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, as a result of every part that’s judged within the Oscars, it’s not a 12 months’s work. It’s simply the work that comes out between Thanksgiving and Christmas,” he mentioned.
“I believe it makes these awards a fallacy, fairly truthfully, as a result of there’s a whole lot of different good work that goes on exterior of what they name 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 identical 12 months, Gary Oldman, 66, performed Churchill within the film “Darkest Hour” and received the Academy Award for Best Actor.
“Our movie got here out in the summertime, and it was a comparatively unbiased movie, so that you haven’t bought the facility of the studios behind it,” Cox defined.
“So my movie by no means even bought a glance, and I nonetheless assume my efficiency is a greater efficiency,” he added.
The Post 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 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The Scottish actor beforehand spoke about “Darkest Hour” having extra success than “Churchill” in a 2021 interview with the Guardian.
“I imply, Gary’s a nice actor, however,” Cox mentioned with a sigh. “You study to not be connected, to let go.”
“‘Churchill’ most likely wasn’t the best script, however I believe the connection with Miranda [Richardson, who played Clementine Churchill] was second to none,” Cox continued. “She’s an awesome actress, and he or she made me elevate my sport. And from that perspective I assumed: ‘Well, that 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 after I noticed the different film. I assumed it was bloody terrible!” he added, referring to “Darkest Hour.”
Cox usually weighs in on the state of filmmaking, together with in August when he blasted Marvel on the Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland.
“What’s occurred is that tv is doing what cinema used to do. I believe cinema is in a really dangerous manner,” he mentioned. “I believe it’s misplaced its place due to, partly, the grandiose factor between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I believe it’s starting to implode, really. You’re sort of shedding the plot.”
Cox famous that whereas motion pictures like “Deadpool & Wolverine” earn “some huge cash” on the field workplace and “make everyone completely satisfied,” he mentioned the work “turns into diluted afterward.”
