How do you like your Best Actor nominees? Serious, respected actors in weighty roles — Philip Seymour Hoffman in Death of a Salesman, John Lithgow in The Columnist, Frank Langella in Man and Boy, James Earl Jones in The Best Man? Or James Corden, a no-holds-barred British stand-up comic doing pratfalls and music-hall shtick in the crowd-pleasing comedy One Man, Two Guvnors? Hoffman, though far from the perfect Willie Loman, looks to be the frontrunner here. But if the Tony voters go by the sheer pleasure one actor gives to audiences night after night, Corden might have a chance.
TIME’s Not-the-Tony Awards 2012
The Tony nominations are out—and we've already got our awards ready to go