Brendan Fraser, whose career has been marked by resounding success and near-obscurity, celebrated perhaps his finest hour on Sunday, winning an Oscar for his performance in “The Whale.”
“This is what the multiverse looks like!” Frasier announced in his acceptance speech, thanking his director Darren Aronofsky for “throwing me a creative lifeline”.
Fraser’s path to the Oscars began with a six-minute standing ovation for his transformative performance in Darren Aronofsky’s film at its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival last September.
despite of Some controversy on his account Pour As a suicidal, gay, 600-pound professor and portrayal of morbid obesity on film (based on the play by Samuel D. Hunter), Fraser won more than 20 major actor awards from critics groups including Critics’ Choice Assn., and amassed the most reliable Oscar precursor: an award. Screen Actors Guild.
Although Fraser has worked steadily in television and small films in recent years, he hasn’t headlined a major theatrical release since 2010’s Extraordinary Measures with Harrison Ford. Prior to that, of course, he had starring roles in the “Mummy” franchise, “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Crash,” “Gods and Monsters,” “George of the Jungle” and many more.
Fraser has attributed his absence from the marquee in part to injuries sustained while enthusiastically filming several action films. as claimed that the eight-term president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) sexually assaulted him. (burk He denied the accusation, as well as the actor’s open-ended question about whether the Golden Globes blacklisted him. Burke was later fired from the organization when it emerged that he had sent an email describing Black Lives Matter as a “racist hate movement,” prompting Globes broadcaster NBC to demand his removal.)
Meanwhile, Frasier ended up winning televised American film acting awards this season — save for the Globes, which picked Austin Butler’s critically acclaimed role as the King of Rock and Roll in “Elvis.” Fraser had said beforehand that he would “not be attending” the Globes.
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