More familiar faces
Five other actors you saw pop up in multiple Oscar-bait roles in 2017.
Michael Stuhlbarg isn’t the only one pulling double (or triple) duty this awards season. The ubiquitous character actor appears in three dramas vying for Oscar nominations. But some of his co-stars may look familiar, too. Put faces to names for these five actors giving stellar performances in multiple awards hopefuls:
Timothée Chalamet
Chalamet is a front-runner for best actor for his revelatory turn as a sensitive teen in the throes of sexual awakening in gay romance Call Me By Your
Name, having already earned Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. But the 22-yearold breakout is also a scene-stealer in two other films: He plays the “hella tight,” “very baller” boyfriend of Saoirse Ronan’s Lady Bird and a French cavalry soldier helping escort a Cheyenne chief across dangerous terrain in the criminally underseen Western Hostiles.
Lucas Hedges
Just a year after being Oscar-nominated for playing Casey Affleck’s grieving nephew in Manchester by the Sea, Hedges is once again an awards season stalwart.
The 21-year-old delivers one of Lady
Bird’s most heart-rending scenes as the affable first love of Christine McPherson (Ronan) who is outed as gay, while in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mis-
souri, he goes toe to toe with Frances McDormand, co-starring as her angsty son haunted by his sister’s grisly death.
Caleb Landry Jones
Jones has the range.
With minimal screen time, the 28-year-old embodies three wildly different but equally vivid characters in this year’s contenders: the lacrosse-stick-wielding brother of Allison Williams’ keys-jangling racist in Get
Out; an innocent ad salesman who sells McDormand’s vengeful heroine her titular Three Billboards; and the hardworking but distant son of a budget motel manager (Willem Dafoe) in The Florida Project.
Julianne Nicholson
In black comedy I, Tonya, Nicholson exudes tenderness and resolve as Diane Rawlinson, the real-life coach of Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie), who encourages the disgraced figure skater to get back on the ice and acts as a de facto parent in the emotional absence of Tonya’s abusive mom (Allison Janney). The 46-year-old also gets maternal in Novitiate, playing a distressed single mother who fears losing her daughter (Margaret Qualley) to a convent in the mid-1960s.
Tracy Letts
Steven Spielberg’s The Post has no shortage of familiar faces. But it’s Letts who makes the biggest impression this year, playing Washington Post Co. board chairman Fritz Beebe opposite Meryl Streep’s publisher Katharine Graham in the journalism drama. And who didn’t leave Lady
Bird wishing he was their dad, golf pun pillows and all?