Every Academy Awards ceremony, there's one movie that comes out of nowhere to score a nomination in the acting categories and then have no other Oscar nominations to its name. The most prominent example in recent years was the baffling nomination of Robert Duvall in
The Judge in Best Supporting Actor while another modern example of this trend was Viggo Mortensen in
Captain Fantastic. For the most recent Academy Awards ceremony, the film that kept this tradition alive and well was
At Eternity's Gate, a new film from director Julian Schnabel that managed to get Willem Dafoe his fourth Oscar nomination (and his first ever in the Best Actor category) for portraying the painter Vincent van Gogh.
