2023 Oscar Nominees’ Five Biggest Snubs, From Tom Cruise to Women Directors - Rolling Stone

With a quartet of blockbuster films in contention — Top Gun: Maverick,Avatar: The Way of Water,Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as well as Elvis — this year’s Oscars had a golden opportunity to expand its global audience beyond record-low viewership of 10.5 million in 2021.

I was hoping that Charlotte Wells would be recognized for her artfully restrained helming of Aftersun, a personal and heartbreaking tale of an anguished young father (Mescal) and his 11-year-old daughter (Frankie Corio) spending one last summer vacation together in Turkey, but it was not to be.

Speaking of Triangle of Sadness, the film does have one saving grace: Dolly de Leon, who received BAFTA and Golden Globe nods for her inspired turn as Abigail, a cleaner who becomes a tribal leader of sorts once a luxury yacht filled with some of the worst one-percenters you’ve ever laid eyes on capsizes, and the survivors find themselves deserted on a remote island.

Thanks to her sharp survival skills, de Leon turns the tables on these pampered wimps, living in her own private abode inside the lifeboat and coaxing sex from Carl (Harris Dickinson), an insecure male model, in exchange for special privileges.

Despite a two-decade career of standout performances, including in such celebrated films as Little Miss Sunshine,There Will Be Blood, and Prisoners, Dano has yet to receive a single Oscar nomination.

Then again, Dano was also cruelly snubbed for fully embodying the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy, which should have netted him all the nominations under the sun.