Stevie Carell in Foxcatcher or PSH in Capote?

Carell was only about the third best performance in his film. Hoffman was very good indeed, although he was better many, many times. He is still the easy winner of this choice.

I respect Carell's efforts in Foxcatcher but he doesn't stand next to PSH's brilliant and convincing performance as Truman Capote.

I will say though that if there's something to be said about Carell's work, it's that his job becoming the icy and distant and hard-to-pin-down John DuPont was more challenging than Hoffman's transformation into Capote (after reading about him online and watching the Netflix Foxcatcher Farm documentary I still feel like I know virtually nothing about DuPont). I imagine researching the role must have been a bitch. On the other hand, the flamboyant Capote feels like a role tailor-made for Hoffman. It played right into his strengths and instincts, some might say too much so. But I wouldn't.

I'd rather take an axe to the head than watch either of them again.