{"id":872793,"date":"2026-10-06T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872793\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:04:14","slug":"artificial-oscars-campaign-andrew-garfield-in-supporting-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872793\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Artificial’ Oscars Campaign: Andrew Garfield in Supporting Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSixteen years ago, Andrew Garfield<\/a> played the Facebook co-founder who was pushed out of the company he helped create in \u201cThe Social Network\u201d and came up short in the supporting actor race. Now, he\u2019s playing the CEO pushed out of OpenAI \u2014 and who talked his way back in five days later. Different man, different company. Same category, hoping for a different outcome.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs \u201cArtificial<\/a>\u201d world premieres at the New York Film Festival<\/a>, Variety has learned exclusively that the film\u2019s awards campaign will include Garfield competing in the supporting actor category<\/a> for Luca Guadagnino\u2019s OpenAI drama, while Yura Borisov, who plays OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, will campaign in lead actor. Oscar winner Mark Rylance, as AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, will join Garfield in the supporting race, while Monica Barbaro, as former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, will vie for supporting actress.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe campaign will extend across all the major categories, including best picture, director and acting, while Simon Rich\u2019s screenplay will compete in original screenplay and every craft department will receive a full campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Guadagnino, \u201cArtificial\u201d marks his fifth appearance at NYFF, following \u201cCall Me by Your Name,\u201d \u201cBones and All,\u201d \u201cQueer\u201d and \u201cAfter the Hunt,\u201d which opened the festival last year. After Lincoln Center audiences get the first official look at the film, it heads to the BFI London Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Garfield in \u201cArtificial\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon<\/p>\n

\n\tGarfield is a two-time best actor nominee for the war drama \u201cHacksaw Ridge\u201d (2016) and the musical biopic \u201cTick, Tick \u2026 Boom!\u201d (2021). While he has been the face of the marketing and plays the most famous name in the story, it\u2019s not unprecedented for a film\u2019s top-billed star to pursue a supporting nomination \u2014 as Meryl Streep did for \u201cInto the Woods\u201d and Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones did for \u201cChicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film traces decades in the lives of Ilya and Sam Altman (Garfield), two men from completely different worlds who bond over a shared desire to change the world for the better amid the sunny glow of Obama-era tech optimism. They eventually find themselves at odds as the enormous \u2014 and increasingly dangerous \u2014 capabilities of their technology reveal themselves across the Trump and Biden years, before Altman is ousted. In other words, the audience rides with the man who pulled the trigger, not the one who took the bullet.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe best actor field is already crowded<\/a>, with several contenders emerging from NYFF, including Pedro Pascal\u2019s cellist<\/a> in \u201cBehemoth!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBorisov is two years removed from his first Oscar nomination, for his breakthrough performance as the reluctant henchman Igor in Sean Baker\u2019s best picture winner \u201cAnora.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ensemble has Oscar pedigree throughout. Rylance won supporting actor for his turn in Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cBridge of Spies,\u201d while Barbaro is two years removed from her first nom for playing Joan Baez in the Bob Dylan biopic \u201cA Complete Unknown.\u201d The rest of the cast includes Cooper Hoffman as Greg Brockman, Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk, Jason Schwartzman, Chris O\u2019Dowd, Billie Lourd and Zosia Mamet.<\/p>\n

\n\tBehind the camera, Guadagnino has assembled many of his regular collaborators. Marco Costa, an ACE Eddie Award nominee for \u201cChallengers,\u201d returns for his duties while Jessica Ronane, a two-time Artios nominee who has cast Guadagnino\u2019s films since \u201cQueer,\u201d handled casting. Production designer Stefano Baisi, whose credits include \u201cQueer\u201d and \u201cAfter the Hunt,\u201d builds the world alongside ADG nominee Roberta Federico. J.W. Anderson, the Costume Designers Guild nominee who dressed \u201cChallengers\u201d and \u201cQueer,\u201d returns as well.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the new faces behind the lens is cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed, a Camerimage winner whose credits include Spike Lee\u2019s \u201cClockers,\u201d Hype Williams\u2019 \u201cBelly\u201d and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cLemonade.\u201d Damon Albarn, the Blur frontman and Grammy winner with Gorillaz, composed the original score and wrote the original songs heard in the film. Submission details for which original songs will vie for attention are forthcoming.<\/p>\n

\n\tGuadagnino is hoping to make his triumphant return to an Oscar ceremony. \u201cCall Me by Your Name\u201d earned four nominations at the 90th Oscars<\/a> and won adapted screenplay for James Ivory. Among the producers are Jeffrey Clifford, Jennifer Fox, Guadagnino, David Heyman and Rich. Fox is an Oscar nominee for best picture for \u201cMichael Clayton,\u201d while Guadagnino was nominated for \u201cCall Me by Your Name.\u201d Heyman is a four-time best picture nominee for \u201cGravity,\u201d \u201cMarriage Story,\u201d \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood\u201d and \u201cBarbie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, Guadagnino, Garfield and company will see if \u201cArtificial\u201d can prompt their Oscar comebacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen years ago, Andrew Garfield played the Facebook co-founder who was pushed out of the company he helped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[25252,27729,236,88,45374,29506],"class_list":["post-872793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-artificial","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-york-film-festival","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}