Austin Butler’s Transformation in ‘Elvis’ Will Offer a Little More Oscar Conversation in Best Actor

He becomes the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, possessing all of his signature quirks and emotional inflections in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis. ”

Standing tall as the single best performance from the first half of 2022,

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Butler’s moves have thrust him into the Oscar race for best actor.

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However, his road to a nom won’t be easy, with a total miscast of his co-star Tom Hanks,

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who’s thrown into a fat suit with a questionable accent, and an overbaked runtime.

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The biopic’s awards success will be contingent upon the movie’s overall box office and possibilities in other Oscar categories.

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Something dawned on me attending the screening of “Elvis”

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leading to its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May:

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There’s nobody who hasn’t heard of Elvis. Still, as time moves further away from his era

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ending with his death in August 1977, he’s become more of a myth than a person

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