8:48 am: Sebastian Stan‘s Donald Trump performance has also been nominated for Best Actor! A triumphant Apprentice moment, and shame on those small-minded, quarter-inch-deep publicists who forbade their clients from participating in a Variety “Actors on Actors” segment with Stan.
Stop Emilia Perez and Karla Sofia Gascon, stop Emilia Perez and Karla Sofia Gascon, Stop Emilia Perez and Karla Sofia Gascon, etc.
HE strongly approves of Conclave‘s Isabella Rossellini being nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
What happened to Hard Truths’ Marianne Jean-Baptiste snagging a Best Actress nom? I’ll tell ya what happened. One, nobody saw it. Two, Jean-Baptiste’s character was too pissed off, too hardcore, too Donna Downer.
HE strongly disapproves of Queer‘s Daniel Craig having been elbowed aside by Sing Sing‘s Colman Domingo in the Best Actor category. Nobody saw or much liked Sing Sing (be honest), and Domingo was nominated mainly because of (a) the widely-agreed-upon necessity of nominating at least one person of color in major categories, if at all viable, and (b) that sensitive-watery-eyes thing that Domingo uses all the time.
Stan and Strong aside, the morning’s big wow is Walter Salles‘ I’m Still Here being nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best International Film.
The Best Director nomination that went to The Substance‘s Coralie Fergeat (gender tokenism) apparently bumped the entirely deserved and 100% necessary Best Director nomination for Conclave‘s Edward Berger. Stern disapproval. Gender tokenism would not have been a factor if Babygirl‘s Halina Reijn has been Best Director nominated — it would have simply been deserved.
A Real Pain obviously should have been among the ten Best Picture nominees. Yes, Pain‘s Kieran Culkin was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, but this was locked in several months ago.
We all knew Angelina Jolie‘s bad personal karma (i.e., encouraging court-mandated hostility against Brad Pitt) had eliminated any chance of her Maria Callas performance landing a Best Oscar nom, but now, glory be to God, this is an official, AMPAS-certified reality.
