Elijah or Macaulay: Who Won?

They both played their roles very well. I'm gonna give it to to Elijah though. He played the grieving son well as well as the "paranoid" nephew for for his aunt and uncle, then trying to be friends with his cousin as well as trying to stop his deeds.

I like Macaulay as he is never a bad guy and it was fun to see him go to the extreme opposite.

In terms of performance in this film, Elijah.

In terms of a sustained acting career in adulthood, also Elijah.

Funnily enough it was Elijah Wood who won the best child actor Saturn Award that year. So the voters in at the Saturn Awards thought he was better. I think I will go with Elijah too. Maculay was fine but Elijah also was in the more light hearted moments in the movie.

Macaulay Culkin has never been good really. He was a loveable, bad child actor. Famous for that silly shock face.

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To me, it always felt like Macaulay was just saying lines and not really feeling them.