PARK CITY, Utah – In one of the more open Oscar fields in recent history, a lot of the nominations were surprising Thursday.
Not so long ago, it seemed like the likes of Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman were destined for Best Actress nominations, while general audience indifference to the young Donald Trump film “The Apprentice” might have indicated that its awards prospects were bleak. But it was over.
But the members of the Film Academy had something else in mind. Here are some of the biggest insults and surprises from the 97th Oscar nominations.
Young Trump’s movie “The Apprentice” has been one of the big questions of awards season, especially after the movie didn’t turn out to be a hit with moviegoers in theaters. And yet Jeremy Strong, to play Trump’s lawyer Roy Cohn, and Sebastian Stan, to play the future two-term president, both made it. Only Strong was nominated by the Screen Actors Guild.
This will remain one of the most confusing events of awards season. Marianne Jean-Baptiste gave one of the all-time great performances as Pansy, the eternally tormented and fastidious London lady in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” The general thinking is that it was going to be either Jean-Baptiste or Fernanda Torres, and Torres got the equally beloved one for “I’m Still Here”.
It’s probably debatable, but there was certainly a lot of goodwill behind Anderson’s movie-star turn in Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl,” especially considering her SAG nomination. But like Jennifer Lopez and “Hustlers” a few years earlier, it was not to be considered for the Oscars.
James Mangold has directed several awards darlings, including “Ford v Ferrari” and “Walk the Line,” but had missed consecutive Best Director nominations until this year with “A Complete Unknown.” It may have come at the expense of Edward Berger, who missed the nod for “Conclave”, or Denis Villeneuve, who missed the nod for “Dune: Part Two”.
Daniel Craig gave one of his best performances as an American expatriate in Mexico in a tragic May-December romance in “Queer,” but it’s not resonating with awards voters. The Oscar snub is the final piece of a puzzle that never came together.
If there was ever a nomination and an Oscar to contend with, at least on paper, it would be for Angelina Jolie, playing opera legend Maria Callas. Filmmaker Pablo Larraín has yet to miss a Best Actress nomination for his famous, tragicomic women biopics, which include Natalie Portman for “Jackie” and Kristen Stewart for “Spencer.” But somehow Jolie didn’t make the cut in the end.
“Babygirl” isn’t a clichéd awards movie by long, but Nicole Kidman’s performance as Romy, the buttoned-up, married CEO who begins a dangerous affair with a young intern at her company, is undeniable. Was. But a Best Actress win at the Venice Film Festival never guarantees Oscar success.
Despite widespread love for “The Brutalist,” Felicity Jones has been absent from many nomination lists for her intense portrayal of Erzsébet Toth. The cast was not even recognized by SAG. But it goes to show that it’s never too late to achieve great things
Just a few years after Danielle Deadwyler was famously snubbed for “Till,” she’s got another snub to add to her resume for her adaptation of Malcolm Washington’s “The Piano Lesson.” This latest campaign may not have had as much enthusiasm behind it as “Till,” but at least one can assume it could have worked well.
Supporting Actress was one of the more disorganized and unpredictable categories this year, featuring a number of deserving performers. Monica Barbero was one of those who were on the verge of chances for her turn as Joan Baez in singing and singing for “A Complete Unknown”.
One who wasn’t so lucky was Selena Gomez for “Emilia Perez,” perhaps partly because she was competing with her co-star, Zoe Saldana, who simply had more speed.
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