He lost 45 pounds for the role.Dallas Buyers Club - Matthew McConaughey
Story of a heterosexual, redneck, homophobic Dallas electrician (McConaughey) that gets AIDS in the early days of the disease and goes through some severe denial before he starts to aggressively seek out alternatives to the drug that was being used (and killing people) at the time and helps treat many others with the disease. The movie deals with the stubbornness and profit motives of the FDA along with the transformation of McConaughey's character. McConaughey is fantastic and gets scarily thin for this role. McConaughey has really been on a hot streak the past couple of years with great performances in this movie, Mud, Killer Joe and True Detective.