At first glance I am most interested in the best actress nomination for Andrea Riseborough. I can’t remember if this has been discussed here; she is a little know actress in an extremely low budget and little noticed film (“To Leslie”), whose non-existent Oscar chances suddenly blew up in late December when a gaggle of A-List actors began tweeting superlative praises for her performance, seemingly spontaneously, culminating in Cate Blanchett name checking her in a gush during her acceptance speech for her Critics Choice Award last week. I first noticed this on my own Twitter feed with a tweet from Ed Norton, which seemed peculiar enough that I searched for, and found, many more.
I have not yet seen the film (but will, as I try to see all films nominated in major categories every year), perhaps the social media blizzard is justified solely on the merits, though if so this would have to be the most impressive acting performance in history. More likely it is a good enough performance (I have seen it described as rather showy by less effusive reviewers) that got the social media celebrity supercharge treatment via Riseborough’s representation by CAA, which also reps a number of the Tweeting stars. The film had zero budget, and could not afford a single ad, and it doesn’t require too much imagination to picture CAA asking it’s top talent to watch the film and post something ice, and then initiating a perfect storm of romantic crusade for the poor underdog plus Puckish delight at pulling one over on the public and big studios, with perhaps some old AIDS ribbon era Hollywood conformity leading some fearful of being left out for jumping on board. Even so there was widespread speculation that the push was too little too late, and now that she actually got the nomination I wonder if some are sorry, as it must have pushed some established actress out of the nominations, perhaps a friend to some of the social media amplifiers. On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 6:09 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023 (link) > > Reactions here. > > B > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/08cc7e08-d3c3-41d4-a3fe-77ae545d7badn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/08cc7e08-d3c3-41d4-a3fe-77ae545d7badn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJtaOGuYu7%2BX05a_Q05Y_G6fTP6YiVd5n_kwc1wJjVcaw%40mail.gmail.com.
