Who's Counting: Ethan Hawke

His loquacious move arsenic portion raconteur, much parts insecure real-life lyricist Lorenz Hart successful longtime collaborator Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” has brought Ethan Hawke his first lead character and 5th full Oscar information successful a notably varied Hollywood career.

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Three of Hawke’s nominations person travel for acting, pinch 2 for supporting roles, successful Antoine Fuqua’s “Training Day” (2001) and Linklater’s “Boyhood” (2014).

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The different 2 were for co-writing nan “Before Sunset” (2004) and “Before Midnight” (2013) installments of Linklater’s romanticist trilogy.

80%

The percent of Hawke’s Oscar nominations that person been Linklater-related.

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Hawke is conscionable 1 director’s muse among a quartet of 2026 acting nominees. Michael B. Jordan (Ryan Coogler), Renate Reinsve (Joachim Trier) and Emma Stone (Yorgos Lanthimos) person each made aggregate projects pinch nan filmmakers down their nominated performances.

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Like lead character competitor Timothée Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”), Hawke first gained announcement arsenic a fresh-faced youth: Both had breakthrough characteristic movie roles astatine 18, Chalamet successful 2014’s “Interstellar” and Hawke successful 1989’s “Dead Poets Society.”

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In nan people of his career, Hawke has amassed a polymath’s database of credits by acting in, penning and directing a wide scope of films.

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Hawke has doubly starred successful scary movies (“The Purge,” “Black Phone 2”) released wrong weeks of Oscar-nominated projects.

2025

Hawke besides leads nan formed of FX’s lauded “The Lowdown,” which premiered past fall.

55

An Oscar win, astatine 55, would look fitting for a multidimensional, seemingly well-liked Hollywood veteran.