1.   Fonda also said he sees the best actor race less as a competition than a celebration.

2.   The nominators followed their pattern of going mainstream and favoring the heavily credentialed in the best actor race.

3.   This kind of vote-splitting makes the most sense in the best actor race, arguably one of the closest contests.

4.   Yet the actors race through the play, often muffling or overlapping the dialogue as conversations whiz by.