Franz Rogowski Eleven Times

I felt like the proudest of papas when Franz Rogowski's name was announced as the Best Actor winner for his performance in Ira Sachs' Passages (my review here) during the New York Film Critics Circle award announcements yesterday -- I can't say I saw Franz first but I can certainly say I've been one of his most relentlessly vocal supporters for the past five years since Michael Haneke's Happy End and Christian Petzold's Transit, just check our extensive archives! And I spent most of last year crowing about how his work in Great Freedom (my review here) was perhaps the year's best performance (give or take Bill Nighy's work in Living, of course). I think it's clear we're Team Franz round these parts! 

So anyway yes I whooped and I hoorayed his big win -- I don't think his deeply challenging work in Passages will come anywhere near the Oscars, but I've been proven wrong before. (Hell I've been proven wrong about ten times as many as I have been proven right.) But who cares about awards -- go see Franz Rogowski in anything he does and you'll be enriched, the end. And yes I include these photos of him in GQ Germany from a few weeks back which I somehow missed -- quite enriching, also. Hit the jump for all that I could dig up from the shoot...