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Brendan Fraser makes emotional speech after winning Best Actor Oscar for Hollywood comeback film

Brendan's Academy Award triumph came despite competition from Austin Butler, Colin Farrell and Bill Nighy

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Oscars 2023: from Brendan Fraser to Ke Huy Quan, Hollywood loves a comeback story

All four acting categories were won by veteran performers who have never been nominated – as Michelle Yeoh put it: ‘Don’t let anyone tell you you are past your prime’

The Guardian - AU

Was this the 'Year of the Comeback' at the Oscars?

LOS ANGELES — This year's acting prizes were marked by a recognition of veteran performers, some in what can only be called comebacks. Others may have never gone away, but they have never before received the acclaim and prestige of an Academy Award.

Los Angeles Times

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Brendan Fraser wins best actor Oscar, capping a ‘Whale’ of a comeback

LOS ANGELES — Brendan Fraser, whose career has featured both meteoric success and semi-obscurity, celebrated perhaps his finest hour Sunday, winning the Oscar for lead actor for his performance in “The Whale.”

Los Angeles Times

Brendan Fraser wins best actor Oscar for The Whale

Actor wins prize for performance as a reclusive, morbidly obese teacher in the drama directed by Darren Aronofsky

The Guardian - UK

The Whale is not a masterpiece – it’s a joyless, harmful fantasy of fat squalor

The Oscar nomination for The Whale must mean it’s great, right? Wrong! It is a shallow and stigmatising reflection of thin people’s assumptions about fat bodies

The Guardian - UK

SAG Awards 2023: Brendan Fraser gets emotional as he wins Best Actor for The Whale

The actor, 54, picked up the award at Sunday’s ceremony held Los Angeles’ Fairmont Century Plaza

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SAG Awards 2023: Full winners list as Everything Everywhere wins top prizes

Brendan Fraser’s much-discussed performance in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale earns him the best actor award

Evening Standard

From cradle to compost: the disruptors who want to make death greener

Startups rush to gain foothold in a burgeoning industry as New York and California move to legalize human composting

The Guardian - US

The Whale director Darren Aronofsky reveals why he cast Brendan Fraser and responds to accusations of fatphobia

Director Darren Aronofsky spent years searching for someone to play the English teacher with severe obesity at the centre of his film. But the film has been accused of fatphobia.

ABC News

Dis Life: 'Putting an actor in a fat suit to play an obese character on screen is ableist hogwash'

Anna Morell, who works for Disability Rights UK, says actor Brendan Fraser's interviews about his role in a fat suit, beg the question: why are we still using fat suits like this?

Daily Mirror

Darren Aronofsky: “The Whale allows people to have a good cry”

The director talks to us about his new drama starring Brendan Fraser, The Whale, and why audiences have been flocking to theatres to shed some group tears

Evening Standard

The Whale review – Brendan Fraser is remarkable in knotty drama of self-destruction

The Oscar-nominated star plays a chronically obese man in Darren Aronofsky’s clammy, uncomfortable but ultimately redeeming movie

The Guardian - UK

Why are Hollywood fat suits back in fashion?

Brendan Fraser has been Oscar-nominated for playing an over-eating teacher in ‘The Whale’, described as ‘one of the most fatphobic films of all time’. Eloise Hendy explores how plus-size prosthetics, once derided as dated, have ended up back in the Hollywood toolkit

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The Whale is being lauded as Brendan Fraser's comeback, but even his Oscar-nominated performance can't evade its flaws

The Mummy star is an Oscars frontrunner for his role as a morbidly obese teacher in The Whale, but not even his affecting performance can quite transcend this flawed film.

Daily Mirror

Sarah Michelle Gellar tears up as she shares sweet text Brendan Fraser sent after award win

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star sat down with Good Morning Britain entertainment presenter Richard Arnold to discuss her new series Paramount+ series Wolf Pack

Financial Times

Darren Aronofsky on his obesity drama The Whale: ‘When actors start, they all want to cry’

The director talks frankly about making films that don’t spare the feelings of performers or audiences

The Independent UK

Brendan Fraser says wearing ‘heavy’ prosthetics for The Whale showed him ‘strength’ of people with obesity

‘To be a person that size, you really have to be very strong, physically and emotionally,’ actor said

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Evening Standard

Critics Choice Awards: Tearful Brendan Fraser hails comeback from ‘the wilderness’ following win

The 54-year-old took home the best actor award for his performance in drama The Whale

Daily Mirror

James Corden almost played Brendan Fraser’s controversial role in The Whale

The Whale ended up starring Brendan Fraser, but the talk show host James Corden has revealed that he narrowly missed out on the part due to a change in director

Daily Mirror

James Corden 'narrowly missed out' on playing 600-pound obese man in The Whale

James Corden 'narrowly missed out' on playing a 600-pound obese man for the lead role in the critically-acclaimed film The Whale starring Brendan Fraser

Los Angeles Times

The church of Darren Aronofsky, where 'connection,' 'empathy,' 'love' are the sermon

Director Darren Aronofsky has a way of opening up performers to new emotional depths, explorations of inner pain that often seem to surprise even the actors themselves. So it has been with "The Whale," featuring a celebrated lead performance by Brendan Fraser.

The Independent UK

A trio of standout roles reveals Hong Chau's boundless range

The seemingly limitless range of Hong Chau is on display in three films this year, in roles so different that they hardly seem the work of one actor

Chicago Tribune

‘The Whale’ review: Brendan Fraser does his best with a movie that lays the pathos on thick

I’m of two minds about “The Whale.” I don’t like it; that’s one mind. Yet I love what it has done for its star, Brendan Fraser, a highly likely Oscar nominee come early 2023 and — as he has been since the early 1990s — a wonderful actor.

Chicago Sun-Times

In ‘The Whale,’ Brendan Fraser brilliantly embodies a man hopeful for others but tired of himself

Veteran actor delivers the best work of his career in Darren Aronofsky’s heartbreakingly moving story.

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