It Should Be Frank's Oscar!

Rating: 9/10 (1 February 2009)

If I was a voting member of the academy, I would vote for Frank Langella as Best Actor for his performance as the disgraced president Richard Nixon. I also think Michael Sheen OBE should have been nominated as well but he would easily won in the supporting actor category playing Sir David Frost OBE. Both Frost and his producer, John Birt, were knighted by the Queen. I didn't like the Reston character very much and I have read one of his books on Rev. Jim Jones. Langella and Sheen performed the same roles on Broadway and the West End in London. They did a brilliant job and were both equally brilliant in their roles. I never thought that I would have sympathies for the former disgraced president but I did. I felt Langella brought the role of Nixon from a caricature into a full-fledged multi-dimensional human being. Of course, the President is a human being although they were elected to the highest office in the country. This film is one of the best that I have seen but I would have liked to have seen Nixon's interaction with underused Patty McCormack who plays his devoted and dedicated wife, Patricia.