On March 4, winners will be crowned at the 90th Academy Awards.
Because I was there for three months, [the script] felt like a person, he says.
The experience thats on screen up until [the end] is what Id just gone through.

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To feel nothing so as not to feel anything?
the patriarch tells his son.
In Chalamets hands, we feel it all.

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There were certain scenes when you were toeing a thin line, Kaluuya (Sicario) says.
You didnt want the black audience to go, Oh, hes a sellout.
Hes not speaking up.
Kaluuyas winning, shaded portrayal has earned wide acclaim from a variety of quarters.
Im a bit of a walking therapy session, the British actor says.
A lot of guys go, Yeah, Ive lived that.
Black women come up and hug me.
Its nice to be a part of something that people are invested in.
Who knew the sunken place would lead to such heights?
Playing Churchill was such a fulfilling experience that Oldman says hes ready to do it again.
I wouldnt mind another crack at it in a different time period, he says.
They do it all the time in those Marvel movies, dont they?
A treatment worthy of a real-life superhero.
a Denzel Washington movie.
I wrote it with him in mind, writer-director Dan Gilroy explains.
In fact, had Denzel not done it, I wouldnt have done the film.
That meant donning an Afro and immersing himself in the greatest hits of the 1970s.
A third Oscar would leave no doubt.