Channing Tatum And Steve Carell In Foxcatcher Movie: Frontrunners For Oscars Best Actor Award? Characters Of The Wrestling Drama Rooted In A Real-Life Tragedy Were As Real They Could Possibly Be

Channing Tatum and Steve Carell in "Foxcatcher" movie has been among the list of rumored frontrunners for the upcoming Oscars for the Best Actor award. The film, which is  based on a true story, has brought out the best in the two actor's portrayal of their respective characters, which are profiled as closely as possible to their real-life counterparts.

Indiewire could not decide who between Channing Tatum and Steve Carell in "Foxcatcher" movie is more deserving of the Oscar "Best Actor" candidacy. They have cited how both actors gave stellar performances for their assigned characters in the movie. However, they were particularly awed by Steve Carell's unexpectedly astounding performance of John Dupont.

Why did they single out Carell? He is widely known as a comedian. And portraying the role of the weird millionaire turned murderer of Olympic wrestler David Schultz, as reported by Hollywood Reporter, was a surprisingly uncharacteristic move for the actor.

His portrayal made him unrecognizable physically (He was transformed to look like his character with makeup.) and stylistically - but in a wonderful way as his outstanding performance was contender-worthy for the Best Actor award, when he is in fact playing supporting role to Channing Tatum's Mark character, who is another Olympian.

Tatum, on his part, equaled Carell in terms of delivering his best performance for his role. Thus, it hardly comes as a surprise why Channing Tatum and Steve Carell In "Foxcatcher" movie are included in the alleged list of contenders.

Hollywood Reporter noted that director Bennett Miller paid close attention to having realistic characters that matched their real-life counterparts as closely as possible. Although the inclusion of fictional aspects is no new practice for fact-based flicks, Miller did well in melding them together to deliver a highly convincing interpretation of events that displays the diverse mentalities of each character.