview where they talked about him singing and how much preparation etc had to go into that...but from what I hear (and believe), the tracks that weren't recorded by Mercury himself in the archives were done by Marc Martel.

And when I say that he gave an awards worthy performance...I'm talking about the fact that he has won awards and is nominated for an Oscar by his peers. My personal opinion of his performance (and again, I havent seen the movie) would not erase the fact that these wins and nominations are happening.

 

[Schlosser85]

He was nominated for acting out the part, not for lip syncing. Irrelevant.

 

[Heretic]

He was nominated for acting out the part, not for lip syncing. Irrelevant.

Maybe what Kev was getting at is that since he was lip synching, then the entire acting performance was not Malek's???? I'm not sure...maybe he'll explain himself.

 

[Lone]

Maybe what Kev was getting at is that since he was lip synching, then the entire acting performance was not Malek's???? I'm not sure...maybe he'll explain himself.

Lip synching doesn’t fall in the acting category? That seems illogical.

 

[InvisibleWoman]

Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls) in 2006. He won SAG, BAFTA and HFPA and lost the Oscar to Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)

Ah thanks! I figured it must have happened at some point in the past.

 

[Greens]

Watching all those clips of Bale and Cooper losing to Malek is pretty cringey. They have to be sick of it by this point lol

 

[The Chris]

I was hoping best actor would be a little more competitive than this. I didn't think Rami was SO good in that he'd be winning everything. He was darn great but maybe number 3 in my rank. There's was something about Christian complete chameleon performance in Vice and Bradley raw emotion in A Star is Born that i adore. But Rami carrying that film so much on his shoulders practically by himself is probably the most impressive thing.

 

[Boom]

My favorite performances weren't even nominated (Ben Foster, Ethan Hawke, Joaquin Phoenix), so this category is a complete wash for me.

Malek was fine, but I honestly think his awards run has more to do with people's love for Freddie Mercury and less to do with the actual performance itself. It felt more like an impersonation than a lived-in performance. There is something cruelly ironic about Malek winning for a performance that has quite a bit of lip-syncing over Bradley Cooper whose performance involved him actually singing his own songs.

 

[The Chris]

I'm not gonna hold the lip syncing against him because I would have to hold it against Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles too, and I'm not. But Ethan Hawke not being nominated for First Reformed was an absolute joke. That's probably his best performance. A wrecking ball of a performance.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

I'm not gonna hold the lip syncing against him because I would have to hold it against Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles too, and I'm not. But Ethan Hawke not being nominated for First Reformed was an absolute joke. That's probably his best performance. A wrecking ball of a performance.

The lip syncing isn't really relevent imo, it's an acting award not a music award.

 

[InvisibleWoman]

As expected, Rami brought home the Oscar for Best Actor. I'm so chuffed. I've been posting in this thread since the first set photos were released... so to see it through production to release and now to Rami winning the Oscar for his performance... never been so happy for someone I don't know (felt the same way when Natalie Portman won for Black Swan)

 

[Spider-Fan]

I thought Rami did a fine job, but I still think Christian Bale should have won. He impressed me more. I felt the same way when Michael Keaton lost to Eddie Redmayne.

 

[Deck Rickard]

My favorite performances weren't even nominated (Ben Foster, Ethan Hawke, Joaquin Phoenix), so this category is a complete wash for me.

Malek was fine, but I honestly think his awards run has more to do with people's love for Freddie Mercury and less to do with the actual performance itself. It felt more like an impersonation than a lived-in performance. There is something cruelly ironic about Malek winning for a performance that has quite a bit of lip-syncing over Bradley Cooper whose performance involved him actually singing his own songs.

I liked both performances but I’ll take Rami fake-singing over Bradley fake-crying.

 

[Lily Adler]

Happy for Rami... wish it wasn't associated with IT.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I am also very happy for Malek honestly. I didn't love this movie, but I did think his performance was great in it as Freddie Mercury.

 

[sueb1863]

Someone on the radio was saying that Christian Bale was the frontrunner until he started doing things like thanking Satan for inspiration in his acceptance speeches, and that caused people to rethink their votes. They didn't want him getting so political in his acceptance speeches so they started trending more towards Malek. He said Bale basically talked himself out of the award.

 

[LvtLeeTDK]

Bale seems like the kind of person that doesn't give a damn about the awards tbh. Happy for Malek, but also sad for Bale.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Bohemian Rhapsody won the Film Editing Oscar because 20th Century Fox managed to edit out Bryan Singer's association with the movie in this day and age