Strudel-eater to take the cake...and Oscar
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/ Will Hamer / 12 January 2010 / Leave a comment Bet Now View Market
Waltz has won every major precursor, is nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild award and will be the raging odds-on favourite to win the ‘Best Supporting Oscar’
Will Hamer predicts villains, once again, will dominate the supporting acting categories this awards season.
It takes a monumental acting performance to make eating apple strudel a menacing act.
Yet, Austrian-born actor Christoph Waltz, unknown internationally before Tarantino's brilliant Inglourious Basterds, somehow manges to pull it off.
Waltz's character, Colonel Hans Landa, or, as he prefers, 'The Jew Hunter', is set to enter the annals as one of cinema's most unforgettable villains. Waltz has won every major precursor, is nominated for a Screen Actor's Guild award and will be the raging odds-on favourite to win the 'Best Supporting Oscar'.
Prior to this, he is up for a Golden Globe, and if there is nothing more certain this awards season, it's that Waltz will win that, too.
This confidence doesn't come without sound reason.
His performance has been heralded as best-in-show, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the 90-member clique who vote for the Globe, are in love with the movie. They have nominated it for 'Best Drama', 'Best Director', 'Best Screenplay', and Waltz is the only actor who has been singled out for a nomination, which can only help his chances.
The main reason, however, apart from his superb performance, is the foreign factor. While I won't give any spoilers, Waltz's character speaks in four languages - English, German, French and a smattering of Italian - which surely must have the multi-lingual Globes voters salivating. While he's deep in the red, you can be confident in backing him and laying any of his competitors.
Meanwhile, an almost equally vile character is set to win the Globes 'Best Supporting Actress' category.
The surname-less Mo'Nique also delivers a best-in-show performance in the critically acclaimed Precious, where she plays the abusive and foul-mouthed mother of a grossly overweight teenager.
She might only be in a few scenes, but steals each of them.
If the $1.25 or so is too short for you, I suggest you lay any of her competitors, except Anna Kendrick, whose great turn in Up in the Air would be who the Globes voters choose in the unlikely event they find Mo'Nique's character too crude to reward with a win.
