Today is Acting.
Whether it's in a lead or supporting, a win is a win and an Oscar is still an Oscar. Now, in theory, you can win both the lead and supporting in a single year, but that has never been accomplished. 13 actors came close with two nominations in the same year, but never won both at the same time. This is not due to them being good in one role and bad in another. This is mainly because of Oscar politics.
Oscar politics consist of not only who deserves it for the role, but who of the nominees will be able to win the award again. Some great young actors get passed up on winning to older actors because the academy feels it is "their turn" to win. That after years of working in the business, the one Oscar is a kind of "bone" thrown to them for their years of service.
This kind of "help" downplays the pride of winning an Oscar and loses the respect of the audience watching at home. Nobody should win because due to age, but rather win because you cannot see past the character into the actor. They have completely immersed themselves into the universe of the movie that when you walk out of the theater you think "That was the same same person as this other role" or something along those lines.
That surprise you get from watching a powerful performance should always win the Oscar. Not age. But, the other way to win the Oscar is to play a historical figure with a commanding performance. Or be casted in a World War II movie as the lead. The Academy has weak knees for killing Hitler and that's been shown several times over in the nominations.
I have just come up with the perfect lead guaranteed to win an Oscar. A Tuskegee air pilot who comes from a cotton picking family to out work all his racist white peers and lead them into a WWII air raid over Nazi occupied Germany, where in his plane crashes behind enemy lines and he must fight his way to kill Hitler, end the war, and reunite with his family only to be stopped short of his goal. It shall be called ANGEL WINGS. [copyright]
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