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Colin Farrell should’ve won The Emmy Award for The Penguin he was so incredible.

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I loved The Penguin. Best series. And Colin Farrell was amazing and iconic in the Penguin. I was shocked that he lost an Emmy. i always thought he was a lock to win the Emmy Award for the Penguin. but there was another competition. He lost by Stephen Graham at the Emmys. Well Graham was also fantasitc too. so sad. But at least Cristin Milioti won the Emmy. she also Deserved it. What are your thoughts on that? You agree that he deserved an Emmy for The Penguin.
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Taskebab Apr 11, 2026 +154
Ever since not even being nominated for an oscar for In Bruges, Farrell has been criminally ignored by the major awards
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longjumpingtote Apr 11, 2026 +37
I suspect that for older voters (which is most of them, average age 60+) he's still associated with his past. He was brazen in ways that (say) Warren Beatty never was, and Beatty was pretty brazen. Between Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Demi Moore, Lindsay Lohan, Elizabeth Taylor (!) and trying to seduce 69-year-old Dame Eileen Atkins, he got quite a reputation and there were bitter people in his wake. Plus there was the sex tape scandal. Oh and the 46-take hangover on the set of Minority Report with Tom Cruise watching it all go down. Others have still won awards, and he's been sober 20 years now. But he's someone with a reputation of not taking the work seriously and of being hurtful to women (very, very well-respected women among them). In Bruges came out when that reputation was still very fresh. Not sure what he can do to shake it. Awards voters have to like/respect someone to vote for them (even if they aren't worthy of it). (Worked in the industry and people still talk about it as a cautionary tale: don't be Colin.)
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Taskebab Apr 11, 2026 +17
Just a couple of years before he gets the RDJ treatment
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Chad_Broski_2 Apr 12, 2026 +16
Honestly the Academy is now in a constant state of "let's make mistakes this year to make up for past mistakes." It's a self-sustaining economy, because if you keep snubbing people now for more established actors who've been snubbed in the past, you'll always have more actors who've been famously snubbed to whom you can give awards for movies which don't really deserve it
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TheArmChairFan Apr 12, 2026
What are some examples of this? And what is a snub? What performances do you think shouldn't have won? Why do people on the Internet get so cry baby over acting awards?
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TheArmChairFan Apr 12, 2026 +1
Lazy actor with 3 good movies gets a oscar and listnook celebrates because he was in a superhero movie?
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TheArmChairFan Apr 12, 2026 +1
He got rep because he made shitty movies. He's not getting shunned for partying. What movies should he have got nominated for?
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Glass_Dust_876 Apr 11, 2026 -4
Have you also heard the rumor about how he got his start re: kevin spacey? I had industry people tell me that one.
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adamduke88 Apr 13, 2026 +3
He was nominated for an oscar pretty recently.
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TheArmChairFan Apr 12, 2026 -1
People say this then you see the movies and non of them made money. Instead of bitching about oscars, go and see the movies.
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Taskebab Apr 12, 2026 +1
??? I did…
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lovely-cans Apr 11, 2026 +133
Colin Farrell and Stephen Graham are both masters of their craft. The last episode of Adolescent was one of the most memorable things I've ever watched.
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Domstruk1122 Apr 11, 2026 +14
Ya that broke me
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longjumpingtote Apr 11, 2026 +41
Graham was great, and often these are "body of work" influenced awards (within TV). Graham has been in more than 50 television shows over 30 years. And has been consistently very good to great. A lot of voters may have thought, "holy shit, he never got an Emmy??" All awards shows are subject to the whims and competing criteria of the voters. One factor for many may have been that (edit) Graham was also a writer and producer on the show. If you were a voter, you could have voted for Colin. He did win the GG, Critics Choice, and SAG awards.
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bfhurricane Apr 11, 2026 +24
It’s unfortunate but true that this is the case. You can easily argue Leo (The Revenant) and Jamie Lee Curtis (EEAAO) got the nod for their Oscars as consolation for their exceptional careers, when in fact there were actors with better performances nominated those years.
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SpaceOdysseus23 Apr 11, 2026 +15
I would not have given Leo the Oscar for The Revenant. It's such a shameless "please give me an Oscar performance" in a rather mediocre movie. He's had infinitely better performance both before and after that win. This year alone would've easily gotten him the Oscar had he not won before.
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Spyro_Machida Apr 11, 2026 +2
Who would you have given it to? Wasn't the most stacked year imo.
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therocketandstones Apr 11, 2026 +4
Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs was the only other performance worthy
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FX114 Apr 11, 2026 +4
Hell, there was a better performance nominated in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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TheArmChairFan Apr 12, 2026 +1
What should jlc have won? She's not that good
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PSCGY Apr 12, 2026 +1
That would make sense in the UK, not the US. What would they know him from for such a narrative to take hold at the Emmy?
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dancingbriefcase Apr 11, 2026 +15
Stephen Graham was fantastic as well. Very difficult to choose, as different roles. Both deserved I think.
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PSCGY Apr 11, 2026 +47
Did you watch the other shows for which the performances were nominated?
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faux_italian Apr 11, 2026 +10
Lol exactly.
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PayneTrain181999 Apr 11, 2026 +6
For years half the voters never did lol.
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TheArmChairFan Apr 12, 2026 +1
No listnook has certain people they cry about when they don't win awards.
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quiqonky Apr 11, 2026 +49
Farrell deserved it, but so did Graham.
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Upbeat_Tension_8077 Apr 11, 2026 +4
Same here, and I feel like if there's another performance in The Penguin that might warrant consideration for an Emmy besides Cristin & Colin, it's Rhenzy Feliz imo
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Bugwah Apr 11, 2026 +23
Adolescence was unlike anything I've ever seen. I felt like I was in the truck with them in the final episode. The real-time, one shot component brought a whole new level to making a TV show. They deserved all of the awards.
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Funmachine Apr 11, 2026 +12
In terms of Emmys your nomination is only for 1 single episode of the season. Graham put in a better performance for that episode that Farrell did for his.
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Abc181004 Apr 11, 2026 +1
How can we know what episode they were nominated for?
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iLikeAza Apr 12, 2026 +4
Just look up the Emmy campaign each actor does or the nomination info. It will say which episode they submitted
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socom52 Apr 13, 2026 +1
Just submit the opening scene. One of my favorite openings to any show ever.
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SimShade Apr 11, 2026 +3
They don’t even know ya f****** name!!!
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therocketandstones Apr 11, 2026 +6
Colin Farrell swept the other awards (Golden Globe, SAG, Critics Choice), him missing out on the Emmy is fine- especially since Stephen Graham also was amazing in Adolescence, there is no right answer to who's better. Kinda funny how he won GG/SAG/CC and Cristin Milioti didn't, but Milioti won the Emmy and he didn't
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AEveryDayIdiot Apr 11, 2026 +1
Was it the globe that went to Jodie Foster, i think she deserved to win in all of them personally but that one was ridiculous, Night country was awful .
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antelope591 Apr 11, 2026 +2
Yea he was really good. I just rewatched Adolescence recently though and Steven Graham was amazing in it. Respected his performance even more the second time. To act like he was robbed cause Graham won it is crazy work. You could tell he put his heart and soul into that miniseries.
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Mommy444444 Apr 11, 2026 +3
Agreed.
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dragonsmilk Apr 11, 2026 +5
Awards are bullshit. He did a good job. Nothing more is necessary.  Good art is its own reward.
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foxhound197 Apr 11, 2026 +2
I always wonder how they review stuff where the actors in make up or some else that mask their performance
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ShikiBro36 Apr 12, 2026 +2
He's iconic, totally unrecognizable. I've seen people put him up there with Heath Ledger for villian performances. With two more movies and maybe another season he'll be on Mount Rushmore.
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SirJoePininfarina Apr 11, 2026 +1
He’ll get one at some stage for a less compelling performance by way of apology. Ireland got best actor and actress Oscars two years in a row, we can’t be winning *everything*
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YoF3 Apr 11, 2026 +1
Honestly couldn't chose between the two, they were both amazing
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boomosaur Apr 12, 2026 +1
And Benedict Cumberbatch should have presented it.
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McCabbe Apr 12, 2026 +1
He should have won that Emmy for True Detective S2. That may be, with *The Banshees...* the best role of his career.
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TheArmChairFan Apr 12, 2026 +1
Why because he wore a lot of make up? Listnook really does have baby tastes.
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xamott Apr 12, 2026 +1
That role really should not have worked. A man in a plastic fat suit. Acting all weird and having a vague connection to looking like a penguin. An evil bad guy from a Batman comic book. He was f****** brilliant in every scene. In the movie, the movie ended and I still had no idea that was Colin Farrell. Even though I knew he was listed in the cast.
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Demerzel69 Apr 11, 2026 +1
Graham was always going to win that one. Colin was f****** awesome though. Kick ass show, and Cristin was hot as hell in it and acted her little ass off.
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Razzler1973 Apr 11, 2026 +1
Totally unrecognisable Insane effort
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GrahamCrackerDragon Apr 11, 2026 +1
I am of the mind that nobody watches the Emmys or really is concerned with who wins the largely. I bet nobody here could even tell you who won without googling it 
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felixismynameqq Apr 12, 2026 -2
That show is not as good as everyone thinks it is
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captainalphabet Apr 12, 2026 +1
Yeah it's generic mob stuff that pretends to be novel because Batman.
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KlooKloo Apr 12, 2026
He was fine. The makeup was more impressive than his acting, and it was also a distraction from it. I'll never understand his casting
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BottAndPaid Apr 11, 2026
The make up crew fo "Penguin" holy f*** and the make up crew for "For All Mankind" are absolutely crushing it.
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Flimsy-Island-8528 Apr 11, 2026 -3
Stephan Graham's Emmy for Adolescence was a political cop out award. As much as I liked that show, objectively speaking Colin's performance as the Penguin was much better. The Academy(both Films and TV) have had a longstanding bias against sci-fi/comic book adaptions. Edit: Yeah yeah downvote this all you want, the reasons Adolescence won those awards are the political subject matter it explored and the two weeks worth of sensationalized virtue signaling social debates it triggered which disappeared as soon as the award season was over.
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rabid_J Apr 11, 2026
I've upvoted you because I still believe in the rules of not downvoting someone you disagree with; you're supposed to downvote someone who isn't engaging with the topic correctly. I do think Grahams performance in Adolescence warrants it and something to keep in mind is that they submit *one* episode for consideration. For The Penguin they did the finale and outside of him executing Vik I don't think he does *as* amazing work versus Graham in the Adolescence finale. Food for thought, not trying to change your opinion though.
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jogoso2014 Apr 11, 2026
While I’m ok with Graham winning (If for no other reason because he’s so underrated as Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire), I do think the differences in screen time matter. Farrells is the better performance overall. To me it’s not close. But I think Emmys base it on an episode or something which explains the supporting wins. Graham was barely in the show more than the kid playing his son. Farrell, along with a strong supporting cast, was killing it each episode. But again, Grahams performance in
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TrontRaznik Apr 11, 2026 -4
Absolutely no sense in taking any awards organization seriously when it took until 2018 to give Gary Oldman an award, and which didn't give one to Daniel Day Lewis for *Gangs of New York*.  Same deal with Emmy awards and *It's Always Sunny*. Both are total shams. 
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TheGreatTao Apr 12, 2026 +1
Daniel Day Lewis deserved one for Phantom Thread way more than Gangs of New York imo. Stephen Graham is a worthy w***** though. He's been consistently good for a long time and seems to be getting better and better.
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