Brad Pitt's best supporting actor win means this increasingly common Oscars sin is likely to continue
but much of that screen time goes to another actor playing his younger self.who is nominated in supporting, have virtually identical screen time. Al Pacino is absent fromfor the beginning and ending, but in such a long film that’s part of the point—we need to feel the full weight of his presence for two hours, followed by his sudden absence, for the denouement to be so artfully disarming.
Pacino wasn't likely to stage a protest for his supporting nomination this time. Category fraud partially persists because people rarely get up in arms about it. The enduring question inevitably comes down to some version of, So what? Isn’t this a relatively victimless crime? No, not really. The obvious “victims” of the category fraud that got all these actors here are, most obviously, the actors who gave Oscar-worthy performances in actual supporting roles—this year that group includedBut the less obvious victim is actually the one being harmed the most—our understanding of the films themselves. Whether you interpret a film as being about one person or two people is a substantial difference. And that brings us to Brad Pitt, our likely supporting-actor winner.
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