Ana de Armas

From Ana De Armas to RRR, there were many shocks that shook up this year's Oscar's race. Here are six of them.

It was always a question of if the actor would get recognition, and it seems The Academy loves his performance just as much as those who saw the film that was one of the best I’d say that between all this news, and his beloved performance in Aftersun, while it was shocking, it makes sense that the breakout actor got a nomination. The biggest snubs here are 100% Joseph Kosinski not getting a Best Director nomination and She spent many years working in local journalism across the country writing about art, news and sports. The movie has been making a massive push for a Best Picture nomination for a while now. However, what makes this surprising is the movies that didn’t get nominated in these categories, especially in Best Director. Overall, the Best Actress race ended up being the most shocking to me overall, because of these two surprises. Paul Mescal has been a dark horse this whole awards season, and the fifth spot in Best Actor has fluctuated for the last few months, and I’m overjoyed that the young actor made it in for his performance in Aftersun. [Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams read out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhdaLnKMJHA) Ana de Armas’ and Andrea Riseborough’s names for Blonde and To Leslie, respectively, was a big surprise to put it lightly. From Ana de Armas making it into Best Actress to Triangle of Sadness picking up multiple nominations to RRR only getting one nod, there’s a lot to talk about, so let’s get into it. It was sadly not RRR’s morning. As for Riseborough, she only recently picked up steam for her performance in To Leslie.

Ana de Armas has been nominated for an Oscar for playing Marilyn Monroe in Blonde, beating out Viola Davis for The Woman King.

[wrote](https://twitter.com/lewisjwr/status/1617887780423729154). I will hold my tongue,” a seventh [tweeted](https://twitter.com/_trudiegraham/status/1617891292113174529). “Ana de Armas robbing Danielle Deadwyler and Viola Davis ANA WHEN I FIND YOU,” a third [tweeted](https://twitter.com/hosseiri/status/1617887582578409473). I had a feeling that the groundswell for Andrea Riseborough would kick out Deadwyler and Viola Davis. Everything Everywhere All at Once is the leader of the pack with 11 nominations, followed by [Netflix’s](https://www.dexerto.com/tag/netflix/) war epic All Quiet on The Western Front with nine nods. “Danielle Deadwyler and Viola Davis missing for Ana De Armas and Andrea Riseborough is maddening.

'Blonde' got trashed by the Razzies, but star Ana de Armas showed them by earning a 2023 Oscars Best Actress nomination for her performance as Marilyn ...

[Oscars momentum](https://ew.com/awards/tracking-top-2023-oscars-contenders/) going into Tuesday after earning a pick from the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Blonde writer/director Andrew Dominik did not earn any Oscar nominations for his adaptation of [Joyce Carol Oates](http://www.ew.com/people/joyce-carol-oates)' novel to offset his Razzie nods. [Razzies](https://ew.com/razzies/) aren't always right.

Ana de Armas scored a Best Actress nomination for her harrowing turn as a fictionalized Marilyn Monroe in Blonde — the only nomination for the film.

In a sign of how long and winding a Hollywood career path can be, Dominik sought out de Armas for Blonde after seeing her in the Eli Roth exploitation-style thriller Knock Knock, in which de Armas plays one of two possibly underage young women who seduce and imprison a hapless suburban dad Keanu Reeves. Critics objected that she seemed disempowered and to lack agency (which could be truthfully set of many 1950s and ’60s actresses brought up in a studio system designed to deny them power and agency) and the film holds a mere 42% on It’s widely seen as a tossup between Blanchett, who has won two Oscars in the past (lead actress for Blue Jasmine and supporting for The Aviator), and Yeoh, who has never been nominated before.