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Jeremy Renner and the Best Actor Race
Posted by Marya E. Gates
I’ve yet to see A Single Man or Crazy Heart, mostly due to living in the middle of nowhere, and thus can only comment on the three performances I have seen. I enjoyed George Clooney in Up In The Air, but he was better in Michael Clayton. My opinion on Morgan Freeman in Invictus will come up later on in this post. That leaves Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker. And of the three I’ve seen, he has my vote. It’ll be a difficult race for him, but I think he has a chance of pulling it off. He had perhaps my favorite reaction to his nomination when interviewed on Good Morning America yesterday. When asked about his competition, he replied, “I’ve gotta break some serious legs.”
Posted in Nominations, the Academy Awards
Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, Alfred Molina, An Education, Anthony Mackie, Avatar, Best Actor, Crazy Heart, George Clooney, Good Morning America, Good Will Hunting, Invictus, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, Michael Clayton, Michael Stuhlbarg, Morgan Freeman, Steve Buscemi, Syriana, the Academy Awards, the Coen brothers, the hurt locker, The Informant!, The Messenger, The Oscars, Up In The Air