This past Sunday was a historic night as the 92nd Annual Academy Awards aired live from Los Angeles in front of a packed house of Hollywood hopefuls. Despite the obvious (and anonymous) bigotry instilled within the Academy, Parasite (2019) became the first non-English film in history to win Best Picture. The film's director, Bong Joon Ho, also earned honors for Best Director, Best International Feature Film, and Best Original Screenplay sweeping the Oscars in their respective categories. However, there were a lot of casual film fans that believe that one Bronx-bred actress turned pop phenom in Jennifer Lopez should have been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance as Ramona in Hustlers (2019).
Footage of some employees removing a giant Oscar statue from the red carpet caught the attention of one EW writer who joking captioned the clip, "THEY'RE STEALING IT FOR JENNIFER LOPEZ!" Prior to the show airing and throughout the entire ceremony fans of J.Lo bombarded the timeline with hot takes claiming that the "Medicine" singer was not only deserving of a nomination for Best Supporting Actress but should have won it for playing the devious stripper, Ramona. Check out some of the Tweets in support of Jennifer Lopez below:
While Jennifer Lopez might have been snubbed, it was Laura Dern who took home the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in Marriage Story (2019). Coming off of one of the most controversial Super Bowl halftime performances in recent years and hopping back into the music game head-first, Jennifer Lopez is having one of the greatest resurgences into the realm of mainstream entertainment and she's doing it all at the age of 50.
Check out the full list of 2020 Oscar winners, here, and check out Jennifer Lopez Oscars after-party Instagram post below.
Adam Sandler Finds Positives After "Uncut Gems" Oscar Snub
Adam Sandler, that eternal optimist.
After his frantic turn in The Safdie Brother's Uncut Gems, many began championing Adam Sandler as a surefire Oscar favorite. Despite the fact that the Safdie's thriller checks off few of the Academy's boxes, the hope they'd see value in his against-type performance burned until the bitter end. Upon the revelation of 2020's full list of Academy Award nominees, Sandler's name, or the Safdie Brothers for that matter, was nowhere to be seen.
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Though not quite calling it a "snub," Sandler took to Twitter to make light of any potential disappointment. "Bad news: Sandman gets no love from the Academy," he begins, starting with the bad news like any sane person should. "Good news: Sandman can stop wearing suits. Congrats to all my friends who got nominated, especially Mama." In this context, Mama is a reference Kathy Bates, who secured herself a nomination for her performance in Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell.
Sandler previously worked with Kathy Bates in 1999 comedy The Waterboy, and it's clear he's been a fan ever since. And while Uncut Gems failed to move the Academy, at least we can take solace in the fact that Adam Sandler's wardrobe has returned to status quo.
