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Originally Posted by General Maximus
And this is the best example I could ever come up with and one which I'll use for the rest of my life for why somebody should win an acting award. Sometimes you get unknowns like the actress who is nominated for Harriet this year and sometimes you get well known actors like Meryl Streep who you expect to be good in anything they are in. Tom Hanks can fall into that train of thought and John Williams as well come to think of it and many people will be saying "well of course Tom Hanks will be nominated, he is Hollywood royalty". Just as I said above I knew nothing about Harriet, I had also never heard of Fred Rogers before I saw the trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood and was still none the wiser as to who he was. When the film had finished I thought "what a fantastic human being" and I was only able to form that opinion of Fred Rogers due to Tom Hanks' performance and portrayal of him. I really do hope he gets it because I can't think of anything more demanding in acting than not only portraying a real person, but somebody who is relatively recent in history and millions of people can judge you on.
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The thing I found interesting about that film is it is about Mr Rodgers and they got a big actor to play the character but he is actually playing a supporting role to another actor. It's such an interesting way to tell the story of the man, by having him act as support in another character's story.
Tom Hanks is unlikely to win though. The same four actors have won each acting award so far: Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger, Brad Pitt and Laura Dern. Remember that many of the voters are the same and those four won the SAG awards which are the ones voted for by fellow actors who make up there majority of the Oscar voters too.