Tom Cruise on Women Directors – Rolling Stone

All too soon hours on January 24 the nominations for 95^th the annual Academy Awards were announced. Actors Riz Ahmed (The sound of metal) and Alison Williams (Get out) did the honor. Unfortunately, Williams’ deadly singing robot co-star M3GAN didn’t join the festivities, although she was certainly there in spirit.

With a Quartet of Hit Movies in Rivalry – Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Path of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as well as Elvis — this year’s Oscars had a golden opportunity to expand its global audience beyond a record low of 10.5 million viewers in 2021. So did the Academy take advantage? Or take out 2009, where he failed to get a nomination the black Knight and Wall-E for Best Picture, leading to rule changes and a lot of hand-wringing?

The fiercely original left-field hit from directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere At Once leading all films with 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, who made history as the first openly Asian nominee in the category (Merl Oberon was nominated in 1936 for The Dark Angel, but hid his Asian origin). Netflix’s German-language war drama All the silence on the western front, meanwhile, surprises with nine Oscar nominations, one of which is for Best Picture. The Academy sure loves war movies, right? Other pleasant surprises include Angela Bassett getting a well-deserved Best Supporting Actress nod for her performance Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Brian Tyree Henry earns his first Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Little Advertised path, and Paul Mezcal received his first Oscar nomination in the Best Actor category as a tormented young father After sun.

Unlike last year, the Academy did a good job of nominating a diverse set of performers in most of the categories, though it failed to nominate two leading black contenders, Daniel Deadweiler (to) and Viola Davis (The woman king), for Best Actress and did not honor a single woman for Best Director.

These were the five biggest snubs to come out of this year’s Oscar nominations.

Tom Cruise

While Top Gun: Maverick received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and a surprise nod for Best Adapted Screenplay, the man who makes everything go smoothly failed to secure an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Not only is Cruise the biggest movie star in the world, and maybe even the last real star, but he also has a history of getting screwed by the Academy. He has never won an Oscar for acting, although he deserves wins for Jerry Maguire and magnolia, and hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar in over two decades. He only has three acting nods in his entire career (the two aforementioned films, plus Born on the Fourth of July). Did Cruise’s Scientology manipulations rub off on him with the Academy? They certainly didn’t help.

Daniel Deadweiler and Viola Davis

This year’s Oscars have the unfortunate distinction of not honoring a single black actor in the Best Actress and Best Actor categories, despite a number of worthy performances. The omissions are most apparent in Best Actress, where two powerful turns were expected to win recognition: Danielle Deadweiler as Mamie Till, the mother of murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till, in to, and the transformation of Viola Davies into a warrior, General Naniska, by Agojie, trans The woman king. Both Deadwyler and Davis were active during the campaign period, but neither received the endorsement. Deadweiler’s snub is perhaps the most shocking, given the seriousness of the role and how she handled the case.

Women directors

Yes, another year has passed in which no woman has been nominated for Best Director. I had hoped that Charlotte Wells would be recognized for her artfully understated management after sun a personal and heartbreaking story about a tormented young father (Mescal) and his 11-year-old daughter (Frankie Corio) who spend one last summer vacation together in Turkey, but it wasn’t meant to be. Instead, Ruben Østlund got the nod for triangle of sadness in this writer’s opinion, one of the most ostentatious, narratively bland films of the past year. Perhaps Greta Gerwig will help right those wrongs this summer Barbie.

Dolly de Leon

Speaking of triangle of sadness the film has one saving grace: Dolly de Leon, who won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her inspired performance as Abigail, a cleaning lady who becomes something of a tribal leader after a luxury yacht full of some of the worst one-percenters we’ve ever seen crashes and the survivors find themselves marooned on a remote island. Thanks to her excellent survival skills, de Leon turns these spoiled wimps around, living in her own private abode in the lifeboat and coaxing sex from Carl (Harris Dickinson), an insecure male model, in exchange for special privileges. It would be wonderful to see de Leon, a veteran Filipino actress on stage and screen, be recognized by the Academy for her tremendous efforts.

Paul Dano

Despite a two-decade career of outstanding performances, including in such famous films as Little Miss Sunshine, Blood will be shed and prisoners, Hopefully it hasn’t received a single Oscar nomination yet. The thought was that he would turn into his suave Burt Fabelman, the stern but gentle computer engineer father of Sammy Fabelman in Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical film The Fabelman family, but it was not to be. It’s a shame, given how some of the film’s more operatic performances are recognized while his humble, powerful one isn’t—coupled with Dano’s massive year, between this one and his Riddler in The Batman. On the other hand, Dano was also cruelly overlooked for the full incarnation of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys in love and mercy which should have earned him every nomination under the sun.