A week after the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards released their awards. Brendan Fraser was honored with the Best Actor Award and delivered a moving acceptance speech.
Nominated 14 times, the film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once left with 5 awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan and Best Editing.
Cate Blanchett received the Best Actress Award for Tar, while Brendan Fraser won the Critics Choice Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a morbidly obese man in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale.
The actor, who had not won a leading role in a film for many years, gave a moving speech in which he thanked the American director.
“I was in the desert and I must have left a trail of breadcrumbs in my path, but you found me. And like all the best directors, you showed me where to go to get where I needed to be.“
He then adds on the end of speech announcement music: “If, like Charlie, whom I play in this film, you’re struggling with obesity, or just feel like you’re in a dark sea, I want you to know that you too can have the strength to get up and go towards the light. Good things will happen.“
In The Whale, Brendan Fraser plays Charlie, an English teacher who suffers from morbid obesity and lives recluse at home. He attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter (Sadie Sink) for one last chance at redemption.
Brendan Fraser is a strong contender for the Best Actor Oscar. A reward that would probably allow him to relaunch his career since the actor recently complained of not having enough proposals. Last week, he told Deadline that he had “never been so famous and so poorly paid at the same time.“
Brendan Fraser’s career began to decline in the 2010s due to personal tragedies and a sexual assault he suffered in 2003. Thanks to Darren Aronofsky, the actor is back on the scene.
After The Whale, in theaters on March 8, he will star in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Max Barbakow’s Brothers.