Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone is campaigning to be the first Native American actor nominated in the Academy Awards’ “Best Actress” category, according to a new report.The report comes via Variety. It contends that Gladstone, who portrays Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Western crime drama, intends to compete for the “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role” Oscar at the 96th Academy Awards. Many industry analysts previously predicted that Gladstone would put herself down for the “Best Supporting Actress” category, instead. If successful, Gladstone would become the first-ever Native American actor (and only the fourth Indigenous actor) nominated for the “Best Actress” Oscar.Gladstone setting her sights on Hollywood’s top acting gong comes after the star earned rave reviews for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. Her success is all the more impressive considering Gladstone was initially convinced she’d messed up her chance at appearing in the film. “I was struggling so much with the scenes [during the audition process] that, when COVID shut everything down and the project went quiet for a minute, I assumed that I’d blown the audition,” she explained in a recent interview. Gladstone added that she finally landed the Mollie role after reading for the part again, this time armed with revised script pages and acting opposite a new leading man, Leonardo DiCaprio.Related: Killers of the Flower Moon Releases Final Trailer Exploring Its Conspiracy
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone is campaigning to be the first Native American actor nominated in the Academy Awards’ “Best Actress” category, according to a new report.
The report comes via Variety. It contends that Gladstone, who portrays Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Western crime drama, intends to compete for the “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role” Oscar at the 96th Academy Awards. Many industry analysts previously predicted that Gladstone would put herself down for the “Best Supporting Actress” category, instead. If successful, Gladstone would become the first-ever Native American actor (and only the fourth Indigenous actor) nominated for the “Best Actress” Oscar.
Gladstone setting her sights on Hollywood’s top acting gong comes after the star earned rave reviews for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. Her success is all the more impressive considering Gladstone was initially convinced she’d messed up her chance at appearing in the film. “I was struggling so much with the scenes [during the audition process] that, when COVID shut everything down and the project went quiet for a minute, I assumed that I’d blown the audition,” she explained in a recent interview. Gladstone added that she finally landed the Mollie role after reading for the part again, this time armed with revised script pages and acting opposite a new leading man, Leonardo DiCaprio.
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