Michael Fassbender

You could've just said that you can't wait for Shame because we see a lot of him in that film. :D
 
^ Haha yes. I agree he gives enough of himself in his, erm, performances.
 
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^Shame may be the first movie I will have to go to the theater alone to see thanks to all the naked Fassy awkwardness that will likely ensue.:ninja:
 
went to see Shame today, I loved it, we talked about it with my friend for 2 hours straight after seeing it, it's that kind of movie and most of all I have really impressed by Michael and Carey performances, the best of their career for sure !
 
OK girls I saw SHAME today and all I can say is that this is movie is absolutely brilliant One of the most haunting film I've seen this year and maybe ever.
All the crazy nicknames people give to Michael take a whole new meaning now, this guy is simpky fassy-nating. A lot of people say that he gives the best performance of the year, I couldn't agree more. Oh about the buzz around the opening scene...Let's just say my ticket worthed every inch of it :innocent:

You better rush and see it, I know I'll feel less lonely with all my dirrty thoughts
 
Fassy-nating, oh my god. :rofl: I don't get why France got it before us! The director is English! Carey Mulligan is English! Fassypants is Irish! The film was partly funded in the UK! WHY JANUARY?!
 
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Oh wolkfolk u went without me? Shame on u rofl
Anyway I cant wait to go see it They showed some scenes on "le cercle" canal plus and the relationship he has on screen with carey seems really interesting to watch
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His scenes with Carey IMO were some of the best in the film. They really played well off of each other.
 
Oh wolkfolk u went without me? Shame on u rofl
Anyway I cant wait to go see it They showed some scenes on "le cercle" canal plus and the relationship he has on screen with carey seems really interesting to watch
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Sorry boo but I couldn't resist any longer :lol: :lol:

Girls the SAG and Golden Globes nominations are this week so I think it's time to begin our prayers...
I'm not sure to make it if I don't get a Fasswonder red carpet overload.
 
Sorry boo but I couldn't resist any longer :lol: :lol:

Girls the SAG and Golden Globes nominations are this week so I think it's time to begin our prayers...
I'm not sure to make it if I don't get a Fasswonder red carpet overload.

he better get at least a nomination.
 
Fassy won Best Actor at the LAFCA [Los Angeles Film Critics' Association] Awards! The past six winners of that category went on to the win the Oscar! It's a very prestigious award.
 
YAY for his award win!:D Please don't let boring-@ss George Clooney win an Oscar over Michael's brave performance.

I've noticed the pants on his suits are always ill-fitted and loose. I wonder if it's to leave plenty of space for a certain part of his anatomy:innocent:
 
Re: Oscar.
My gut feeling is that he'll definitely get the nom for Shame, but he won't take the win. It's too controverial, he's foreign and he's too new (hasn't paid his dues in the industry. Male best actor winners tend to be older and more experienced than their best actress counterparts), the film is perhaps lacking that majestic, grandiose quality that the academy seems to like in their films (personally, I've never liked the tastes of the academy). I think it would almost be a curse to win the oscar this early in his international career. It would be a shadow hanging over him. His career can definitely survive on talent. He doesn't actually need it to have a great career over the coming years. From what I've read, Hollywood is buzzing for Fassbender, so he's sure to get plenty a great roles thrown his way. Of course, I would be happy if he won too!

A round up of the front runners for best actor according to the press:
Movieline, December 7:

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The Leading 5:
1. Jean Dujardin, The Artist
2. George Clooney, The Descendants
3. Michael Fassbender, Shame
4. Brad Pitt, Moneyball
5. Gary Oldman, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Outsiders: Michael Shannon, Take Shelter; Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar; Demian Bichir, A Better Life; Woody Harrelson, Rampart; Ralph Fiennes, Coriolanus; Andy Serkis, Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Considering how Clooney lost the Oscar each of the last two times the National Board of Review awarded him its Best Actor prize (for Michael Clayton and Up in the Air), maybe the cosmos is saying something. Either way, expect the actors branch to take notice of both the risk and reward — as in a $35,000-per-screen reward, a welcome rebuke of the ostensibly anti-commercial NC-17 rating — of Fassbender’s performance, which continues to burrow into the top-five frontrunners listed from Gold Derby to In Contention to THR and beyond.

Speaking of THR, the site’s resident awards correspondent Scott Feinberg explains why you might very well see Bechir replacing the freefalling DiCaprio as early as next week:
Could that tantalizingly up-for-grabs fifth slot be grabbed by… a Mexican actor whose name virtually no one even knows? I can’t help but notice how often Academy members bring up “the guy from A Better Life.” Sometimes quality perfs simply rise to the top, and Summit’s decision to mail screeners early seems to have gotten this one seen.
Who knows? Maybe next year he’ll be the one in a studio comedy opposite Alison Brie. Developing…
Indiewire (Thompson on Hollywood blog), December 1:

Front Runners:

George Clooney "The Descendants"
Jean Dujardin "The Artist"
Michael Fassbender "Shame"
Gary Oldman "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Brad Pitt "Moneyball"

Contenders: Leonardo DiCaprio "J. Edgar"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt "50/50"
Woody Harrelson "Rampart"
Michael Shannon "Take Shelter"
collider.com, November 25:
George Clooney – The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Likely to be nominated:
Leonardo DiCaprio – J. Edgar
Gary Oldman – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Other contenders:
Michael Fassbender – Shame
Woody Harrelson – Rampart
Brad Pitt – Moneyball

This is one of the more crowded categories so far, with a number of fantastic performances to consider. The current heavyweights seem to be George Clooney in The Descendants and Jean Dujardin in The Artist. Clooney’s performance in Descendants is said to be the best of his career, and Dujardin brings the charm in spades with his silent film turn. Another way too good-looking contender in the mix is Leonardo DiCaprio for his decades-spanning turn as J. Edgar Hoover. He’s certainly one of the best actors working today, but his performance in J. Edgar has been a tad polarizing. Some find it to be an extraordinary transformation, while others feel the strange accent and distracting make-up result in a less-than-convincing turn. However, it’s worth noting that the pic connected with older critics and the Academy loves actors who commit 1000% to a biopic. Also in the mix is Gary Oldman for the spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film has picked up some enthusiastically positive reviews across the pond, and Oldman’s turn is gathering steam. The actor has been a fixture in the business for a long time and it’s downright criminal that he’s gone this long without a single nomination. Buzz on Oldman’s performance is great and he’s long overdue, so expect to see him nab his first nod. Woody Harrelson’s work as a corrupt cop out of control in Rampart is also generating some heat. It appears that Harrelson drives the film, and this could turn out to be a Training Day-esque scenario where pundits are mixed on the movie itself but single out Harrelson’s extraordinary work. He’s been nominated twice before and I think he has a chance of getting into the Best Actor race here if he continues to pick up steam.

One of the most prolific actors of the year (and for good reason) is Michael Fassbender. His work as a sex addict in Shame is turning lots of heads, and his outstanding performance coupled with an extreme likeability factor could result in his first Oscar nomination. Not to mention the fact that he’s turned in multiple great performances this year. Everybody respects his undeniable talent, so I’ve got a feeling his name will be announced come nomination time. Brad Pitt is also a contender for his stellar work in Moneyball which I thought was one of his best dramatic performances of his career. It’s an understated role and not particularly flashy, so it’s not exactly a sure thing, but his performance was singled out amongst the many positive reviews the film received in September. However, without an aggressive For Your Consideration campaign to keep him fresh in voters minds, it’s likely that he misses the cut.

My Picks: I think Clooney and Dujardin are all but guaranteed nominations, with Oldman, Fassbender, and DiCaprio filling out the rest of the slots. The Dark Horse candidate here is Pitt.
Movieline, September 21:

The Leading 5:
1. Michael Fassbender, Shame
2. George Clooney, The Descendants
3. Gary Oldman, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
4. Brad Pitt, Moneyball
5. Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Outsiders: Jean Dujardin, The Artist; Woody Harrelson, Rampart; Ryan Gosling, The Ides of March; Tom Hanks, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Tom Hardy, Warrior; Michael Fassbender, A Dangerous Method
Man.

Oh man, this will be good: Overdue megastars facing off against a cabal of rookie Euros. Even the Clooney factor being what it is can’t hide Fassbender’s surge, already the stuff of award-winning, soul-baring legend, not so far removed from the position that we saw Natalie Portman latch on to last year and never relinquish, even as the Bening campaign snapped ferociously at her ballet slippers.
Of course, Fassbender’s virtually certain nomination isn’t nearly the same thing as Fassbender win. After all, do you really think Fox Searchlight sank money into an NC-17 sex-addict opus because it planned to run Fassbender against Clooney in another Searchlight movie? This is a classic case of buying the competition so you can put it out of business — not box-office business, mind you, or even awards-season business. They want each nominated. But obviously only one can win, and only one has the clear potential to capitalize on that win in a mass-market, take-the-family sort of way. A nomination that will burnish the other’s art-house mythology will do just fine as well. Give this until mid-October, after both have screened at the New York Film Festival, and let’s see where things lie.
Elsewhere, Pitt and Oldman are getting some of the best reviews of their careers for their respective films, while DiCaprio has 4,000 makeup-chair hours invested in what he hopes will be his fourth nomination. Scott Feinberg says that it’s all down to Pitt and DiCaprio in particular, writing of the latter at THR, “I’ve heard from people who have already screened J. Edgar, but are not working on its behalf and have no vested interest in its success, that he will be very hard to beat.” Harrelson is losing TIFF momentum by the day without a U.S. distributor to take up Rampart’s cause, while Dujardin is the ultimate wild-card — not least because of his film’s old-fashioned charm and the types of inspired Weinstein dark arts that lifted Roberto Benigni to a surprising victory back in ‘98.
indiewire, movieline, collider
 
Yeah I think a nomination woud be great for now I'm sure he'll have plenty of opportunities to have a win later in his career !
 
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 17th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS
*BEST ACTOR
George Clooney – “The Descendants”
Leonardo DiCaprio – “J. Edgar”
Jean Dujardin – “The Artist”
Michael Fassbender – “Shame”
Ryan Gosling – “Drive”
Brad Pitt – “Moneyball”
 
OMG just went to see shame the Fass body is insaneeeeee:D
I quite enjoyed it especially scenes with carey but I felt like something was missing maybe cause the whole thing was too polished/fancylike but I guess thats how steve mcqueen rolls and it was still a very great movie
 
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Awww, Fassypants and Benedict together! Cuteness. What's going on with the hair, though, Cumberpants?:blink: Anyway, I know this is Mike's thread, but he's working that suit. But back to Fassy looking sexy in that third pic...:crush:
 
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^ Seeing them together makes me happy. I'm not so thrilled about all his suit with no tie looks recently. He's sexy enough without having to flash his chest :lol:
 
He very rarely wears ties I think. I've only seen him at a couple events, mostly premieres, with a tie on
 

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