14 DAY TRIAL // The Oscars 2015 nominations were announced yesterday, in a live broadcast, as the Academy has been doing for years. As it’s been happening for years too, people took issue with some of the nominees and the glaring omission of actors, directors and films – the so-called snubs, and they vented their frustration online.
Emma Stone and Philip Lord have had the best reactions so far to the Oscars announcement, from inside the industry. Emma was a surprise nominee for the Best Supporting Actress and Philip was one of the biggest snubs, because “The Lego Movie” did not get a Best Animation Film mention.
Emma is so “[expletive]-ing excited”
Tradition calls for statements to the media right after the announcements are made, which is the perfect chance for the nominees to start polishing the speeches they must already have written.
Most of them are common fare, about how blessed and lucky they feel, how they did not expect to be mentioned but they’re honored they were, and how it’s their fellow nominees (aka their rivals) who are actually more deserving of praise.
Emma Stone’s is different. She is up for Best Supporting Actress (which industry watchers have already decided will go to Patricia Arquette for “Boyhood”) and she’s very excited about it, especially since this is her first Oscar nomination too.
“Well, this is surreal. I am completely knocked out. Thank you to the Academy for this incredible honor. I am very proud and lucky to be a part of ‘Birdman’ and can't believe it came to this,” Emma tells the Daily Beast.
“I am so [expletive]-ing excited. Are you allowed to say [expletive] when you're making a statement for the Oscars? I'm just really [expletive]-ing excited,” she continues.
The answer is that no, you’re probably not allowed to say that in your post-Oscar nominations statement, but more power to her for keeping it real and being herself. She’s excited and she wants the world to know it.
Philip is handy
This brings us to the second name mentioned above, that of Philip Lord, one of the writers and directors on “The Lego Movie,” or as audiences called it, the funniest animated movie of 2014.
Outrage that it didn’t get a nod started right after the nominees were announced, and some of it must have reached Lord’s ears. Because you wouldn’t expect any less from a man who penned such a funny movie, he chose to see the funny side of the snub, posting a photo of a Lego-made Oscar statuette and the caption “It’s okay. Made my own!”
As funny as that might be, it failed to make outraged fans any less so: right now, they are convinced that the Academy only snubbed the film because it’s about Legos.
It's okay. Made my own! pic.twitter.com/kgyu1GRHGR
— philip lord (@philiplord) January 15, 2015