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I haven't seen Moonlight, but they were both supporting actor, as was Robert Duvall. Lead can be tough - there were some people who thought Olivia Colman should have been supporting actor for The Favourite while Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz should have been the leads, but it's also hard to argue that her character wasn't central to the film, just like Don Corleone is central to The Godfather. When Nicole Kidman won for The Hours as Best Actress, she's certainly the star of her section of the film, but it's really three different stories intertwined, so purely by time onscreen she's not there for large parts of it. But her Virginia Woolf is what ties the stories together.
It's complicated, and likely involves studio politics and actor preferences as much as anything else. But in general, I find that a character and/or the actor's impact on the film can be said to put them in the Lead category, even if that doesn't actually involve being onscreen as much.
Oh, completely. Though again I've watched extremely little of his output, from what I can tell everything with Tyler Perry's name on it, and that's a lot of stuff, is shit. It's why the only thing I could compliment him on was his role in another director's movie where he was just an actor for hire, rather than it being anything to do with Madea or any of the countless shitty soaps he seems to have 'produced'.
But hey. I don't have to watch them, it keeps people in work, and despite the wokescolds moving shit out of Georgia in protest, his whole production is very unlikely to move away from Atlanta any time soon. So whatever.
