19 Oscar Contenders I’m Rooting For In This Year’s Awards Race

14. James Franco: Best Supporting Actor

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I hate James Franco like I hate few things, which I was so startled by his work in Spring Breakers. Franco has been campaigning hard for an Oscar nomination, probably as a joke, but he’s never been better than he is here as Alien, a scene-chewing white rapper. Spring Breakers was Harmony Korine’s best movie yet, and Franco is the reason, surreally memorable laconically uttering Korine’s elliptical dialogue. They gave us Pierrot le fou for the age of dubstep.

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