Brian Cox is pissed with the Oscars.
The “Succession” star, 78, blasted the Academy Awards in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter Monday.
“The Oscars are absolute nonsense, because everything that’s judged in the Oscars, it’s not a year’s work. It’s just the work that comes out between Thanksgiving and Christmas,” he said.
“I think it makes those awards a fallacy, quite honestly, because there’s a lot of other good work that goes on outside of what they call Oscar season,” Cox added.
Cox specifically mentioned that he wasn’t recognized by the Oscars for his performance as UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the 2017 film “Churchill.”
That same year, Gary Oldman, 66, played Churchill in the movie “Darkest Hour” and won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
“Our film came out in the summer, and it was a relatively independent film, so you haven’t got the power of the studios behind it,” Cox explained.
“So my film never even got a look, and I still think my performance is a better performance,” he added.
The Post has reached out to the academy and Oldman for comment.
Cox has never been nominated for an Oscar, though he has won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The Scottish actor previously spoke about “Darkest Hour” having more success than “Churchill” in a 2021 interview with the Guardian.
“I mean, Gary’s a great actor, but,” Cox said with a sigh. “You learn not to be attached, to let go.”
“‘Churchill’ probably wasn’t the greatest script, but I think the relationship with Miranda [Richardson, who played Clementine Churchill] was second to none,” Cox continued. “She’s a great actress, and she made me raise my game. And from that point of view I thought: ‘Well, this is good work.’”
Cox admitted that he “was pissed off” that his Winston Churchill movie didn’t get the credit he thought it deserved.
“Particularly when I saw the other movie. I thought it was bloody awful!” he added, referring to “Darkest Hour.”
Cox often weighs in on the state of filmmaking, including in August when he blasted Marvel at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland.
“What’s happened is that television is doing what cinema used to do. I think cinema is in a very bad way,” he said. “I think it’s lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I think it’s beginning to implode, actually. You’re kind of losing the plot.”
Cox noted that while movies like “Deadpool & Wolverine” earn “a lot of money” at the box office and “make everybody happy,” he said the work “becomes diluted afterward.”
