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Poll Suggestion: Do Academy Voters Favor Actors who Portray Historical Characters?
Since 2001, 10 Actors who have portrayed real people who we have archival footage of have won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Of the 100 nominations for best actor since then, only 28 have been for the portrayal of a real person who had video and/or audio of them available to study, yet 10 have one. That's a 50% win rate despite real-life portrayals making up only 28% of the nominations. Is being able to imitate a real life person harder than portraying a fictional character, so it deserves to be rewarded more, or is it easy for an actor to imitate a person if they can study film and audio of that person?
Jessica
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Please correct #1:
It is harder to recreate a real person in a convincing way than to create an original character.
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Tsarstepan
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1 year ago
You have two different (almost competing) questions set in play.
You have the titular question. Which is ignored when you brought up the second (real question). A very bait and switch to this poll question. Maybe rewrite/simplify the title?
Minor quibble: add periods to the first and third option.
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Peter_pbn
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I counted around 33 modern, real-life people out of the last 100 nominees. That is starting with 2002 releases and excluding this year's nominees.
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urbanemovies
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I think the premise that there is an automatic link between correlation and causation is flawed. Just because, real-life characters get more Oscars doesn't mean, they are getting rewarded more, or that role is more difficult or that the ability study film makes there performance more poweful.
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Dibyayan_Chakravorty
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In my opinion, it all depends on the role how challenging it is to portray on the screen. It doesn't matter whether the character is real or fictional.
Example: This year's Best Actor category. Fraiser won over Butler. Fraiser's character was more challenging to portray with all that heavy prosthetics.
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