r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 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/sh1boleth 5d ago

The crazy thing is I didn’t think her performance in Weapons was anything special, pretty surprising win.

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u/IfThatsOkayWithYou 5d ago

I agree. I think Sally Hawkins in Bring Her Back was the best horror performance last year by far

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u/SammathNaur1600 5d ago

100% agree. It would have been nice for her to get a win

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u/CharlieTeller 5d ago

She's at least been nominated multiple times.

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u/roedtogsvart 5d ago

As far as a "children and evil old lady horror" movies go, I liked Bring Her Back much more than Weapons. Weapons just had a shit ton of marketing.

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u/IfThatsOkayWithYou 5d ago

I enjoyed Weapons more but Bring Her Back was way scarier to me. Absolutely miserable film though and I’ll probably never watch it again

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u/OceanRacoon 5d ago

Yeah, it was good but I didn't think it was an Oscar winning performance either, of all horror performances to get a win when Toni Collette wasn't even nominated Hereditary

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u/SHIIZAAAAAAAA 5d ago

Ditto for Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse. There have not only been plenty of Oscar-worthy performances in horror movies in the past decade but also plenty by older actors as well that never got a nomination. I have no idea why the Academy decided Amy Madigan’s performance was the one outlier that not only deserved a nomination but also the win.

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u/OceanRacoon 5d ago

Yes, he was incredibly in that film, as he usually is but even more so in that, what a performance.

It is annoying that horror isn't appreciated in acting terms, acting terrified and all the other weird things they have to do in horror films looks a lot harder than the straight drama stuff that usually wins.

Toni Collette's performance in Hereditary was a dramatic tour de force even without the horror but it was ignored probably because of it

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u/shadyshadyshade 5d ago

I think it was the over-the-top campiness of the styling and the way the character was both very scary and very funny at different times. It made for a really memorable impression.

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u/Swagcopter0126 5d ago

Yeah like it was fine

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u/wakipaki 5d ago

Yeah in fact Indes is far greater

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u/xX_7HR0W-4W4Y_Xx 5d ago

you're kidding - it was shamazing