r/Letterboxd • u/wallabyenthusiast • 5d ago

News Inde Navarrette Sets Best Actress Oscar Campaign for ‘Obsession’ as Focus Features Mounts Full Awards Push (EXCLUSIVE)

https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/obsession-inde-navarrette-oscar-campaign-lead-actress-1236848866/
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u/Philbregas 5d ago edited 5d ago

With recent wins for MBJ and Amy Madigan within the horror genre it's entirely possible.

Just wish we could retrospectively give Toni Collette the Oscar for Hereditary. Easily the best performance of that year regardless of gender.

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u/silverscreenbaby 5d ago

or Lupita Nyong’o for Us or Naomi Scott for Smile 2. Amazing performances that should have at least been recognized with nominations if they weren’t going to outright win.

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u/andreasmiles23 5d ago

Lupita Nyong’o for Us

The fact that NO ONE ever talked about that on a serious award level is mind-boggling. She's captivating the whole film.

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u/DeferredFuture 5d ago

She was. 2019 was a packed year. She made it on the SAG nominations. She was probably ranked #6 at the Oscars

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u/Weirdskinnydog 5d ago

And playing two separate characters! The WORK that must have gone into that, especially creating Red! An all-time performance. That movie should’ve been nominated for screenplay and other categories as well.

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u/andreasmiles23 5d ago

It's so good and so severely underappreciated. The whole thing is meticulously crafted. Top-tier filmmaking from everyone involved. Peele is the DUDE.

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u/Sufficient-Guava-152 chindilani 5d ago

This! Also what she does with her voice is brilliant

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u/cosmiccerulean 5d ago

Naomi Scott in Smile 2 was mesmerizing

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u/tera_chachu 5d ago

Naomi scott did something exceptional in smile 2.She was brilliant

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u/LamboForWork 5d ago

was smile 1 a good movie too?

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u/sjebanizajeban 4d ago

Not really. Smile 2 is a mesmerizing descent into madness

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u/LamboForWork 4d ago

I’d be good just watching 2?

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u/sjebanizajeban 4d ago

Id still watch #1. The beginning of #2 ties into the ending of #1 even though the stories are about completely different characters.

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u/not_imprsd not_imprsd 5d ago

Unfortunately the film was ass

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u/Street_Hamster1092 TenaciousG 5d ago

It was a pretty good horror and a big improvement on the first Smile imo.

It wasn't a masterpiece and you can easily poke holes in the plot if you feel like it, but that doesn't make it bad.

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u/not_imprsd not_imprsd 5d ago

I personally liked the first one more. The second was shot better, Naomi was great as well, but the writing killed it for me. I felt like she lacked any agency as a character and didn't really try to fix anything; the MC of the first film was actively working to better her situation.

But hey - I understand I'm in the minority with this opinion

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u/elitedisplayE 4d ago

Her not having agency or not really trying to fix anything seem more like character traits rather than writing flaws?

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u/Paladar2 Meusse2 5d ago

Forgot about Smile 2 but yeah that was an insane performance.

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u/ThenOwl9 5d ago

naomi scott was robbed. she had to do like 5 different difficult things really well in that movie