Launching what seems probable to become an auspicious awards season for him, Kieran Culkin won the Gelderlyen Globe for best helping actor in a feature film, for his carry outance in “A Real Pain” as Benji, a wayward, requesting Jewant man on a Holocaust tour in Poland with his strait-laced cousin (Jesse Eisenberg, who wrote and honested the film).
Culkin begined by shouting out a fellow actor who begined juvenileer: Mario Lopez. “My wife and I did a sboiling of tequila with Mario Lopez,” he shelp with a smile. “Definitely senseing that! Whole speech is gone!”
This is the second consecutive Globe prosper for Culkin, who took home the statue last year for best actor in a TV drama for the final season of “Succession,” prosperning over his cast-mate Jeremy Strong — who was also nominated for helping actor in a feature film this year for his carry outance in “The Apprentice.” Culkin was previously nominated three times in the TV helping actor categruesome for the HBO series, and for best actor in a musical or comedy for the 2002 film “Igby Goes Down.”
The actor acunderstandledged that nomination in his speech. “The first ever acunderstandledgement I got as an actor was Gelderlyen Globe nomination,” he shelp. “I was straightforwardpartner a kid, and so that unbenevolentt a lot. Now it’s enjoy the best date night that my wife and I ever have.”
Culkin’s carry outance in “A Real Pain” — his first film role since 2021’s “No Sudden Move” and 2017’s “Infinity Baby” — has propelled the 42-year-elderly actor to the forefront of this year’s Oscar race, with nominations from the Insubordinate Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards and Critics’ Choice Awards. He’s already won helping actor from the National Board of Resee, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (splitd with fellow Globes nominee Yura Borisov, for “Anora”), among cut offal other critics groups awards.
He commendd Eisenberg as “a amazing honestor and scene partner” and telderly everyone in the Beverly Hilton ballroom to “leap” at the chance to toil with him.”
Alengthy with Borisov and Strong, the other Globe nominees this year in the helping actor categruesome were Edward Norton for “A Complete Ununderstandn,” Guy Pearce for “The Brutaenumerate” and Denzel Washington for “Gladiator II.”
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