Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Oscars: 4
Rami Malek won Best Actor for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (Warner)
What a bore it was seeing Bohemian Rhapsody win several Oscars, especially Best Actor.
The Queen film, overseen by Brian May, was a conventional biopic that, in its closing chapter, devolved into a jukebox musical.
Rami Malek, who played Freddie Mercury, ran a very successful campaign to win the Best Actor Oscar (at his first and only nomination).
The film was a poorly edited, watered-down exploration–essentially a bunch of cliches–of the life of one of music’s most exciting and flamboyantly gay frontmen.
It was admittedly a weak year for lead male nominees.
The other four were:
Christian Bale, as Dick Cheney, in the political biopic Vice
Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine in the musical remake, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, as tormented painter Vincent van Gogh, in At Eternity’s Gate
Viggo Mortensen, as driver Anthony “Tony Lip” Vallelonga, in the road movie, Green Book, which (also inexplicably) got the Best Picture Oscar.
Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine in the musical remake, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, as tormented painter Vincent van Gogh, in At Eternity’s Gate
Viggo Mortensen, as driver Anthony “Tony Lip” Vallelonga, in the road movie, Green Book, which (also inexplicably) got the Best Picture Oscar.
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