After a year at the movies that broke so many barriers for women and diverse filmmakers, the Oscar nominations on Monday morning felt in some ways like they were still stuck in the past. And the Ac…
” was a huge hit and that Lopez gave a career-best performance in it. And here are five reasons why that’s bad news for the Academy Awards.The most common gripe about Hollywood is that there are too few original ideas — everything is a sequel or a reboot nowadays. “Hustlers,” directed by Lorene Scafaria, was that rare thing: an original story that captured the zeitgeist in the same way as an HBO series that everybody is talking about.
In previous Oscars seasons, voters managed to reward movie star reinventions, such as Julia Roberts in “Erin Brockovich,” Renee Zellweger in “Bridget Jones’ Diary” or Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side.” What J. Lo does in “Hustlers” is just as impressive. And it comes during a time, where she’s soaring in every other aspect of her career, from selling at arenas during her “It’s My Party” tour to performing as the halftime act at this year’s Super Bowl.
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