Callum wrote:Va-Va-Voom wrote:Fassbender will win though because of the subject matter if nothing else, Apple has the world in a trance and America is infatuated with Steve Jobs - it will be like a posthumous award for his legacy.
Even if the films shows him to be a bad father and a general bastard?
Yes. They'll praise it's honesty and talk about the contrast between genius and flawed human.
In any case I don't think people should hold that against Jobs/Fassbender when deciding if it's worthy of an Oscar.
You can't be biased because the film accurately portrayed his life.