Ethan Hawke has been nominated four times, twice for acting and twice for the screenplays of Before Sunset and Before Midnight, which he co-wrote with Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater.
The Before trilogy is the achievement, three films across eighteen years following the same two people, with the actors ageing in real time and writing their own characters.
Training Day earned the supporting nomination, playing the audience surrogate opposite Denzel Washington, and First Reformed is the best late performance, as a minister in spiritual collapse.
He also writes novels, directs, and works constantly on stage, and appeared in Boyhood across twelve years of filming.
Byung-hun LeeThe Magnificent Seven (2016) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Antoine Fuqua takes the same structure, casts it the way the American West really looked, and gives the villain a coherent economic argument. The last forty minutes…
Ethan HawkeMoon Knight (2022) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Four episodes of the most distinctive television the franchise made, then two conventional ones. The asylum episode is the high point and the series never recovers from resolving…
Claudia KarvanThe Spierig brothers imagined a near future where vampirism has won. It is a genuinely smart science-fiction idea, and for its first hour the film is a sharp dystopian satire.
Ethan HawkeRichard Linklater's 1995 single-night Vienna romance. Spawned two sequels every nine years.
Ethan HawkePeter Weir's 1989 prep school drama. Robin Williams as the unorthodox English teacher.
Amanda SeyfriedSchrader's 2017 religious drama. Ethan Hawke as a Protestant minister losing his faith over climate despair.
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Bridget MoynahanAndrew Niccol's 2005 Nicolas Cage international arms trade drama. Among the most accomplished commercial cinema examinations of the industry.
Ethan HawkeJames DeMonaco's 2013 home invasion thriller. The premise has acquired more cultural standing than the actual films have generated.
Ethan HawkeAndrew Niccol designed Gattaca's world with genuine intelligence. The discrimination is depicted without melodrama, which is the film's most mature choice.
Ethan HawkePredestination is a clever puzzle in search of a reason to exist. The temporal loop at its center, a person who is their own parent, their own child, and their own nemesis, is logically consistent in a way that time…
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