Angela Bassett loses, ‘Elvis’ shut out: Oscars 2023 snubs and surprises
nypost.comwent down largely as expected. However, there were some tight acting races that turned out differently from what many pundits assumed and some shocking slights in the less-glamorous categories.
Here are the biggest snubs and surprises from the 95th Academy Awards.Austin Butler, who played the King, versus Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” for Best Actor was always a neck-and-neck fight.
Even after Fraser was victorious at the SAG Awards, many thought Butler would still nudge him out at the Academy Awards. He didn’t.
Few, however, expected Baz Luhrmann’s popular biopic to be such a huge loser overall. It was defeated in all eight categories it was nominated in, including Best Hair and Makeup Styling where it was favored to win.Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” went home empty-handed, too, but that result was less bruising as the front-runner had been sliding for weeks.Angela Bassett was riding high for her acclaimed performance in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” after winning the Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actress and beating competitor Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”).
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