Crazy- if I didn't give Jeff Bridges an Oscar- or is it?

Oscar Talk:
At this point it seems to be all about Jeff Bridges needing to get that OSCAR in his hands and finally put to rest the "most underrated American actor" moniker to rest. I thought that he was a shoe in after seeing Crazy Heart- the "it almost went straight to DVD, low budget with BIG acting chops and GREAT music, little film" that could movie. But then I saw Colin Firth in A Single Man. More on that later. 
In Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhal, Colin Farrell, and Robert Duval, we are at our most voyeuristic in that we are "forced" to follow Jeff Bridges' "Bad" character around as he drinks, throws up, smokes, looks like death warmed over and in between, sings some fantastic songs at broken down, end of the line joints. "Bad," as he calls himself and claims as his name until the writing on his tombstone proves otherwise, is a master song writer and massively charming alcoholic. (Don't we all know a few of those- at least the charming alcoholic part...:)
His character was utterly believable and yet I was always aware that this is Jeff Bridges, my favorite actor, playing a f**ked up, washed up alcoholic. 
 I do not think this is necessarily a drawback to enjoying and appreciating an actor's performance. Often it is WHY we go see a particular movie- to see an actor do what s/he does very well. In this case though it was a problem- a big problem. I could not get past a young beautiful smart sexy woman falling for Bad- except for the fact that it was Bad played by the stunning Jeff Bridges. Is it cynical? Perhaps, but as I became a spectator to the sport of falling for baddies, all I could think of was, "heck ya, I'd do him too if he was in fact Jeff Bridges!" And that kind of took away from the overall effectiveness for me. That, and the phone booth in the middle of the desert on the side of an empty road. Oh and yes, not enough screen time for Mr. Farrell. Mr. Bridges- you rock but if I had to pick between you and Mr. Firth... I don't know. Its close. Very close. Are you going to be watching the Oscars? But it's all about being honored just to be nominated with and by your peers, right? Go Ms. Bigelow!