If they are giving Gary Oldman all these awards for Churchil

Want a tissue?

Lel

I've seen both performances and I preferred Oldman personally. Timmy had an exceptional last 45 minutes in the film but I found him a bit too underplayed in the film.

And still nowhere near as bad as wife-beater Gary Oldman.

No because by that point I will have already accepted the fact that the anti-semitic woman beater will win.

So much hate for a guy who just a year ago was considered one of the best actors never to win in some polls. I guess if you want to stay liked, just don't win anything.

People want to think they know what great acting is because it's the one aspect of craft we engage in ourselves (I bump into some annoying guy at work and I "act" like I'm happy about it.....).

The truth is there's all kinds of acting - all kinds we blow off all the time. I haven't seen Oldman yet but I can tell just from the clips that their is great joy in his performance, a great actorly zeal.

Now, people love to say "he wasn't subtle"! - "he's over the top"! - "he's in a fat suit"! - and maybe I will feel that way too but what I'm saying is one positive aspect of a performance - just 1, like that actorly joy can completely define it for some people and they aren't wrong.

Like we don't know anything about acting really do we - so many types and approaches - there's mime after all - would we criticize a mime for not using his voice enough?

I'm exaggerating but my point remains that most of the time we praise and diss performances for all the wrong reasons and all the wrong contextual points........again not saying I think Oldman is better, haven't seen it, but yeah Churchill is a great role, Gary Oldman has had a great run in his career, he's winning, I think it's fine.....career wins baby FTW.