Demi Moore popped up in London with Pilaf this weekend after her first Oscar nomination for her work in The Substance. She is, right now, the presumed favourite although by no means can she coast her way to the Dolby on March 2. That’s one of the reasons she’s likely in London – the BAFTAs are on February 16, which is during the Oscar voting period, just two days before Oscar voting closes. As the frontrunner, Demi’s schedule over the next month is basically award shows every weekend.
She has Critics Choice on February 7th, a Friday. The BAFTAs are the following Sunday. The SAGs are the Sunday after that. And the Oscars are the weekend after the SAGs. This is exhausting…and I don’t mean for her, I mean for us, LOL! There is basically no break for anyone working in entertainment for the next six weeks! And that includes her stylist, Brad Goreski…who was rather prescient last year on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Stylists issue when he wrote on Instagram that they were “going for gold”.
That was before The Substance premiered in Cannes which was the beginning of this loooooong road to Oscar. But we’ve seen the looks that Demi and Brad have produced. As he said right after the nominations were announced last week, “time to find you the best gown”.
Trust me, that work was likely already underway and now it’s become that much more intense.
While Demi was in London, Pamela Anderson was making the rounds at Paris Fashion Week. Pam was not nominated for an Oscar for The Last Showgirl. And the word “snub” is being thrown around but as Sarah has noted multiple times, the field was competitive and deep all through the season, and with only five spots available, I don’t know that anyone can be called a snub, especially if you’re going by all the precursors. Pam was not nominated at Critics Choice or at the BAFTAs. Yes, the SAG nomination is big, but it’s extremely challenging to get to the Oscars without BAFTA and Critics Choice and no other prominent wins along the way.
When she was asked about not being nominated for Oscar, she told ELLE that:
“Oh my gosh, it’s not something I ever expected. Doing the work is the win. That’s what I like to do, and I think we can lose sight of that sometimes in this whole crazy awards season, but it’s nice to be recognized, and it’s all a bonus. I couldn’t imagine [it] anyway. I’m happy for the SAG nomination, that’s [voted on by] your peers. That’s really cool. This has been a long road promoting this film.”
I believe her. She’s been through it, for 30 years she’s been underestimated, and she’s only just now convinced the industry that she’s more than Baywatch, a proper actor. Why would she, of all people, actually convince herself that she’d be embraced by an Academy that has always been the last to know that they’re slow? She’s too smart for that – which, by the way, is something most of us have only recently just figured out.
So when she says the “work is the win”, of all the people who say this without meaning it, she definitely f-cking means it. The work is the win, and MORE work will be the win she’s looking for out of this award season.
