At age 47, Ethan Hawke is finding himself with the career everyone anticipated he might have had fifteen years ago. Read More here

When Ethan Hawke was born, his great-grandmother believed he was destined to become a minister—to heed God’s calling where the other men in his family hadn’t. Looking back, Mr. Hawke believes, this was just “wishful thinking.” His grandfather, for example, served as a minor-league baseball commissioner and was elected to five terms in the Texas state legislature, but Hawke’s great-grandmother “always thought that he wasted his talents in politics, when he should have been converting souls instead of votes,” Mr. Hawke said in a recent interview with America. “I think she was just projecting that I would pick up where he had dropped the ball. Read More here

Usually when rock stars talk of their wasted lives they mean something entirely different than what’s at the plot of Jesse Peretz’s Juliet, Naked, the critically charmed new rom-com based on the novel by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity). Read More Mhere

It’s hard to believe, but four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke has celebrated over three decades in the film business. Hawke made his film debut in Joe Dante‘s 1985 film, “Explorers” and 33 years later has received some of the best reviews of his career for 2018’s “First Reformed,” which is currently playing in theaters across the country. Read More here

Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
Director Paul Schrader may have drawn out Hawke’s career-best work in a film that amounts to a full-blown cinematic existential crisis. The four-time Oscar nominee wrangles with Schrader’s questions, searching in vain for their answers, internalizing brimming panic with aplomb. It’s a tour de force. (KT)
Other Standouts: Jason Clarke, “Chappaquiddick”; Ben Foster, “Leave No Trace”; Brady Jandreau, “The Rider”; Joaquin Phoenix, “You Were Never Really Here”
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