No Selena Gomez and ‘Challengers’ snubbed: film fans lament “insane” Oscars shocks

The Oscars nominations have been revealed and there are several snubs that film fans are not happy about.

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Jacques Audiard’s original musical thriller Emilia Pérez leads the pack with a massive 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón and Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña.

Brady Corbet’s architectural epic The Brutalist and Jon M. Chu’s starry Broadway adaptation Wicked came in tied for second place, with 10 nominations each. Other movies with multiple nods include Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and papal drama Conclave with eight apiece, and Sean Baker’s Anora, which received six nominations.

However, as ever, there were some notable omissions. Luca Guadagnino missed out twice with his 2024 movies, Queer and Challengers, to the surprise of film fans. Also missing out were Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl), Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Denzel Washington (Gladiator II) and Angelina Jolie (Maria).

Fans were particularly surprised that Challengers was snubbed, especially for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score, which was described as “fucking insane” and one of the “biggest snubs” in the history of the awards.

“history will not look kindly on Challengers Oscars snub,” one X/Twitter user wrote.

Check out more reactions below:

Challengers snub for original score is fucking insane. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/c3HjEq7xZF

— The Kyber Culture (@kyberculture) January 23, 2025

Biggest Oscar snub is Challengers missing in Score, THAT IS CRAZY pic.twitter.com/zDlBW1HUz3

— Brian Rowe (@mrbrianrowe) January 23, 2025

History will not look kindly on the Challengers Oscar snubs. pic.twitter.com/BQ4kad49G1

— Megan Duval (@megs817) January 23, 2025

challengers original score snub cancel the oscars

— zoë rose bryant (@zoerosebryant) January 23, 2025

The Challengers might be up there with biggest snubs in recent Oscars history pic.twitter.com/KD4vJdCmAf

— embarrassing.bsky.social (@embarrassinq) January 23, 2025

The Oscars deciding to snub Challengers: pic.twitter.com/kXVJGwO9WB

— Chicago Urbanist (@chi_urbanist) January 23, 2025

The oscars trying to justify the challengers snubs pic.twitter.com/tQRUh3N1yE

— eric (@ericc__h) January 23, 2025

the oscars noms this year is snub city how did some of the best films and actors not get nominated at all im shocked

— mads gets the job done (@REDWINESUPERDRK) January 23, 2025

The Angelina Jolie snub is so disappointing, I can’t believe she wasn’t nominated — she literally delivered the best performance of her career in Maria #Oscars pic.twitter.com/86KNQsZvUQ

— Mar (@_martremblay) January 23, 2025

Also missing out was Kneecap, which neither the band nor fans were happy about.

The semi-autobiographical comedy-drama based on the Irish hip-hop trio of the same name, Kneecap had been tipped as a contender in both the Best International Feature Film and Best Original Song categories, but today’s nomination announcement revealed that they were shut out of both.

The Northern Irish band, comprising of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, shared their reaction to being snubbed on social media, posting “Fuck the Oscars. Free Palestine.” on X and Instagram.

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