All Hail Caesar at the Oscars

When Dawn of the Planet of the Apes came out, and everybody saw Andy Serkis's perfromance as Ceaser. Everyone started calling out saying that Andy Serkis should get a lead actor nomination for his performance. Well now it seems that Fox (the production studio behind Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) is staring a campaign to get Andy Serkis a nomination, but it is not for lead actor it is for supporting actor. The reason why this choice for an oscar nomination is weird is becasue it is a perfromance capture, performance, and the academy has not yet adapted to those types of perfromances. People are a bit torn on the idea becasue since the performance is motion capture, we would have Andy Serkis running, jumping, and talking, but alot of the work is done by the CG artists, that animate his face.The other side to that argument is when you have a regular performance it is a group effort, to get the actor dressed a certain way, get the right make-up on, and it is also a group effort between the actors to bounce off each other, with Andy Serkis's perfromance it is also a group effort that includes CG animatrs for his motion capture. The other weird thing about his oscar push is, Fox is not pushing for Andy Serkis to get a lead actor nomination, they are pushing for a supporting actor nomination. If you have watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes you know that Caeser is the lead, so why is Fox pushing a supporting actor nomination. This is the part that really bugs me because it just seems that Fox is pushing the supporting actor nomination, because they don't think he will be able to get a lead actor nomination. While I do think right now Andy Serkis deserves a lead actor nomination, I don't think Fox should push for supporting actor because if that catches on (lead actors getting nominations in the supporting actor category) the supporting actor category will be a joke and just for actors who couldn't make the cut for the lead actor category. I think Andy Serkis played an amazing part in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and he should get a lead actor nomination.