Artistic extroverts aren't exactly an unfamiliar type in cinema but the beauty of his work is how authentic it reads. There's no performing (except when Glen himself is performing) there's only being.

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Some TV work in Britain. Any films?

Wonderful nuanced authentically lived in work as a shy lesbian teenager in Brooklyn.

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Haven't heard a peep which is a terrible sign given the quality of her breakthrough role. Just goes to prove again that Hollywood is terrible about nurturing the careers of the best actresses of color.

Just hypnotic as the cult escapee who no longer knows herself, all stripped of identity.

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What isn't she being considered for is a better question. She's in Red Lights, Liberal Arts, and Very Good Girls. And soon the leading role in Therese Raquin opposite Glenn Close

Best Ensemble

Wiig, McCarthy, Byrne, O'Dowd, Hamm, Rudolph, Kemper, McClendon-Covey, Clayburgh and Falcone, Lucas and Wilson

Wonderful comic improvi even from dramatic actors, anchored by a multitude of tiny reactive nuances since the movie is about something (imagine it) and not just after easy laughs.

Berlin, Paquin, Smith-Cameron, Broderick, Janney, Culkin, Damon, Gallagher Jr, Reno, DeWitt and Ruffalo

Lonergan's sprawling jagged cry of the New York soul offers up plenty of meat for actors to chew on but it never feels acting exercizey. You feel their collective pain.

Harrelson, Wright, Weaver, Heche, Nixon, Larson, Beatty, Bernthal, Foster, Cube, and McDonald

So many interesting scenes, so perfectly judged between the actors -- even in offhand bits and business -- that it's like a forceful wake up call to Hollywood movies: ask more from your actors. Many can deliver.

Bayet, Maadi, Hatami, Farhadi, Hosseini, Karimi, Shahbazi, and Zare'i

Ensemble acting without anything like weak links often indicate a strong directorial hand but the actors are still to be honored. They're so in sync with Farhadi's complex puzzle and their own piece in it.

Oldman, Cumberbatch, Firth, Hardy, Strong, Hinds, Hurt, Jones, Fairbank-Hinds, Dencik, McBurney and Burke

I'm reasonably certain that repeat viewings will only deepen the meaning and nuance of all that interactor glancing, sizing up, evading, confessing, remembering, warning.