Last year’s Oscars seemed the gayest it could by chris carpenter
ACADEMY AWARDS PREVIEW GOING FOR THE GOLD
The announcement of the 87th Academy Award nominations on Jan-
uary 15th, featured now-traditional snubs (notably Jennifer Aniston, who gives a truly transformative performance in Cake that every other major awards group recognized) and flubs (the Academy’s president initially mispronounced the name of acclaimed cinematographer Dick Pope as “Dick Poop”). Such surprises as these, each year, are what make it all the more worth waking up at 5:30 a.m. on nominations day.
ever possibly be, what with gay producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan running things, Ellen DeGeneres hosting and the AIDS drama Dallas Buyers Club dominating the acting awards. Well, Meron and Zadan are returning for this year’s presentation on Sunday, February 22 and they’ve enlisted out, multi-hyphenate, Neil Patrick Harris, as host (check out sidebar on right). If that isn’t enough, the gay-themed his- torical drama The Imitation Game is one of the leading contenders, with eight nominations. Gay fave/perpetual nominee, Meryl Streep, is once again going for the gold as Into the Woods’ not-so-wicked witch.
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BEST PERFORMANCE
BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE I don’t consider myself a “Cumberbitch,” as his fans are
known, but British actor Benedict Cumberbatch stands out for me here as Alan Turing, the real-life persecuted gay mathematician credited with both shortening World War II and creating the first computer in The Imitation Game. His fel- low nominees Eddie Redmayne, Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper and Michael Keaton all give physically expressive, deeply felt performances in their respective films but Cumberbatch’s work is more subtle and that much more heartbreaking as a result. He’d get my vote.
IN A LEADING ROLE I had been championing Aniston so I was disappointed that she was passed over for Marion Cotillard, Felicity Jones, Julianne Moore, Rosamund Pike and Reese Wither- spoon. Unlike most, I consider presumptive winner Moore’s performance in Still Alice overrated. I love Moore, but her movie struck me as standard-issue, degenerative disease drama (which multiple nominee The Theory of Everything wisely was not) and her role consists primarily of forgetting words and the location of the nearest bathroom. I’m now rooting for Rosamund Pike, who is deliciously twisted as the allegedly abused and murdered wife in Gone Girl.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
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RAGE monthly | FEBRUARY 2015
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