After his win for Best Actor at the Golden Globes, it looks as if Joaquin Phoenix is well on his way to snaring his first Oscar for his disturbing portrait of a deranged wannabe stand-up comic who transforms into Batman’s arch nemesis in “Joker.”
The former child star has been nominated three times previously, as a supporting actor in the 2000 historical epic “Gladiator” and for lead actor in both the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line” and as alcoholic war vet who has ties to a cult in 2012’s “The Master.” But this physically demanding comic-book role for which he lost over 50 pounds may finally do the trick.
Several other actors on TV and in movies have played the Joker previously, including Jack Nicholson in 1989’s “Batman” and Jared Leto in 2016’s “Suicide Squad.” But only one performer earned an Academy Award for channeling the comic-book supervillain. That would be the late Heath Ledger,...
The former child star has been nominated three times previously, as a supporting actor in the 2000 historical epic “Gladiator” and for lead actor in both the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line” and as alcoholic war vet who has ties to a cult in 2012’s “The Master.” But this physically demanding comic-book role for which he lost over 50 pounds may finally do the trick.
Several other actors on TV and in movies have played the Joker previously, including Jack Nicholson in 1989’s “Batman” and Jared Leto in 2016’s “Suicide Squad.” But only one performer earned an Academy Award for channeling the comic-book supervillain. That would be the late Heath Ledger,...
- 1/10/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
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