Winning Oscars is one thing, but in most cases the academy doesn't actually award the best performance, but rather the popular one. Daniel Day-Lewis is great as Lincoln, and is probably one the greatest actors alive, but for my money the best performance of the year was from Joaquin Phoenix in The Master. That may sound controversial, but let me explain why. As I alluded to in the opening salvo, you have to bear in mind that the Oscar voting academy are just as susceptible to aggressive PR … [Read more...]
