He'll get an Old Man award. Either they'll give him some weak-ass lifetime achievement thing, or it'll be a Supporting Actor award for something that will be remembered as not-his-best-work.

And glorified puppetry is exactly why I want to see a Muppet or at least a voice actor nominated for an Oscar.

Are all the monkeys in this film him? Because that would be cool.

Someone make a movie about a CGI monkey man loping around in some poverty-stricken, bomb-shredded WW2-era ghetto. Andy Serkis will be a shoe-in for the star and the the movie will be a shoe-in for nominations all around.

@2 I saw another interview with Serkis where he said that he and several of the other actors doubled-up on providing extra background monkeys. So it's not Deep Roy territory (the guy who played every Oompa Loompa in the Tim Burton Wonka).

He made an alright Ian Dury -- and using his own face too!

@4, oh yeah that sucked.

The performance capture/voice work he did for the video games Heavenly Sword and Enslaved really are incredible as well. Viva Andy!

No - seriously... who the FUCK is Andy Serkis?

I think he should certainly be considered for an Oscar - but it would probably need to be either a special Oscar, or some new category in the area of special effects.

@9
Check wikipedia for him.

He's most known for his motion capture work - he puts on a special suit that can be both edited out of the final take AND used as the basis for the CGI movements that they actually do put in.

It's all his physical movements that are the basis of making the GGI characters believable. In essence, he's the modern version of the guy in the rubber suit in older movies.

So, he's best "known" as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings, as King Kong in the most recent version, and now as Caesar in the new Apes movie.

Who doesn't think Anthony Daniels would have killed for this technology back when he was sweating his ass off in the C-3PO suit in the desert?