He should have won best supporting actor for his portrayal of Slughorn in Half-Blood Prince, anyone agree?
Point them with the sticky end.
His story about his fish is in my top 3 favorite parts of the whole series.
shareAn Oscar? Nah, why belittle his talent?
He is definitely a memorable character from the first time we see him as a chair. I love his eulogy to Aragog; one of my favorite parts in the whole series.
Was he even nominated for his role, was anybody ever nominated for best actor or best actress supporting or lead in the Harry Potter movies at all? And i would guess that would make Emma Watson the lead actress for pretty much most of the Harry Potter movies.
shareEmma Watson would be supporting, same as Rupert Grint.
To you, Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?
Alan rickman ought to win an oscar for his performance in the deathly hallows part 2 as Snape. Damn
No, I didn't like his portrayal of Slughorn. He played him as such an anxious man and that was never the impression I got from reading the books.
When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul.
He's a tremendous actor, one of my favourites. And his performance was perfectly fine from a technical viewpoint - Broadbent is one of those actors of whom I can honestly say I've never seen give a bad performance. The problem was that he wasn't Slughorn to me. I suppose quality of performance is ultimately more important than faithfulness to the source material, but one of the things that made the original Rowling character intriguing was that he was at once likeable and unlikeable, a warm, jovial, eccentric, affable presence, yet also cold and vain (he's essentially a parody of socially-elitist Oxfordian academics of old, who liked to invite their pet students - the children of people in high places - for supper and a glass of sherry). I didn't get any of that from Broadbent's portrayal; he wasn't charming enough. His Slughorn was a bit of a dry old stick, no fun being in his company. And the disappointing thing is he could have given a faithful rendering of the book character and done it perfectly because he's played similar characters in other movies.
I wouldn't have nominated him, but nonetheless I would say he was better (despite my misgivings concerning his choices in characterisation) than some of the nominees that year, including - dare I even say it! - the overrated Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds).