Oscars 2024 nominations include ‘Oppenheimer’ and a lot of losers
nypost.comthe 2024 Oscar nominations were released Tuesday, movie fans heard not so much a hot field of contenders, but a list of losers.So many names, such dismal chances.
Readers Jack Quaid and Zazie Beetz might as well have said, “And now, ‘Oppenheimer’… and everybody else.”Christopher Nolan’s epic film about the father of the atomic bomb scored 13 nods, the most of any movie, and is a shoo-in for Best Picture and Director.Two of the acting races are also sewn up: Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph in “The Holdovers”) and Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.
in — what else? — “Oppenheimer”). Some sad snubbed A-listers had already lost by 8:45 a.m.Seven-time nominee (and one-time winner) Leonardo DiCaprio was left out of the Best Actor category for his performance in Martin Scorsese’s Best Picture-nominated “Killers of the Flower Moon.” That’s what will be eating him today.And “Barbie” star Margot Robbie didn’t make the cut for Best Actress either. (She produced “Barbie,” so she’s going.) Another ding for the doll: Greta Gerwig failed to get into Best Director. (She did for Original Screenplay, so she’s going.)I refer to those as “snubs” because they are famous people who were nominated at other award shows this year.
But the Academy giveth and the Academy taketh away — and rightly so. “Flower Moon” is hardly DiCaprio’s best work, even though he’s good, and Robbie frankly was better as Harley Quinn. “Barbie” is hugely overrated.Regardless, the Warner Bros.
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