Everyone the Oscars snubbed, including Jennifer Lopez, Awkwafina, Lupita Nyong'o, and Adam Sandler
Egerton had been mounting a strong awards campaign. For playing Elton John in “Rocketman,” he beat Leonardo DiCaprio at the Golden Globes and earned a SAG and BAFTA nomination, yet the best actor race was too crowded. Still, it doesn’t seem fair that Rami Malek, who lip synced as Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” would win last year’s best actor Oscar, while Egerton — who really did sing all of John’s songs — didn’t get nominated.
” The Oscars usually loves to reward actors for playing real-life people, especially other actors, but the Netflix release had trouble breaking into this year’s best actor race. For now, Murphy’s only Oscar nomination is for “Dreamgirls.”What happened to “Just Mercy”? In the fall, Warner Bros. executives thought they had a formidable Oscar contender on its hands for a story about a young lawyer who tries to save his innocent client from death row.
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