What happens if, after all of her hair-tossing and hustling, Jennifer Aniston doesn’t even get nominated for anything for Cake? I mean, would that be funny or would the schadenfreude be too heavy and we would actually feel sorry for her? I’ve always side-eyed the manufactured (and bought and paid for) “Oscar hype” around Aniston’s “going fug for Oscar” role in Cake, but I thought some awards shows would throw her a bone with a nomination or two. But Aniston couldn’t even wrangle an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Cake was completely shut out of the Spirit Awards!!! Oh well… maybe she’ll get a Golden Globe nomination. Snort.
Another thing that puzzled me about the manufactured Oscar buzz? The fact that a trailer hadn’t been cut and released months ago! It’s the weirdest thing. But maybe it had something to do with the fact that no one had any interest in buying Cake? Maybe it had something to do with the last-minute wrangling to get Cinelou a distribution arm, specifically so they could distribute Cake? Whatever it was, it was a bad decision to let all of these weeks go by without releasing a trailer. They finally released one this week:
More ABC US news | ABC World News
It does have a decent cast – Sam Worthington, Anna Kendrick, Felicity Huffman, Adriana Barraza, Mamie Gummer and many more. I wonder… would this film have more legitimate buzz if it starred someone like Julianne Moore? Also: does Aniston’s character have a sexual relationship with Sam Worthington? Hm.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Nah, she and Huvane have gone berserk trying to get her nominated for this movie, I will indulge in as much schadenfreude as I like if she doesn’t get a single nom. It will really be just desserts for her and Huvane. I don’t think I’d feel the same way if she wasn’t so blatantly and desperately and shamelessly prwhoring for a nom.
No Independent Spirit nom. that can’t be good for JennA. chances……………………….also
Rosamund Pike & Julianne Moore are receiving honors at the Palm Springs Film awards, that says much for JennA. chances, if she’s not even getting recognized or noticed at the smaller or more independent film awards…
I don’t even see Jen’s movie CAKE listed yet in Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards or Screenings
That can’t be good, to not get noticed, for the smaller award events
news
11/21/2014
2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival
Rosamund Pike to Receive the Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress
2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala
11/18/2014
2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival
J.K. Simmons to Receive the Spotlight Award, Actor
2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala
11/13/2014
2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival
Julianne Moore to Receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award
2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala
Rosamund Pike to Receive the Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress
Julianne Moore to Receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award
(Jennifer is a boring actress. I don’t think she has a chance in hell, unless Huvane has connections to some of the Golden Globe members, that might be her only hope for any recognition)..afterall Golden Globe gave Matt Leblanc best actor for some comedy show he did ,about two years ago….but imo even he is better than JennA.
what great news about julianne and jk simmons and of course rosamund pike
Well Kidman is A List, Work was already Oscar worthy, so even Nicole being in a film w/o buzz doesn’t mean her work as an actress would not be notice.
I think JennA problem is she is not yet widely respected as a actress, within the Hollywood, British, NY circles who many are the gatekeepers for the bigger nominations, even if her work is improving, she may need a few critically acclaimed roles for a few more years to reach Academy voters attention.
She still might pull off a GG, because I hear there’s a lot of behind the scenes favors and manuvering done with those sometimes.
Pia Zadora won Best Actress one year, supposedly bought and paid for by her Zillionaire hubby at the time.
What’s even more telling as to how much this is manufactured b.s. – is that no one is even calling it a snub…even the snubbed people were/are recognized as having had such great performances they *could have possibly* got a nom…but no one worth their salt in the industry ever thought she was even on the extra extra extra long list to get a nod. So while I love ya kaiser…the fact is she was not snubbed…just left off the list of nominees…much like you and me. Lol…and it was expected. .by everyone.
Who knows, maybe JAniston will get a suprise nom ala Kidman (for SAG 2012)! NK make the list for the risky turn she took in Lee Daniels’ critically hated “The Paperboy”. Kinda shocking she managed a SAG and GG nom given how little buzz/support there is around that movie, even from Indie Spirit.
Please someone make her and her try too hard boyfriend go away. Now.
i agree completely
I agree. I have always thought that she was a smug tw@t that acted as though she had a plum firmly inserted in the tradesman’s. But yesterday I was watching Ellen and I thought, “This girl has changed, she is OK”. Then she called out to one of the stage people as “Sweet person” in the most imperious way I couldn’t believe it. Then when he was leaving the stage she gave further imperious orders. She did it in the way you see people who are trying to behave as if they are used to servants in expensive restaurants. Ugh! I still think she is crass and now I know she is rude as well.
I guess there is still hope.. for her fans if she gets a GG or Oscar (doubt) but I think a nomination here would have given her a legit reason to be even included in the awards talk.
I wonder why Adriana Barraza has not been seen or really highlighted in the trailer. I haven’t read all of the 10 reviews posted on RT but she seemed to be the actor they were saying was a standout. yet not much of her in the trailer at all. You really don’t get a sense of the other actors contribution to the film. I mean I know Aniston is the star, but the supporting cast have to have some relevance to the story.
But saying she got Snubbed is I don’t know.. was she expected to be recognized here or not.
I think you answered your question. Adriana was called the mvp and overshadowed Aniston. Jen can’t have someone looking better than her in her Oscar vehicle.
Why are none of the other actors promoting this film? It is just Aniston promoting herself and her “brave” role.
nobody is promoting cake except for jen a – anna kendrick is promoting into the woods where the others are i honestly dont know but it doesnt look when nobody but jen a is promoting all by herself
Getting recognized at some of the smaller awards can be a good indicator sometimes….
Well, gross, Last week’s Entertainment Weekly showed Aniston as a “serious threat” for best actress Oscar, “worthy of acclaim and attention”. Crock. People’s Choice, maybe.
HA! It has Team Aniston written all over it. Ugh
Exactly! No other celeb pays tabloids like her and Huvane do to say things like that.
No matter how hard PR people push their clients’ stunt performances in films, there’s no guarantee anyone will be persuaded they’re worthy of awards. Happened with Ben Stiller in that treacly obvious mess Walter Mitty, and I think it might happen for Steve Carrell and his prosthetic nose in that Channing Tatum indie (whose flacks are also trying to push him for noms – as if!).
I guess Aniston feels she’s “owed” a “body of work” Oscar – but that only happens if you have an actual body of work which goes beyond that dead dog movie and Horrible Bosses.
It looks decent, like an OK on demand movie. Not sure the uglifying was necessary, though. I get that it’s Oscar baity but all it does is show how plain Anniston really is.
I’d watch it, mostly for the Sam Worthington eye and ear candy. Hmm…that actually sounds kinda gross.
I think the concept is interesting. Two problems with the trailer. One, it’s way too long; that’s never a great sign for the movie. And two, too much focus on Aniston, and I honestly don’t think she looks great in this role. Too many of her movements (hand to throat, wrinkled forehead) are straight from Friends. She’s better when she’s not trying so hard to emote. I think she has talent. She has nice comedic timing and I think people can relate to her. But I just don’t buy her in this role, and I think making her so plain was gimmicky.
I could have sworn when the first onset shots came out of her filming this dud…she had no scars on her face. It was just no makeup.
Then there was a really big stink in the celeb press about how plain and fug she was without makeup and her blonde hair curtains…and suddenly, she was walking around with these facial scars added.
Because of something I read she said this past week…how ‘it (cake filming) was isolating because she was so concerned about a stupid picture being taken (of her looking plain and unattractive).she stayed inside her trailer.’ Shallow much?
I am really wondering if much like she’s done before she decided to add the scars and prosthetics ala charlize in Monster (dont laugh) to offset the ugly talk.
You know..talk about the hours in the makeup chair and scars…if its prosthetics its not really her, right? See, she is the definition of shallow and neurotic. She did this before too…that squirrels to the nuts movie..when the tootsie pics came out and people were like Eeew….she had the footage scrubbed and tried to get a whole.new look for the movie. It’s her MO. She’s very aware and self conscious about that face.
If she spent all that money and come up empty, damn! I know she has money but maybe she should have invested it in developing good scripts through her production company instead of thinking she could just buy an oscar, then again, developing a script entails hard work and vision and not just propaganda.
It’s a little tacky to laugh at her, yes? She’s hustling just like everybody else is. Cumberbatch got snubbed too, and he’s been more front and center than anybody this Oscar season. Oh, and Still Alice hasn’t released a trailer yet either…
I think the movie looks interesting, and it’s about time that she’s doing something different. Maybe she’s just really proud of it and is hustling to get it seen and make her career flourish a little more?
She could be pushing, and getting press and selling the movie without the cutthroat oscar consultant. I do cringe for her but she is being so aggressive with this oscar thing that she is bringing the ridicule on herself.
Aniston isn’t being any more aggressive than anyone else and frankly, is being far less overt than others have been in the past (hello, Anne Hathaway!). She’s doing a standard pole-dance for a fall release with dark horse hopes of an Oscar nom or two.
In comparison, Bentobox Cumberbritches has already started wearing thin and given that “The Imitation Game” is getting fair – but not enthusiastic and generally disappointing (given the expectations and the perception he had a lock on winning) reviews – has probably already dinged himself off the Oscar podium.
@thecountess
I disagree with that comparison because at least in most of those cases there was critical acclaim that was not generated by the actor themselves. If you’ve got the performance to back it up campaign away. Her best reviews have been “not bad! Great trying!” And they are trying to turn it into something big.
If her performance was all that they would have found a distributor. She’s getting older and has had a lot of flops lately. She can’t keep strip teasing her way to box office success and her desperation is showing. Having your buddy Jimmy Kimmel call you oscar worthy is not a rave review.
I think what AMCN means THECOUNTESS, is that this looks bad for Aniston to be hustling and manufacturing hype to get a nod/win because she doesn’t have the goods to back it up and it’s absolutely preposterous.
Hathaway and her film, was showered with praise from critics and audiences alike.
But Aniston…? Well its kind of like if I made a movie starring you on my iphone, and then paid a few outlets to write “oscar buzz” in the copy.
There is no concensus anywhere that Aniston gave an oscar or any other kind of award worthy performance. Her PR rep loves to get rags to include this line when explaining where this so called oscar buzz came from: “Aniston garnered oscar buzz because of her standing ovation at tiff.’ Well…i go to TIFF every year..have even had jobs at TIFF. Every film gets a standing ovation. The cast is there in the balcony under a spotlight after the.film and the audience.gets up, turns around and applauds them.for coming. The film can be absolutely horrid and they will still be acknowledged in this fashion by the audience.
….every time I read that TIFF standing o line…i knew it was Aniston’s PR flack.
Her film was left on the shelf and went unbought, it made no splash at TIFF not even a ripple until 3 long months later when Aniston had to buy it herself when no studios wanted to pony up then hastily show it..somewhere…anywhere.
Yet you compare her to Anne hathaway, an already twice Oscar nom’d actress who showed her triple threatness in the musical Les Miserables? Which won her raves from almost every film critic out there.
That’s who you want to compare Anuston’s cake and desperate embarrassing hustle to, really? Come now.
I think the hustle is more for the awards.. I only say that because they are going to submit it for a week for Oscar consideration. If you just want the film to be seen i don’t think there would be a need for that.
Nothing wrong with wanting recognition for your work. I want and appreciate it for mine.
but I just feel like all the Oscar Buzz started with her people. Not the few critics that saw the movie at TIFF.. and the movie has an embargo.. I don’t get that because it has already shown at TIFF and there are 10 reviews posted on RT.. The only reason for it to be under embargo is so that the critic reviews will not be released until after the GG noms are made so the reviews will come out after not before. So there is a strategy beyond just wanting the film to be seen.
I agree. The movie looks interesting to me as well, even though her dark snark comes off a bit too lighthearted for the mood of the film. I probably wouldn’t purchase a theater ticket, but would rent or stream it, definitely.
Errybody hustles.
This!
I actually liked the trailer and I would not be surprised if she is just proud and therefore promoting it. I mean, look at the movies she normaly does- BIG difference.
True. It does not look amazing, but interesting enough. I actually quite like Aniston as an actress, mainly because she has a good voice and good timing. She is no Julianne Moore, but then most people aren’t.
This exactly.
@Laurie, who wrote: “Oh, and Still Alice hasn’t released a trailer yet either… ”
And yet, the lead actress in “Still Alice” (Julianne Moore) has been nominated for the 2014 Gotham Awards; the 2014 Hollywood Film Awards (Won – Best Actress); and the Palm Springs International Film Festival (Won – 2014 Desert Palm Achievement Award).
I think it’s tacky to mock, but I agree with some others than she seems to be hustling less for the movie and more for herself. Maybe that’s par for the course, but there is something off about hustling for an oscar for your first real dramatic role (I don’t count the two other movies that were semi-dramatic) and for folks to talk about her as if she’s been plugging away in these amazing roles for years and not getting the recognition she deserves.
I agree. And for people who keep bringing up Cumberbatch and Hathaway, bad comparison — Cumberbatch and Hathaway didn’t have to form their own companies to distribute their vanity projects that no other studio wanted, and then pretend to be all flattered by the “Oscar buzz” that nobody but their own PR teams was talking about in the first place.
There’s nothing technically wrong with what Aniston is doing, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone try this hard to buy themselves an Oscar.
Yes.
Cumberbatch film wasn’t snubbed. It simply doesn’t fit the criteria of the Independent Spirit Awards.
@LAK
How so? In what way(s) did TIG not fit the ISA criteria?
I agree Laurie.
I was never an Aniston “fan”, I didn’t watch Friends or anything, but I don’t understand the intensity of the negative feelings some people have for her. I mean, it can be fun to give into schadenfreude every once in a while, but shouldn’t that be reserved for the likes of Beiber?
I’m only half serious here. She doesn’t get my hate on, but I know we all have our least favorites.
I think it goes beyond tacky to take such obvious delight in someone’s failures. It is so blatantly mean. I’m done with this website.
The LOL at the title of the article was pretty harsh.
I’ve been feeling that way for awhile. I’ll stop reading for a week or two but then I have to come back for a peek. Every time I get pretty disgusted by how oddly cruel so many people are about other people they truly don’t know anything about. I just will never understand all the vitriol!
@Grace
Take a deep breath.
It’s. A. Gossip. Website. Called. CELEBITCHY.
OFCOURSE people get bitchy. About gossip.
What did you expect FROM CELEBITCHY?
Please – again- take a deep breath and try to have fun. Don’t take yourself or any of this so seriously. I assure you the regular commenters are actually a supportive, thoughtful bunch.
Cheers.
And as for Aniston
I sincerely love FRIENDS and I adored She’s the One and I just wish she’d go back to TV. Why not? She could really excel with a sitcom or Greys Anatomy type show…
The Cumby snub seems to be more of a behind the scenes thing that an actual “we didn’t feel like your performance was worth it”. TWC has a precarious history with getting their films (Silver Linings Playbook) classified as eligible for the Spirits, and it seems that while they were able to get TIG classified, there was a bit of backlash of it since it’s not really independent unless you really stretch the meaning.
TIG not independent? Again I ask, how so? HW picked it up for distribution, he had nothing to do with the production.
@Totallybiased.
It’s independent, but’s independent in the same way that Silver Linings Playbook and 12 years a slave were independent. It has bonified stars, and a 15 million dollar budget. Not to mention, the millions sunk into marketing. And that has given way to a bit of backlash since an awards show meant to run counter to the season and award/encourage truly independent talent, has become a stepping stone for big studio proxies during the awards season.
Exactly!
Have you ever seen any of her previous “dramatic” roles (The Good Girl, Friends with Money)? No makeup, a droopy cardigan and a glum expression – that’s the extent of her acting ability. Well, that and a thousand slight variations on Rachel Green. If she does have the ability to do an award winning role, she hasn’t exhibited it yet. And time is marching on…
I just recently re watched The Good Girl. The acting is really terrible. Both by her and Jake. Some parts are just painful to watch.
The only thing redeeming is the storyline.
She’s just not a versatile or good actress. She only plays one type and that type (and show- Friends) is over.
The reason people are laughing at Jennifer is that she’s not in an award winning role. It’s funny that she’s acting like she’s an Oscar contender when she has no chance. The only people who think she has a shot at an Oscar or other major awards are her co-producers and publicists. I know her fans want to support her but I don’t think they realize the only buzz is coming from her camp. When somebody has to scrape together a distribution company because no studio wants your film, that’s a hug red flag that you are not award worthy. Also the Hathaway/Cumberbatch comparison is ridiculous. They had great reviews with many saying they gave award winning performances. Nobody is saying that about Jennifer. Stepping outside her comfort zone and not wearing make-up doesn’t mean she deserves any awards.
It’s good that she’s doing something different I say. And the movie looks decent to me. Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy is in it so that’s a plus. I kinda want to see it.
How serious an indication are the Spirit Awards though? The only Oscar buzz movie in general consciousness that I recognise is Birdman and Nightcrawler (yay). Not ToE or Foxcatcher either.
Is one of the most important and respected awards.
I think Theory of Everything’s budget excluded it and Foxcatcher was not eligible either so they gave it a special award to include it. The bigger deal to me was Reese Witherspoon getting snubbed for Wild. Jennifer Aniston’s campaign is a joke but Reese is a front runner and the Spirit Awards denied her and the movie.
Exactly the surprise snub wasn’t Jen but Reese.
The budget for Reece’s film ruled her out too.
And despite her hustle, it is a studio film.
Reese hasn’t done horrible things to people like JA has. Also, Reese is an A list Academy Award winner. Aniston is not, she has never even been nominated, never will be and its laughable that she is being discussed in the same sentence as Reese. Comparing Witherspoon to Aniston is like comparing chocolate to car wash. It makes no sense.
TOE was only eligible as a Foreign Film. Guess they decided it didn’t beat the competition.
“horrible things”?
I know you don’t like her, and you are certainly entitled to that opinion, but “horrible things”? really?
such as?
Bieber did a horrible thing when he urinated in that mop bucket. Bill Cosby did horrible things when he drugged and raped all of those women. Stalin did horrible things.
what has Aniston done that would qualify as “horrible”? perhaps we just have different criteria, but I don’t think anything she’s done would rise to that level.
Also, not sure if you know this, but Reese is actually a pretty big b*tch. Read up on why Kevin Smith calls her Greasy Reesey (or something like that). See also: Witherspoon’s attitude during her DUI arrest.
And that’s really a snub, because unlike Aniston, Witherspoon can act.
Starting the Team Aniston thing (and signing some of the shirts) that saw a vendetta against a family for 9 years, making passive-aggressive and outright aggressive attacks on a woman and even mocking her children, hiring Handler to call the woman vicious names and racially abuse children, etc. I could go on and on with more examples. Maybe that’s not horrible to you, but it sure qualifies as horrible to me.
I can’t take these awards seriously considering some of the performances and movies that they left out this year. I think they go out of their way to nominate people who won’t stand a chance for the bigger awards.
The parameters are different then other awards. It has to have a smaller budget and be American.
I am not a JA fan…AT ALL, but this was better than I expected. I think maybe the other nominated actresses are so strong that her effort while better than her usual fare, simply is not good enough.
In the same boat here – really haven’t ever liked her movies (I’m a dork, I really can’t stand watching things like Bad Bosses… people being cruel for no other reason then to be cruel, humor meant to slash not lift, etc. It just makes my insides twist). Her comedies never make me laugh and her rom/com attempts… well. Neither romantic or funny. But this… kinda looks like something I will watch. Not the theatre, but definitely some night while cuddling on the couch with my spousal unit. Just the surrounding cast looks good enough to save the movie from her stilted acting. But dang, I feel kinda weird saying I want to watch a movie starring JA.
All I see in the trailer is Jennifer Aniston with puppy eyes and sans fard.
I could be the same on tape. We all could.
yeah. i can’t suspend my disbelief. i keep thinking “it’s aniston.”
if someone else was in it, maybe i’d watch this on netflix, if i ran out of ideas what to watch on a lazy evening.
Oh dear. What an awkward situation…
Damn
Now I need to go and watch that scene again. it was so awesome.
Perfect delivery. And just so fitting.
The only way she might get a GG nomination is if she were in the musical/comedy category; that’s where some of the more unlikely nominees slip in. But the drama category, forget it–the competition is too strong. And those same nominees usually carry over to the Oscars, where she doesn’t have a prayer.
She can take the horn rimmed glasses off now.
She won’t be included in the Comedy/Musical category. The HFPA denied the Producers request for that. I think I saw that they initially wanted her put in that category but it was not approved. They (HFPA) said that Cake would have to be in Drama.
So it will be interesting if their strategy works. They film as I stated above is under an Embargo which is strange since it has already shown at TIFF.. most films under embargo had not been shown to critics yet.
I’m sure that’s why the producers wanted the movie in the musical/comedy category– easier pickings for GG nominations. I haven’t seen the movie and have no intention of seeing it, but it doesn’t really look like a comedy to me.
I also thought Golden Globes was her best shot at a “major” award nom, but that’s because they 1) have ten slots across two categories, Drama and Comedy/Musical, and 2) they are notorious for nominating very famous people so that they can have a great guest list. The award itself doesn’t mean much, but the event is a lot of fun.
However, now that she’ll have to compete in Drama- that makes things tough for her. She’ll have to knock off two of the following to get into the mix: Julianne Moore (not a chance), Rosamund Pike (incredibly unlikely), Reese Witherspoon (nope), Amy Adams (probably not, unless Big Eyes tanks), Felicity Jones (it’s possible, but she’s the ingenue slot), or Hilary Swank (most likely), all of whom seem to have a lot more Oscar buzz than she. The Comedy/Musical category is wide open at this point- I don’t actually know how they’ll fill it. They’re going to have to search to find 5 nominees. Maybe Kristen Wiig for Skeleton Twins and Emily Blunt for Into the Woods, and since they love her, Angelina Jolie for Maleficent. If they can accept The Fault in Our Stars as a Comedy, then Shailene Woodley…
Do the judges at the Independent Spirit Awards base their nominations on the availability of a film’s trailer on the internet?
No.
Nope- their criteria has to do with the film’s budget and where the funding came from (ie, not a major studio).
how is the Spirit Award compared to the Golden Globes in terms of indicator of an Oscar nom/win? (i always thought the GG is the glitzier than Spirit).
i’m guessing that the GG is something she’s aiming more at.
in the meanwhile, i have heard great things about Selma. i hope Ava wins everything and show em the whatfer.
The Golden globes would probably be an better indicator for the Oscars. Jennifer would probably be aiming for a Golden globe or a SAG award.
GG are a better indicator. The criteria for the Spirit wards limits the field of eligible films.
The main criteria is that it has to be truly independent, small budget (not bigger than $20M) and American.
That rules out nearly all studio fare.
Very occasionally, the spirits abandon their own criteria to nominate a film eg THE ARTIST.
Winning a Spirit award is more about the true indie spirit than the GG which is the Oscars with booze, and they’ll let in any film!!
This year they have a foreign film category.
SAGs are a big indicator, since the largest voting body for the Academy Awards is the Actor’s Branch. However, there are a ton of SAG members who aren’t Academy Members, so…
Golden Globes tends to nominate the same people who also get Oscar noms, though since they have twice as many Lead Actor/Actress slots, half of their nominees don’t get Oscars.
I absolutely think Jennifer Aniston is gunning for Oscar, and she’ll need a Globe or SAG nomination to make that possible. I’m not going to research it, but I’d bet that in the last decade, nobody has gotten an Oscar nom without getting at least one of those.
Here I thought that in order to be snubbed you will have to be in the awards contention first.
HA. Yup yup. Hustle isn’t always rewarded.
But, sometimes good performances are.
It must be my computer/operating system, because I can see the video for the trailer at all……and it’s the same with other sites as well.
Also–I side eye anyone who thinks Sam Worthington is a good, or even decent actor. WHATEVER. He’s a plank. He’s not even a particularly hot plank either. I can’t stand to watch him in anything (and in fact only watched those mythology movies he did because of MY man, Liam playing Zeus HOT HOT HOT)….ugh. And I just get the feeling that he’s one of those people who thinks he’s really attractive–it’s his smirk, I think. And the fact that his girlfriend has the same smug look all the time.
I agree about Sam Worthington. He’s not much of an actor ,but he’s not bad in Man on a Ledge.
I liked him in Man on a Ledge and dare I say it, Avatar. Every other performance I’ve seen from him has been yawn worthy.
I thought that planking was a stupid trend, but if S.W. is a plank then I volunteer as tribune to bring it back. That being said, he’s not as bad as Henry Cavill, hot bad actor #1.
She shouldn’t hope THAT much for anything, she will be so disappointed with Julianne Moore and others is lurking around to grab awards this season!
I don’t care what anyone says but I am very proud of Jennifer Aniston.
Why? I would have thought fans would have been embarrassed for her.
im a fan and I have no reason to be embarrassed. im sure she doesn’t give a crap about the haters, shes rich, beautiful, and living her life!!
Why should anyone be embarrassed? Based on the trailer I like her performance and as for her promo – well she’s not doing anything hundreds of people haven’t done before in Hollywood. I mean hustling for an award is completely normal part of her job. Anne Hathaway was way more annoying. Benedict Cumberbatch (and I really like him) is more annoying.
Lets see, having to pay for your own film to be distributed, paying tabloids to say you have the award ‘locked in’ and are a ‘strong contender’. I think it is truly pathetic and I would be embarrassed if I were a fan.
For what? Wearing no makeup?
her serious face is serious
I would like to nominate her hair in the top pic for the “Independent Jon Bon Jovi Hairstyling Award” in the category of “Best Adaptation of Flowing Locks Bon Jovi Style.”
I second the nomination!
I actually like her better when she is “au naturel”
There are no awards for this film. She’s not being snubbed. Cake has no chance of either commercial success or artistic distinction. Award races have to promote the industry and this film just didn’t make the cut. No one is putting resources into promoting this film/performance because not there is NO ROI. Not even as a wild card independent. That hope has come and gone.
Marisa Tomei’s performance in Love is Strange was snubbed by the Spirit Awards. Jennifer Aniston’s “stiff board walking around in pajamas” performance in Cake was not.
Poor JenAn fans the rift between Huvane’s PR and reality is getting even wider. She has never in fact had any genuine buzz and as the precursors get awarded that will only get clearer.
I love this site. As soon as I noticed JA’s name omitted from list-I did a chuckle and hopedthis would be today’s topic.. The Independent SpIrit Awards usually pick a few of the future Oscar nominees and even winners. Last year was Cate Blanchett and the year before Jennifer Lawrence. I really think JA will have egg on her face after this campaigning is over. She is overexposed. This is the one award that I thought she can squeeze a nomination.
I watched the clip of Cake. Although it was refreshing to see JA in a drama-but I still knew it was her. For me, the actress should be a person you don’t have any familiarity with because they have transformed themselves into this character.
Now Marion Cottiliard is being mentioned as moving up in the race. She is amazing. She is major league and JA is little league at best. And if she can only put her film in for GG drama-no way will she get nominated. If she does-I assure you money is being passed under the table.
The one award where she’ll score a nomination is the Golden Globes. This is not a strong year for actresses; they, unlike other award shows, need to fill ten Best Actress nomination slots instead of five because they do the drama/comedy split, and the Globes is always about scoring ratings for the Globes.
She will be the Pia Zadora of this decade.
I would agree if she could be in Comedy/Musical for GG’s. That is the weak slots. I think the drama spots can be filled easily. Unless they give JA a spot on Drama and AJ for Malificent so they can create ratings and drama. You never know.
But, as someone noted above, evidently the movie has been classified as a drama for the Golden Globes, and there is no way she is taking one of the five dramatic actress spots. The five musical/comedy nominations would have been an easier bet, and she can’t get in that category.
Cake looks like a good movie, I’d watch it. I think Aniston needs to do more dramatic roles.
I will watch this on demand for William H Macy and Felicity Huffman (and Sam Worthington is hot!) I’m on the fence because one of the two JA films I liked was the Good Girl and a departure from her normal comedy roles (the other is Office Space, one of my all time faves! “This is me expressing myself!”) After watching the trailer I still don’t think it’s Oscar worthy but good for her for taking on something different. (Did I just say that?)
Schadenfreude tastes like chocolate. And I love chocolate.
She is just trying too stridently for some kind of award for a role in a film that critics and others who have seen it have determined to be mediocre.
There is an air of the desperate wafting around her whole award campaign, hiring her own very high priced personal award consultant when this is an action taken by studios, appearing all over the place when she is usually quite reclusive, paying for Cake’s production company to transform into a distribution company in time to give Cake a platform for a very limited award art house release (the producing company had to hire a company that provides services to get a film released in theatres as the producing company lacked the know how to do so-I find this sad), and the whole I am a serious actress now in the constant screenings she is holding all alone with none of her talented co-stars invited to her party.
Yes others have done this, AnneH certainly did but with a studio backing her efforts in a film that also received some recognition. I have no idea if all the money she is spending will pay off in some award. I can understand how at age 46 and only a few months from age 47 and definitely aged out of rom coms and offered roles whereby you are naked or close to that or a sex maniac, where your latest films you starred in go to VOD, that she is trying to change her career. But she is ignoring her strong suit, TV comedy at a time when Oscar winners like Kidman and Witherspoon are gravitating to great TV roles.
Not everyone is meant to be a film star.
You summed up the situation perfectly. I don’t really care about her but all of this fakery and blatant manipulation pushes my buttons. She could be doing really well on TV but she seems to like the limelight too much.
This 100%
Yup- she could total get an HBO comedy in a heartbeat (I’m thinking something in a similar tone to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ VEEP), and would probably get a ton of accolades for it. She could have her pick of tv comedies, but she wants to be an A-List, Oscar nominated film star. I get it, I get that dramatic films are more prestigious and where every actor dreams of being, but she’s not going to get there.
I don’t have any issues with Aniston having to pay to get her film released. That’s going to be the only way she’ll get the roles and projects she wants. At 46, she will have to get these things done herself and cannot rely on studios to do these things for her. They will have their eye on younger actresses, and only consider Aniston for certain roles. There’s no shame in doing it yourself; she’s got the money, it’s entrepreneurial for her to a) shill products to get money and b) use that money to get her own stuff made.
Whether she should be doing projects on TV (totally agree that she’d be better off with HBO) is another matter. She may feel she’s ‘done’ TV, and that going back to it would be a professional back-step. Never mind that TV has changed since Friends, and that it is now vastly more creative. Perhaps she’ll figure that out at some point.
She is not a great actress, but she is not bad either. There are so many people rooting for her to fail that I am rooting for her to get a nomination and if not to get more meaty roles offers. There, I said it…
Agree with you Miss M.
Hope she gets more roles, but I actually like her comedy timing.
I don’t know what is like to be her fan, you should ask to someone else… But as a human being, I find awful (and telling about someone’s character) when they wish someone to fail. Wasn’t Matthew Mcconaughey and Sandra Bullock doing sh*tty movies for years? Until they finally stopped and started choosing good roles (Although I still don’t find Sandra that talented)? Why can’t she change? I think it is about time.
As for her shilling her endorsements, good for her! It shows how professional and committed she is (even if she is not into the products she sells. At least, in the public eye, she is) …don’t we all give cr*p to artists who are endorsing one product but get caught using something else?
I think the triangle and the hate should had ended 10 years ago, but people love to waste their time on that…
ps: If people want to go away, stop commenting on her posts. The only reason blogs like CB and other outlets talk about her is because people do talk about her.
That movie poster scares me
Fake Cake thats it. Huvane could not serve it well.
I see her taking a critics nod somewhere or a weaker “also nominated” actress getting left of the GG list for her solely because HFPA is a bunch of star f*ckers. Bafta? lol SAG? No Oscar? Oh hell no. She’s competing for 1 of 3 spots (Felicity and Julianne are near mortal locks) and Reese is out pr’ing her and has stolen the comeback narrative. Pike also has the “finally breaking through narrative” because unlike Aniston’s soulless rom-com filled resume, she has some substantial dramatic works for which she’s received notice in the right places. At best, JA should hope to be snubbed for a nomination this year. Then she can attempt to create the “snubbed due to a crowded field narrative” instead of an “Award me because I’m no longer doing drivel a la Matthew McConaughy” narrative.
Oooh, good call. She needs a ‘fails for a few years more, becomes laughing stock, does a TV show that’s a complete 180 from everything we know about her, get’s applauded for guts, can now retire in peace’ narrative.
She’s on track for seeking out anti-Rachael rom com roles. She just needs a few more years in her.
I don’t want Jennifer Aniston to fail. On the contrary, I want her to make good movies. Based on the trailer, I have no interest in watching the movie in a theater, maybe down the road on stream. But the trailer made me interested in her performance nonetheless.
But her PR apparatus is wondrous. It only took one little movie with one role different than her usual scatological fare, and we’re all talking about it. I mean, there’s solid actresses out there, with good indie cred, like Tea Leoni or Marissa Tomei, or simply with a dignified movie career, girlfriend Kudrow included, but Jenjen didn’t wash her hair and didn’t put on any makeup, so we should include her in the Oscar conversation.
Whether she’s getting a nomination or not, she’s still winning.
That’s my whole issue with her Oscar ‘campaign’. I don’t like her, don’t think she can act. But if she had put out a movie that was really good, with Oscar worthy acting, then I’d say good for her. It’s great when someone branches out, and gets out of their rut. If Mathew McCon-whatever can do it, and do it successfully, why shouldn’t she?
I don’t think anyone’s laughing at her because she didn’t get nominated, or because she failed. I simply find it amusing that she was expecting nominations for a film that wasn’t even picked up by a studio. I mean, she hired an Oscar consultant…..she wants to be nominated for something. That’s why the ‘try’ with her is funny. No one wanted to buy the movie. If this movie had been picked up by a studio, then yeah, I could see her going for an Oscar, and thinking that she might win with the ‘comeback’ angle. But it’s a little off to see JUST HER promoting this movie, while none of her other costars could even be bothered to show up.
This is not a good picture of her. I’m surprised she and Huvane let this picture be posted.
I am by no means an Aniston fan. This trailer looks good , not Oscar worthy but good. Then again , I didn’t see the whole movie yet. And, I felt nothing in the August: Osage County trailer made me think’ award worthy’ either when I first saw it and felt the same after seeing the entire movie. Not that I am comparing Aniston to Roberts or Streep , that trailer popped into my head for some reason, like the actors were trying & hard. The ‘try’ is palpable.
You celebitches need to bring some cake over to Angie stat.
Maybe they should change the title to “PUDDING” in reference to beloved Jen’s non-acting.
She was NOT ‘snubbed’ – better actors were nominated.
Next…
Not a JA fan, but I gotta say, all this hoopla is making me want to see the movie (when it comes out on Netflix) just to see how good/not good JA is.
For the record, I think of JA in the same category as Julia Roberts when it comes to acting: always the same schtick, never subsumed into the character but always playing the character as themselves. Never thought JR deserved an Oscar either but they gave one to her the moment she did something Serious, playing a Real Person. Perhaps, that’s the avenue JA should try; not just a serious role, but a serious role based on a real person in a serious situation. Worked for Charlize, too. And Reese. And Nicole. And Sandra. And Hilary Swank (the first time). And Susan Sarandon. And Helen Mirren. And Jodie Foster (the first time)… Actually, this really should be her next play if she really wants an award. Huvane! Get on that and find her a biographical or semi-biographical part!
I do not get why when an actor does a role with no make up, looks unattra five, is a comedian etc…do a serious role, its all about Oscars, I mean your an actor, aren’t you supposed to be able to act in these roles. An award should be for an extraordinary character performance and not for doing a role that is different from their romcom roles.its called acting, she should be able to do it without needing an award, now since I have not seen the movie, I cannot say if the acting is superior than any else.
Thank you.
Giving Oscars out because someone gained weight, lost weight, or put on a fake nose has always rankled a lot of people. I count myself among them.
while i’m not a fan – nothing pro or con for me about her – the clip looks interesting and it doesn’t look like J.A. as herself playing herself in a movie type thing. if that makes any sense. ^_^
Thr trailer is sodull and souless.
Looks like the plain Jane Manniston playing a plain Jane older lady part that she’s wanting because guess what? She’s aging now and needs these parts now, except she can’t act. She’s plain and not very pretty and it doesn’t take much to make her super unattractive so I’m not impressed by her appearance.
She can no longer play cutsie parts so she’s wants to be taken seriously, cracks me up.
anna kendrick is so great when she comes on screen. i think jennifer aniston lost something along the way but I do like her.she probably should have switched it up sooner… after gone girl, she did so many rom-coms. I dont think the trailer really explains what the movie is about … but to criticize her for hussling a bit (if she is) that doesnt seem fair.
I really really really hope this means the world is officially over JA. There has never been any there there.
I was way more interested in investigating that Karla Otto bag. It’s for Petra Flannery, a stylist. Karla Otto is a PR firm of sorts. I’m not sure who works at Civic Center Drive suite 103, I’m assuming it’s Petra (Karla Otto’s address is Melrose Avenue) but it also houses the Playboy model talent agency.
This mini investigation was far more interesting than reading about Jennifer Aniston.