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The answer is usually simple because I didnt think they were likely to get nominated.
Why a film doesnt hit with the Academy can sometimes be a complicated topic.
(My friendsChris FeilandJoe Reidhavea whole podcast about it.)
Films that came out early and underperformed wore the stench of that failure all season long.
And A24s priority was alwaysThe Tragedy of Macbeth.
The Last DuelSee:In the Heights, box office.
Jodie Comer, too, was swimming upstream in a stacked Best Actress category.
The French DispatchProbably should have gotten a Production Design nomination at the very least.
Why the hell didnt it?
Hudson did get a SAG nom, but ultimately Oscar voters flocked to artier fare.
But it ran out of gas early.
Then it could have been Swedens official selection and been able to draft behindThe Worst Person in the World.
How many languages does Tim Roth speak?
A HeroBlame the fact that Asghar Farhadi has already won the international-film award twice.
Leave some Oscars for the rest of the world!
The RescueSimilarly, the Documentary branch has an eye-catching habit of snubbing apparent frontrunners.
PigandRed RocketOmicron prevented the Nicolas Cage andSimon Rexcharm offenses from going the distance.
ZolaSee:The Green KnightandPassing.
Also remember that the Academy tends to like hypercontemporary films only when theyre made by Adam McKay.
MemoriaSorry, Apichatpong Weerasethakul there was only room in the race for one slow-paced rumination on human existence.
So you actually need to get mad atlast yearsvoters for this one!
