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For as long as the Academy has handed out little gold men, it has also wrestled with this deceptively simple question.This season the debate resurfaces in dramatic fashion. When Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>\u2019s \u201cOne Battle After Another<\/a>\u201d premiered in September, Sean Penn<\/a> was widely viewed as the frontrunner for supporting actor, delivering a ferocious turn as a man steeped in cruelty and moral decay. But as the precursors have rolled in, co-star Benicio Del Toro<\/a> \u2014 playing a character the audience loves and roots for \u2014 has swept nearly every major critics group.<\/p>\n The shift raises a familiar and intriguing possibility: Do Oscar voters quietly resist honoring performances that embody outand-out, unflinching villainy?<\/p>\n History suggests they might.<\/p>\n Consider Ralph Fiennes<\/a> in \u201cSchindler\u2019s List<\/a>,\u201d whose chilling portrayal of Amon G\u00f6th<\/a> remains one of cinema\u2019s most indelible depictions of evil. Despite universal acclaim and Steven Spielberg<\/a>\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How evil is too evil? For as long as the Academy has handed out little gold men, it has also wrestled with this deceptively simple question.This season the debate resurfaces in dramatic fashion. When Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d premiered in September, Sean Penn was widely viewed as the frontrunner for supporting actor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2204366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2204365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Why-Oscar-Voters-Love-Villains-\u2014-Just-Not-Truly-Evil.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204367,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204365\/revisions\/2204367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}