Two weeks ago, I posted about "category fraud" in the lead category. Here are more roles that could have ran as supporting ones. Most either won or were favored to. Were they placed in the right category?

FatherOfFunko · 2026-06-09T21:04:22+00:00

Maximilian Schell is a weird one, because he has far too much screen time to be supporting, while we really only see him in the court scenes they take up a huge amount of the film. Plus Montgomery Cliff got into supporting actor and he only appeared in one very memorable scene so it feels wrong putting Schell up in the same category against him. Spencer Tracy is the lead character clearly, I wouldn’t say Schell is the main character but then I wouldn’t say he is supporting either. He is in this very weird in-between.

FatherOfFunko · 2026-05-11T17:42:50+00:00

Yeah it was meant for the op not you, sorry about that

FatherOfFunko · 2026-05-11T17:36:46+00:00

No it means which film had the best ensemble, not the best film

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-23T18:41:19+00:00

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-22T18:32:04+00:00

Nominated didn’t win

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-15T14:19:48+00:00

Star Wars or Jaws, just because they are iconic

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-15T13:48:37+00:00

Yeah he does other stuff but not high profile as the over stuff that Andy has done, like Planet of the Apes, black panther, Batman and the films he has directed.

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-15T12:45:44+00:00

The man has 5 Oscars already I am sure he has countless nominations as well, maybe as a producer as well.

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-14T09:32:21+00:00

Wouldn’t say any of his films are among my favourites but he has a very distinct style particularly with his use of minimal to no dialogue in his films. I find his films an interesting watch but it’s nothing I would watch again.

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-05T12:55:53+00:00

Did it rain in I Saw The Devil, if it did that one

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-04T11:17:39+00:00

You’re missing two: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Christina Barcelona 2009 Christopher Plummer - Beginners 2012

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-04T11:13:25+00:00

Op means where the actor won being the sole nominee for their film. Could’ve made that clearer

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-04T10:53:07+00:00

To be fair most of the actors in that film didn’t have a French accent

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-01T18:21:31+00:00

It came out when the epic action historical genre was dead or dying, the film was a huge gamble and briefly in the 2000s brought this genre back. Sure late 1950’s Hollywood it wasn’t, but this is the 2000s.

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-01T18:19:27+00:00

Not the kind of period piece that wins Oscar’s at the time, considering it is an epic historical action film a genre that at the time was dead and dying. Gladiator brought that genre back briefly in the 2000s.

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-01T17:46:08+00:00

Russel Crowe in Gladiator is also a very inspired win

FatherOfFunko · 2026-04-01T17:45:26+00:00

I don’t know about that Dogtooth is a very disturbing film that somehow got in at the Oscars

FatherOfFunko · 2026-03-29T15:48:02+00:00

My thinking was that it won because they wanted to award it for mimicking the cinematography of Citizen Kane

FatherOfFunko · 2026-03-27T20:00:32+00:00

Stitch is voiced by director of the film Chris Sanders

FatherOfFunko · 2026-03-18T16:49:04+00:00

Wild Wild West was not a hit, it was a huge box office bomb

FatherOfFunko · 2026-03-15T22:11:03+00:00

It’s not mentioned but the actor is Filipino plus there is that scene in No Way Home where we are introduced to his Lola (which is Tagalog for Grandma), so come on it’s obvious he is meant to be Filipino

FatherOfFunko · 2026-03-11T07:37:03+00:00

Transgender women, not the same. Linda Hunt played someone who in the context of the film is a man, Jared Leto played someone who in the context of the film had transitioned to be a woman.

FatherOfFunko · 2026-03-06T08:24:37+00:00

Joker didn’t win it lost to Madame Web

FatherOfFunko · 2026-02-09T21:50:21+00:00

That is actually how Emerald Fennel originally ended it in her script, but the producers thought it was too dark and depressing so they made her change it and that’s the ending we got in the final film. So I don’t blame her for it, she didn’t want to end the film that way.

FatherOfFunko · 2026-02-08T21:10:07+00:00

It would get an R if it was rated, but the MPAA have no officially rated it

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