Brendan Fraser Caps His Comeback With the Oscar for Best Actor

In the Darren Aronofsky–directed drama, Fraser plays Charlie, a 600-pound gay man desperately trying to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter, Ellie . Review of the films, which is based the Samuel D. Hunter’s 2012 play of the same name, may have been mixed, but acclaim for Fraser was anything but.

The performance has been praised even by the movie’s detractors and garnered the star nominations for nearly every major acting award, including a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. In addition to his Oscar, Fraser also won the Best Actor prize at the Critic’s Choice Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.Almost as impressive as Fraser’s performance is the fact that this was the actor’s first big role in well over a decade.

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