10 Oscar-Worthy Recent Performances The Academy Will Ignore

10. Jack Lowden - Fighting With My Family

Fighting with My Family isn’t a movie anyone expected to be more than a subpar sports comedy. The film is written and directed by English comic genius Stephen Merchant, and has much more heart and drama than one would suppose.

Florence Pugh (more on her later) stars as WWE contender Saraya and gives an admirable performance, but she's slightly outshone by Jack Lowden who plays her brother, Zak.

Saraya gets the opportunity to prove her wresting worth, but when Zak doesn’t and wants it even more, it leads to some authentic emotion in the midst of the laughs. Scenes between Lowden and Vince Vaughn are exceptionally excruciating with Zak pouring his soul and Vaughn’s Hutch giving little flexibility.

Lowden understood, or Merchant was able to make him understand, that sadness and frustration don’t always have to be over-the-top. A character crying while making voicemail calls in his car can be just as powerful, if not more, than screaming from the top of their lungs.

The young actor doesn’t get many scenes to prove himself, but when he does, he takes advantage.