"Ode to a Snub". Plus nominations that had us reeling on Tuesday
Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 9:23PM While Oscar nomination morning (this past Tuesday) brought its share of happiness -- which we'll get to soon. It also brings small shockwaves (never large, really) at unexpected nominations and sadness in the form of beloved favourites missing from the "Best" conversation, however unthinkable that may be in the moment. So we polled Team Experience asking them for their saddest snub* and nominations that had them reeling for various reasons.
"Past Lives"
Their answers are after the jump and we hope yours are in the comments shortly...
"ODE TO A SNUB"
Greta Lee, without thee Best Actress brings no glee. Teo Yoo, without you Best Actor makes me blue. Celine Song, all along Best Director just feels wrong. (At least Past Lives got a well-earned Best Picture—and Screenplay—nom.) - Mark Brinkerhoff
"Dear Natalie, Julie, and Charles...the degree of difficulty was higher for you in your roles than perhaps anyone out there. I'm so sad that the voters weren't smart enough to understand what you were doing in May December. The good news is we have your complex, daring, fascinating performances committed to film. When people are studying your movie in film class twenty, thirty, fifty years from now, they'll look back and say, WTF? -Eric Blume
I'm sad about Daniel Pemberton missing in Original Score for Across the Spider-Verse score. That film works so well on so many levels, and the music is one of them. If other successive entries in franchises can get in like Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, this music certainly should have been recognized. -Abe Friedtanzer
"Barbie" © Warner Bros
"Someday we're going to recognize Greta Gerwig's incredible streak of films the last few years and books will be written on how her success didn't translate to equal recognition." - Eurocheese
"Greta Gerwig in Director. Her vision of what Barbie became still stuns me. A once-in-a-generation cultural experience. Also, yes please, what would it take for the Directors Branch to nominate more than one woman in Director? Another pandemic?" - Juan Carlos
Margot Robbie will be fine. More than fine, with the billion-dollar success of Barbie, two Oscar acting nominations already under her belt, and no signs of slowing down. But I am not fine with her omission from the Best Actress lineup because she gave one of the best performances of the year. Acting the part of a literal doll who evolves into a real person is hard enough - try making that evolution while simultaneously fulfilling and sending up all the tropes we associate with "Stereotypical Barbie." I still laugh when I think of Barbie blithely prancing up to a panel of adolescent girls in her cowgirl gear, and I still feel for her when they brutally take her down...but not so much that I can't still laugh. Robbie nails the comic-dramatic balance so perfectly it's unfortunately all too easy to underrate the skill, timing, and judgment required to make the movie's tonal shifts and her character's development believable. - Lynn Lee
"Asteroid City"
I was going to wax rhapsodic about Margot Robbie's Barbie performance (a MOVIE STAR performance of the highest order) but since Lynn already put it so perfectly, for my "Ode to a Snub" I choose Asteroid City -- primarily its Production Design but it's a total delight in multiple craft categories (and Scarlett Johansson is better than the whole Supporting Actress lineup this season but that's another topic). It's perpetually mystifying that Oscar voters don't have fun with Wes Anderson's filmography only to be all in for a split second with Grand Budapest Hotel. Versatile production designer extraordinary Adam Stockhausen does it again with whimsical world building. There are endless amusing touches in this atomic desert town that were every bit as thrilling to look at as anything in the second act of Oppenheimer's own atomic desert town. If Oscar had nominated them both in Production Design it would have been like looking at a theater mask, tragedy and comedy united. - Nathaniel R
The documentary category always goes its own way, but Beyond Utopia was one of the best docs I've seen in years. It happened so quickly and I (incorrectly) assumed it would be a shoe-in, that i barely had time to process it. It's remarkably captivating filmmaking. I'll certainly never forget it. Not to besmirch these other nominees, but there is just no way five other docs are better. - Ben Miller
For fifty years, Joe Hisaishi has gifted us over a hundred soundtracks and has become one of the greatest composers in Japanese film history. Primarily known for animation throughout his career, he was there at the start of Studio Ghibli and continues to be faithful to its mission, elevating every picture with his symphonic splendors. Though I've long loved his scores for Miyazaki and Takahata – and would've nominated him many times before – there's something about The Boy and the Heron that feels like the culmination of a life's work. To quote myself and that FYC mega-thread I annually Tweet: "The sting of loss and its reverberations over everything that comes after. Melancholy slashed through by the impossible manifest. An adventure into the unknown, a standstill, a reckoning. Then, catharsis. It's all there." - Cláudio Alves
"I'M STILL REELING"
De Niro in "Killers of the Flower Moon"
"What exactly did Robert De Niro do in Killers of the Flower Moon? He is not particularly captivating, dynamic, or menacing. He just frowns or fake smiles his way through the background while everyone else is better or more interesting. I will never understand what his career has been up to for the last 25 years, and I certainly don't understand what anyone saw in this performance." - Ben Miller
"Maestro has some impressive crafts, Mulligan is doing great work... but Screenplay? And don't tell me there weren't worthwhile alternatives." - Eurocheese
"Maestro in Original Screenplay. It's no secret that I do not love this film and I think the screenplay is one of my biggest issues with it. I always thought the last two spots were going to be for May December and Saltburn, two intense pieces of writing that have passionate support for the writing despite divisiveness. Too bad only the former got it." - Juan Carlos
"It's got to be Golda in Best Makeup & Hairstyling. Sure, I predicted it, but that doesn't mean I wanted the nomination to happen. After watching the film, I'm especially flabbergasted because, despite all those layers of latex, Helen Mirren looks very little like the so-called Iron Lady of Israel. Indeed, how the picture creates its protagonist is the oddest thing. All the signifiers of transformative effort are there, from the pounds of makeup to slight accent work and expressive physicality. And yet, Mirren never seems transformed, the results of actorly labor evident while results remain elusive. To make matters worse, the film concludes with footage of the real Golda Meir, as if to highlight the inefficacy of its cosmetics. I guess the Academy does confuse the meanings of 'best' and 'most.'" - Cláudio Alves
"Sterling K. Brown. Wonderful actor, but this performance is surface, unspecific, and forgettable." - Eric Blume
"John Williams’ Best Original Score nomination (his 54th!) for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is so middling—and maddening—at the expense of someone brilliant like Mica Levi for something unique like The Zone of Interest. Blech." - Mark Brinkerhoff
"I do think that Annette Bening, an exceptional actress, is very good in Nyad, but I don't think her performance carries the emotional weight of something like Greta Lee's or the buoyancy of Margot Robbie's. I suppose it's not a good thing that I'd rather see acting nominees from the Best Picture contenders, given that Bening's film is one of exactly three not nominated for Best Picture to receive acting nominations this year. - Abe Friedtanzer
"Napoleon"
"My biggest WTF on Oscar nomination morning was Napoleon becoming the "The Movie with the most nominations that wasn't part of the Best Picture lineup." I was sure that somewhat dubious honor would go to something with a passionate fanbase that didn't quite stretch to the whole Academy like maybe Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse (which would have looked swell in Picture, Score, and Visual Effects) or Saltburn (which might easily have landed in Cinematography, Screenplay, and Supporting Actress). If it wasn't going to be something with a passionate critical fanbase I assumed it would be something that reeked of Oscar Contender Prestige before it was released like say The Color Purple (which looked possible in Song, Actress, Production Design, and Costumes) or Ferrari (which looked quite possible in Supporting Actress, Editing, and Sound) even after their somewhat disappointing precursor runs. Instead... Napoleon ??? I've yet to meet a single person who loves Napoleon... or even met someone who wants to talk about Napoleon. The Academy screenings must have been well attended. Two days later and I'm still stunned. - Nathaniel R
YOUR TURN DEAR READERS.
What's your "Ode to a Snub*" and what had you reeling?
*We understand that snub is an egregiously overused word. It doesn't mean they didn't love you. But it DOES mean that more people voted for the other options... which can sometime be hard to fathom.
Reader Comments (31)
Ode to Julianne Moore in "May December".
Undeniably, one of the best performances of the year.
It's a masterclass in acting; every look, every smile, every lisp, every detail is in its right place.
She's fragile, strong, funny, irritating, desperate, secure, all at the same time.
And that last scene...
Man, she's absolutely genius. She's let the little snake Elizabeth clueless, like a boat without a sail... like the ground fell has fallen out from underneath that bitch's feet.
Grace did it like a Queen.
"GRACIE (CONT’D) Insecure people... They’re very dangerous. Aren’t they.
Elizabeth stares at her but she doesn’t look back.
GRACIE (CONT’D) I am secure. Make sure you put that in there.
She marches off, her tiny frame absorbed into the red-robed crowd. Elizabeth watches, with no other choice."
You all covered most of the big ones, but I'm still baffled that THE KILLER never caught on anywhere when it's boasting truly extraordinary work from (Oscar-winning) DP Erik Messerschmidt and (Oscar-winning) editor Kirk Baxter.
And why has the Academy stopped nominating animated films anywhere other than their ghetto category? Thomas Newman's score for ELEMENTAL blows away all the nominees.
100% agree with Eric Blume about Sterling K. Brown’s baffling nomination. I think this is one of the worst nominations in recent memory. So undeserving. Really a shame that a great performance like Charles Melton’s was passed over for this complete nothing performance.
Forget about Greta Gerwig; I’m so much more irritated that a great director like Sofia Coppola was passed over for her excellent direction of Priscilla. At least Greta got a screenplay nomination this year (her fourth career Oscar nomination) and also made a billion dollar film. Meanwhile Sofia has to settle for simply great reviews and tiny box office.
Snubs for Air hurt. That was probably the most entertaining film I saw all year. Not even a screenplay nomination.
Same for You Hurt My Feelings. Such a smart and honest screenplay.
Humm, also I'M STILL REELING.
Here I go.
America Ferrera in "Barbie".
Mark Ruffalo in "Poor Things".
About Ferrera: Her nomination is a joke. It's embarrassing. One more reason to have no respect for that movie.
About Ruffalo: I didn't watch "Poor Things" yet, but in all my career - and in his career - I watched something good delivered by that man.
He's hammy. He's inexpressive. He's terrible.
I can't bare that man!
Rarely we see a film that elevates the medium to become art. All of Us Strangers is a deeply moving ghost story by director Andrew Haigh who professes to be an atheist yet creates a cinematic world where purgatory is a space without time constraints where one can heal lingering wounds from childhood trauma.
Haigh’s vision from production design where the facade of Adam’s apartment building that resembles the outline of a graveyard to its memorable opening shot of a single building glowing brighter as dusk descends in tribute to the opening of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood music video that permeates the score of the film.
As Adam finds closure to his life, we are invited to seek our own glitches in our personal history in need of attention. We are left with the lyric from Adam’s favorite song in his early adolescence, “Purge your soul. Make love your goal.” I fail to understand Oscar’s reluctance to honor this masterpiece.
I don't know who Ava DuVernay pissed off in the industry but I am still flummoxed that ORIGIN absolutely did nothing this awards season. Was the rollout too timid? Was the film TOO experimental especially as an adaptation? I thought it was so illuminating, heartbreaking and a must-watch for everyone. And Aunjanue Ellis is staggeringly good.
And to second Finbar's ode to Andrew Haigh above... ALL OF US STRANGERS is going to be a bonafide classic. Andrew Scott is amazing and so heartfelt. The rest of the cast was just as good and affective.
And finally, I know chances were slim, but I thought the popularity of SALTBURN would've translated to, if not necessarily any of the big awards, something. Murder on the dance floor, indeed.
Having just caught up with a lot of Oscar movies, I'm dedicating the post to someone who didn't get ANY buzz this season: Taraji P. Henson. While I liked The Color Purple, I noticed a lot of strange choices going on. During Danielle Brooks' first solo, the camera actually turns away from her and we see her back! A similar moment happens when Shug tells Celie she is leaving and we don't get to see Fantasia's face nor her reaction. Only Taraji seems to know exactly where the camera is, or maybe the camera can't look away from her. I think she is giving the best performance in the movie and it's a shame she isn't getting more notice.
The snubs that hurted me are for sure The Boy and the heron in best original score and Saltburn in cinematography. I hated the latter but we can all agree that is visually important. Oh and of course Killers of the flower moon in screenplay and Barbie not even shortlisted in makeup and hairstyling.
Reeling? Initially was America Ferrera but than I thought that it was a camp choice and that in an imaginary best supporting actress smackdown in 2044 it will be so funny to remember her nomination. I'm reeling for all the Barbie phenomenon during the awards season. I loved the movie, but c'mon than let's take a time machine and nominate Space Jam for best picture at this point.
Love Lynn’s write-up of Margot Robbie as much as I love the performance, which is saying a lot. Not only a perfect marriage of star and role but also a tonally dexterous, emotionally rich, pitch perfect piece of acting that Margot makes look easy even though I’m certain a lot of work went into it. One of my very favorite performances of the year and I’m really bummed she wasn’t nominated. I’ll get over it eventually. Maybe. Probably not.
SNUBS:
- The May December trio.
- Greta Lee and Yoo Tae-o for Past Lives.
- Milo Machado Graner for Anatomy of a Fall.
- Patti Lupone for Beau is Afraid. This was never gonna happen but it would have been a fun opportunity to nominate her.
REELING:
- Bening and Foster. So embarassing yet hilarious. Two career worst for them. I'm hoping Nyad will turn into a camp classic, because it is. Rhys Ifans acted circles around them.
-America Ferrera. She did an ok job, she was fine. Oscar worthy? LOL No.
- Danielle Brooks. She's barely in the movie and her entire arc is watered down. Brooks did fine,but Henson was way better. If there was room for only one Color Purple girl, Henson was the right choice.
- Pretty much the entire Supporting Actress category. Usually the most fun category, this year it's the most boring and wasted. The only one I'd keep is Blunt, because even though her role was so poorly written and reduced, she managed to stand out and have any kind of gravitas in a sea of boring white men in suits.
- RDJ. We all knew it was intevitable and he is going to win. It's such a bad performance.
SNUBS
- i can't believe that John Magaro was never in the conversation for a Best Supporting Actor nomination. To me he was the MVP in "Past Lives"
- I really hoped that Dominic Sessa and Alexander Payne would make it.
- "Monster" was one of the best films of the year. Since Japan didn't pick it, it would even more difficult to get any nominations although it deserved Picture, Screenplay and Editing.
- Sandra Huller was magnificent in "Anatomy of a Fall". I would love to see her nominated in the Supporting category for "zone of interest" not so much for the performance itself, but because it's very rare to have a foireign supporting performance nominated.
- Would love to see "The Killer" get 2 or 3 technical nominations like Editing, Sound and Music.
- I thought that "Beyond Utopia" was a really deserving. But at least the made-to-win-awards "Still" and "American Symphony" were also snubbed. it was wonderful to see the whole category be foreign.
REELING
- Meastro has no business with a Best Picture or Best Screenplay nomination. Even the usually excellent Mulligan was boring in the film.
- The members of the Music Branch of the Academy clearly needs a change of guard. The nominations of John Williams and the overbearing Diane Warren were ridiculous.
- I thought "Eternal Memory" was really boring.
- i am obviously in the minority but if it was up to me Lily Gladstone would be niominated in the supporting category.
Finally, i loved "Naopleon"'s 3 nominations. I thought the films presence in these 3 particular categories were deserving.
I'm quite happy to talk Napoleon,no masterpiece,funny lead performance in the wrong way,a wasted Kirby but the nods it received are well deserved for those artists behind the scenes who no doubt worked very hard and to sneer is a bit unfair..
Snubs that sting.
Air absolutley loved this and I hate sports and don't wear trainers
Franz Rogowski was always an outside bet but he's dangerously captivating in Passages.
Rosamund Pike for her line readings for the ages,catnip for most queens.
The male up and comers Teo Yoo,Barry Keoghan,Jacob Elordi,Domonic Sessa and Charles Melton acting circles around their frontrunner counterparts.
Sigourney Weaver for Master Gardner wrong release date killed her chances,when will she get a Glenn Close academy break.
The Killer pure entertainment can be art too.
Snubs I understand
Cruz movie didn't catch on,lone SAG noms ever work out.
Dafoe internal competion from a showier actor plus a 5th nom and little chance of winning would look bad for such a creative actor.
Robbie the Academy has problem with fantasy silliness unless you are male.
Lee the quietness was always going to be looked over for biopic flash.
Saltburn in Screenplay probably too much for Oscar
Evil Dead Rise great make great special effects,one of the best horrors of 2023.
Nominations I don't get
John Williams he's a legend yes but not every score of his is legendary.
De Niro and Downey Jr fine but villainy turned up to 11.
Bening overshadowd completely by a breezy and bright Jodie Foster
Blunt the worst of the nominees yes all 20,no-one could convince me Nolan cared about her character,a well delivered monolgue and that's it same with Ferrara.
The Barbie songs I don't enjoy Billie Eilish's kind of vocalising and I'm Just Ken misses what it's trying to send up.
May December It's not for everyone and that's what cost it.
Taraji P. Henson gave me more in The Color Purple. I think her campaign got derailed by the behind the scenes stuff, but I hate that her only nomination is for Benjamin Button of which she barely had anything to work with there.
I have a strong feeling that there are certain movies that people just refuse to watch based on the topic and description, and that All of Us Strangers might be one of those. Gay male characters having sex on screen and talking at length? Hard pass for certain types of folks, and they weren't just Oscar voters but the bodies of a lot of the precursors as well. Reminds me of how so many people just refused to watch The Wife a few years back.
I'd like to understand exactly what is Nathaniel's problem with Napoleon. It's not even clear whether he's watched it.
I have. Regardless of the problems one might have with the casting or the writing or the pacing, the craftsmanship is top-notch, and those three nominations are not at all absurd. It showed up in pretty much every corresponding precursor award. Cinematography and Score nominations would have been deserving too, in my opinion. Despite the lukewarm critical reception, it grossed over 215 million worldwide, so of course people have seen it.
It's not like it got above-the-line nominations. Again, why the surprise?
Saddest - no Sandgren/Saltburn in cinematography. Gutting.
And as others have said, it's baffling that the below the line work in The Killer was never in the conversation given the talent involved and how well-liked the film seemed to be.
Just want to add to the chorus of the disappointed regarding All of Us Strangers, my favorite movie of the year -so far, I still have a lot to catch up on.
I just think it was a misfire for the distributor to release it so late in the season. It needed a little more time to be seen and to build up a fanbase, which certainly seems to be there.
I'm especially disappointed that Jamie Bell and Claire Foy weren't nominated, because so many of the nominees in the supporting categories are so lackluster.
My choice for most undeserving nomination has to be Stirling K. Brown in American Fiction. The whole movie, in fact, is garbage, but his nomination is really egregious. Bell's sublime performance is on a whole different level.
Also, I vote that we reitre the word "snub" forever.
I was surprised how much I was hoping for Dominic Sessa to show up.
The Holdovers was one of my faves this year and the others sadly didn't get nominated - Fallen Leaves and The Taste of Things, All of Us Strangers and You Hurt My Feelings.
Supporting Actor is blah. John Magaro would have been amazing too. Jamie Bell and Paul Mescal also. Gosling should be winning in a walk. (I haven't seen May December yet).
I feel like Oscar and SAG swapped brains in the supporting categories. Ruffalo and Ferrerra seem like SAG choices that Oscar changes with Dafoe and Penelope Cruz but the reverse happened.
I agree with everything MrRipley79 said about Napoleon. While I didn't like the movie (it was begging to be a mini-series) I walked out of the cinema thinking it had a very good chance at the categories it was nominated in. In fact Napoleon getting lots of nominations was my no guts no glory pick.
I am also happy others liked Henson's performance in The Color Purple.
In addition, I agree with Amy Camus about All of Us Strangers. While it got some buzz out of festivals, it wasn't overwhelming. This movie needed to be an early release date so it could be seen. I just now got around to seeing it. The film could have been a sleeper success. Which now thinking about it, makes me worried that if this did happen, it would be nominated instead of Past Lives, which was riding the narrative of the little indie that could.
Honestly, this was a good year for movies. Usually, there are some Best Picture nominees that I would never want to see again but that hasn't happened this year. Only so many films can be nominated but each film can be celebrated and remembered.
I'm just so disappointed with the Best Original Song category. It's often rubbish, but it doesn't have to be! I'm sick and tired of Diane Warren, I'm sick and tired of pop stars writing generic songs for the end credits of documentaries and indies with generic titles like "Fight", "Take a Stand", "Speak Now", etc and automatically entering into contention. Imagine the contenders we could have had this year!
A suggested five:
- 1 of the Barbie songs (I'm partial to I'm Just Ken, but really any of the three)
- Camp Isn't Home (Theatre Camp)
- A Hat Full of Dreams (Wonka)
- Dear Space Alien, Who Art in Heaven (Asteroid City)
- Meet in the Middle (Flora and Son)
Or maybe Steal the Show from Elemental? One of the songs from Suzume? Spinning Globe from The Boy and the Heron? For The First Time from Little Mermaid? I'm glad they avoided the AI generated songs of Wish, but there were options this year and yet, it's still as boring a list as ever.
My number one snub for any category is Rachel McAdams in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Still reeling from the fact that the Apple PR machine is heralding Lily Gladstone as the first Indegenious actress to get nominated. What was the nationality of Yolitza Aparicio/Roma 2018?
The snubs for Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie has me upset but I'm more upset that Willem Dafoe didn't get nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Nothing against Mark Ruffalo's performance in Poor Things but I was more into what Dafoe and Ramy Youssef were doing. Especially as Dafoe's character I thought was way more interesting as well as someone I really cared about as I thought what he did for Bella was brave and noble. The last scene he had in the film was poignant and heartfelt.
Napoleon seems to be the type of below the line film that we should look out for more during predictions. It had bigger Oscar hopes (Picture, Director, Actor, Supp. Actress, Supp. Actor), but underwhelmed early enough, that Apple was able to conduct a really focused campaign. It did well below the line at BAFTAs, hit all of the guilds, and even got a lone Critics Choice nom (when they typically just align their craft categories with their Picture nominees. It's also a film that, despite underwhelming at the box office, still got people to see it.
I loved Margot Robbie in Barbie, and though she could Bridget Jones her way to a nomination. But, it's easy to see why her performance is the type to get looked over give her branch's biases. However, Margot will be fine and she seems like the type of actress who will win on her third nomination fairly easily now, especially with her hits and snubs (similar to Chastain, Faye Dunaway, and Viola Davis).
However, I do feel bad for Greta Lee. Her performance lost steam throughout the season, even though love for her picture and Celine Song prevailed. However, I think this nomination would have really been a big deal for her career. I hope she gets more chances to get juicy roles in film.
I'm upset about the Andrew Haigh snub. His writing was outstanding as was Claire Foy's performance. While it's unlikely, I'd love to see Haigh win the BAFTA screenplay award and Foy take the award.
Ode to a Snub
Charles Melton, a stunner of a performance, portraying complex emotions that most humans can not even imagine. A devoted husband and a victim. A loving father, but in many ways still a child. I don’t hate any of the nominations that took Meltons place and would even nominate Ruffalo and Gosling in my own Oscars. But none of them are near Meltons level.
Also shoutout to Milo Machado Graner. He can’t be considered a snub since he was never in contention. But with the overall strength of Anatomy of a Fall, he absolutely should have been. I’ll never understand how you can watch the film and not think of his performance. One of the greatest child performances to ever grace cinema.
Also, Snoop makes a great case for animals to have a category at the Oscars.
I’m Still Reeling
I’d like to say America Ferrera, but in all honesty she was fine. Not nomination worthy, but fine. Jodie Foster and Annette Bening I thought were actively bad in parts of their film. There’s a reason why that ping pong clip went viral. Worst is it’s not like either category was lacking actresses as both fields were incredibly deep.
Chris what was the viral video about,I don't have social media so I'm unaware of it,I know that scene is very awkward.
My game post-nominations is that I get to make 1 change per category (if I completely agree with a category, I get to use 2 changes in another category).
- All of Us Strangers in Best Picture instead of Maestro.
- Andrew Scott instead of Bradley Cooper
- Greta Lee instead of Carey Mulligan
- Jamie Bell instead of Mark Ruffalo (and since I’m ok with the Costume category) John Magaro instead of Robert de Niro
- Rachel McAdams or Penelope Cruz instead of Emily Blunt
In Best Director, I would be fine if an entirely different slate of 5 other directors was chosen. The current 5 are okay, they’re fine, but I wouldn’t mourn them.
I thought I was the only one who saw Napoleon, but I guess I’m the only one who actually liked it. My personal choices for Cinematography and Editing would have included Napoleon, Ferrari, and John Wick: Chapter 4.
I correctly predicted on this very site that Napoleon (3), Rustin (1), The Color Purple (1) and Origin (0) would get five or six nominations between them, and I'm bummed that Origin (along with Memory) was completely shut out. Shame, shame.
@TOM- Yalitza Aparicio was born in Mexico and is Native Mexican. Gladstone is the fist indigenous woman from the United States to be nominated.
@TOM and TomG
Yalitza Aparicio was born in Mexico to a Mixtec father and a Triqui mother. As such, she is an indigenous woman. She served as the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous People.
Best actress nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes was born to a Māori mother and an Australian Anglo father which makes her half indigenous.
@FinbarMcBride- I meant that Aparicio is an indigenous person of Mexico.
In addition Chief Dan George and Graham Greene were also nominated but were from Canada.
Still reeling from the nominations of Sterling K. Brown and America Ferrera. Totally unworthy performances that won't be remembered a month from now.
I have two films which have stayed with me long after the final credits rolled, and they are PAST LIVES and ALL OF US STRANGERS.
For PAST LIVES, the remarkable trip of Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro are breathtaking in their subtle unspoken dance of love and regret.
I think Andrew Scott gives the performance of the year, if not of many years, in ALL OF US STRANGERS matched moment for. moment with the open hearts of Jamie Bell, Claire Foy and Paul Mescal.. That this vivid dream of a film received no nominations absolutely confuses me. My wife and I were moved to tears. Is it the queer storyline? I don't know. Nomination snubs never affect me this deeply.