According to you, it will be a"battle between a sympathetic underdog character and an unsympathetic capitalist bully". I think that you are mixing up the character that Daniel plays with thinking that it is the real him! The Academy Awards again is about the acting an not about the unsympathetic character played. Forest Whitaker played the murderous Idi Amin in Last King of Scotland. Are you saying that he shouldn't of won that year because he played that kind of character? Are you saying that the obviously soft-spoken Whitaker is anything like Idi like you are accusing Daniel of being? The Academy Awards is again about the quality of the acting and not the goodness of the character being played. Anthony Hopkins also won best actor for playing the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs. Are you saying that he didn't deserve this win against his opponents because he played a murderer? I'm not sure where you went to journalism school because you're not following one of first rules of "unbiased" reporting not colored by personal biases.