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Actor: Richard Jenkins

Richard Jenkins was nominated for Best Actor for The Visitor at sixty-one, after roughly thirty years of supporting parts, playing an economics professor who takes up the drum.

The Shape of Water brought a second nomination. Six Feet Under gave him a dead father appearing throughout as a presence, and Burn After Reading and Cabin in the Woods show the comic range. He spent fourteen years at Trinity Repertory Company before film.

Let Me In (2010) film posterChloe Grace Moretz

Let Me In (2010)

Matt Reeves remakes Let the Right One In with care and conviction. Let Me In earns its 8 by being the rarest of things, an American remake of a beloved foreign film that justifies its own existence.

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The Cabin in the Woods (2011) film posterBradley Whitford

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's meta-horror about college students at a remote cabin who discover their ordeal is engineered. The Cabin in the Woods is Drew Goddard's 2011 American meta-horror film depicting college students at a remote cabin who discover…

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