Honestly, Jeremy Strong gave a much stronger performance than Kieran Culkin in my opinion.

I have seen both movies and I'm familiar with both actors. I'm genuinely shocked that Strong wasn't significantly more competitive or even winning any of the awards. I think Kieran gave a fantastic performance but he also seemed to be playing a character who is extremely similar to him in every interview I have seen. I was familiar with Roy Cohn due to the two part Behind the Bastards episodes as well as the documentary "Where's my Roy Cohn?" And honestly Strong is incredible. Watch any footage of Roy Cohn or read anything about him and you'll see so much of that performance was researched thoroughly.

I get that being transformative doesn't automatically make it a better performance but I also feel like the emotional range and overall portrayal was better in Strings performance. Perhaps I'm in the minority but I wanted to see how many people agreed with me or if they disagreed what in their opinion makes Kieran's the better performance