This year’s relatively painless Oscar nominations still offered moments of confusion, from Lakeith Stanfield’s unusual Best Supporting Actor nod, to the maligned Hillbilly Elegy’s general presence.
She was shut out at the Oscars, however – with her film One Night in Miami… picking up just three nominations overall.
The film, which dramatises a behind-closed-doors meeting between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke in 1964, was only nominated for Best Screenplay (for Kemp Powers), Best Song (for “Speak Now”) and Best Supporting Actor (for Leslie Odom Jr).
It partly explains why Stanfield’s presence in the Best Supporting Actor category, alongside his Judas and the Black Messiah co-lead Daniel Kaluuya, felt so jarring.