Yes, another effing Lily Gladstone profile, this one from The New Yorker.
Once again the main points are recited — (a) Gladstone being the first Native American woman to be Oscar-nominated, (b) what a long and difficult road it’s been (toil and struggle stuff, on the verge of quitting acting three or four years ago), and, way at the bottom of the list, (c) dodging the fact that Mollie Burkhart simply isn’t a lead role and that Lily’s performance is…well, decent, given what she was allowed to do but please calm down.
The Gladstone propaganda campaign has been relentless, but at least it’ll be over on the day that final voting ends — Tuesday, 2.27.24, at 5 p.m. Pacific. Three more weeks of this head-pounding narrative.
Gladstone was snubbed by the BAFTA award nominating committee (the London ceremony happens on 2.18) so there’s no suspense there. The SAG awards (2.24) will provide either (a) a final confirmation that she’s destined to lose the Best Actress Oscar and that Emma Stone is fated to win, or (b) a final cliffhanger element that will indicate how close things might be and allow for the possibility that Gladstone might take it after all, despite Stone’s Golden Globe and Critics Choice wins.
Stone isn’t allowed to campaign, of course. If she were to speak on her own behalf people would accuse her of some form of racial hostility.
