It was one failure which caused a stir, to the point that even the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation felt compelled to intervene, jokingly: «In theory, if I were to nominate a film about a badger for best film, starring a badger, titled The rate… I would also name the badgeror not?”.
This year we can't talk about a film other than Barbie, which is not the only one nominee for best film whose title refers directly to the main protagonist – Oppenheimer And Master have the name of the smoking characters around which their plot develops – but it is instead the only one not to have obtained a corresponding nomination for its protagonist, Margot Robbie. The singularity of the way in which the 8 Oscar nominations were distributed Barbie was the most discussed topic after the announcement, from the excitement of the surprise nomination of America Ferrera as best supporting actress to the theory that linked the nomination of Ryan Gosling in the 2016 elections. (About those elections: also Hillary Clinton she intervened, firmly taking Robbie's side and Greta Gerwig, nominated for writing Barbie but not for directing it. “Even though it may sting to win at the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you,” he said. written the Democratic representative on X. “You're both worth more than Kenough.”
It is true that supporters of Barbie they had every reason to expect that Robbie, who has received nominations at the SAG, the BAFTA, the Golden Globes and at the Critics Choice, she would have managed to enter the shortlist of the best actresses. But she is Also It's true that the Oscars have had an annoying tendency to overlook the performer at the center of some of the most popular films, especially over the past decade. Maybe today it's little consolation, but it's stereotypical Barbie He's in great company.
2022: Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick
The closest comparison to Robbie's failure could be found in last year, when Top Gun: Maverick got six Oscar nominations without that Tom Cruise received a corresponding acting nomination. (Cruise even earned a Best Picture Producer nomination, just like Robbie.) Mavericks was less tied to the performances of his actors than Barbie, and Cruise didn't have to stand by while his colleagues were nominated. However Maverick, like Barbie, was the biggest box office success of the year and was kept somewhat at a distance by the Academy, missing a nomination for best director (yes, just like Gerwig) and having to settle for just one statuette, for best sound . Oscar night probably Barbie he will fare a little better, but the fact remains that, as much as the producers of the Oscar telecasts want to emphasize blockbusters, his voters may be more dubious.
2019: Robert De Niro and The Irishman
The Irishman has acquired a sad reputation in recent Oscar history for having obtained 10 nominations but not even a win, although its biggest defeat probably remains the exclusion of Robert De Niro he was excluded from the top five for best actor. De Niro, who earned his fourth acting nomination this year for a collaboration with Scorsese, was nominated Also as a producer for The Irishman, so he, Cruise and Robbie could have created a nice club. But his portrayal of mafia hitman Frank Sheeran actually had something in common with Robbie's Barbie.
Both essentially act as sidekicks in the wild and exuberant worlds that surround them and, in scenes where more expressive supporting actors are present (Joe Pesci And Al Pacino, both nominated for The Irishman), they deliberately retreat into the background. AND very difficult give performances of this type without appearing passive or boring, and both De Niro and Robbie seem to have been underestimated for their acting as “simple” protagonists, but who were not simple at all. (There's a whole mini-genre of failures for Oscar-like performances: Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained, Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire, Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man, Harrison Ford In the Fugitive and so on. The fact that there are few female examples has more to do with the Oscars' tendency not to award nominations for best film to works by women, and that's a whole different story.)
2018: Chadwick Boseman and Black Panther
When Black Panther was about to make Oscar history as the first superhero ever nominated for best film, but what created the biggest stir was his supporting performance in Michael B. Jordan compared to Chadwick Boseman's consistent and passionate work as the main protagonist. Ultimately, neither was named and when Angela Bassett she finally broke through as a supporting actress for the sequel Wakanda Forever, Well, we all remember how it ended. As Barbie, Black Panther it was the kind of film that the Oscars usually snub but became too powerful to ignore; and how Barbie, he discovered that there was however a limit that could not be exceeded.
2013: Tom Hanks and Captain Phillips – Offshore Attack
There are high profile failures that are really hard to explain. Nominated for six Oscars, including Best Film and Best Supporting Actor (Barkhad Abdi), Captain Phillips – Offshore Attack it was a critical and box office success thanks above all to the majestic interpretation of the protagonist Tom Hanks, whose emotional breakdown at the end of the film is a high point in an already pretty stellar career. Nonetheless, on the morning of the nomination, Hanks was excluded from the Best Actor category – ten years have passed and we still haven't been able to find a reasonable explanation for what happened. That year the race for best actor was very close – Leonardo Dicaprio lost to The Wolf of Wall Street – and sometimes not even having a sea of consensus can be a guarantee.
Source: Vanity Fair

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