Sprezzatura

youwerethesweetestkill:

10 9 men who deserve oscars yet have not a one: andy serkis

best/most memorabe & deserving roles: king kong, the lord of the rings trilogy, rise of the planet of the apes

“This is not animation as much as it’s digital ‘makeup’. There are plenty of Oscar-winning performances that depended on prosthetic makeup to help create the characters: John Hurt’s in The Elephant Man, Nicole Kidman’s in The Hours, Sean Penn’s in Milk. Those actors depended on makeup artists to augment the look of their characters, but the performance underneath came solely from the actors.

Well, that’s exactly the same position that Andy is in, his problem is that the digital ‘makeup’ is so convincing that it makes people forget that he provides the soul of Caesar. That soul, the thing that was so compelling about that film, came from Andy, and the way he rendered that soul is of equal importance, if not more important than the photo realistic surface of the character. Andy doesn’t need me to tell him he is an innovator, he knows it. What is needed is recognition for him, now. Not later when this kind of acting is de rigueur, but now, when he has elevated this fresh mode of acting into an art form.”

     - James Franco calling for Andy to receive Oscar recognition