On Tuesday, January 24, the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were announced. Fans of cinema all around the world tuned into the live stream to see which of their favorite movies, actors, and crew members would be receiving honors. Like any other year, there were more than a few big surprises and quite a lot of shocking snubs.

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With shocks like Andrea Riseborough's last-minute grassroots Oscar campaign, some notable movies and performers were left out of consideration. Though there are always future ceremonies and projects to gain recognition for, fans were particularly shocked to see certain nominees shut out in certain categories, including Best Picture and Best VFX.

1 Jordan Peele's Nope Is Completely Absent

Daniel Kaluuya on horseback in Nope

Jordan Peele transitioned from sketch comedy to horror filmmaking with his 2017 smash-hit Get Out. The movie was not only critically acclaimed but also netted Peele several Oscar nominations, including a win for Best Original Screenplay. Peele has directed two movies since Get Out won, both of which were ignored by the prestigious awards ceremony.

Particularly, movie fans are shocked to see that no attention has been paid to Peele's 2022 flick Nope. Not only did it miss out on Best Picture and Best Director, but it didn't even garner well-deserved nominations for Best Sound and Best VFX. Hopefully, Peele will be able to recapture the Academy's attention in the coming years.

2 Paul Dano Doesn't Make Best Actor

Paul Dano as Burt Fabelmans in The Fabelmans

Most pundits would've assumed that Paul Dano was all but guaranteed a Best Actor nomination. The actor has had a great year, starting off as The Riddler in Matt Reeves' The Batman, and then twisting the audience's hearts with his role as Burt Fabelman in Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans. Even his co-star Michelle Williams nabbed a nominamtion.

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This lack of a nomination for Dano is particularly upsetting for cinema fans considering the actor has yet to receive an Oscar nomination for any of his performances. He was particularly outstanding in Oscar darlings like Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood, and Love & Mercy. However, the actor has yet to score either Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor.

3 Viola Davis Loses Out On Best Actress

Viola Davis holding a torch in The Woman King

Viola Davis has a strong history with the Academy Awards, having won Best Supporting Actress for her work in Fences. She's also been nominated for her performances in Doubt, The Help, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. However, it was shocking to see her snubbed in the Best Actress category in 2023, especially when her work in The Woman King was a career-high.

In The Woman King, Davis plays a West African Dahomey general. In preparation for the role, Viola Davis and the rest of the cast engaged in hardcore strength training to be able to do their own stunts. For such an incredible feat and a stellar on-screen performance, it's a shame that the academy chose to ignore a favored nominee from previous years.

4 Keke Palmer Can't Catch Supporting Actress

Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya on a green screen in Nope

Jordan Peele being snubbed for Best Director and Best Picture wasn't the only loss suffered by Nope. Keke Palmer, whose performance in the movie as Emerald Haywood was a standout to critics can attest to this. The actress, who got her start acting on Nickelodeon, was well overdue for a breakout moment to turn her into the next big thing in film.

Unfortunately, Palmer was left out of consideration for the stacked Best Supporting Actress category, which includes the likes of Angela Bassett and Stephanie Hsu. Not even a hosting gig at Saturday Night Live in the fall of 2022 was enough to persuade voters to show Keke some love. Hopefully, this is far from the end of her path to Oscar glory.

5 Black Panther Misses Out On Adapted Screenplay

Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia in Black Panther Wakanda Forever

Released in 2018, the first Black Panther movie was a surprise multi-nominee at the 2019 Academy Awards, netting seven nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Song, winning three of them. Its highly-anticipated sequel, however, was coming off the tragedy of Chadwick Boseman's untimely passing in 2020, costing this movie its lead character.

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Fortunately, Ryan Coogler did everything he could to make an outstanding movie not only worthy as a tribute to Boseman, but also one that lived up to the expectations of Marvel fans. It's surprising to see it not earn a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, though, Angela Bassett was at least recognized for her fantastic performance as Queen Ramonda.

6 An Instant Classic Horror Is Snubbed For Original Screenplay

Georgina Campbell as Tess pulling a rope in Barbarian

In the summer and fall of 2022, word-of-mouth led to the guerilla success of the horror movie Barbarian. Written and directed by Zach Cregger, the movie follows a young woman who finds herself double-booked in a rental home, only to discover much darker secrets lurking beneath her. Many reviewers praised the movie, which was a box-office smash.

Many critics lauded the screenwriting of Cregger, who initially wrote the movie as a personal project before unexpectedly getting it developed. That being said, Best Original Screenplay is quite the competitive category in 2023, with big-swingers like Martin McDonagh and the Daniels in competition with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner.

7 Taylor Swift Is Snubbed On Two Fronts

Taylor Swift with red hair in All Too Well The Short Film

2023 seemed like the year singer-songwriter Taylor Swift would finally earn an Oscar nomination. Not only did she garner attention with her song "Carolina" for the 2022 movie Where the Crawdads Sing, but she also earned heaps of praise for her 2021 short film All Too Well, which is based on the critically-acclaimed song from her album Red (Taylor's Version).

Sadly, All Too Well didn't make the Oscars shortlist, even after a "Directors on Directors" interview with Martin McDonagh. While "Carolina" was shortlisted, it was snubbed from the Best Original Song category. However, Swift's future Oscar chances are still alive, as she's been confirmed to be writing and directing an original movie for Searchlight Pictures.

8 Guillermo Del Toro Also Misses Out On Best Original Song

Pinocchio singing in Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

It's no secret that the Academy Awards often disrespect the medium of animation. Such is the case with Guillermo Del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio, which earned a nomination for Best Animated Feature. However, many movie fans were upset that it didn't also garner attention for Best Production Design or Best Cinematography.

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Another area in which Guillermo Del Toro was snubbed was Best Original Song, with the movie's centerpiece "Ciao, Papa" not nominated in the category. Many cinema fans were rightfully upset by the snub, considering the song has an emotional resonance in the movie, while many of the other songs that were nominated were simply songs that play during the credits.

9 The Daniels' Multiverse Extravaganza Doesn't Cut VFX

Michelle Yeoh in split timelines in Everything Everywhere All At Once

The Best Visual Effects category at the 2023 Academy Awards was bound to be a fierce competition. James Cameron's long-awaited sequel to Avatar garnered an obvious nomination, which it seems primed to win. However, one of the year's most beloved movies, Everything Everywhere All At Once, seemed like a shoo-in for the category.

Although Everything Everywhere All At Once is the movie with the highest amount of nominations at this year's ceremony, Best Visual Effects seems like an odd choice to leave out. Considering it was nominated for categories like Best Original Song and Best Costume Design, Visual Effects seemed like its best chance at a technical award.

10 "Decision To Leave" Is Shockingly Absent

Tang Wei and Park Hae-il in Decision To Leave

One of the most critically-acclaimed foreign language movies of 2022 was the South Korean Decision to Leave, directed by Park Chan-wook. The movie seemed like a guaranteed nomination for the category, especially after South Korean cinema had its big Oscars moment when the 2019 movie Parasite swept the ceremony in 2020.

Many cinema fans were certain Decision to Leave would surpass the foreign language category and garner a nomination for Best Picture. However, it was completely snubbed from the 2023 Oscar nominee list. Nevertheless, many film fans can still enjoy the movie, as they can all of the other movies that were snubbed for this year's Oscars.

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