Looking over the nominees for the Actor Awards (c’mon, SAG, “SAG Awards” was perfectly fine) and I immediately feel bad for Ethan Hawke. He had a great year in 2025, with multiple films and The Lowdown on FX. But Blue Moon simply didn’t seem to create much of a reaction from film types, and it’s too bad because he’s just wonderful in it. It’s the sort of film where his character talks almost non-stop for 100 minutes, and I was mesmerized from the first scene. He’s a human wave machine of emotions, giddily swooning and desperately crashing and spitting bile & beauty, sometimes all in the same breath. It’s marvelous work, and if I thought there was a chance in hell he could beat (checks notes) Timothee Chalamet, (checks notes more wild-eyed) Michael B. Jordan, (tosses notes aside) and Leonardo Dicaprio, I would be genuinely pleased.