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After a scandal-ridden few years that had the Golden Globes on the ropes, that awards body\u2019s influence could be felt all over the Oscar nominations. Would \u201cI\u2019m Still Here\u201d have overperformed \u2014 picking up nominations for picture, international film and lead actress Fernanda Torres \u2014 if Torres hadn\u2019t won a Golden Globe for best actress in a drama just before the extended Oscar-voting process<\/a> began? Would Demi Moore<\/a> be considered an Oscar front-runner if she hadn\u2019t delivered such a dynamite Golden Globe speech? Though the Globes don\u2019t always get it right, it\u2019s hard to beat the impact of a televised awards moment, and Oscar strategists will be eager to repeat these victories next season. Not bad for a ceremony that Hollywood banded together to drive off the air in 2022.<\/p>\n In \u201cHard Truths<\/a>,\u201d Marianne Jean-Baptiste<\/a> plays Pansy, an unhappy woman with a never-ending list of grievances. Well, you can add one more to the list: Even though Jean-Baptiste took top honors from critics groups in New York and Los Angeles as well as the National Society of Film Critics, the academy paid her dust. What gives? Though I predicted<\/a> that Jean-Baptiste would just barely make the best actress lineup, it was hard to shake the number of male voters I spoke to who simply didn\u2019t like the character. When a woman suffers nobly, it\u2019s Oscar bait. But when she makes others suffer, not so much.<\/p>\n Over the last decade, actors who have been nominated at no other major precursors besides the Screen Actors Guild Awards don\u2019t typically make the Oscar lineup. Good on Monica Barbaro, then, for beating those steep odds: The 34-year-old actress, who plays Joan Baez in \u201cA Complete Unknown,\u201d earned a supporting-actress nomination over tough competition that included Jamie Lee Curtis (\u201cThe Last Showgirl\u201d), Danielle Deadwyler (\u201cThe Piano Lesson\u201d), Margaret Qualley (\u201cThe Substance\u201d) and Selena Gomez (\u201cEmilia P\u00e9rez\u201d).<\/p>\n Though it was one of my favorite films of the year, I wasn\u2019t bullish on \u201cChallengers<\/a>\u201d earning any Oscar nominations: The movie was simply too fun and came out way too early in the year. Still, you might have hoped for at least one nomination for original score, since the thrumming techno beats composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross gave us the year\u2019s most distinctive film music. Alas, the Oscars snubbed their score entirely, even though Reznor and Ross won the Golden Globe for it just weeks ago. (OK, maybe the Golden Globes\u2019 renewed influence only extends so far.)<\/p>\n How well did \u201cEmilia P\u00e9rez\u201d do? With 13 Oscar nominations, the movie led the field on Thursday, and if Gomez had managed to snag that supporting-actress nomination, it would have tied the record of 14 nominations held by \u201cAll About Eve,\u201d \u201cTitanic\u201d and \u201cLa La Land.\u201d But the movie still made Oscar history with its leading woman Karla Sof\u00eda Gasc\u00f3n, who became the first openly trans actress<\/a> to be nominated for an Academy Award. Two cisgender actors have won Oscars for playing trans roles, Jared Leto (\u201cDallas Buyers Club\u201d) and Hilary Swank (\u201cBoys Don\u2019t Cry\u201d), but if Gasc\u00f3n prevails, she will become the first trans actor to have done so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nA hard truth to swallow.<\/h2>\n
A supporting-actress race, reshuffled.<\/h2>\n
\u2018Challengers\u2019 loses its biggest match.<\/h2>\n
\u2018Emilia P\u00e9rez\u2019 makes history.<\/h2>\n