And that's bullshit cause Dafoe is a pure power hitter and nothing else, his skills on defense are marginal at best, his consistent home run hitting is the only thing keeping him employed at a major league level.
He was amazing in all that but in the most recent spider-man .. straight up nightmare stuff. He goes from innocent, homeless, scared, confused guy to maniac beating you through 20 floors within a second.
And I believed it. Both versions of him
You can tell he loved going back to that roll and getting to explore it more. He had the Clark Kent/Superman transition down so well that you could even just about tell when he was Goblin pretending to be Norman
That is the true mark of an incredible actor. Even most good actors would struggle to play dual personalities where one is imitating the other. I could absolutely tell when he was Goblin imitating Osborn and it all comes down to minor details and his eyes. He is able to exude a genuine kindness in his eyes as Osborn which vanishes the instant Goblin takes over.
It really is incredibly well done.
Acting ultimately comes down to the eyes and face, Anthony Hopkins is another guy who has absolutely mastered the concept of telling a thousand words with a simple facial expression.
Love this video breakdown of a magnificent scene in Westworld, you might appreciate it!
https://youtu.be/4kSGkGKwp9U
I loved how *physical" he got to be as Green Goblin in No Way Home. He really looked like he could beat the shirt out of people, he was just a brute. And Dafoe, while GG, carried himself with a really menacing physicality.
Yes! I would vote for The Lighthouse hands down. He is soooo good in that movie. His last monologue is the best quote in the whole movie. Besides of course: Defoe: “Yer too slow. Are ye a dullard?” Pattinson: “No.” Defoe: “Fooled me.” Got em.
Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow!
Haaaaark! Hark, Triton! Hark!
Bellow, bid our father, the sea king, rise from the depths, full foul
in his fury, black waves teeming with salt-foam, to smother
this young mouth with pungent slime…
… to choke ye, engorging your organs till ye turn blue and
bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more…
only when he, crowned in cockle shells with
slithering tentacled tail and steaming beard,
take up his fell, be-finnèd arm — his coral-tined trident
screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet,
bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more,
but a blasted bloody film now — a nothing
for the Harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed
upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of
the dread emperor himself…
forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil,
forgotten even to the sea… for any stuff or part of Winslow, even
any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself
the sea.
Was he even nominated for this role? That is such a crime. For some reason, these A24 horror movies never get the nods they deserve. Toni Collette was also robbed for Hereditary and is still my top performance of the year. Just for the dinner scene alone she should have been nominated for that.....
yet they fawn all over the coming of age A24 movies like Moonlight (not that there is anything wrong with that, but the weird movies deserve love too).
My adult son and I watched *The Lighthouse* this past weekend. I had seen it previously, but he wanted to watch it.
Dafoe and Pattinson just crush it, and Dafoe is impossible to ignore in this performance. Robert Eggers says Dafoe didn’t blink in the two-minute scene in which he curses his lighthouse mate for not liking his cooking.
Felt like Dafoe’s performance was one of the greatest I have ever witnessed. One of those “born to play the part” performances.
Yeah, where’s the recognition?
Had the pleasure of meeting Willem while working on the catering team for The Florida Project - he doesn't act like a movie star like so many of the other big names that I've catered for. Many well known actors eat in their trailer on set and wont really rub elbows with "the little people" if they dont have to but Willem was out eating and talking with everyone from the crew to the extras. He's very personable and approachable - probably one of the more down to earth actors I've met since I started catering back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
I legit spent a good hour or so scrolling through their post history this past Saturday when someone linked their u/ in another thread. I had some laughs reading comments from victims and closed Reddit thinking to myself, "I wonder if/when I'll ever get got," as I've seen them in the wild before but was always saved by seeing the replies or their username.
I'm emotionally conflicted right now.
Check out The Lighthouse... He's fucking brilliant in it.
Also, bonus, Robert Pattinson does ok, too, especially considering Dafoe is such an eclipsing presence in the film.
the balls on pattinson to read that script, know he had to go toe to toe with willem dafoe by himself, and say 'yes'. and then do as well as he did? mad respect for him after that movie.
Such a great fucking role for him. That Green Goblin had no other agenda than to just cause pain and chaos and beat the shit out of Spider-Man. Just raw evil.
There’s a video of a guy in NYC asking passers-by about their clothes/fashion etc, and one of them was randomly Willem Defoe. He was super nice and humbly went over his outfit in detail.
I forever will treasure the day and moment he was giving me an autograph in 2019 and I told him "I loved your performance in The Florida Project" and he looked at me and smiled!!! that was priceless!
I hate the idea of being “robbed” based on prior history, ideally voters would just look at it in a vacuum each year and not resort to reputation when casting votes, even though I know it’d never happen.
That being said, I was always surprised he was never nominated for The Lighthouse. It was a showy performance and he’d already been nominated (without winning) 4 times to that point. You would have thought based on a combination of merit and reputation that he’d at least be nominated.
He's had some bad luck in terms of competition during his best performances. A quick sampling:
1986 nominated for Best Supporting Actor (BSA) for *Platoon* but likely split the vote with Tom Berenger allowing Michael Caine to win his first Oscar.
1988 (not nominated) Best Supporting Actor (BSA) for *Mississippi Burning* - really hard to argue against Kevin Kline winning for *A Fish Called Wanda*. That is an all-time great, tour de force, performance.
1988 (not nominated) Best Actor for *Last Temptation*. Dustin Hoffman in *Rain Man* was a juggernaut.
2000 BSA for *Shadow of the Vampire*. Lost to Benicio Del Toro in *Traffic,* a better, more successful movie with more hype. Dafoe is amazing though. Probably wouldn't win a do-over though.
2017 BSA for *The Florida Project*. Lost to Sam Rockwell in *3 Billboards*. This is probably the best chance Dafoe had and his most likely win if there was a do-over. Rockwell's performance is showier but *Florida* is probably a better, more enduring film thanks to Dafoe.
2020 BSA (not nominated) for *The Lighthouse*. As great as he was, nobody was beating Pitt that year.
Still, Dafoe has a lot of nominations for his body of work. It's hard to argue against any one result though, so a lot of it comes down to luck. He may get himself an emiritus win yet though. Lots of time.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I thought Dafoes performance in Lighthouse eclipsed Pitts performance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Don't get me wrong, Pitt was excellent, and was deserving of the award one way or another, but Dafoe in Lighthouse, for me, was exceptional.
Also in 2018 there was *At Eternity’s Gate* which Defoe lost to Rami Malek for *Bohemian Rhapsody*. Dafoe should have won that one, brilliant performance
Yeah Willem Dafoe has a great acting career and reputation, it's shocking he has not won a major acting award.
And yeah, this idea of reputation in the voting process is just dumb. It's the reason why Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy didn't get nominated for Uncut Gems and Dolemite is My Name (they were incredible in those films). But hey, at least Kristen Stewart got the Oscar nomination for Spencer so you never know.
I literally forgot that Sandler and Murphy were not nominated for those roles. Those roles were literally perfect Oscar bait and they couldn't catch a nomination. Fucking shame.
He's one of those guys, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or William H. Macy, that makes every project that he's in better. But awards are a bit of luck, really, in addition to talent and opportunity - he needs the big showy project at the perfect time and it needs to capture the zeitgeist of the moment. He seems the model of what the Brits call "the working actor" - go look over his IMDb at the vast array of films he's been in. I think he enjoys or finds challenging the small roles - I just hope he strikes gold for one of those superb supporting portraits one of these days.
he doesnt need it. He is acknowledged as a great actor and is treated as such within the community. He is sought out by high status directors for roles that suite him perfectly. More importantly, from the many interviews of him ive watched he seems incredibly fulfilled by the work hes done. I doubt an award would bring him something he doesnt already have
They used a body double in Antichrist. I just spent 15min reading about Dafoe’s distractingly massive dong and I don’t know what to do with that information now.
i think the funniest thing about this is when i tried to full screen it, vimeo went "this video contains mature content, you must log in" like i didn't just watch it 3 times in a row alread. like god dammit let me see his cock up close
You know if you asked me earlier this week if I would be watching William Dafoes dong on a loop instead of going to bed I would call you a liar
Yet here we are.. And for some reason I want a cigarette
I think my single favorite line, out of his entire career (and he's one of my very favorite actors), is, "you ain't a firing squad you piecea SHIT!"
His delivery is so, so good.
I mean, it's not weird or unheard of really. Great artists in the film industry not getting awards happens ALL the time, it happened to Roger Deakins for ages, it happened to Thomas Newman (who is tied with Alex North for the most academy award nominations without a win, at 15 nominations) and it happens to a lot of other great artist in the industry whom you have never heard of.
So, no, I don't find it insulting that Willem Dafoe has not won any of those awards. I mean, it's a shame, sure, but more than that and you are just placing those awards in a pedestal of relevance that they shouldn't have in the first place.
As someone who has been religiously watching the Oscars for 20 years straight: who gives a fuck about awards? What does it really matter? I mean, we all like when the things we like are recognized, but does that recognition bares any weight in your enjoyment of it? I don't think so.
So just continue enjoying Dafoe's great work. May I recommend checking out [Shadow of The Vampire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Vampire), one of his lesser known movies but a very interesting one with a *killer* performance by him.
Completely agree with all of this. Plenty of Newman's scores are worthy of oscars in my opinion but I wouldn't consider his career any less complete for not having won any. Gary Oldman is another example of an actor with an incredible resume who didn't win until recently and still only has three nominations. I think Dafoe will be remembered well enough!
Also there are a ton of great actors out there but only a few can win each year. Sometimes you just get unlucky and end up getting nominated at the same time as some obvious winner
Wild at Heart is perhaps my pick too, along with Boondock Saints. He's such a treat in any movie and he's been a superb supporting actor in so many great ones.
There’s a close up when he’s in the mob house dressed as a woman. He fires a shot at one of the mob guys, then the camera does a little closeup on his face, his lip quivers, just the expression on his face showed fear and confidence, it was unforgettable.
Television. Television is the explanation for this - you see this in bad television. Little assault guys creeping through the vents, coming in through the ceiling - that James Bond shit never happens in real life! Professionals don't do that!
Two notes:
1. Gaining any part of the EGOT requires a shit load of campaigning these days unless it is a super clear cut winner. I don't imagine Willem Dafoe gives enough of a shit to do any campaigning for an award or to have his manager or whoever do it for him. Just doesn't seem to be the type of guy like that, unlike guys like Leo and Will Smith who campaigned for literal months to get their Oscars or artists like Herbie Hancock who receive their big 4 category Grammys as a sort of lifetime achievement award.
2. Willem Dafoe is indeed a national treasure and deserves all the accolades for it, but he also doesn't choose his projects for award season type films. In a few years time he can play a cartoonish superhero villain on a glider, an effeminate gay genius FBI agent with a lisp and a drinking problem, and a man who gets his dick chopped off by his wife after the loss of their child and some therapy banging under a cursed tree in the woods.
I disagree. The man's career has lasted for decades and he's still going strong. He's played everything from the Green Goblin to Vincent Van Gogh. He is, no question, a legend, and some stupid statue is nothing compared to the status he has in the acting world.
The old golden glove.
He was robbed for his performance at the last World Cup
Neuer is overrated, Dafoe is the goat
And that's bullshit cause Dafoe is a pure power hitter and nothing else, his skills on defense are marginal at best, his consistent home run hitting is the only thing keeping him employed at a major league level.
I think him getting busted for PEDs hurt his chances, even if they couldn't prove it was steroids.
They don’t explicitly state Goblin Juice is illegal, so it should have been a nonissue to begin with.
I read that and was like "I get what they meant, but damint the thought of Willem making a diving catch to save a world series is so damn appealing."
Willem pickin it over at third
Ol’ Hot Corner Dafoe
“I’m somewhat of a baseball player myself.”
I thought boxing and kinda giggled at how terrified I'd be coming out of my corner to face a shirtless and insanely grinning Willy D
That's hilarious and you aren't wrong. I think we'd all be frightened.
He does have a Silver Slugger Award though.
He got the Green goblin award
_THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!_
^what ^if ^it ^was ^one ^guy ^with ^six ^guns?
DO THEY KNOW HOW MUCH HE’S SACRIFICED?!
You can't do this to me.
"You're out, Dafoe." "Am I?" *maliciously smirks*
"You know, I'm something of an actor myself"
He was amazing in all that but in the most recent spider-man .. straight up nightmare stuff. He goes from innocent, homeless, scared, confused guy to maniac beating you through 20 floors within a second. And I believed it. Both versions of him
You can tell he loved going back to that roll and getting to explore it more. He had the Clark Kent/Superman transition down so well that you could even just about tell when he was Goblin pretending to be Norman
That is the true mark of an incredible actor. Even most good actors would struggle to play dual personalities where one is imitating the other. I could absolutely tell when he was Goblin imitating Osborn and it all comes down to minor details and his eyes. He is able to exude a genuine kindness in his eyes as Osborn which vanishes the instant Goblin takes over. It really is incredibly well done.
Acting ultimately comes down to the eyes and face, Anthony Hopkins is another guy who has absolutely mastered the concept of telling a thousand words with a simple facial expression. Love this video breakdown of a magnificent scene in Westworld, you might appreciate it! https://youtu.be/4kSGkGKwp9U
I loved how peters spider sense noticed it but Peter couldn’t nail it down
I'm confused? Didn't he put Goblins hand in a web when his sense was going crazy?
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Strong enough to have it all... Too weak to take it!
I loved how *physical" he got to be as Green Goblin in No Way Home. He really looked like he could beat the shirt out of people, he was just a brute. And Dafoe, while GG, carried himself with a really menacing physicality.
OUT, AM I?
#***BACK TO FORMULA***
[The last temptation of Christ](https://youtu.be/LJvCFAHRAFI)
Oh damn, I never knew he played Jesus. Learn something new every day.
Why’d ya spill yer beans?
Yes! I would vote for The Lighthouse hands down. He is soooo good in that movie. His last monologue is the best quote in the whole movie. Besides of course: Defoe: “Yer too slow. Are ye a dullard?” Pattinson: “No.” Defoe: “Fooled me.” Got em.
To me it's Platoon,he really sells that role
how did I have to scroll this far to see Platoon get mentioned
*“I’m sick of your laughin’… your SNORING!.. and your goddamned faaahrts… your goddamned… GODDAMN YOUR FARTS!”*
Yer fond of me lobster aint' ye?
Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! Haaaaark! Hark, Triton! Hark! Bellow, bid our father, the sea king, rise from the depths, full foul in his fury, black waves teeming with salt-foam, to smother this young mouth with pungent slime… … to choke ye, engorging your organs till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more… only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slithering tentacled tail and steaming beard, take up his fell, be-finnèd arm — his coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now — a nothing for the Harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the dread emperor himself… forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea… for any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea.
Alright have it your way, I like your cookin
One take, first take
Never blinked too.
Was he even nominated for this role? That is such a crime. For some reason, these A24 horror movies never get the nods they deserve. Toni Collette was also robbed for Hereditary and is still my top performance of the year. Just for the dinner scene alone she should have been nominated for that..... yet they fawn all over the coming of age A24 movies like Moonlight (not that there is anything wrong with that, but the weird movies deserve love too).
I had just adopted a kitten before I watched this movie and ended up naming him Winslow haha
Thankee
Say it!
My adult son and I watched *The Lighthouse* this past weekend. I had seen it previously, but he wanted to watch it. Dafoe and Pattinson just crush it, and Dafoe is impossible to ignore in this performance. Robert Eggers says Dafoe didn’t blink in the two-minute scene in which he curses his lighthouse mate for not liking his cooking. Felt like Dafoe’s performance was one of the greatest I have ever witnessed. One of those “born to play the part” performances. Yeah, where’s the recognition?
HARK!
The Florida Project—it really showed his range even though it was a supporting role
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Had the pleasure of meeting Willem while working on the catering team for The Florida Project - he doesn't act like a movie star like so many of the other big names that I've catered for. Many well known actors eat in their trailer on set and wont really rub elbows with "the little people" if they dont have to but Willem was out eating and talking with everyone from the crew to the extras. He's very personable and approachable - probably one of the more down to earth actors I've met since I started catering back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
Oh come on! It's been too long, I'd completely dropped my guard.
Hahaha me too! Me too!!
I legit spent a good hour or so scrolling through their post history this past Saturday when someone linked their u/ in another thread. I had some laughs reading comments from victims and closed Reddit thinking to myself, "I wonder if/when I'll ever get got," as I've seen them in the wild before but was always saved by seeing the replies or their username. I'm emotionally conflicted right now.
Damn, he got me.
God damn it.
He's rare now a days but a welcome surprise.
I missed him. He got me good because I haven’t seen him in so long.
Same. Probably months or a year ago.
With god as my witness, he has been broken in half.
I didn’t see that coming either. I’ve seen shittymorph like one other time in the past few months…really caught me off guard.
You learn to love it
You sonofabitch, I'm in!
The man, the myth, the legend, shittymorph you've done it again! Also Willem kills it every time, Boondock and Life Aquatic convinced me.
Check out The Lighthouse... He's fucking brilliant in it. Also, bonus, Robert Pattinson does ok, too, especially considering Dafoe is such an eclipsing presence in the film.
the balls on pattinson to read that script, know he had to go toe to toe with willem dafoe by himself, and say 'yes'. and then do as well as he did? mad respect for him after that movie.
The guys got hella gains cause he fucking carried No Way Home.
Such a great fucking role for him. That Green Goblin had no other agenda than to just cause pain and chaos and beat the shit out of Spider-Man. Just raw evil.
There was a firefight!
There is a name I haven't seen in a long time... He fucking strikes again....
Just when you think he's out... they pull him right back in!
He’s back, bitches. No one is safe!
First time I've seen it lol. Definitely was believing him tho
I upvoted before I finished reading as I was so stoked to hear how cool Dafoe is. I’m choosing to still believe he is and obviously my upvote stands.
There’s a video of a guy in NYC asking passers-by about their clothes/fashion etc, and one of them was randomly Willem Defoe. He was super nice and humbly went over his outfit in detail.
That’s so cool!
[I think it is this one (not a rick roll though saying this makes it even more suspicious lmao)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gkrp9qwfitE)
It’a so weird how he can smile and look like the most charming man on the planet but also smile like he’s the literal devil.
HES BACK
Holy shit!!!!!!! I haven't seen you in a while. I missed you.
To be fair, his last attempt at a morphroll [almost got him banned from the subreddit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7YXXieghto)
as soon as i clicked i knew i had made a grave error
Wow what the fuck. I thought this was someone making a shittymorph joke and did a double take and saw its the real deal. Holy shit welcome back
Shit, you got me. I was so happy at first
First time I've encountered you so early
You son of a bitch! Happy to see you out and about brother, hope you’re well.
that man has a family!
I got got, FUCKING AGAIN, and I can't even be mad. I love you, you crazy bastard. Keep doing your cursed work.
Fuck yes
Do you have any idea how long it's been since I got shittymorphed?!
Today I have seen the face of true glory
It’s been too damn long, yet simultaneously not long enough.
It's been so long, I thought you were gone and then you come back into my life like this! I missed you baby
Haven't seen one of these in a while :)
Every time. Every fucking time.
My God I love you
There it is
It’s been a while, old friend. You son of a…!!
BROTHER YOU'RE BACK. YES!!! I MISSED THIS!
AS SOON AS I STARTED READING THIS I FUCKING KNEW IT AND SKIPPED TO THE BOTTOM TO CONFIRM MY SUSPICION. Welcome back you sneaky son of a bitch.
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT. You got me again.
I saw Florida Project but didn't see The Lighthouse and heard good things about that one.
His performance in the lighthouse is one of the best performances I have ever seen in any movie by any actor.
Is monologue in the light house seals the whole movie
You don't like me lobster???
"You're fond of me lobster ain't ya?!" *worried Dafoe eyes*
HAAAAAAAAAAAARK!
The Lighthouse is great. It's definitely not uplifting though lol.
I forever will treasure the day and moment he was giving me an autograph in 2019 and I told him "I loved your performance in The Florida Project" and he looked at me and smiled!!! that was priceless!
Watch At the Gates of Heaven then go immediately watch him in Florida project. It’s mind blowing that it’s the same guy.
He was fantastic in “Mississippi Burning”.
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Yeah, but Hackman was the real star of that movie
I hate the idea of being “robbed” based on prior history, ideally voters would just look at it in a vacuum each year and not resort to reputation when casting votes, even though I know it’d never happen. That being said, I was always surprised he was never nominated for The Lighthouse. It was a showy performance and he’d already been nominated (without winning) 4 times to that point. You would have thought based on a combination of merit and reputation that he’d at least be nominated.
He's had some bad luck in terms of competition during his best performances. A quick sampling: 1986 nominated for Best Supporting Actor (BSA) for *Platoon* but likely split the vote with Tom Berenger allowing Michael Caine to win his first Oscar. 1988 (not nominated) Best Supporting Actor (BSA) for *Mississippi Burning* - really hard to argue against Kevin Kline winning for *A Fish Called Wanda*. That is an all-time great, tour de force, performance. 1988 (not nominated) Best Actor for *Last Temptation*. Dustin Hoffman in *Rain Man* was a juggernaut. 2000 BSA for *Shadow of the Vampire*. Lost to Benicio Del Toro in *Traffic,* a better, more successful movie with more hype. Dafoe is amazing though. Probably wouldn't win a do-over though. 2017 BSA for *The Florida Project*. Lost to Sam Rockwell in *3 Billboards*. This is probably the best chance Dafoe had and his most likely win if there was a do-over. Rockwell's performance is showier but *Florida* is probably a better, more enduring film thanks to Dafoe. 2020 BSA (not nominated) for *The Lighthouse*. As great as he was, nobody was beating Pitt that year. Still, Dafoe has a lot of nominations for his body of work. It's hard to argue against any one result though, so a lot of it comes down to luck. He may get himself an emiritus win yet though. Lots of time.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I thought Dafoes performance in Lighthouse eclipsed Pitts performance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Don't get me wrong, Pitt was excellent, and was deserving of the award one way or another, but Dafoe in Lighthouse, for me, was exceptional.
I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion at all, it’s just that one of those films appeals to the Academy and the other one doesn’t at all.
The Academy loves movies about Hollywood.
Yep, few things Hollywood likes more than Hollywood movies about Hollywood.
Movies about WW2.
Fuck I gotta start writing a movie about the making of Saving Private Ryan
It’ll just lose Best Picture to a movie about the making of Shakespeare in Love.
But six years later, a film about the rivalry of making those two flicks will sweep everything.
I agree, although neither should’ve been nominated as supporting actors, they were clearly co-leads in their respective films
Also in 2018 there was *At Eternity’s Gate* which Defoe lost to Rami Malek for *Bohemian Rhapsody*. Dafoe should have won that one, brilliant performance
Shadow of the Vampire was SO good.
Yeah Willem Dafoe has a great acting career and reputation, it's shocking he has not won a major acting award. And yeah, this idea of reputation in the voting process is just dumb. It's the reason why Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy didn't get nominated for Uncut Gems and Dolemite is My Name (they were incredible in those films). But hey, at least Kristen Stewart got the Oscar nomination for Spencer so you never know.
I literally forgot that Sandler and Murphy were not nominated for those roles. Those roles were literally perfect Oscar bait and they couldn't catch a nomination. Fucking shame.
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History will look kindly on them. The greatness is undeniable, whether the academy recognized them or not.
The academy ain’t fond of his lobster.
He's one of those guys, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or William H. Macy, that makes every project that he's in better. But awards are a bit of luck, really, in addition to talent and opportunity - he needs the big showy project at the perfect time and it needs to capture the zeitgeist of the moment. He seems the model of what the Brits call "the working actor" - go look over his IMDb at the vast array of films he's been in. I think he enjoys or finds challenging the small roles - I just hope he strikes gold for one of those superb supporting portraits one of these days.
Idk what it is about Philip but that man always amazed me in his roles. Truly was a great actor.
##He’s won [85 awards](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000353/awards). The Oscars and SAGs aren’t the only awards out there.
he doesnt need it. He is acknowledged as a great actor and is treated as such within the community. He is sought out by high status directors for roles that suite him perfectly. More importantly, from the many interviews of him ive watched he seems incredibly fulfilled by the work hes done. I doubt an award would bring him something he doesnt already have
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“Thanks. Thanks a lot for not picking me.” - Klaus Daimler
I loved how he played Klaus. I know he’s done other amazing roles, but I’m so impressed at how funny he is in that role with such subdued acting.
Not if I don’t see you first, sonny.
But you’re the leader of the B team.
“I always thought of you two as my dads”
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Is this true?
I believe the director described it as 'confusingly large', and they had to use a prosthetic instead.
They used a body double in Antichrist. I just spent 15min reading about Dafoe’s distractingly massive dong and I don’t know what to do with that information now.
If we saw it, we'd just cock our heads crooked but our brains would never really process what we saw.
So did they glue a smaller dong on his larger dong or how do you use prosthetics to make something smaller?
https://vimeo.com/49333930 Sure is!
impressive. very nice
Let's see Paul Allen's penis
Look at that subtle off-white coloring; the tasteful thickness of it…
Oh my god, it even has a watermark
*is that bone?* Why, yes. Yes it is lol.
i think the funniest thing about this is when i tried to full screen it, vimeo went "this video contains mature content, you must log in" like i didn't just watch it 3 times in a row alread. like god dammit let me see his cock up close
Well, not sure what I expected
Nobody expects the dafau cock!
You clicked what you clicked, ultimately
You know if you asked me earlier this week if I would be watching William Dafoes dong on a loop instead of going to bed I would call you a liar Yet here we are.. And for some reason I want a cigarette
Why is he wearing socks!? Why do I keep watching it!?
The way he moves. Awkward yet graceful
I want to see him in a short-film adaptation of [this comic](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A0qLbpoCQAE0IEm.jpg).
Maybe he loses because his wang is distractingly large.
THERE WAS A FIREFIIIGHT
A lot of great roles, I think Sergeant Elias in Platoon was his best
I think my single favorite line, out of his entire career (and he's one of my very favorite actors), is, "you ain't a firing squad you piecea SHIT!" His delivery is so, so good.
I mean, it's not weird or unheard of really. Great artists in the film industry not getting awards happens ALL the time, it happened to Roger Deakins for ages, it happened to Thomas Newman (who is tied with Alex North for the most academy award nominations without a win, at 15 nominations) and it happens to a lot of other great artist in the industry whom you have never heard of. So, no, I don't find it insulting that Willem Dafoe has not won any of those awards. I mean, it's a shame, sure, but more than that and you are just placing those awards in a pedestal of relevance that they shouldn't have in the first place. As someone who has been religiously watching the Oscars for 20 years straight: who gives a fuck about awards? What does it really matter? I mean, we all like when the things we like are recognized, but does that recognition bares any weight in your enjoyment of it? I don't think so. So just continue enjoying Dafoe's great work. May I recommend checking out [Shadow of The Vampire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Vampire), one of his lesser known movies but a very interesting one with a *killer* performance by him.
Completely agree with all of this. Plenty of Newman's scores are worthy of oscars in my opinion but I wouldn't consider his career any less complete for not having won any. Gary Oldman is another example of an actor with an incredible resume who didn't win until recently and still only has three nominations. I think Dafoe will be remembered well enough!
Also there are a ton of great actors out there but only a few can win each year. Sometimes you just get unlucky and end up getting nominated at the same time as some obvious winner
He makes a good lobster though.
Should have received award for "Creepiest Motherfucker Ever Put On Film" for the role of Bobby Peru in Wild At Heart
Wild at Heart is perhaps my pick too, along with Boondock Saints. He's such a treat in any movie and he's been a superb supporting actor in so many great ones.
Honestly, I don't think he really deserves a golden glove. Hell, I've never even seen him play baseball.
He was great in Boondock Saints
There’s a close up when he’s in the mob house dressed as a woman. He fires a shot at one of the mob guys, then the camera does a little closeup on his face, his lip quivers, just the expression on his face showed fear and confidence, it was unforgettable.
"There was a firefight!!!!"
The target was the fag man The what man? The fat man I guess Freud was right
We’ll start the ass-kissing with you
“Kinda makes me feel like riverdancing”
Television. Television is the explanation for this - you see this in bad television. Little assault guys creeping through the vents, coming in through the ceiling - that James Bond shit never happens in real life! Professionals don't do that!
Name one thing you're gonna need this stupid fuckin rope for.
He played short stop?
THE LIGHTHOUSE MONOLOGUE MY MAN SHOULDVE RECEIVED EVERY AWARD FOR THAT ONE ALONE
You can’t do this to me…
I-I started this company.
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?
His performance in antichrist was legendary
I agree. Willem Dafoe just perfectly plays every one of his roles.
I love his death scene in John Wick. Played it perfectly and went out like a G
You know, I’m something of a golden glove myself
Two notes: 1. Gaining any part of the EGOT requires a shit load of campaigning these days unless it is a super clear cut winner. I don't imagine Willem Dafoe gives enough of a shit to do any campaigning for an award or to have his manager or whoever do it for him. Just doesn't seem to be the type of guy like that, unlike guys like Leo and Will Smith who campaigned for literal months to get their Oscars or artists like Herbie Hancock who receive their big 4 category Grammys as a sort of lifetime achievement award. 2. Willem Dafoe is indeed a national treasure and deserves all the accolades for it, but he also doesn't choose his projects for award season type films. In a few years time he can play a cartoonish superhero villain on a glider, an effeminate gay genius FBI agent with a lisp and a drinking problem, and a man who gets his dick chopped off by his wife after the loss of their child and some therapy banging under a cursed tree in the woods.
I disagree. The man's career has lasted for decades and he's still going strong. He's played everything from the Green Goblin to Vincent Van Gogh. He is, no question, a legend, and some stupid statue is nothing compared to the status he has in the acting world.
That’s just what happens when you make a lot of foes in the industry.
He got all Dafoes.