The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Philip Seymour Hoffman wins a remarkably deep field for Brandt’s physical anxiety, strange laugh, limited vocabulary, and ability to play a different register in each appearance.
In the discussion (3)
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- The field includes Tara Reid, Peter Stormare, David Thewlis, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Dom Irrera, Flea, Aimee Mann, David Huddleston, John Turturro, Ben Gazzara, and the Malibu sheriff.
- Flea is criticized as too cartoonish, while Turturro, Thewlis, Gazzara, Huddleston, and Stormare receive strong individual cases.
- Hoffman is selected for Brandt’s thigh slaps, nervous guarding of plaques, anxious limo behavior, repeated phrases, and extraordinary laugh.