The Forgotscars: Celebrating the Nominees That Weren’t

The Academy always slips up when they unleash their Oscar nominations each year. Bradley Cooper didn’t earn a nod for Best Director for A Star is Born is the most recent blot on their process. This morning, in a year of such horridness, the Academy didn’t disappoint — leaving out a plethora of deserved nominees in favor of, well, other deserving nominees. To celebrate the work of those left out, here’s an alternate Oscars (in major categories only) which the snubbed get love. Since six people will read this, there’s no voting in the end. No Gold Statues. No nothing. Just recognition — which is enough, right? Cheers to the Oscar Forgotten…

Best Picture
Soul
One Night in Miami
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Palm Springs
Mo Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen — Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Tom Hanks — News of the World
Delroy Lindo — Da 5 Bloods
Mads Mikkelsen — Another Round
Tahar Rahim — The Mauritanian

Best Actress
Sophia Loren — The Life Ahead
Rosamund Pike — We Care A Lot
Michelle Pfeiffer — French Exit
Kate Winslet — Ammonite
Zendaya — Malcolm & Marie

Best Supporting Actor
Kingsley Ben-Adir — One Night in Miami
Chadwick Boseman — Da 5 Bloods
Bo Burnham — Promising Young Woman
Bill Murray — On the Rocks
Glynn Turman — Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Supporting Actress
Jodie Foster — The Mauritanian
Yeri Han — Minari
Dominique Fishback — Judas and the Black Messiah
Talia Ryder — Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Helena Zengel — News of the World

Best Director
Spike Lee — Da 5 Bloods
Darius Marder — Sound of Metal
Regina King — One Night in Miami
Shaka King — Judas and the Black Messiah
Aaron Sorkin — The Trial of the Chicago 7