Will Ferrell tells Oscars to “suck it” after his road trip documentary is snubbed

nme.com:

Will Ferrell has told the Academy to “suck it” after his documentary Will & Harper was snubbed at the Oscars.The documentary was released on Netflix and depicted Ferrell on a road trip with his friend Harper Steele, who he first met on Saturday Night Live during the ‘90s.

Steele had recently come out as transgender and the pair took the trip across America to process the change.While the documentary was critically acclaimed, it didn’t translate to Oscar success.In an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Ferrell told the host: “Ask me if we got Oscar-nominated.”“It’s such a good documentary, it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years,” responded Colbert. “It was beautiful, it was timely, it was heartfelt, I was inspired by it.

How was the Oscar nomination?”“We didn’t get it,” Ferrell said. Colbert expressed his condolences, and then joked: “Well, fuck those guys, right?

Fuck the Academy, say it!”“Especially the doc branch, the doc branch of the Academy,” Ferrell joked. “You don’t want to hang out with the doc branch.