The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Chris Sarandon wins over Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest after Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant, and Mandy Patinkin are ruled too central.
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- Wallace-Shon is removed because his role is an essential part rather than a role-player heat check.
- Andre the Giant and Mandy Patinkin are also ruled too central.
- Chris Sarandon wins for playing the biggest prick without worrying about the movie’s wonderful overacting.
- Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest are explicit eligible alternatives.
- Christopher Guest has a pivotal but very small final-third role under heavy makeup.
- The panel says everybody overacts in a wonderful way, while Sarandon fully commits to the villain’s humiliation.