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The Snubs and Surprises of the 2025 Oscar Nominations
The Academy promoted otherwise unheralded contenders to the front of the line and left out a few hopefuls that had looked secure since September.
Early categories like Supporting Actor and Adapted Screenplay mostly went chalk, but elsewhere, the Academy put its stamp on the race, promoting otherwise unheralded contenders to the front of the line and leaving out a few hopefuls who’d looked secure since September. But it’s also the latest sign of an ever-more-international Academy: Just as Bong Joon Ho instructed, voters have overcome the one-inch barrier of subtitles, which makes a Portuguese-language period piece just as Oscar-friendly as a Hollywood production. The Last Showgirl is a low-budget indie that’s barely 80 minutes long (fully half of which is wordless shots of the characters posing in front of the Las Vegas skyline), and a muted reception at TIFF put it off most pundits’ radars.
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