{"id":710,"date":"2018-03-01T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/?p=710"},"modified":"2022-10-28T19:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:04:31","slug":"mars-2018-film-acting-and-performance-capture-the-index-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/mars-2018-film-acting-and-performance-capture-the-index-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars 2018 – Film Acting and Performance Capture: The Index in Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Since 2002, every time Academy Award nominating season rolls around, it is guaranteed that journalists will once again raise the question, \u201cWhen Will a Motion Capture Actor Win an Oscar?\u201d (Hart). This discussion began when\u00a0New Line Cinema, the company that released Peter Jackson\u2019s\u00a0The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers<\/em>, made a concerted effort to garner a Best Supporting Actor award nomination for\u00a0Andy Serkis, the British actor who played Gollum in the film \u2013 a nomination that was not forthcoming.\u00a0Twentieth Century Fox\u00a0would repeat the gesture in both 2012 and 2014, again on behalf of Serkis, this time for his performances as the ape Caesar in\u00a0Rise of the Planet of the Apes\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Dawn of the Planet of the Apes<\/em>. Again, there were no nominations, even though critics and audiences alike have praised all of Serkis\u2019s performances as Gollum and Caesar, for which he has won other awards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n