Who's your favorite Best Actor Oscar-winner of the 2010s?

I guess they're all good performances. I have to eliminate The Theory of Everything because it was a remake of A Beautiful Mind. Malek was the only good thing about Bohemian Rhapsody.

I guess I would pick Matthew McConaughey. I'm a sucker for morally ambiguous heroes.

That's a decade of fairly meh performances.

To be honest, Firth in The King's Speech, while the movie itself was incredibly overrated, was a super nuanced performance.

McConaughey's turn was also interesting. DDL and Leo were solid, but both won for the wrong movies in the decade. Oldman, Malek and Phoenix had good parts, but often ended up not feeling like real people but caricatures. Affleck's is a tough read. I think it was a good one, but just felt a little flat.

Redmayne and Dujardin are at the bottom, easily.

Some really good ones and some pretty meh ones too. I'd say Joaquin's Joker is probably the best of them all though IMO.

let's be clear though -

That's two characters fighting aids, 1 ALS, 1 Speech issue and 1 paranoid delusions.

a lot of oscars to be won in human disability/disorder.

MM was so good in DBC

But Oldman was terrific as Churchill.

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The artist has to be one of the all time WOAT winners

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The good news for the Artist is that no matter which film wins Best Picture this year that it will take the title from them.

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That's a decade of fairly meh performances.

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I actually agree with that. I looked at that list and with the exception of only 3 of them I had to think “Was that really the best performance that year?”

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I have to eliminate The Theory of Everything because it was a remake of A Beautiful Mind.

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Do what now?

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Do what now?

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The story of a genius from his grad school days to his eventual international fame, while he deals with a neurological/psychiatric illness, and how his wife saves him from self-destruction.

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Right, but they're both true stories, more or less?

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Depends on what you mean by "true story." What facts did the writer of The Theory of Everything arrange or choose to emphasis or stretch in order to fit the dramatic narrative that had already been set by A Beautiful Mind? In other words, how did the screenwriter manipulate the story of Stephen Hawking to make it more dramatically appealing?

(This is a rhetorical question. If you read up on the criticisms of the movie from people who actually knew the story of Hawking, they will say that the movie is a dramatic historical fiction rather than a non-fiction movie.)