Oscar Noms: Who Should Get Slapped at the Ceremony This Year?

Let’s review the Oscar nominations.

More from Hung Up this week: Chats about The Pitt and Traitors in the Substack app tonight! I promise I am working on a Beckham drama post.

Bradley Cooper comforts Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on March 27, 2022. (Photo: Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The Slap has been heavy on my mind this month¹ in a way I did not anticipate: I think there should be another one. Imagine if every year, everyone in the audience at the Dolby sat in nervous silence, thinking, “I hope I’m not going to be The Slap this year.” Sean Penn sweats. Kevin O’Leary frowns. And then Michael Rappaport walks onstage to present the Oscar for film editing for some reason, and the room exhales because right, it’s definitely gonna be that guy.

Having A Normal One

Not Having an Opinion on The Slap is Sexy 2 Me

The Oscar nominations were announced this morning! There was a raucous Hung Up chat to talk about the snubs and surprises. Sinners broke the record for most-nominated film in Oscar history. I am cautiously optimistic! Twice as good for half as much was my first thought; the way, say, Beyoncé is the most nominated artist in Grammy history but only won Album of the Year for her least impressive body of work (still better than a lot of some people’s entire discographies) was my second. I would say Frankenstein overperformed, but at dinner in LA last week, one of my friends already warned me that I was underestimating how good Jacob Elordi is and how much the Academy likes Guillermo Del Toro. Did you think Elordi would be the first Euphoria student to be nominated for an Oscar?

Congratulations to my neighbor² Rose Byrne for her well-deserved Oscar nomination for best actress! I always thought Chase Infiniti’s potential nomination was a long shot because of the vote split with Teyana Taylor (who I am very happy for!). Certainly by now you know how I feel about Hamnet — you are under spells people! — but it had a strong showing in picture, director, actress, and across the crafts categories. Can someone explain to me how Hamnet only has one nominated performer but that movie gets a casting nomination, while every performer in Sentimental Value is nominated but that movie doesn’t get into the casting category? Diane Warren, the Club Chalamet of the Academy, landed her 17th nomination. Keep trying! She’ll never be Roger Deakins.³

An even bigger surprise than F1 getting a best picture nom as the Academy considered Wicked: For Good … well, bad? No makeup nomination for Marty Supreme! Timothée Chalamet’s skin looked so bad that Gwyneth told him to get lasered, and that meant nothing to the makeup and hairstyling branch? Watch the Oscars with Hung Up on March 15! I’ll see you in the chat. 😎⁴

Best picture
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams

Achievement in directing
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best animated feature film
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best animated short film
Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Achievement in cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

Achievement in costume design
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Best documentary feature film
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

Best documentary short film
All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness

Achievement in film editing
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best international feature film
The Secret Agent, Brazil
It Was Just an Accident, France
Sentimental Value, Norway
Sirāt, Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

Achievement in casting
Hamnet, Nina Gold
Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti
One Battle after Another, Cassandra Kulukundis
The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues
Sinners, Francine Maisler

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
Frankenstein, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey
Kokuho, Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
Sinners, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
The Smashing Machine, Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
The Ugly Stepsister, Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

Original Score
Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet, Max Richter
One Battle after Another, Jonny Greenwood
Sinners, Ludwig Goransson

Original Song
“Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless; music and lyric by Diane Warren
“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters; music and lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park
“I Lied to You” from Sinners; music and lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi!; music and lyric by Nicholas Pike
“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams; music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyric by Nick Cave

Achievement in production design
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best live action short film
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva

Achievement in sound
F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt

Achievement in visual effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy
Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
One Battle after Another, written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler

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2. We come from the same place … the Bronx … well, Brooklyn!

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4. The person who already has a prize to take home is oana who called Yorgos Lanthimos “Yorgos Fraudimos.” I love Bugonia, but I have been laughing about that one all morning. I need you in the paywalled Oscar chat, friend, you’re getting comp’d.