Viggo Mortensen may be one of Hollywood’s best serious actors. But he’s only been nominated for an Academy Award once – his turn as a Russian mobster in David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises.”
Well, that could easily change this fall seeing as Mortensen will have three films coming out that all look like potential Oscar bait. There’s obviously his role as the unnamed father in the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” then there’s his leading role as a hired gun in the Old West come to clean up a lawless old town in the Ed Harris-directed “Apaloosa” (Renee Zellwegger plays the woman who threatens to tear bff’s Harris and Viggo apart) and finally there’s “Good,” which stars Mortensen as liberal German professor whose moral cowardice leads to his involvement with the Nazi war machine and Auschwitz. Now all we need is a trailer for “The Road,” a film we are dying to see and are sad it’s not going to be at the Toronto or New York film festivals.
“Appaloosa” and “Good,” will both screen at the Toronto film festival in September and while they don’t sound like sexy films, there’s a good chance one of these three films will nab Viggo at least a nomination.
Trailer: “Good”
Trailer: “Appaloosa”