In an August Entertainment Weekly article previewing «Collateral Beauty», star Will Smith, coming - off his #OscarsSoWhite Best
Actor nomination snub for his electrifying performance in «Concussion», is quoted as saying his latest film is «delicately framed in a way that's going to be tough to promote.»
Not exact matches
Snub: Mandy Patinkin (pictured right), «Homeland» Supporting
Actor - Drama Though «Homeland» returned to the Best Drama race, Patinkin was passed over after getting
nominations for the last two years.
After being
snubbed by the Golden Globes, Tomas Alfredson's spy thriller is nominated for 11 Baftas, including a best
actor nod for Gary Oldman — just one
nomination behind The Artist
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SNUB: Jordan Peele, for directing and writing «Get Out» The horror movie earned two
nominations for best picture musical / comedy and lead
actor Daniel Kaluuya.
His flashy turn in Chicago won a Golden Globe and picked up a Screen
Actors Guild
nomination (typically one of Oscar's strongest indicators), making it a slight
snub for him not to join the film's four Oscar - nominated cast members.
Tonight, less than 24 hours after the Oscar
nominations were announced - and the whole world got to react to the various
snubs - The Critics» Choice Movie Awards revealed their picks for the best movies,
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Last year we saw Idris Elba (Beasts of Nation) take home the
Actor in a Supporting Role win and then be
snubbed for an Oscar
nomination.
Phoenix could be Allen's first
actor to win in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category, which, personally, I think he's overdue for, but, at the very least, we can expect a nomination, after Academy voters snubbed the actor for an indelible performance in Spike Jonze «s «Her,» two years
actor to win in the Best
Actor in a Leading Role category, which, personally, I think he's overdue for, but, at the very least, we can expect a nomination, after Academy voters snubbed the actor for an indelible performance in Spike Jonze «s «Her,» two years
Actor in a Leading Role category, which, personally, I think he's overdue for, but, at the very least, we can expect a
nomination, after Academy voters
snubbed the
actor for an indelible performance in Spike Jonze «s «Her,» two years
actor for an indelible performance in Spike Jonze «s «Her,» two years ago.
The saddest
snub of the bunch has to James Gandolfini, who would have been the 9th
actor in history to receive a posthumous
nomination.
The season has been programmed by regular LWLies contributor Ashley Clark, who gave us his thoughts on why now is a great time to be celebrating black stars: «There's the recent #OscarsSoWhite controversy, which is the latest in a cyclical series of flare - ups about the lack of diversity in the Academy, characterised most obviously, some would argue, by Oscar
nomination snubs for
actors like David Oyelowo in Selma and Michael B Jordan in Creed.
Why It Could Succeed: Coming off of the cult favorite «Drive» (also a critical darling, if a big Oscar
snub come
nomination morning), any reuniting of filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and
actor Ryan Gosling was going to draw major notice.
20th Century Women's Annette Bening was also
snubbed from that list in favor of Oscar darling Meryl Streep (who got her 20th
nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins, while her co-star Hugh Grant was surprisingly
snubbed for Best Supporting
Actor).
Where the Screen
Actors Guild and the Golden Globes
snubbed the film (and Jolie) entirely, the BFCA embraced it with
nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Jolie), Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography.
One obvious «Oscar film» featuring people of color, Steven Spielberg's Amistad, was largely
snubbed outside of a supporting
actor nomination — for Anthony Hopkins.
After allegations of sexually exploitative behavior appeared on Twitter one day before Oscar voting closed, James Franco was
snubbed of his expected Best
Actor nomination, a move which will help the Academy avoid a controversy like last year's Casey Affleck's win.
Snub: «The Grand Budapest Hotel» earned nine
nominations but Ralph Fiennes did not receive a best
actor nod.
Critically acclaimed roles in cult hits like «American Splendor» and «Sideways» — both of which he was
snubbed out of Oscar
nominations for — and the summer box office flop, «Cinderella Man» — which he was nominated for, but still didn't win — have all catapulted the
actor into a newfound superstardom, but he deserves every minute of it.