Producer compares Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Borat’ films to ‘The Revenant’

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John Legend, H.E.R., Janelle Monae, Leslie Odom, Jr., and Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell? Yes, the shortlist for the 2021 Original Song Academy Award is full of surprises. But, happily, few snubs this time around.

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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSacha Baron Cohen scored three Golden Globe nominations on Wednesday, tying Jamie Foxx and Helen Mirren’s record for the most nods by a performer in a single year.

Sacha Baron Cohen is heavily nominated!

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While there were several double Golden Globe nominations this year for actors and actresses, Sacha Baron Cohen is in rare form earning three noms, tying with Helen Mirren and Jamie Foxx for the most ever by a performer in one year at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ceremony.

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Chris Willman Music WriterIf you’re one of those people who think music has lost its dangerous edge, Sacha Baron Cohen had the cure for that in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Taking on two levels of disguise in the 2020 sequel, Cohen again played his fictional Borat character, who in turn disguised himself for a key sequence in the movie as Country Dave, a singer who shows up to perform a song called “The Wuhan Flu” at a right-wing militia rally.

Sacha Baron Cohen will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.The 49-year-old actor is being honored with the award after starring in where he famously portrays Borat, and where he plays Abbie Hoffman.«In 2020, Mr. Cohen twice was able to capture our interest, our imagination as well as the zeitgeist.

Also Read: 'Borat' Star Sacha Baron Cohen Details How He Infiltrated CPAC for That Mike Pence Scene“It’s an honor to be recognized and to stand in the company of such incredible past recipients,” added Baron Cohen.

Sacha Baron Cohen told Deadline this week that he chased the role of Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7 for over a decade before the project came together under Aaron Sorkin’s direction. That perseverance paid off.

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When Borat Sagdiyev returned to the screen 14 years after the Oscar-nominated Borat, creator and star Sacha Baron Cohen was eager to examine Trumpism in America in the months leading up to the 2020 election. Along for the ride was Tutar, Borat's teenage daughter, played by 24-year-old Bulgarian newcomer Maria Bakalova, whom Borat planned to give as a present to Vice President Mike Pence.

When Amazon released it in the heat of presidential election season, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm captured the zeitgeist as Sacha Baron Cohen and his breakout co-star Maria Bakalova acted out a father-daughter story with the unwitting help of QAnon followers, Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

“It’s the first time I’m talking about Cohen,” Argento told Milan newspaper Il Corriere della Sera “He abused me, making me drink GHB, he had a bottle of it,” she said.GHB is a fast-acting anesthetic that has become known as a regularly used date rape drug.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, during a scene with Rudi Giuliani.Giuliani appeared in a controversial scene with actress Maria Bakalova, who plays Baron Cohen’s daughter in the movie sequel which was released last October on Amazon Prime Video.Bakalova poses as a 15-year-old journalist interviewing Giuliani, who was former US President’s Donald Trump’s lawyer, about the US president’s COVID-19 response.