In a recent interview with Allure, Jennifer Lopez discussed being shut out from the 2020 Oscar awards nomination.
The moment the award nominations were announced, the actress’ fans deemed it a snub and accused the organisers of robbing the 52-year-old of her work in Hustlers.
Ultimately Lopez didn’t attend the award ceremony and the award for Best Supporting Actress went to Laura Dern for Marriage Story.
A year later, the movie star and singer has reflected on how that incident affected her and ultimately changed the way she sees awards.
However, she admitted that not receiving an Oscars nomination for her film Hustlers was a “sting” at the time.
“I was talking about this the other day, my production partner, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas made a post where she listed all the things I had been nominated for and won that season. And when it came to the Oscars, it was so obviously absent. It was a sting.”
“I was like, ‘Okay, when you’re supposedly in everybody else’s mind supposed to be nominated and you’re not, what does that mean? Is it really real? Are the other ones real and this one isn’t?’ It came to a point where I was like, ‘This is not why I do this. I don’t do this to have 10 Oscars sitting on my mantel or 20 Grammys,'” she continued.
“The point is creating and the joy that I get from the things I get to put out in the world that entertain and inspire and empower people. I think my life is about more than awards.”
Shortly after the Oscars in March 2020, Lopez had told Oprah Winfrey in an interview that being snubbed was a “little bit of a letdown.”
“I was a little sad because there was a lot of buildup to it.” she said. “There were so many articles. I got so many good notices—more than ever in my career—and there was a lot of ‘she’s going to get nominated for an Oscar. It’s going to happen; if she doesn’t, you’re crazy.’ I’m reading all the articles going, ‘Oh my god, could this happen?’ And then it didn’t and I was like, ‘Ouch.’ It was a little bit of a letdown.”
