Snubbed from Oscars, who didn't expect it?

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All i'm doing is face palming right now. Would like to see Clooney doing what Serkis does.....yeah he can't!

I keep wondering if he is eligible for a performance actor if he never appears on screen without the cgi stuff? I mean, i think he SHOULD be, but is there some archaic rule about that somewhere?

stupid oscars.

He shouldn't get an Oscar for mocap as it's not his performance. Movies do not use straight mocap data from an actor as the final product. It is a framework, a reference for multiple animators. He'd need to do more live action roles like the prestige.

He would be competing against actors who rely on their own faces for their performances. Andy Serkis is not a chimpanzee therefore the face of his character that the audience sees is not his face and is designed and created by other people. Despite what Mr. Serkis likes to think—that the animators are simply technicians who punch his brilliance into a program—these individuals have a great deal of control over the finished product. The animators could more easily make a mediocre acting performance look great than an actor could make mediocre CGI look great. I’m not suggesting Serkis gave a mediocre performance at all but the notion that he is absolutely entitled to an Oscar whenever someone designs a face for him is silly especially in light of the fact that he is so rarely memorable in the performances where the face he was born with is all he has to work with. It speaks to a very happy collaboration that should not fairly be judged as the work of one person who never rises to the same level when he does not collaborate with animators.

Yeah, not directly, there is usually a lot of cleanup and reanimation involved.
But still, for bigger projects with more mocap data actors like him are a godsend, i would rather cut my wrists than to hand animate a realistic creature with nothing to work off from.
I always felt there isnt enough recognition for the mocappers since on smaller projects the animators them self do the mocap in house even with such crappy equipment as webcams.

I remember watching a lotr behind scenes vid where the cgi guys said they used Andys performance only as base reference, that was so full of *beep* as someone who knows cgi i know they spent days going through that footage frame by frame tryig to analyse emotions and movements. Nobody can keyframe realistic non human creatures or human for that matter in longer complex sequences with no ref material or procedural physic simulations, nobody.