{"id":61929,"date":"2023-02-06T12:28:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/lil-rel-howery-raises-eyebrows-at-his-deep-water-co-star-ana-de-armas-best-actress-nom-for-blonde-for-real\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:28:49","slug":"lil-rel-howery-raises-eyebrows-at-his-deep-water-co-star-ana-de-armas-best-actress-nom-for-blonde-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/lil-rel-howery-raises-eyebrows-at-his-deep-water-co-star-ana-de-armas-best-actress-nom-for-blonde-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Rel Howery Raises Eyebrows At His &#8216;Deep Water&#8217; Co-Star Ana de Armas&#8217; Best Actress Nom For &#8216;Blonde&#8217;: &#8220;For Real?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \">\n<\/aside>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of\u00a0<strong>Oscars<\/strong>\u00a0drama not too long ago, with\u00a0<strong>Andrea Riseborough<\/strong>\u2018s surprise nomination for \u201c<strong>To Leslie<\/strong>\u201d having Hollywood and everyone else question the campaign tactics for the\u00a0<strong>Academy Awards<\/strong>. But\u00a0<strong>Lil Rel Howery<\/strong>\u00a0is up in arms about a different nom altogether. In his mind,\u00a0<strong>Ana De Armas<\/strong>\u2018 nomination for \u201c<strong>Blonde<\/strong>\u201d \u201cdoesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d particularly since\u00a0<strong>Andrew Dominik<\/strong>\u2018s movie has eight\u00a0<strong>Razzies<\/strong>\u00a0noms this 12 months, together with Worst Picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/academy-board-of-governors-taking-no-action-over-andrea-riseborough-controversy-20230131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE: Academy Board Of Governors Taking No Action Over Andrea Riseborough Controversy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/awards\/oscars\/lil-rel-howery-questions-ana-de-armas-oscar-nomination-blonde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EW<\/a> reviews that Howery talked about his \u201c<strong>Deep Water<\/strong>\u201d co-star\u2019s nomination for her function as\u00a0<strong>Marilyn Monroe<\/strong>\u00a0in an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2023\/02\/lil-rel-howery-supports-the-andrea-riseborough-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vulture\u2019s \u201cInto It\u201d Podcast<\/a> yesterday. The dialog was all about Riseborough making the ultimate 5 nominees whereas different contenders like\u00a0<strong>Viola Davis<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Danielle Deadwyler<\/strong>\u00a0didn\u2019t. But Howery weighed in on one other nomination as a substitute. \u201cSomebody else should have got bumped,\u201d Howery argued. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say anything, but it\u2019s a movie nominated as a Razzie. That doesn\u2019t make sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howery later named de Armas particularly to \u201cInto It\u201d host Sam Sanders. \u201cIt\u2019s just\u2026 and that\u2019s somebody I did a film with,\u201d Howery continued. \u201cI did \u201cDeep Water\u201d together with her, with<strong>\u00a0Ben Affleck<\/strong>. Amazing. I\u2019m simply speaking in regards to the Academy. What are y\u2019all doing? Come on, fam. For actual?\u201d The actor went on to reward each Davis and Deadwyler\u2019s performances, and mentioned \u201cAre we ever going to get that due? [Davis] did the work in [\u201cThe Woman King\u201d]. She did the work. \u201cWoman King,\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em>to me, was among the best films I\u2019ve watched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Armas and Riseborough go up in opposition to fellow nominees\u00a0<strong>Michelle Yeoh<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201c<strong>Everything Everywhere All At Once<\/strong>\u201c),\u00a0<strong>Cate Blanchett<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201c<strong>T\u00e1r<\/strong>\u201c), and\u00a0<strong>Michelle Williams<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201c<strong>The Fabelmans<\/strong>\u201c) in the Best Actress category at the Oscars ceremony on March 12. As for \u201cBlonde,\u201d it vies for Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Screen Couple on the Razzies the day earlier than. This begs the query: is Lil Rel Howery onto one thing her with de Armas\u2019 nomination? \u201cBlonde\u201d entered its world premiere on the\u00a0<strong>Venice Film Festival<\/strong>\u00a0final 12 months to a flurry of intrigue and excessive hopes, solely to show to be one of the vital divisive films of final 12 months. But does the myriad foibles of \u201cBlonde\u201d diminish de Armas\u2019 efficiency in it?<\/p>\n<p>As for the investigation into Riseborough\u2019s nomination, <a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/academy-board-of-governors-taking-no-action-over-andrea-riseborough-controversy-20230131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Academy doesn\u2019t suppose it deserves disqualification<\/a>. However, they admitted that outreach techniques on social media and in any other case \u201ccaused concern,\u201d which can immediate them to revise marketing campaign rules for subsequent 12 months. But does Riseborough (or Davis and Deadwyler in the event that they bought nominated) even stand an opportunity within the Best Actress class in opposition to the likes of Blanchett and Yeoh? As far as this author thinks, the Oscar belongs to both of these performances in an in depth contest, with nobody else even shut. We\u2019ll see how issues pan out on the ceremony in March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] There\u2019s a lot of\u00a0Oscars\u00a0drama not too long ago, with\u00a0Andrea Riseborough\u2018s surprise nomination for \u201cTo Leslie\u201d having Hollywood and everyone else question the campaign tactics for the\u00a0Academy Awards. But\u00a0Lil Rel Howery\u00a0is up in arms about a different nom altogether. In his mind,\u00a0Ana De Armas\u2018 nomination for \u201cBlonde\u201d \u201cdoesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d particularly since\u00a0Andrew Dominik\u2018s movie has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}