Oscar Nominations: Lady Gaga, Denis Villeneuve Snubbed; Buckley, Simmons, Dench Surprise
Oscar nominations are here, and there were quite a few surprises! First and foremost, Lady Gaga got railed. No two ways about it.
She was nominated in every single precursor — the only potential Best Actress nominee to do so — and came out of it empty-handed for her everything-but-the-kitchen-sink performance in House of Gucci, which was also overlooked for Best Picture (it was a dark-horse contender) and Best Supporting Actor (Jared Leto was thought to have had a real shot).
That category had several other names with reasonably expectations that they'd be called — the absence of Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) kills me, Renate Reinsve (who gives the perf of the year in The Worst Person in the World) was always probably a true dark horse, but Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) and Jennifer Hudson (Respect) were likely Top 10.
