Can you win Best Supporting Actress for parts where you’re not always acting?
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Spoilers follow for You Can See Everything.
Amanda Seyfried has been unleashed. For months (around a year, if you count her time filming and waiting for the Telluride premiere), the actor has had to keep mum on her involvement in You Can See Everything. A24 has decided it’s been long enough for the spoiler-averse, and Seyfried can do press. “Now that they’re going to let me loose and show up, I’m down!” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
She is down to clown (campaign for awards, both Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress), but is the Academy? According to THR, the different awards bodies have very different feelings about whether what Seyfried does in the documentary rises to the definition of “acting.” She’s eligible for Best Supporting Actress at the Critics Choice Awards, but they are the outlier. The Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Actor Awards (f.k.a. SAG Awards) all say no. A24 can appeal the Actor Awards’ decision, but insiders tell THR they’re saving energy for the Oscars. Early determination for those comes in December.
Seyfried told THR that she’s been grateful to not have to promote the film until now, as her life has been very busy (Seyfried announced her separation from husband Thomas Sadoski in September). “But I’ll do what I need to do,” she said, “because I support the movie and I support the fact that it is unconventional and I want this to proliferate, if that makes sense? I want [Hollywood] to keep being brave.”
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