The Invite is a well written movie. I loved it. The performances are amazing and excellent especially Penelope Cruz. How many nominations who i think will get nominated is Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and maybe Best Casting. For Best Actress, i don't think Olivia Wilde is getting nominated for Actress. She could but idk. I would love it if she did. What I think will win at the oscars is Best Adapted Screenplay. This movie should win Oscars. So what you think the Oscar chances are for The Invite?

It more than made up for Jane Fonda losing for They Shoot Horses Don't They.

Exactly what it says on the tin: When there are four good, deserving options, and one bad, undeserving option... and it's the bad and undeserving option that ends up winning.

Exhibit A: Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules over the rest of the otherwise great 1999 Supporting Actor lineup.

The only rule is that it had to get an ATL nomination: Directing, any acting nomination, or any screenplay category.

Outstanding Lead Performance

- Mahershala Ali, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

- Gillian Anderson, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

- Jeon Do-yeon, Possible Love

- John Early, Maddie’s Secret

- John Malkovich, Wild Horse Nine

- Ian McKellen, The Christophers

- Julianne Moore, The Debut

- Sophie Okonedo, Clarissa

- Andrew Scott, Elsinore

- John Turturro, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

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Pictured are Soderbergh, Zemeckis, Boyle, and Howard

We’ve completed the nomination round, and now it’s time to choose the winners.

The five performances with the most points in each category in Round One are now the official nominees.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

This round is much simpler.

Vote for ONE nominee in each of the four acting categories.

That means your ballot should contain four names in total:

• 1 Actor
• 1 Actress
• 1 Supporting Actor
• 1 Supporting Actress

There are no rankings and no points system in this round. You are simply voting for the performance you think should win each category.

Each vote counts equally, and the nominee with the most votes in each category will become our Alternate Oscar winner for 2025.

Please only vote for the nominees listed below.

BEST ACTOR

• Timothée Chalamet — Marty Supreme
• Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon
• Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent
• Jesse Plemons — Bugonia

BEST ACTRESS

• Jessie Buckley — Hamnet
• Rose Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Jennifer Lawrence — Die My Love
• Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value
• Amanda Seyfried — The Testament of Ann Lee

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Benicio del Toro — One Battle After Another
• Jacobi Jupe — Hamnet
• Delroy Lindo — Sinners
• Sean Penn — One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value
• Amy Madigan — Weapons
• Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners
• Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another

HOW TO VOTE

Simply post your four choices in the comments, for example:

Actor: [Name]
Actress: [Name]
Supporting Actor: [Name]
Supporting Actress: [Name]

One person per category. Four votes total.

Once voting closes, that brings our run from 1990 through 2025 to a close.

Since we obviously don’t yet know how the 2026 film year will play out, we’re going to head backwards instead.

Next up: 1980, as we begin working our way through the 1980s.

Previous lineups here.

This article contains spoilers about a surprise appearance in this film.

In two weeks of release, “You Can See Everything” has grossed $45 million at the box office. Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the documentary has a near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and audiences alike. And its take on Elizabeth Holmes, the confounding founder of Theranos who was convicted of fraud, has everyone talking.

Now the question is, what are its Oscar chances?

The film’s distributor, A24, isn’t commenting but two people close to the production with knowledge of the studio’s thinking expect it to campaign for best picture, best supporting actress and best documentary. It may also make a showing in the editing, cinematography, score and director categories.

Should Amanda Seyfried land a nomination for playing Holmes in the recreations within the film, it would be the first time an actress has been nominated in the supporting category for a role in a documentary.

And no documentary has ever been nominated for best picture. “Fahrenheit 9/11,” the 2004 film directed by Michael Moore that currently holds the title for highest-grossing nonconcert documentary, may have come the closest, considering its effect on the cultural conversation that year, but it was shut out. More surprising: it was also shut out of the best documentary race, a fate that has befallen many a popular documentary.

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I think at this point, Penélope Cruz will definitely be nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the upcoming Oscars.

The question is for which performance?

Nené Romero in La Bola Negra

Pina in The Invite

She should be nominated for The Invite since that was a bigger role and she had 40 minutes of screen time.

For La Bola Negra, Cruz had 12 to 13 minutes of screen time and yet I think this will be the film she will be nominated for since it's getting way more Oscar buzz than The Invite. The Invite can still be nominated but La Bola Negra could end up winning a lot of categories including Best Picture.

Which film do you think Penélope Cruz will be nominated for?

Is there a chance she could be nominated for both?

I have read "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears ― A Lively History of Hollywood's Oscar Rivalries" by Michael Schulman , very fulfulling and full of tidbits ..

But a major question remains : In which precise time in its 100 course, the Oscars became the "Oscars" , you know that single thing that can be named first thing in your epitaph , cement a legend and completely change a life ?

1. Lewis Milestone - 2 Arabian Knights (1927/1928) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/1930)
2. Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady (1928/1929) and Cavalcade (1932/1933)
3. Norman Taurog - Skippy (1930/1931)
4. Frank Borzage* - Bad Girl (1931/1932)
5. Frank Capra* - Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and You Can't Take It with You (1938)
6. Leo McCarey* - The Awful Truth (1937)
7. John Ford* - Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Quiet Man (1952)
8. Elia Kazan* - Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
9. George Stevens* - Giant (1956)
10. William Wyler* - Ben-Hur (1959)
11. Robert Wise - West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965)
12. Jerome Robbins - West Side Story (1961)
13. David Lean* - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
14. George Cuckor* - My Fair Lady (1964)
15. Mike Nichols - The Graduate (1967)
16. Bob Fosse - Cabaret (1972)
17. John Avildsen - Rocky 1 (1976)
18. Michael Cimino - Deer Hunter (1978)
19. Warren Beatty** - Reds (1981)
20. Oliver Stone*** - Platoon (1986) and Born on the 4th of July (1989)
21. Clint Eastwood** - Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004)
22. Mel Gibson** - Braveheart (1995)
23. Anthony Minghella - The English Patient (1996)
24. James Cameron - Titanic (1997)
25. Steven Spielberg* - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
26. Michel Havanicius - The Artist (2011)
27. Ang Lee* - Life of Pi (2012)
28. Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018)
29. Alejandro Iñárritu* - Revenant (2015)
30. Damien Chazelle - La La Land (2016)
31. Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water (2017)
32. Chloe Zhao - Nomadland (2020)
33. Jane Campion* - The Power of the Dog (2021)
34. Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer (2023)

*Only 12 directors did direct movies that won screenplay awards that aren't mentioned here. The other 22 directors never directed a movie that won a screenplay award at all

**Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson also acted in those movies

***Oliver Stone did win a screenplay award once himself but for a movie that wasn't directed by him

In this thread, you can make up any Oscar category you want, and I'll tell you the winners from its inception up to the present.

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Category Form:

Name:

Year/Ceremony Introduced:

Nominees:

1. Tom Hooper - The King’s Speech

2. Adam McKay - Vice

3. Todd Phillips - Joker

4. David O. Russell - American Hustle

5. Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

6. Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

7. Lenny Abrahamson - Room

8. Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

9. Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

10. Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge

11. David O. Russell - The Fighter

12. Ang Lee - Life of Pi

13. Alexander Payne - Nebraska

14. Alexander Payne - The Descendants

15. David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

16. Adam McKay - The Big Short

17. Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher 

18. Martin Scorsese - Hugo

19. Steven Spielberg - Lincoln

20. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

21. Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird

22. Tom McCarthy - Spotlight

23. Joel & Ethan Coen - True Grit

24. Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape of Water

25. Sam Mendes - 1917

26. Richard Linklater - Boyhood

27. Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

28. Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel

29. Martin Scorsese - The Irishman

30. Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War

31. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

32. Michael Haneke - Amour

1. William Wellman* - Wings (1927/1928)
2. Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody (1928/1929)
3. Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/1930)
4. Edmund Goulding - Grand Hotel (1931/1932)
5. Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade (1932/1933) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
6. Robert Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
7. Frank Capra* - You Can't Take It with You (1938)
8. Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca (1940)
9. John Ford* - How Green Was My Valley (1941)
10. Elia Kazan* - Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
11. Laurence Olivier** - Hamlet (1948)
12. Robert Rossen - All the King's Men (1949)
13. William Wyler* - Ben-Hur (1959)
14. Robert Wise - West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965)
15. Jerome Robbins - West Side Story (1961)
16. David Lean* - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
17. George Cuckor* - My Fair Lady (1964)
18. Carol Reed - Oliver (1968)
19. John Avildsen - Rocky 1 (1976)
20. Michael Cimino - Deer Hunter (1978)
21. Oliver Stone*** - Platoon (1986)
22. Clint Eastwood** - Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004)
23. Mel Gibson** - Braveheart (1995)
24. Anthony Minghella - The English Patient (1996)
25. James Cameron - Titanic (1997)
26. Ridley Scott* - Gladiator 1 (2000)
27. Rob Marshall - Chicago (2002)
28. Michel Havanicius - The Artist (2011)
29. Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water (2017)
30. Chloe Zhao - Nomadland (2020)
31. Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer (2023)

*William Wellman, Frank Capra, John Ford, Elia Kazan, William Wyler, David Lean, George Cuckor and Ridley Scott are the only 8 directors from this list who did direct movies that won screenplay awards. Some of them did win Best Picture but others not

**Laurence Olivier, Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson also acted in those movies

***Oliver Stone HIMSELF did win Best Adapted Screenplay in 1978 as the writer of Midnight Express but no movie directed by him ever won a screenplay award

This is the 23rd instalment of a series on my wishlist of Oscar Nominations and Winners. (Previous editions linked at the end of the post!)

Here we go... Here are my nominees and winners for the 92nd Academy Awards:
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BEST PICTURE

Soul

Another Round

First Cow

Judas and the Black Messiah 

Minari

Nomadland

Palm Springs

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Father

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BEST DIRECTOR

Chloe Zhao – Nomadland

Charlie Kauffman - I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Darius Marder - Sound of Metal

Eliza Hittman - Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Kelly Reichardt - First Cow

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BEST ACTRESS

Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman

Haley Bennett - Swallow

Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman

Wunmi Mosaku - His House

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BEST ACTOR

Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal (TIE)

Anthony Hopkins - The Father (TIE)

Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round

Steven Yeun - Minari

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Youn Yuh-Jung – Minari

Amanda Seyfried - Mank

Carrie Coon - The Nest

Maria Bakalova - Borat 2

Olivia Colman - The Father

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Paul Raci - Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman - Da 5 Bloods

Dan Stevens - Eurovision Song Contest

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

Leslie Odom Jr - One Night in Miami

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BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Another Round

And Then We Danced

Bacurau

Collective

Quo Vadis Aida

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Soul

Onward

The Willoughbys

The Wolf House

Wolfwalkers

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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Palm Springs

Minari

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Father

First Cow

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Nomadland

One Night in Miami

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BEST CASTING

Minari

Judas and the Black Messiah

One Night in Miami

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

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BEST FILM EDITING

Sound of Metal

Palm Springs

The Father

The Invisible Man

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Nomadland

First Cow

Mank

Possessor

Vitalina Varela

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BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Mank

Birds of Prey

Emma

The Father

Tenet

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BEST COSTUME

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Birds of Prey

Mank

Pinocchio

Promising Young Woman

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BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Birds of Prey

Pinocchio

Possessor

Promising Young Woman

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BEST SOUND DESIGN 

Sound of Metal

His House

Soul

The Invisible Man

The Vast of Night

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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Tenet

Birds of Prey

Love and Monsters

The Invisible Man

The Midnight Sky

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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Soul

Minari

Possessor

Tenet

The Invisible Man

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BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - Husavik

Judas and the Black Messiah - Fight for You

Minari - Rain Song

One Night in Miami - Speak Now

Sound of Metal - Green
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QUICK WINNER TALLY

Sound of Metal - 4

Soul - 3

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - 2

Minari - 2

Nomadland - 2

The Father - 2

Another Round - 1

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - 1

Mank - 1

Palm Springs - 1

Promising Young Woman - 1

Tenet - 1

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QUICK NOMINEE TALLY

Sound of Metal - 9

Minari - 7

Promising Young Woman - 6

The Father - 6

Birds of Prey - 4

First Cow - 4

Judas and the Black Messiah - 4

Mank - 4

Nomadland - 4

One Night in Miami - 4

Soul - 4

The Invisible Man - 4

Another Round - 3

I’m Thinking of Ending Things - 3

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - 3

Never Rarely Sometimes Always - 3

Palm Springs - 3

Possessor - 3

Tenet - 3

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - 2

His House - 2

Pinocchio - 2

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PREVIOUS EDITIONS -

70TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1s7s8hc/my_version_of_the_70th_academy_awards_1998_oscars/

71ST ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1sdbwfa/my_version_of_the_71st_academy_awards_1999_oscars/

72ND ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1soijq8/my_version_of_the_72nd_academy_awards_2000_oscars/

73RD ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1sr7mxn/my_version_of_the_73rd_academy_awards_2001_oscars/

74TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1stn92b/my_version_of_the_74th_academy_awards_2002_oscars/

75TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1svk347/my_version_of_the_75th_academy_awards_2003_oscars/

76TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1t14a6p/my_version_of_the_76th_academy_awards_2004_oscars/

77TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tepmte/my_version_of_the_77th_academy_awards_2005_oscars/

78TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tfh6aw/my_version_of_the_78th_academy_awards_2006_oscars/

79TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tgwuyj/my_version_of_the_79th_academy_awards_2007_oscars/

80TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1thpw1n/my_version_of_the_80th_academy_awards_2008_oscars/

81ST ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tjtmzn/my_version_of_the_81st_academy_awards_2009_oscars/

82ND ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tkh39s/my_version_of_the_82nd_academy_awards_2010_oscars/

83RD ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tsg61e/my_version_of_the_83rd_academy_awards_2011_oscars/

84TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1txxzdq/my_version_of_the_84th_academy_awards_2012_oscars/

85TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tylecg/my_version_of_the_85th_academy_awards_2013_oscars/

86TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1u6s6o2/my_version_of_the_86th_academy_awards_2014_oscars/

87TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1ub250i/my_version_of_the_87th_academy_awards_2015_oscars/

88TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1uft4hr/my_version_of_the_88th_academy_awards_2016_oscars/

89TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1uk97cq/my_version_of_the_89th_academy_awards_2017_oscars/

90TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1ulbqf4/my_version_of_the_90th_academy_awards_2018_oscars/

91ST ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1usvia4/my_version_of_the_91st_academy_awards_2019_oscars/

92ND ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1vnqa4g/my_version_of_the_92nd_academy_awards_2020_oscars/

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PS: A couple of rules of engagement… This is an entirely subjective exercise and I'd urge to keep the spirit of the forum positive. If you find someone’s choice baffling, why not ask them the reason behind it in the spirit of constructive discourse. Let's be curious about everyone's subjective opinions without dissing each other. Let's start conversations... and keep the positivity flowing!

PPS: This is a subjective exercise, but I'm trying to still follow as many of the Academy's rules as possible.

- The nominee list is as per the rules of 2026 Oscars, be it the number of nominees or the categores.

- Only doing Feature Film nominations, so leaving out shorts and docu categories, as I'm grossly behind wrt watching the possible contenders in each year.

- Let's celebrate a tie if it has to be a tie 😄 It's our wishlist after all! Where else would we make such a thing happen!

- My take on Picture, International Film: The most impactful, important, innovating and/or memorable film

- My take on Director is about a unique, innovative and/or impactful vision for a film.

- My take on Score & Song is subjective, if it's largely original, then it's up for noms.

- My take on performances is about the depth of nuance, impact of the performance the the film and memorability of the performance.

- Performer rules are in play, for eg, one actor cannot receive more than 1 nomination in 1 category. I'd refrain from obvious category fraud and will nominate actors in lead or supporting as per my understanding of who the true lead was.

- My take on all craft & writing categories is about the impact of the craft on the film and the innovation/impact/meticulousness of vision.

Saw it for the first time recently, and while I did think it was a great movie and probably deserved its Best Picture I was mildly shocked to see it won all of the Big 5, sharing that honor with just two other films. Then I looked at the other nominations and it made much more sense. This was a weak enough year that Beauty and the Beast got nominated when the category only fit five. I admittedly haven’t watched some of the most culturally acclaimed films from that year such as Terminator 2 or Thelma and Louise, but even then this is not a year that jumps out.

So, yes, while it probably deserves its status as the first and only horror film to win Best Picture, is the lack of competition a bigger reason than the film’s own (excellent) quality?

Honestly I think it will obviously win both Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for "I Knew It I Knew You". And maybe it could also get nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score but Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song is what I find most likely. I know it's rare but some animated movies were nominated for a screenplay award and/or Best Original Score

After the Gotham nominations I think the Inde Navarrette campaign and some of her fans need a bit of a reality check.She was undoubtedly good and she deserves praise for her performance but the constant discourse around her has become a little excessive. Social media isn't a reflection of the entire industry and being everyone's favorite actress on Twitter doesn't mean she's the only one deserving of recognition.There have been some truly exceptional performances this year that haven't received nearly as much online attention. It's possible to appreciate her work without dismissing the incredible talent and performances that exist outside your social media bubble. Happy to see the indie films get some recognition this year