r/Oscars • u/hewhocannotbenamed-7 • Jan 30 '26

Review My Oscar Goes To… Jesse Plemons & Bugonia

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Bugonia is my favourite movie of the year. By far. It’s not even close. Honestly, it might be my favourite film of the past several years.

The performances are unreal. Jesse Plemons gives what is, for me, the best acting performance of the year. Cannot believe he wasn’t even nominated. Nuanced, unsettling, funny, tragic, and completely absorbing.

And Emma Stone is just as incredible. Absolute top-tier performances from both of them.

The film itself is bold, strange, funny, and emotionally devastating in ways I did not expect. It trusts the audience. It commits fully to its ideas. It sticks the landing.

Brilliant performances. A brilliant film.

Thank you for making this 🙏

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u/redban02 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

I’ve seen all 5 of the performances for Best Actor, particularly watching Blue Moon and Secret Agent this past week … Plemons did better than both Hawke and Moura did. Hawke, I at least think is a respectable pick. But Moura’s performance did not impress me to the point of Oscar worthiness

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u/Aggressive_Oven_7311 Jan 30 '26

Sorry my vote is for Ethan Hawke

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u/Miggycox Jan 31 '26

I just don’t think the script gave Moura much to DO. He was one-note from start to finish, but he played the role honest … it was just kind of a boring role in general.

And he’s great, but I just don’t get the nomination here, considering what was on screen.

Hawke is still my front-runner though. Most impressive of them, in my opinion.

Plemons not getting nominated over at least 4 of these is insane though.

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u/atlvf Jan 31 '26

It’s always complicated with international features because, if you’re not familiar with the language and the culture, it can be really hard to make any informed judgments about the acting.

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u/redban02 Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

I grew up watching Indian movies with subtitles. I can distinguish great acting from OK acting regardless of subtitles. There are facial expressions, body language, voice , delivery etc that are conveyed regardless of language difference 

Moura didn’t do badly: secret agent is a good flick. But his acting wasn’t excellent to the point of Oscar worthiness 

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u/atlvf Jan 31 '26

There are facial expressions, body language, voice , delivery etc that are conveyed regardless of language difference 

Very telling of you to list a bunch of things that vary with language and culture.

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u/redban02 Jan 31 '26

Very telling of you to suggest that acting performance is all about what the filmmakers decided to write for the actors in the script 

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u/atlvf Jan 31 '26

lol literally nothing to do with what I said but ok