Brendan Fraser Wins Best Actor Oscar for ‘The Whale’, Reflects on Career Hardships in Tearful Speech
etonline.comBrendan Fraser completed the comeback of his career by winning his first Academy Award.The actor won the Oscar for Best Actor for his harrowing, critically lauded performance in Darren Aronofsky's Fraser plays Charlie, a reclusive English teacher with morbid obesity who tries to salvage a relationship with his teenage daughter.
This is Fraser's first Oscar win.Fraser was visibly beside himself as he took the stage to accept his Oscar statuette. «So this is what the multiverse looks like!» he exclaimed. «Oh my goodness!» «I thank the Academy for this honor and to our studio, A24, for making such a bold film.
And I'm grateful to Darren Aronofsky for throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard the ship of ,» he said, thanking the director of the movie, as well as the screenwriter.
Fraser also thanked his fellow nominees in the category, saying with emotion, «Gentlemen, you laid your whale-sized hearts bare so that we could see inside your souls like no one else could do.
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