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Clockwise from top left: Nomadland director Chloe Zhao (Charly Triballeau/AFP for Getty Images); Delroy Lino in Da 5 Bloods (Netflix); LaKeith Stanfield in Judas And The Black Messiah (Warner Media)
The nominations for the 2021 Academy Awards were announced a few hours ago, at the ass crack of dawn, as per tradition. There were, as always, winners and losers, frontrunners confirmed and surprises to celebrate. There was not a fundamental change in the kind of movies or, at the very least, the kind of distribution players that tend to come out on top at Hollywood’s annual ode to itself. Halfway through 2020, we here at
2021 Oscars Nominations: Snubs and Surprises for Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield and Jodie Foster
The two men are up for supporting actor in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” a best picture candidate. So who was the star? And the Globes’ best supporting actress was shut out.
Daniel Kaluuya, left, and Lakeith Stanfield (with Ashton Sanders, Algee Smith, Dominique Thorne in the back seat) in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”Credit.Glen Wilson/Warner Bros. Pictures, via Associated Press
March 15, 2021
Plenty of history was made when the Academy Award nominations were announced Monday morning, but it just wouldn’t be the Oscars without a few swerves and head-scratching omissions. Below, the Projectionist surveys the biggest surprises and most high-profile snubs.
Mads Mikkelsen isn t quite sure how he became Rihanna s Bitch, either
Tuesday’s
Jimmy Kimmel Live welcomed Danish actor and go-to villain who makes you feel funny, Mads Mikkelsen, from his temporary lair in London. There shooting that movie where he’s replacing an accused actual villain as another mystically inclined Big Bad, the affable Mikkelsen assured Kimmel he’s not entirely sure why he’s always getting cast as the person who tries to kill everyone while simultaneously giving audiences a strange feeling all over.
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Sure, it could be the Danish accent, as Mikkelsen purringly explained that, after the Russians had their big run as the de facto baddies in American movies, it was time for a new, foreign-y villain. He suggested that whole viking thing might still be lingering, too, although that was before the current white people were in charge. Eh, maybe it’s just all Mads, as the former (and possibly future) cannibal, sorcerer, Bond villain, devious ca