The Friendly Film Fan Recaps the Nominees for the 96th Academy Awards. Well, the day is here, and the Oscar nominations have officially been announced! There weren’t many genuine surprises and a few major snubs occurred, but overall, the field is rich with fantastic choices and a world of great cinema to explore. Personally I was happy to see Killers of the Flower Moon get some love in unexpected places like Original Song (though that Best Adapted Screenplay miss does hurt) and films like Anatomy of a Fall score some key nods that put it higher than many pundits had it in terms of how likely it would be to win categories. I’ll also proudly boast that I went 5 for 5 on four categories – including Best Supporting Actor, betting on Sterling K. Brown over Willem Dafoe – as well as 10 for 10 in Best Picture, and most other categories’ perfect scores were missed due to at least one of my three wildcards making it in over a predicted nominee. All that said, some of the snubs did hurt (though not the ones you might think). Personally, I’m not that surprised that Greta Gerwig was not nominated for Best Director; if she wasn’t nominated for Little Women, being nominated for something inherently more commercial – even if Todd Phillips was able to do it with a far lesser quality film – would still have been a stretch for the Academy. (Plus, it seemed Justine Triet would be closer to their taste in terms of the film that was made.) What did bum me out me was the absence of Margot Robbie in Best Actress, not because of her absence from the category as a whole – though it is weird that the other two actors from Barbie were included and not her – but because of the nominee that replaced her. Almost everyone in this category was relatively safe, give or take a “Gladstone missed BAFTA” surprise, but the final spot was between Robbie, Greta Lee, Fantasia Barrino, Annette Benning, and (though it would’ve been a little out of nowhere) Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Unfortunately, the Academy went with the weakest choice out of all five in Annette Benning, whose performance in Nyad isn’t the worst I’ve ever seen for a nominee here, but I would argue is a bad performance. The frustration is in how there were at least 4 better choices that all got passed up. But, the actors branch nominated actors, and Benning made the SAG lineup, so I’m not surprised, per se…I’m just disappointed. The other puzzling snubs category is, as it turned out, was Best Original Score, in which American Fiction edged out leading candidates such as The Boy and the Heron, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and The Zone of Interest. I say that American Fiction edged them out because John Williams being nominated for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is not as surprising when once considers that this is the same Academy who nominated the 91-year-old composing legend for The Rise of Skywalker, which was not one of the ten best scores of that year either. It's just upsetting to see American Fiction and Indiana Jones take not one but two shots at the category away from both The Boy and the Heron and Across the Spider-Verse, a sign that even this new Academy has yet to truly treat animated films as seriously as they deserve to be treated. I personally barely remember the score for American Fiction, but Williams’ score for Indiana Jones is good – it just will never stick in my memory the way Spider-Verse does. Other surprises included America Ferrera landing the plane for Barbie to take the 5th spot in Best Supporting Actress in a toss up between other five possibles, Killers of the Flower Moon being passed on in Adapted Screenplay in favor of The Zone of Interest, both American Symphony and Beyond Utopia missing Documentary Feature (though that category always snubs a leader anyway), Robot Dreams squeezing into Animated Feature with just enough room to spare, May December managing to stay in the game just enough to nab an Original Screenplay nod, and Mission: Impossible’s Oscar curse finally coming to an end with the franchise’s first two nominations in Visual Effects and Sound. There’s a lot to celebrate this year – especially with one of the best Best Picture lineups in recent memory – so let’s go over them all again. Here is the full list of nominees for the 96th Annual Academy Awards! BEST PICTURE The Nominees:
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The Nominees:
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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS The Nominees:
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What do you think of these nominees? Were there any major snubs on your ballot? Any pleasant surprises? Let us know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
- The Friendly Film Fan
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