The nominations for the Academy Awards were announced on Thursday morning.
Some very big names were left off the list that shocked fans.
The top one was Selena Gomez, who had the role of a Mexican drug lord’s unhinged wife who acts in desperation after she believes her spouse died.
Instead, her co-star Zoe Saldana was nominated for her part as a lawyer who helps a man turn into a woman. And Karla Sofía Gascón, the lead, was also nominated.
Angelina Jolie was not nominated for playing opera singer Maria Callas in Maria.
Also overlooked was Stanley Tucci was overlooked in the Best Supporting Actor for his powerful performance in Conclave.
The nominations were originally set to be announced on Jan. 17, but voting was extended by a week due to the LA fires.
The award ceremony will take place as scheduled on March 2 at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, with Conan O’Brien taking on hosting duties for the first time.
The nominations for the Academy Awards were listed on Thursday morning. Some very big names were left off the list that shocked fans. The top one was Selena Gomez , who had the role of a Mexican drug lord’s unhinged wife who acts in desperation after she believes her spouse died.
The nominees for best actor are: Adrien Brody, ‘The Brutalist’; Timothée Chalamet, ‘A Complete Unknown’; Colman Domingo, ‘Sing Sing’; Ralph Fiennes, ‘Conclave’; Sebastian Stan, ‘The Apprentice.’
The nominees for best actress are: Demi Moore, ‘The Substance’; Cynthia Erivo, ‘Wicked’; Mikey Madison, ‘Anora’; Karla Sofía Gascón, ‘Emilia Pérez’; Fernanda Torres, ‘I´m Still Here’
The nominees for original song are: ‘El Mal’ from ‘Emilia Perez’; ‘The Journey’ from ‘The Six Triple Eight’; ‘Like a Bird’ from ‘Sing Sing’; ‘Mi Camino’ from ‘Emilia Pérez’; ‘Never Too Late’ from ‘Elton John: Never Too Late.’
The nominees for best animated film are: ‘Flow’; ‘Inside Out 2’; ‘Memoir of a Snail’; ‘Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’; ‘The Wild Robot.’
The film academy began announcing 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 Unknown’; Guy Pearce, ‘The Brutalist’; Jeremy Strong, ‘The Apprentice.’
The nominees for Best Supporting Actress are: Monica Barbaro, ‘A Complete Unknown’; Felicity Jones, ‘The Brutalist’; Ariana Grande, ‘Wicked’; 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 cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling 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 to the moviemaking town.
‘It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!’ he wrote on Truth Social.
‘I´m old enough to have touched some years of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and I´ve seen its slow deterioration since. Today, we are in pretty bad shape,’ Voight said. ‘Very few films are made here now, but we are fortunate to have an incoming President, who wants to restore Hollywood to its former glory, and with his help, I feel we can get done.’
It´s unclear what exactly the three will be doing in this effort to bring productions back to the U.S.
Read more about Trump´s envoys to Hollywood
Hollywood´s awards season all but came to a halt as the wildfires disrupted life and work in the Los Angeles area. There were near-daily updates from the Hollywood guilds and organizations that put on awards shows as the industry navigates the crisis and fallout.
But as of now, here´s the dates of major upcoming awards shows, from the Oscars to the Grammys.
Read more about the award show date shuffle
The enormity of the destruction in Southern California quickly snuffed out all festivity in the movie industry´s high season of celebration.
The fires have struck at the very heart of a movie industry still trying to stabilize itself after years of pandemic, labor turmoil and technological upheaval. Not for the first time this decade, the Oscars are facing the question of: Should the show go on? And if it does, what do they mean now?
The Oscars remain as scheduled, but it´s certain that they will be transformed due to the wildfires, and that most of the red-carpet pomp that typically stretches between now and then will be curtailed if not altogether canceled. With so many left without a home by the fires, there´s scant appetite for the usual self-congratulatory parades of the season.
Focus has turned, instead, to what the Oscars might symbolize for a traumatized Los Angeles. The Oscars have never meant less, but, at the same time, they might be more important than ever as a beacon of perseverance for the reeling movie capital.
Read more about how the fires have impacted award season
Hosted earlier this month, two wildly audacious films – Brady Corbet´s 215-minute postwar epic ‘The Brutalist’ and Jacques Audiard´s Spanish language, genre-shifting musical ‘Emilia Perez’ – won top honors at the 82nd Golden Globes.
‘The Brutalist’ was crowned best film, drama, putting one of 2024´s most ambitious films on course to be a major 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 spoke about filmmakers needing approval on the final cut.
‘Emilia Pérez’ won best film, comedy or musical, elevating the Oscar chances of Netflix´s top contender. It also won best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña, best song (‘El Mal’) and best non-English language film. Audiard, the French director, made way for Karla Sofía Gascón, the film´s transgender star who plays a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery, to speak on behalf of the film.
The marquee event and capper of Hollywood´s awards season will proceed as scheduled on March 2.
Los Angeles´ Dolby Theatre, where the show takes place, was briefly imperiled by the Sunset Fire, though the blaze was quickly extinguished. The film academy did delay the Scientific and Technical Awards from Feb. 18 (a rescheduled date has not been announced) and canceled altogether its annual nominees luncheon, an untelevised mainstay of the social calendar known for its mingling and ‘class photo.’
The Oscars will be broadcast live on ABC, hosted by Conan O´Brien.
Actors Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott will host the announcement.
Along with being a cast member on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Yang held a supporting role in last year´s blockbuster ‘Wicked,’ which is itself a nominee contender.
Sennott is the star and writer of 2023´s ‘Bottoms,’ as well as the lead in 2020 indie-darling ‘Shiva Baby.’
The 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 on the Academy´s social media platforms. It will also stream on ABC, Hulu and Disney+.