Nicolas Cage, Mandy
People are finally starting to take Cage seriously again, and this outrageous, wildly trippy movie has a lot to do with the ubiquitous B-movie actor’s rise from “laughing at” to “laughing with.” We didn’t really think he’d get nominated for Mandy, but wouldn’t that chainsaw fight have been a hell of an Oscar clip?
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