Daybreakers (2009)
The 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.
Actor: Ethan Hawke
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.
