Brendan Fraser wins the best actor Oscar at the Los Angeles Academy Awards for the Whale.
Fraser plays a morbidly obese instructor in the Darren Aronofsky–produced the movie that Samuel D. Hunter adapted from his own play. Austin Butler, who played Elvis, and Colin Farrell, who played The Banshees of Inisherin, were among the competitors vanquished by Fraser.
Fraser has already been nominated for best actor at the Baftas and the Golden Globes for the part, in addition to winning best actor at the Screen Actors Guild and Critics’ Choice awards (for film drama). Fraser made the decision not to go to the latter after accusing Philip Berk, the previous president of the Golden Globes, of sexually assaulting him in 2003. The accusation was labeled “pure fiction” by Berk. Although it was determined by an internal investigation that Berk had “inappropriately touched” Fraser, Berk’s behavior “was intended to be perceived as a joke and not as a sexual advance,” according to the report.
Fraser entered the room, visibly moved, and exclaimed, “So this is what the multiverse looks like!”
Darren Aronofsky, the film’s director, and Samuel Hunter, its writer, received praise from him. He said of them: “You left your whale-sized hearts naked so we could see into your souls.”
He spoke briefly about his early career in the sector before he concluded. He said, “I started in this company 30 years ago. Things were difficult for me, but there was a convenience that I took for granted until it ceased.
Finally, he expressed gratitude to his wife Afton Smith, his “first mate,” and his three sons.
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