Brian Cox is pissed with the Oscars.
The “Succession” star, 78, blasted the Academy Awards in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter Monday.
“The Oscars are absolute nonsense, because everything that’s judged in the Oscars, it’s not a year’s work. It’s just the work that comes out between Thanksgiving and Christmas,” he stated.
“I think it makes those awards a fallacy, quite honestly, because there’s a lot of other good work that goes on outside of what they call Oscar season,” Cox added.
Cox particularly talked about that he wasn’t acknowledged by the Oscars for his efficiency as UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill within the 2017 movie “Churchill.”
That very same yr, Gary Oldman, 66, performed Churchill within the film “Darkest Hour” and received the Academy Award for Finest Actor.
“Our film came out in the summer, and it was a relatively independent film, so you haven’t got the power of the studios behind it,” Cox defined.
“So my film never even got a look, and I still think my performance is a better performance,” he added.
The Publish has reached out to the academy and Oldman for remark.
Cox has by no means been nominated for an Oscar, although he has received an Emmy, a Golden Globe and two Display Actors Guild Awards.
The Scottish actor beforehand spoke about “Darkest Hour” having extra success than “Churchill” in a 2021 interview with the Guardian.
“I mean, Gary’s a great actor, but,” Cox stated with a sigh. “You learn not to be attached, to let go.”
“‘Churchill’ probably wasn’t the greatest script, but I think the relationship with Miranda [Richardson, who played Clementine Churchill] was second to none,” Cox continued. “She’s a great actress, and she made me raise my game. And from that point of view I thought: ‘Well, this is good work.’”
Cox admitted that he “was pissed off” that his Winston Churchill film didn’t get the credit score he thought it deserved.
“Particularly when I saw the other movie. I thought it was bloody awful!” he added, referring to “Darkest Hour.”
Cox typically weighs in on the state of filmmaking, together with in August when he blasted Marvel on the Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Competition in Scotland.
“What’s happened is that television is doing what cinema used to do. I think cinema is in a very bad way,” he stated. “I think it’s lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I think it’s beginning to implode, actually. You’re kind of losing the plot.”
Cox famous that whereas films like “Deadpool & Wolverine” earn “a lot of money” on the field workplace and “make everybody happy,” he stated the work “becomes diluted afterward.”
