Sandra Hüller trades courtroom tension for the grit of the Thirty Years’ War, portraying a woman who survives by passing as a man. From complex facial prosthetics to wearing the director’s own shoes, her transformative performance is already a major Oscar contender.
Despite his massive global success, Dwayne Johnson admits that being snubbed for an Oscar after his performance in The Smashing Machine truly stung. He is refusing to play it cool about the rejection, instead using the Academy’s oversight as pure fuel for his next chapter.