Will Ferrell mocks the Academy after Will & Harper Oscar snub within the Greatest Documentary Characteristic: ‘S**ok it’
Hollywood actor Will Ferrell has some alternative phrases for the Oscars. After his documentary Will & Harper did not obtain any nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards, the 57-year-old actor-producer took a cheeky swipe on the organisation’s documentary department throughout an look on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert, just lately.
“Ask me if we obtained Oscar-nominated,” he mentioned, after Colbert, 60, praised him within the movie, which chronicles Ferrell and his transgender good friend Harper Steele on a street journey throughout the USA. “It’s such a great documentary, it’s among the finest I’ve seen in years,” Colbert responded. “It was lovely, it was well timed, it was heartfelt, I used to be impressed by it. What concerning the Oscar nomination?”
Ferrell, with out lacking a beat, replied, “We didn’t get it.” When Colbert jokingly mentioned, “F**ok the Academy,” Ferrell added, “Particularly the doc department,” in reference to these chargeable for nominating movies for the Greatest Documentary Characteristic class. “You don’t need to hang around with the doc department. What a bunch of losers,” he continued. Glancing out on the Late Present viewers, he then quipped, “In truth, I hope a few of them are right here tonight. For those who’re a member of the doc department, s**ok it.”
Will & Harper premiered to important acclaim on the 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant earlier than being launched in cinemas and on Netflix in September. Regardless of not securing a nomination for Greatest Documentary Characteristic on the upcoming Oscars, or for Greatest Authentic Tune for the monitor by Kristen Wiig, Sean Douglas, and Josh Greenbaum, the documentary has nonetheless received a number of accolades. The Nationwide Board of Assessment named it among the many high 5 documentaries of 2024, and it has earned a spot as one of many nominees for Greatest Documentary on the upcoming BAFTA Awards.
The documentaries vying for the Greatest Documentary Characteristic Oscar on the 97th Academy Awards are Black Field Diaries, No Different Land, Porcelain Warfare, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, and Sugarcane.
