The 2024 awards season remains in full speed, and like Moira Rose, it’s genuinely my preferred season. Currently, we’ve seen some huge winners at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awardsalong with some stunning election surprises, like Lily Gladstone not being chosen for a BAFTA.
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All of that leads us to today when the 2024 Oscar elections were revealed. Oppenheimer blazed a trail with 13 elections, followed by Poor Things with 11 elections.
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Lily Gladstone made history as the very first Native American female to be chosen for Best Actress for her work as Mollie in Killers of the Flower Moon
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Colman Domingo’s election for his representation of Bayard Rustin in Rustin significant just the 2nd time a honestly gay guy has actually been chosen for playing an LGBTQ+ character.
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Formerly, Ian McKellen was chosen in 1999 for his work as James Whale inGods and Monsters
There were likewise several stars who ended up being newbie Oscar candidates, like America FerreraEmily Blunt, Sterling K. Brown, and Danielle Brooks for their operate in Barbie, Oppenheimer, American Fictionand The Color Purple respectively.
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And, for the very first time in the Academy Awards history, 3 of the 10 films chosen for Best Picture were directed by ladies– Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a FallGreta Gerwig’s Barbieand Celine Song’s Previous Lives
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Greta is likewise the very first lady to direct 3 Best Picture candidates for Woman Bird, Little Womenand Barbie
While there were a lots of much was worthy of elections, this year’s Oscar elections didn’t come without some significant snubs, IMO.
To begin, Greta Gerwig did not get an election for Best Director and Margot Robbie did not get a Best Actress election for Barbie
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Greta did get an election along with Noah Baumbach for Best Adapted Screenplay, while Margot got an election for Best Picture for her work as a manufacturer on Barbie
Celine Song did not get an election for Best Director and Greta Lee did not get a Best Actress election for Previous Lives
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Celine did score an election for Best Original Screenplay
Charles Melton didn’t score his very first Oscar election for Best Supporting Actor. May December just snagged one election for Best Original Screenplay.
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Other acting candidate hopefuls that were ended were Andrew Scott for Everyone StrangersZac Efron for The Iron ClawFantasia Barrino for The Color PurpleRachel McAdams for Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor for Originand more.
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All of that is to state, a great deal of individuals required to X, previously Twitter, to voice their disappointment and frustration, including me, about a few of the greatest 2024 Oscar election snubs. Here are a few of their responses:
Academy, do not stress, it’s actually alright. You can choose more than one lady for Best Director every year. It’s all right
— Nora Dominick (@noradominick) January 23, 2024
Nora Dominick/ Via Twitter: @noradominick
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Ken getting chosen and not Barbie is truthfully so fitting for a movie about a male finding the power of patriarchy in the Real World.
— Michael. (@yosoymichael) January 23, 2024
@yosoymichael/ Via Twitter: @yosoymichael
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The 2024 Academy Awards will be hung on March 10 at 7 p.m. ET on ABC.