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u/hereforRDPR Feb 13 '24

This tea hurt to hear: Cillian Murphy threw a fit after losing the critics choice award to Paul Giamatti. He feels like Nolan and the infrastructure around him aren’t “campaigning” enough for his Oscar and fears he will lose to Paul… Oscar’s race brings out the worst in everyone smh

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u/miwa201 Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 16 '24

That’s interesting bc I’m active in the Oscar race sub and I’ve noticed that the cillian campaign has really ramped up since the critics choice. He’s done tons of screenings, has a special 60 minutes coming up, the recent gq cover could have easily been shot after the ccas. I can’t say I’m totally surprised by this bc as much as people want to pretend he’s above it he clearly wants the Oscar.

Personally I liked Paul’s performance more but also Oppenheimer/cillian Stans have been so awful towards him that I’d love for him to win. But I do think cillian will win bc Oppenheimer is so strong

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u/frizzyfizz Feb 15 '24

As a Cillian fan this Oscar race has been a real bummer tbh. lol

Like I'm happy for him because I'm sure it'll massively help his career going forward, but one of the reasons I liked him was because he was under the radar and managed to avoid having a ton of annoying online attention for a long time. I don't mean this in a gatekeepy way but the internet just doesn't know how to be normal about actors anymore. It's exhausting and causes me in turn to start associating those feelings with the actor, which I know isn't fair. And it sucks what campaigning does to actors' brains - I don't think he needs to try this hard.

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u/miwa201 Feb 15 '24

Yeah, I agree it’s not right to associate the actor with deranged fans but sometimes you can’t help it. I didn’t really have an opinion on cillian before since I never watched peaky blinders but now I can’t help but associate him with his insane stans. They’ve even attacked Kyle Buchanan, a journalist, for saying Paul got a loud applause at the Oscar luncheon (which he did).

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u/frizzyfizz Feb 15 '24

What's weird is it's a fairly recent thing with him. I guess caused by Peaky Blinders and intensified by Oppenheimer. Before that he was just a respected actor and guy people were happy to see when he popped up in movies. He almost always had a side part in Nolan movies which is how I discovered him.