Last tango in paris4/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Despite just under 30 minutes of screen time, he won Best Actor, cementing or rather kick starting his career and reputation as cinema’s finest actor. He astonished the cast and director daily with his artistry, and critics hailed his performance the moment the film was released. His win the previous year was as Vito Corleone, the patriarch and Don of the Corleone mafia family, and was a comeback for the actor. There is little doubt Brando deserved the Academy Award for Best Actor for this performance as well, but after refusing the award the year previous for The Godfather (1972), sending a young Native American girl to read a speech declining the award, there was no chance the Academy would ever hand Brando another Oscar. ![]() For this film, Marlon Brando won Best Actor awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle for his punishing, gut wrenching performance as Paul, an American adrift in Paris after the suicide of his Parisian wife. ![]()
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