By no means say by no means, I suppose. However Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie’s probabilities of profitable the Oscar for Greatest Actress grew to become microscopic on Wednesday.
What did Kidman say in that viral AMC advert? We come to this place for ice-cold rejection?
Each ladies, who’ve every been the frontrunner at totally different factors of this topsy-turvy race, have been neglected of the all-important Display screen Actors Guild greatest actress nominations.
Any method you slice it, that’s an enormous downside.
They’ve each acquired months of acclaim. In “Babygirl,” Kidman performs a robust CEO who has a fling with the 28-year-old intern, and Jolie, in an Oscar-bait function, portrays opera singer Maria Callas in “Maria.”
However now they’re the most important snubs of award season thus far.
Does SAG overlap with the Academy Awards 100% of the time? Removed from it. There are nearly at all times one or two nominees who get swapped out on the Dolby Theater come March.
Final yr, as an illustration, SAG nominee Annette Bening (“Nyad”) was given the previous heave-ho for Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”) on the Oscars.
Nonetheless — and that is jarring — solely as soon as in 30 years has a lady who was not nominated on the SAG Awards gone one to win the Oscar for Greatest Actress — Kate Winslet (“The Reader”) again in 2009.
Making their victories much more inconceivable, contemplate that Winslet nonetheless was nominated that yr by the SAGs, just for a unique film — “Revolutionary Road.” So, each teams acknowledged her work ultimately.
Not so of Jolie and Kidman, whose campaigns have come to a crashing halt.
Who did get into greatest actress on Wednesday? Demi Moore (“The Substance”), Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”), Pamela Anderson (“The Last Showgirl”) and Karla Sofía Gascón (“Emilia Perez”).
After her Golden Globes win — and rah rah speech — the SAG nod cements risk-taking Moore because the Oscar frontrunner.
In contrast to final Sunday’s Globes, that are voted on by some 300 worldwide critics and journalists, the Display screen Actors Guild Awards are chosen by, to state the plain, actors.
And the actors department simply so occurs to be the most important of the ten,000-strong voting members of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences. There’s overlap with the SAG Awards. So, they punch far above their weight.
There’s even a chance that each Jolie and Kidman received’t be nominated on the Oscars in any respect. Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, who received the Globe for actress – drama, is way admired. So is Marianne Jean-Baptiste of “Hard Truths.”
One other movie that was dealt a blow was the superb Globes greatest movement image – drama winner “The Brutalist.” The three ½ hour epic didn’t make the lower for SAGs greatest image equal, excellent ensemble in a movement image, though its lead Adrien Brody was included in the perfect actor class.
The ensemble slots went to “A Complete Unknown,” “Anora,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Perez” and “Wicked.” All will possible be high Oscar nominees.
The diss for “The Brutalist” isn’t as brutal as Nicole and Angie’s although.
Motion pictures given a shrug by SAG have gone onto win Greatest Image a somewhat-better 4 occasions, and some of these have been fairly latest: “Braveheart” (1996), “The Shape of Water” (2018), “Green Book” (2019) and “Nomadland” (2021).
So, “The Brutalist” isn’t out of the operating but. However let’s pour one out for Angelina and Nicole.
