Sylvester Stallone a likely Best Supporting Actor winner

More than likely at this time next week Sylvester Stallone will have won a Best Supporting Actor Award at the previous night’s awards.

My feelings and opinion of his work has changed for the better over the years.

First of all, I liked “Rocky” when I saw it but did not appreciate how really good the film was.

I did not want Stallone to win the Best Actor Award for the 1976 film and I believe properly the award was awarded posthumously to the great actor Peter Finch for his transcendent performance in “Rocky.”

“Network” is an all-time great film while “Rocky” so much better than I originally thought, is an all-time popular film and a very good one. There is a difference.

Yet time has marched inexorably on and if Stallone a 3 to 1 favorite, does win the Supporting Actor Award for “Creed” which I have not seen, it will not bother me and will serve as a tribute to Mr. Stallone’s perseverance, a word that might come with his picture next to it in future dictionaries.

Sylvester Stallone pictured above.