MORE MURIELS 2015: BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE (MALE), plus OTHERS ACTORS AND MOVIES WE LOVED

The march to glory has begun, but before we get to the countdown to Best Picture, here's some other Muriel posts worth looking at:

Best Lead Performance, Male: Third place, Paul Dano (Love & Mercy); second place, Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight; and the Muriel goes to... Michael B. Jordan, Creed. (Essay by Matt Lynch)

Muriel Awards Addendum #2: Other Performances We Loved, featuring juicy nuggets on Oscar Isaac (Bill Ryan), Charlize Theron (Jamie Grijalba), Samuel L. Jackson (Kevin Cecil), my beloved Nina Hoss (Jason Shawham), Jacob Tremblay (Christianne Benedict), Leonardo Di Caprio (Vern), Mya Taylor (Cole Roulain), Arielle Holmes (Adam Lemke), Bernard Pruvost (Jason Shawham), Ronit Elkabetz (Christianne Benedict), Tom Noonan (Marya Murphy), Sidse Babett Knudsen (Cole Roulain) and Jason Mitchell (Jason Shawham).

Beloved But Ineligible, featuring terrific pieces on Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York by Peter Labuza and World of Tomorrow by Benjamin Lim.

Keep checking out Our Science is Too Tight, the official Muriels Web site, for updates throughout the day on the countdown to the Best Feature Film award!

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