Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club” (courtesy: Focus Features.)
It’s a shonda!
Matthew McConaughey, who I love, and who was great in “Dallas Buyers Club” won the Oscar for Best Actor. He’s terrific, but he doesn’t deserve it.
Chiwetel Ejiofor gave one of the most memorable and iconic screen performances in the history of cinema in “12 Years A Slave.” We’ll be talking about his work in this movie for generations.
McConaughey is lots of fun and gave an energetic speech about his belief in God and how his hero is his future self. He also gave his catch phrase “all right, all right, all right.” Eh, maybe I’m getting sick of this guy.
He also beat out Christian Bale as the Jewish con artist in “American Hustle,” Leonardo DiCaprio as, uh, the other Jewish con artist in “The Wolf of Wall Street” and Bruce Dern as the mean old man reconnecting with his family at the end of his life in “Nebraska.”
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