Acting alum Sebastian Stan (BFA’05) is slated to be at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood as a nominee on Sunday, March 2, when ABC broadcasts The 97th Academy Awards. Stan is nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a young President Donald J. Trump in The Apprentice.
On January 5, Stan took home the Golden Globe for Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, for his turn as an actor grappling with facial disfigurement in the thriller A Different Man. Stan was also nominated in the Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama category, for The Apprentice.
New York Times film critics Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson both contended that Stan should be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for The Apprentice. In Dargis’s review of the film in October, she calls Stan’s performance “terrific.”
Apprentice co-star Jeremy Strong, nominated up for Best Supporting Actor for his role as attorney Roy Cohn, commented to The New York Times on Stan’s commitment to the role: “He did such a deep dive and became a forensic detective, tirelessly absorbing, observing, studying, internalizing everything he possibly could, to the point that you sort of graft it onto yourself, as if it’s a second skin, and you tip over into it.”
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony will air at 7 p.m. ET March 2 on ABC.
Watch Stan’s acceptance speech at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards: