Barton Fink (1991)
Coens' 1991 Hollywood-hotel drama. Won Palme d'Or, Best Director, Best Actor at Cannes simultaneously.
Actor: Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Barton Fink, playing a studio head based loosely on Louis B Mayer, and the performance is enormous and entirely controlled. Elf and Godzilla gave him further work, and he appeared in more than a hundred films and television series.