Brian Cox slams Oscars, calling it ‘nonsense’

Brian Cox has recently slammed Oscars, calling it “nonsense”.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Prisoner’s Daughter actor said, “The Oscars are absolute nonsense because everything that’s judged in the Oscars, it’s not a year’s work.”

Brian believed that the movies that come out between “Thanksgiving and Christmas” are considered by the Academy Awards.

“I think it makes those awards a fallacy quite honestly because there’s a lot of other good work that goes on outside of what they call Oscar season,” stated the Remember Me actor.

Brian opened up that his 2017 movie, Churchill didn’t receive an Oscar nod because it “came out in the summer and it was a relatively independent movie”.

“So, you haven’t got the power of the studios behind it,” continued the 78-year-old.

Brian told THR, “My movie never even got a look, and I still think my performance is a better performance.”

For the unversed, the Succession star is an Emmy and Golden Globe winner, but he has never been nominated for an Oscar.

Earlier this year, Brian reflected on the state of cinema as a whole, adding Hollywood “is in a very bad way,” during the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

“I think it’s lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I think it’s beginning to implode, actually. You are kind of losing the plot,” said the actor.

Meanwhile, Brian, who lends his voice to the new movie, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is running in theatres now.