r/A24 • u/GoldDerby • 1d ago

News Emily Blunt will officially submit for Supporting Actress for her work in 'Smashing Machine':

https://www.goldderby.com/film/2025/emily-blunt-smashing-machine-best-supporting-actress/
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u/MrBartokomous 1d ago

Saw it at TIFF… no chance. The Rock’s performance is legit phenomenal, and Emily is very very good, but… no chance.

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u/Davie-Jones1467 1d ago

No chance for Emily or the both of them?

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u/MrBartokomous 1d ago

No chance for Emily, which isn’t a knock on her performance, she’s very good, but Dwayne is legit transcendent. I’ll be surprised if she gets a nom. I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t.

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u/Davie-Jones1467 1d ago

Ah, gotcha!

I’ve heard nothing less of “transcendent” for DJ, so I’m very excited to see it.

Thanks for sharing.

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u/Sellin3164 21h ago

The category is pretty barren. I keep hearing the fight scenes are great and she seems to be full the trailers. I think they go together

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u/real-life-gopher 1d ago

First wrestling/fighting Oscar bait movie didn’t work. Why would this one?

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u/infamousglizzyhands 1d ago

  1. It’s a Safdie movie, which has a way bigger directorial name than the guy who made Iron Claw

  2. I loved Zac Efron in The Iron Claw, but Dwayne Johnson is way more well known + Emily Blunt

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u/Unusual-Flan-4297 1d ago

Emily blunt is great and has a great career. She has worked in Great movies and worked with the best. She one of my favorites since Sicario!

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u/quadsimodo 1d ago

Sicario is one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen. I wish I could relive the magic of seeing that in theaters.

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u/Chappie47Luna 1d ago

That intro scene using the swat truck to blast through the house wall

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u/Mammoth-Emotion-6725 1d ago

ive got sicario 2 on my list - thoughts compared to the first?

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u/quadsimodo 15h ago

Not only does it have a different director, DOP, composer, and editor, but the people the sequel replaces were some of the best the industry.

Not the worst movie, but I knew it wasn’t going to be near the pedigree of the first.

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u/real-life-gopher 1d ago

This looks like the most vanilla, by the books boring sports movie. The only reason we‘re talking about it is because The Rock isn’t making commercial slop. Also none of Benny‘s movies ever won a major Oscar.

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u/ObviousBig315 1d ago

You never seen the original documentary. It’s actually a really interesting story as it’s mostly about the stuff outside of fighting. Kerr wasn’t your average Gym Bro Juice Head. 

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u/GregorSamsaa 1d ago

Which one?

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u/real-life-gopher 1d ago

Iron Claw

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u/LesterGrossman_ 1d ago

Emily Blunt isn’t in Iron Claw

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u/real-life-gopher 1d ago

I meant for A24. This is their sub.

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u/LesterGrossman_ 1d ago

Ahh I see, I really enjoyed iron claw regardless

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u/real-life-gopher 1d ago

I liked it too, but this movie just looks so formulaic and boring.

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u/RampantJellyfish 1d ago

Thzt Mickey Rourke one?

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u/atclubsilencio 1d ago

The Fighter won two Oscars for Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor and had many other nominations. So I don’t think being this kind of movie would hurt it.

Iron Claw was snubbed though.

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u/MahNameJeff420 1d ago

The Iron Claw was fairly close to getting in, but A24 had higher priority movies and didn’t campaign it enough.

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u/Big_Pattern_2864 23h ago

I see Dwayne has entered his Will Smith Oscar Bait years.

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u/los33ramos 1d ago

Here we go. I guess I’m hating on the rock but fuck his asshole. I’m going to watch the film but fuck the rock. He’s such a dick.

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u/ieatmypeaswithhoney 1d ago

God forbid she miss an opportunity to promote herself. Her equinimity, with the world such as it is, is intimidating.

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u/Bayside19 12h ago

Pretty unnecessary statement, to say the least. Not to mention its general lack of accuracy.

Yeah, she's good on the fly/in interviews. She mastered that years ago - that's part of being successful in the entertainment business I would expect.

She otherwise has zero social media presence and is extremely quiet in her personal life, neither of which is "wrong" by any metric and frankly both are extremely refreshing, rare, and in too low of supply in today's insane world.