Michael Fassbender has scooped the Best Actor prize at the Evening Standard British Film Awards for his role as Brandon in Steve McQueen’s sex addiction drama Shame.
We, at the Movie Bit, loved Shame, a sentiment clearly not shared by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who rejected the film entirely, omitting it from a nomination in any category; a farce given Fassbender’s raw performance and McQueen’s visceral screenplay and direction.
Olivia Colman was also rewarded at the awards for her critically acclaimed, BAFTA omitted (!) performance in Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, winning Best Actress at the ceremony.
Synopsis: Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.
Tyrannosaur was released last year.
Such awards will be scant consolation for fans of Fassbender and Colman and only serve to highlight the blatant injustice and ridiculous misjudgement that sometimes rears its head at this time of the movie calendar.
For Fassbender, though, I think it is only a matter of time…
Source: BBC
