Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

20 January 2024

Best Actor 2023

Here is my top five in alphabetical order. These are the five I would nominate if I were an Academy of one.

ELIAS ANTON, Of an Age

BRADLEY COOPER, Maestro

CILLIAN MURPHY, Oppenheimer

ANDREW SCOTT, All of Us Strangers

YOO TEO, Past Lives

Also loved:
Zac Efron, The Iron Claw
Thom Green, Of an Age
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Ezra Miller, The Flash
Enzo Vogrincic, La Sociedad de la Nieve (Society of the Snow)
Yakusho Kōji, Perfect Days

Apologies to:
Casey Affleck (Dreamin' Wild), Gael García Bernal (Cassandro), Deniz Celiloğlu (About Dry Grasses), Felipe Ramírez Espitia (A Male), Paul Kircher (Winter Boy), Paul Mescal (Foe), Mads Mikkelsen (The Promised Land), Jonathan Tucker (Palm Trees and Power Lines), Callum Turner (The Boys in the Boat), and Jeremy Allen White (Fremont), whose films I haven't seen yet.

Related:
My Best Actor Picks from previous years (2004-2022)

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