The Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning.
Some very big names were left off the list which surprised fans.
The best was Selena Gomez, who played the deranged wife of a Mexican drug lord who acts desperate after believing her spouse died.
Instead, her co-star Zoe Saldana was nominated for her role as a lawyer who helps a man become a woman. And Karla Sofía Gascón, the protagonist, was also nominated.
Angelina Jolie was not nominated for playing opera singer Maria Callas in Maria.
Stanley Tucci was also passed over for Best Supporting Actor for his powerful performance in Conclave.
Nominations were originally due to be announced on January 17, but voting was extended by a week due to the Los Angeles fires.
The awards ceremony will take place as scheduled on March 2 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, with Conan O’Brien taking on hosting duties for the first time.
On Thursday morning the nominations for the Academy Awards were announced. Some very big names were left off the list which surprised fans. Above was Selena Gómez, who played the deranged wife of a Mexican drug dealer who acts desperate after believing her spouse died.
The nominees for best actor are: Adrien Brody, ‘The Brutalist’; Timothée Chalamet, ‘A Complete Stranger’; Colman Domingo, ‘Sing Sing’; Ralph Fiennes, ‘Conclave’; Sebastian Stan, ‘The Apprentice’.
The nominees for best actress are: Demi Moore, ‘The Substance’; Cynthia Erivo, ‘Evil’; Mikey Madison, ‘Anora’; Karla Sofía Gascón, ‘Emilia Pérez’; Fernanda Torres, ‘I’m still here’
The nominees for original song are: ‘El Mal’ by ‘Emilia Pérez’; ‘The Journey’ from ‘The Six Triple Eight’; ‘Like a Bird’ from ‘Sing Sing’; ‘My Way’ by ‘Emilia Pérez’; ‘Never Too Late’ from ‘Elton John: Never Too Late’.
The nominees for best animated film are: ‘Flow’; ‘Inside out 2’; ‘Memories of a snail’; ‘Wallace and Gromit: The Birdest Revenge’; ‘The wild robot’.
The film academy began announcing the nominees at 8:30 a.m. EST. Here’s a look at some of the early nominees:
The nominees for best supporting actor are: Yura Borisov, ‘Anora’; Kieran Culkin, ‘A Real Pain’; Edward Norton, ‘A Complete Stranger’; Guy Pearce, ‘The Brutalist’; Jeremy Strong, ‘The Apprentice’.
The nominees for Best Supporting Actress are: Monica Barbaro, ‘A Complete Stranger’; Felicity Jones, ‘The Brutalist’; Ariana Grande, ‘Evil’; Isabella Rossellini, ‘Conclave’; Zoe Saldaña, ‘Emilia Pérez’.
The nominees for original screenplay are: ‘Anora’; ‘The Brutalist’; ‘A real pain’; ‘September 5’; ‘The Substance.’
Angelina Jolie was not nominated for playing opera singer Maria Callas in Maria
President Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has chosen Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he calls his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place: Hollywood, California”.
Trump announced on his social media site last week that the three actors would be his eyes and ears for Movie City.
‘It will once again be, like the United States of America itself, the Golden Age of Hollywood!’ he wrote in Truth Social.
‘I’m old enough to have touched a few years of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and since then I’ve seen its slow deterioration. We’re in very bad shape today,” Voight said. “Very few movies are made here now, but we’re lucky to have an incoming president who wants to restore Hollywood to its former glory, and with his help, I think we can do it.”
It’s unclear what exactly the three will do in this effort to bring the productions back to the US.
Read more about Trump’s envoys to Hollywood
Hollywood’s awards season came to a virtual halt when wildfires disrupted life and work in the Los Angeles area. There were almost daily updates from Hollywood guilds and organizations that organize awards shows as the industry navigates the crisis and its consequences.
But as of now, here are the dates for the major upcoming awards shows, from the Oscars to the Grammys.
Read more about the random date of the awards ceremony
The enormity of the destruction in Southern California quickly dampened any festivities in the film industry’s peak celebration season.
The fires have struck at the very heart of a film industry still trying to stabilize after years of pandemic, labor unrest and technological upheaval. It’s not the first time this decade that the Oscars have faced the question: Should the show go on? And if so, what do they mean now?
The Oscars are still going on as planned, but they are certain to be transformed by the wildfires, and most of the red carpet pageantry that normally extends between now and then will be reduced, if not canceled entirely. With so many people homeless because of the fires, there is little appetite for the season’s usual parades of self-indulgence.
Instead, attention has focused on what the Oscars could symbolize for a traumatized Los Angeles. The Oscars have never meant less, but at the same time, they could be more important than ever as a beacon of perseverance for the faltering capital of cinema.
Read more about how the fires have affected awards season
Unveiled earlier this month, two wildly audacious films – Brady Corbet’s 215-minute post-war epic ‘The Brutalist’ and Jacques Audiard’s genre-bending Spanish-language musical ‘Emilia Pérez’ – won top honors at the 82nd edition of the Golden Globes.
‘The Brutalist’ was crowned best drama film, putting one of the most ambitious films of 2024 on track to be a top contender at the Academy Awards. The film, shot in VistaVision and released with an intermission, also won best director for Corbet and best actor for Adrien Brody. In his acceptance speech, Corbet talked about the filmmakers needing approval for the final cut.
‘Emilia Pérez’ won best film, comedy or musical, raising the Oscar chances of Netflix’s top contender. It also won best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña, best song (‘El Mal’) and best foreign-language film. Audiard, the French director, made way for Karla Sofía Gascón, the film’s transgender star who plays a Mexican drug dealer who undergoes gender-affirming surgery, to speak on behalf of the film.
The main event and culmination of Hollywood’s awards season will take place as planned on March 2.
The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, where the show takes place, was briefly endangered by the Sunset Fire, although the fire was quickly extinguished. The film academy delayed the Feb. 18 Scientific and Technical Awards (no rescheduled date has been announced) and entirely canceled its annual nominees luncheon, a non-televised mainstay of the social calendar known for its mingling and “class photos.” .
The Oscars will be broadcast live on ABC, hosted by Conan O’Brien.
Actors Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott will host the spot.
In addition to being a member of the ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast, Yang had a supporting role in last year’s blockbuster ‘Wicked,’ which is itself a nominee.
Sennott is the star and writer of 2023’s ‘Bottoms’, as well as the lead of the 2020 independent film ‘Shiva Baby.’
Nominations will be announced at 8:30 a.m. ET.
The show will be available to stream on Oscars.com, Oscars.org, as well as the Academy’s social media platforms. It will also air on ABC, Hulu and Disney+.