He was the main male lead in that film and they gave the oscar for best supporting... WHY?
He should've won the best actor category, it was possibly the most emotionally charged and brilliant perfomance I have ever seen.
Even though he had the biggest male "role" he wasn't the main role in the movie. That belonged solely to Judie Dench's title character "Iris"--a lot of ppl wonder how this works. The story primarily focuses on her. She is the protagonist and the one the audience connects with. He just plays her husband--the 2nd biggest part but still a supporting one.
Not every movie has a lead male or female or even a lead person, period, at times. A lot of movies--(Magnolia for example and Gosford Park) are ensemble pieces.
I thought The Hours was an ensemble piece, but apparantly the academy though that being the protagonist was good enough to be the 'lead'--whatever.
Some movies have 1 lead. Some 2. I've never seen 3. then it just is considered ensemble-ish. Some have 0. Iris has 1. Everyone else is supporting in my eyes.
when a role can swing both ways (lead or supporting) then they will place the actor where they think their best chances are. In Broadbent case he had a better chance in supporting, obviously.
But look at Jamie Foxx in Collateral. He was the lead character of that film, with about 15 minutes more screen time than anyone else in the movie, plus he's a popular actor for the last few years, and yet somehow he got a best supporting actor nod? That was such an obvious trick to seal his RAY win it was insulting and disgusting. Especially since David Carradine or Freddie Highmore should have been in there. The oscars aren't just popularity contests. They're very political.
I will never get over that one.
That's because of the studios and their campaigns; they decide in which cathegory should be an actor when "it's hard to decide if is lead or supporting"
shareHow about Ethan Hawk? He was up for supporting actor for Training Day. He was the lead role in that movie, not Denzel. It was ~HIS~ training day after all.
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Why then did Anthony Hopkins win Best Actor in a Leading Role for Silence of the Lambs? Jodie Foster was the main character, and Hopkins was only in it for 18 minutes.
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This topic comes up in the discussion boards for nearly every "Oscar movie" listed on imdb.com. Don't waste your time trying to decide who's lead and who isn't. It's a personal preference. If you'd like to think that Jim Broadbent was a lead, then so be it. Don't sit around looking to the Oscars or any other group for clarification. The studios don't even really have it figured out.
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Because the leading male role was split between two actors: Jim Broadbent and Hugh Bonneville.
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There wasn't a leading male role. The only lead was Judi Dench. All the other actors were supporting her.
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Jim Broadbent was supporting like Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind. Russell Crowe and Judi Dench were the title characters are the only lead in these films.
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