What if I told you the most interesting Oscars race of the season isn’t the contest for best picture — or any of the other ones plagued by controversy — but a showdown between computer-generated primates? Two of the films nominated for best visual effects star animated simian protagonists: “Better Man,” the Robbie Williams biopic where he looks like a chimpanzee, and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” the fourth installment in the rebooted series about intelligent apes taking over the world. (“Wicked,” also nominated in the category, features flying monkeys but in supporting roles; the remaining “Dune: Part Two” and “Alien: Romulus” are sadly free of any nonhuman primates.)