By not achieving it at the first opportunity, we think that ‘Third time’s the charm’ or what ‘there is no bad fifth’. Buthow do you console yourself if you are Paul Thomas Anderson or Diane Warren and you have not succeeded at the ninth or at the thirteenth attempt?
They and other colleagues will seek on Sunday, March 27, once again, to stop being eternal nominees and, finally, take home an Oscar.
Will Smith, the favorite to win as best actor at the Oscars 2022
Cursed or magic number?
The list is long, very long. “Mannequin” (1987), “Up Close & Personal” (1996), “Con Air” (1997), “Armageddon” (1998), “Music of the Heart” (1999), “Pearl Harbor” (2001), “Beyond the Lights (2014), “The Hunting Ground” (2015), “Marshall” (2017), “RBG” (2018), “Breakthrough” (2019) and “The Life Ahead” (2020), all earned Diane Warren nominations for best original song.
And this year came number 13 for “Four Good Days”, to extend her unenviable record as the most nominated woman without an Oscar.
According to the pools, he will have to keep waiting to add the golden statuette to his two Golden Globes, a Grammy, an Emmy and three Billboard awards.
10+2=0?
Hot on the heels of the composer, Daniel Sudic doubly aspires to win in better special effects for “Free Guy” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” With this, he completes 12 nominations in a category in which he has never won, despite the fact that he was almost always linked to the powerful Marvel universe, known for its spectacular visual effects.
Three more options for PTA
Paul Thomas Anderson, PTA for friends, is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of recent times, as evidenced by his previous eight nominations in various categories for “Boogie Nights” (1997), “Magnolia” (1999), “There Will Be Blood” (2007), “Inherent Vice” (2014) and “Phantom Thread” (2017). ).
In 2022, he adds another three for “Licorice Pizza”, in best direction, best film and best original screenplay. The latter is where he seems to have more options to break the drought.
Neither on one side nor the other
After stringing together three nominations in a row in the acting categories with “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012), “American Hustle” (2013) and “American Sniper” (2014), plus a fourth for best film for the latter, everything foreshadowed that Bradley Cooper he would soon be recognized as one of the great performers of his generation.
He continued to try in various facets with “A Star is Born” (2018), for which he was nominated as an actor, adapted screenplay and film (as producer) and “Joker” (2019), also for best film in his production work. , but nothing.
And although this year he was not recognized for his supporting role in “Licorice Pizza”, will have one more chance, the ninth, to lift the award as producer of “Nightmare Alley”, one of the 10 nominees for best film, although it is not one of the edition’s favorites.
Very personal and very valuable
Some know him as one of the great Shakespearean filmmakers and performers. Younger people associate it more with Marvel movies or their recent versions of Agatha Christie classics.
And with this versatility, he has sought the Oscar in almost every way: best actor and director (“Henry V”, 1989), best short film (“Swan Song”, 1992), best adapted screenplay (“Hamlet”, 1996) and best supporting actor (“My Week with Marilyn”, 2011).
Now with his most personal story, the British Kenneth Branagh aspires to the best director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, bringing him to eight nominations and could be closer than ever to winning thanks to “Belfast,” the city where he was born.
Will Almodóvar bring him luck?
Recurring collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar for three decades, Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias He had received nominations for the soundtracks of “The Constant Gardener” (2005), “The Kite Runner” (2007) and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” (2011).
The curious thing is that only this year he seeks to win from the hand of a project by the director from La Mancha, “Parallel Mothers”. But they are facing Hans Zimmer, who with his composition for “Dune” has already won the Bafta, the Golden Globe or the music critics.
At one, at two and at…
Seen more as a box office and entertainment actor, Will Smith is equally respected in the guildas confirmed by his nominations for “Ali” (2001) and “The Pursuit of Happyness” (2006).
Will Smith plays Rey Williams in a biographical drama that portrays the life of the father and coach of the talented tennis players Venus and Serena Williams
Now with “King Richard”, in which he plays the father of Venus and Serena Williams with all his nuances, I could say that ‘third time is the charm’: His performance has already earned him the Golden Globe, the Bafta and the Actors Guild Award (SAG). And as if that were not enough, he also aspires to the award for best film with the same tape.
Also with two previous nominations, although with more reserved forecasts, Jessica Chastain, versatile actress who was already in the crosshairs for “The Help (2011) and “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012) and who just gave the surprise at the SAG, where she won best actress for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”.
Less likely, however, seems to have the Canadian Denis Villeneuvewho after trying with “Arrival” (2016) now plays two cards thanks to “Dune”: best film and best adapted screenplay.
post credits scene
No matter what happens on the night of March 27 in Los Angeles, there is someone who, for now, will remain the biggest loser in the history of these awards.
The American Greg P. Russell has been on the ballot 16 times for best sound mixing, from “Black Rain” (1989) to “Skyfall” (2012), passing through “The Mask of Zorro” and “Armageddon” (both from 1998) and “Memoirs of a Geisha” (2005.
All this without counting that a seventeenth nomination, that of “13 Hours” in 2017, was withdrawn 24 hours before the ceremony “for violations of the Academy’s campaign rules.” (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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