The 2023 Oscars went down largely as expected.
Nevertheless, there have been some tight acting races that turned out in another way from what many pundits assumed and a few shocking slights within the less-glamorous categories.
Listed here are the most important snubs and surprises from the ninety fifth Academy Awards.
‘Elvis’ totally shut out
Austin Butler, who played the King, versus Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” for Best Actor was all the time a neck-and-neck fight. Even after Fraser was victorious on the SAG Awards, many thought Butler would still nudge him out on the Academy Awards. He didn’t. Few, nevertheless, expected Baz Luhrmann’s popular biopic to be such an enormous loser overall. It was defeated in all eight categories it was nominated in, including Best Hair and Makeup Styling where it was favored to win.
Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” went home empty-handed, too, but that result was less bruising because the front-runner had been sliding for weeks.
Jamie Lee Curtis edged out Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett was riding high for her acclaimed performance in “Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually” after winning the Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actress and beating competitor Jamie Lee Curtis (“All the things In every single place All At Once”). But Curtis swung back on the SAGs every week ago, and managed her first Oscar Sunday night. After her loss, Bassett didn’t get up or visibly clap for Curtis, which rankled some Twitter users.
No Award for Lady Gaga or Rihanna
Awards pundits weren’t surprised when the favored “Naatu Naatu” from the Indian movie “RRR” won Best Original Song, but viewers at home were surely confused to see heavy hitters Lady Gaga (“Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”) and Rihanna (“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually”) lose to a tune they were hearing for the very first time.
Paul Sorvino, Anne Heche and Charlbi Dean disregarded of the In Memoriam
Essentially the most unlucky snub of all is when great artists are excluded, purposefully or on accident, from the annual In Memoriam segment. This yr, Anne Heche, who died in a automotive crash at age 53, Paul Sorvino, who died at 83, and actress Charlbi Dean, who unexpectedly died at age 32, were all not within the roster. Dean is a very unlucky egregious omission, because she was a star on this yr’s Best Picture nominee “Triangle of Sadness.”
Voters hated ‘Babylon’ greater than anybody realized
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” which host Jimmy Kimmel mocked as a $100 million flop, wasn’t going to be an Oscar darling, but it surely was expected to win Best Rating and, perhaps, Production Design for its lavish old Hollywood scenery. It lost each to the German “All Quiet On The Western Front.”
