Ryan Gosling waited 10 years in between his first and second Academy Awards nominations. This is "only" a 7-year wait for the third Oscar nomination. Gosling is up for Best Supporting Actor for Barbie. Gosling has twice been nominated for Best Actor: Half Nelson (2006) and La La Land (2016).
The most serious contender in that category is likely Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer. No Saturday Night Live cast member has ever won an Oscar. Dan Aykroyd, Canadian and SNL alum, was nominated in that category for Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
The announcement comes the day after we learned of the death of legendary Canadian director Norman Jewison, who passed away at 97. Jewison is the only Canadian director to have 3 Academy Awards nominations: In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and Moonstruck (1987). Jewison was a beacon of light convincing Canadians that they could be a film director.
Here are other Canadians with 3 or more Academy Award nominations.
Norma Shearer (6) — The Divorcee (1929/1930)*; Their Own Desire (1929/1930); A Free Soul (1930/1931); The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934); Romeo and Juliet (1936); and Marie Antoniette (1938).
Walter Huston (4) — Dodsworth (1936) and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Best Actor; Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)* Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer (3) — The Last Station (2009); Beginners (2011)*; All the Money in the World (2017) Best Supporting Actor
* — Oscar winner
We are incredibly saddened to learn that film director Norman Jewison has passed away (1926-2024). To learn more about Jewison’s fascinating early Hollywood career, watch Douglas Jackson's 1971 documentary NORMAN JEWISON, FILMMAKER: https://t.co/OHFcj3utCZ
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Celine Song has had a dramatic rise with her directorial debut Past Lives. The film has been nominated for Best Picture and Song has an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Sarah Polley, who won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay last year for Women Talking, also had an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in her directorial debut for Away From Her. All of these films, except for Away From Her, are American, not Canadian.
Stories We Tell and the documentaries inspired by the Canadian film
We are a bit shocked that To Kill a Tiger made the cut for Best Documentary. Your humble narrator has tried really hard to find this film and has had a series of bad luck in that effort.
We have seen Four Daughters (Tunisia), a contender in this category. Both Four Daughters and 20 Days in Mariupol (Ukraine) made the shortlist for Best International Feature Film.
Advice to self: Stop being shocked and enjoy the experience. Daniel Roher and Odessa Rae won for Navalny last year in this category (shared with Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris). Fire of Love, a co-production, was also nominated last year (Ina Fichman shared with Sara Dosa and Boris).
🥰It's such honour to be alongside such outstanding nominees in this category. Thank you again, @TheAcademy, for this nomination!
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Robbie Robertson was posthumously nominated for his soundtrack work on Killers of the Flower Moon. Quebec filmmaker Vincent René-Lortie is in the running for Invincible for the live action short category.
Ben Proudfoot, who has been here before, received a nomination for co-directing The Last Repair Shop for best short documentary.
Gosling might sing I'm Just Ken, which is up for Best Original Song from Barbie.
Rojek misses the Oscars shortlist cut for Best International Feature Film
We are down to the Top 5 for Best International Feature Film for the 96th Academy Awards. Here are the 5 finalists:
The Teachers' Lounge — Germany
Io Capitano — Italy
Perfect Days — Japan
Society of the Snow — Spain
The Zone of Interest — United Kingdom
The films from the shortlist that didn't make the cut are Amerikatsi (Armenia); The Monk and the Gun (Bhutan); The Promised Land (Denmark); Fallen Leaves (Finland); The Taste of Things (France); Godland (Iceland); Totem (Mexico); The Mother of All Lies (Morocco); Four Daughters (Tunisia); and 20 Days in Mariupol (Ukraine).
The Zone of Interest as well as Anatomy of a Fall are up for Best Picture and Best Director. Sandra Hüller, who is in both films, is now the 3rd German actress nominated for Best Actress. Four Daughters (Tunisia) is up for Best Documentary.
The Zone of Interest is up for Best Adapted Screenplay while Anatomy of a Fall is up for Best Original Screenplay.
Can't find much inspiration based on other awards this season. Anatomy of a Fall won the Golden Globe for Best non-English language film as well as the Critics Choice Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was not entered in the Oscars race in this category.
The 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards will be February 25. Here are the Independent Spirit Awards' 5 nominees for Best International Film.
Anatomy of a Fall (France)
Godland (Denmark, Iceland)
Mami Wata (Nigeria)
Totem (Mexico)
The Zone of Interest (UK, Poland, USA)
Anatomy of a Fall (France) also won Best Screenplay at the 2024 Golden Globes. The film beat out Fallen Leaves (Finland); Io Capitano (Italy); Past Lives (United States); Society of the Snow (Spain); and The Zone of Interest (UK).
The film won the Critics Choice Awards over Godzilla Minus One (Japan); Perfect Days (Japan); Society of the Snow (Spain); The Taste of Things (France); and The Zone of Interest (UK).
Ryan Gosling did not win for Best Supporting Actor for Barbie. at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves) did not win for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes.
Sarah Polley gets Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay but not Best Director
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There was very little chance of American actor Glenn Howerton getting an Oscars nomination for the Canadian film BlackBerry. Not likely yet not impossible.
Brendan Fraser and possibly Sarah Polley would make Oscar presentations to give the awards they won at last year's Oscars.
The 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10, 2024 on ABC in the United States and CTV in Canada. Remember, if you have a choice, the feed is the same but CTV won't censor anything, unlike ABC.
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photo credits: Past Lives; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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