Channing Tatum Oscar Buzz For 'Foxcatcher' Starts As True-To-Life Film Wows The Cannes Crowd! ‘Magic Mike’ Is Smoldering In His Performance!

The Channing Tatum Oscar Buzz is starting to gain ground. The top Hollywood hunk has constantly struggled to break out of his beefcake image. Has he successfully attained that through "Foxcatcher?"

"Foxcatcher" was actually considered a possible Oscar contender for 2013, but then they decided to move it to 2014. The movie also stars Steve Carrell and Mark Ruffalo and directed by the "Moneyball" helmsman Bennett Miller.

From the Mirror UK: Tatum stars as Olympic Wrestling Champion Mark Schultz, whose brother(Ruffalo) was murdered by sports enthusiast John du Pont.

Carell dons a fake nose and a dodgy tracksuit to play schizophrenic coach and investor DuPont, a far cry from Anchorman's Brick Tamland.

Based on Mark Schultz's autobiography of the same name, the true story follows his journey to find justice for his brother's death."

Tatum and Carell's impressive performances have gained the most positive feedback, but the fact that Bennett Miller is also in the director's chair does not hurt.

Miller's previous outings happen to include six-time Oscar-nominee "Moneyball" with Brad Pitt and the Oscar-winning biopic "Capote."

Speaking at today's launch in Cannes, Miller said of Carell's performance (also from Mirror): "It was so far outside of his comfort zone. I've never seen Steve do anything that would give any material evidence that he could do this."

He also admits that he was quite hesitant.

"We just chatted and I heard how he thought and was thinking about the character, and I had a vision for it working."

Some critics praise for the Channing Tatum coming from Variety:
"Always at his best when he can bring his intense physicality to bear on a role (Magic Mike), Tatum delivers what is easily the most emotionally complex performance of his career, hulking through much of the picture exuding rage, surliness and disappointment."

This time from The Hollywood Reporter: "While Carell dominates with his unexpected performance, he is superbly backed up by his co-stars. Playing a young man who doesn't have a clue how to articulate his feelings and suffers for it, Tatum is a smoldering, festering piece of emotional raw meat, able to be manipulated this way and that by his benefactor. You feel his pain."