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Paul Giamatti On ‘The Holdovers’ Oscar Nom, His Love Of Zach Cregger’s ‘Barbarian’ & A Missed Opportunity To Collaborate With David Lynch
After landing his second Oscar nomination on Tuesday morning for his starring turn in Alexander Payne’s dramedy The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti spoke with Deadline about the reasons horror is cu…
Speaking to the genre filmmakers he admires, Giamatti named Hereditary ‘s Ari Aster and Nope ‘s Jordan Peele, though he gave particular focus to Zach Cregger, who caught his attention with his 2022 breakout feature, Barbarian. Giamatti’s fellow nominees in this year’s Lead Actor category at the Oscars include Maestro’s Bradley Cooper, Rustin’s Colman Domingo, Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy and American Fiction’s Jeffrey Wright. Released by Focus Features in October after premiering at Telluride, the film follows Paul Hunham (Giamatti), a teacher at a prestigious academy who nobody likes — not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating.
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