"Oscar-2023": who won the category "Best Actor". Photos and video

On the night of March 12 to 13 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles (USA), the long-awaited ceremony for the most prestigious film award, Oscar 2023, took place. Critics have chosen the best actor of the year.

Outperforming his four competitors, Brendan Fraser won in the category "Best Actor" for "The Whale. It became known to OBOZREVATEL while watching a live broadcast of the ceremony on the "Suspіlne Kultura" channel.

Brendan Fraser is an American and Canadian theater, film, and television actor and producer. He is best known for his role as Rick O'Connell in the Mummy trilogy of films, as well as for Blast from the Past, George of the Jungle, Blinded by Desire, The Clash, and The Whale.

In "The Whale," Fraser plays the role of an obese man named Charlie, who weighs about 300 pounds. To play Charlie, the actor not only gained extra pounds but also wore special overlays on the set, increasing the weight.

Other contenders for the Oscar in the Best Actor category were:

Austin Butler - "Elvis."

Colin Farrell - "Banshee Inisherina"

Paul Mescal - "My Sunshine"

Bill Nye - "Living."

Previously, OBOZREVATEL wrote about the loudest scandals in the history of the awards. Our list included Will Smith's slap in response to his wife's insults, "incest" on the red carpet between Angelina Jolie and her brother, and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's refusal to give a speech about the war. Read about these and other incidents in our story.

We also wrote that five cultural figures from Ukraine got the statuette, which made their country famous on the international scene. You can read about them here.

In addition, OBOZREVATEL reported that the World Congress of Ukrainians called to exclude the film "Top Gun: Maverick" with Tom Cruise in the title role from the list of applicants for "The Oscar" because it is likely to have connections with the terrorist country Russia.

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