Since 2003, 14 of the 16 real characters that won someone a Best Actor or Best Actress Oscar were already known for their political leadership, artistic or scientific accomplishments, or high-profile murder trial. What’s better than putting a famous actor in a movie? For studios, it’s having that famous actor play a famous person. And Academy Awards voters are likely swayed by the lengths that these performers go to when deciding who should win the biggest acting awards of the year. When Meryl Streep played Prime Minister Thatcher in The Iron Lady, audiences marveled at how she matched the politician’s voice and appearance.ĭown to the makeup, the hair, the walk, and the talk, audiences have come to expect that actors and actresses embody their real-life characters as completely as possible. In interviews for Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis described how he researched the way that President Lincoln probably talked, and developed his voice for the role based on that research. They thought it just sounded too strange, and went against the idea of what a commanding general would sound like-which is interesting, because that’s the reality.” “ Patton spoke in a very high-pitched voice, and also a voice that told that he was from the upper classes of America,” says Dennis Bingham, author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway? Scott developed his own Patton-like voice, but “the studio wouldn’t let him use it. But that wasn’t what the real Patton sounded like. In the film, Scott spoke with his trademark deep, gravely voice. Scott won (and rejected) an Oscar for portraying General George S. The studios who made biopics before the 1990s weren’t always interested in making an actor or actress look and sound just like the real person they were portraying.
But while today’s actors tend to win awards for their realistic portrayals of historical figures, that wasn’t always the case. You Sound Just Like Himīiopics are as old as movies themselves. Recently, those numbers have shot up: Since 2003, over half of the Best Actress winners and more than two-thirds of the Best Actor winners have portrayed characters who exist outside of movies. Over the past 50 years, roughly a third of the Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress have been awarded for roles based on real people. They’re also all nominated for playing real people. Yes, they’re all white (and so is the fifth). Four out of five of the nominees for Best Actor at this Sunday’s Academy Awards have something in common.
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