Unlike the poised, proper, and put-together elder statesman from the previous movies, Stewart presented audiences with a broken version of Professor X ravaged by a degenerative brain disease.
In short: it was a well-rounded and genuinely compelling performance that Mangold and Parker think deserves formal recognition.
It made for some genuinely tragic moments, but it also provided a proper dose of comedy in a few critical areas of the film’s story.
James Mangold has a point, if for no other reason than the fact that Patrick Stewart’s performance as Charles Xavier in Logan was unlike any version of the character that we have seen in live-action.