Kirsten Dunst: Jesse Plemons should have been Oscar-nominated

Overall, I’m happy with this year’s Oscar nominations. The supporting categories are elite, two of the best lineups we’ve ever gotten. My two biggest complaints with this year’s noms: I think Chase Infiniti got snubbed in Best Actress for One Battle, and I think Jesse Plemons deserved a nomination for Bugonia, especially given that the film was nominated in Best Picture and Emma Stone got nominated. Plemons gave just as much of a stellar, knife’s edge, bonkers performance as Stone. Still, with Plemons’ exclusion, it’s kind of hard to argue with this year’s Best Actor lineup: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Timothee Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (OBAA), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent). Well, Kirsten Dunst looked at that lineup and decided to complain that her husband should have been included. I mean… that’s her man, of course she’s going to say something.

Kirsten Dunst isn’t totally thrilled with this year’s batch of Oscar nominations. The Marie Antoinette actress shared a pair of posts praising her husband, Jesse Plemons, for his work in Bugonia to lament the Academy overlooking his performance in the film.

Dunst first reposted an Instagram Story from one of Plemons’ Bugonia costars, comedian Stavros Halkias, that showed him with a stern look on his face and a photoshopped hand pointing a gun at the camera. Its caption read, “Me to everyone who didn’t nominate Jesse Plemmons [sic] for Best Actor tho.”

The Spider-Man star also shared a video post from the Bluff Council podcast that featured cohost Ev Durán showering Plemons with praise and declaring that Timothée Chalamet’s latest Oscar-nominated portrayal doesn’t stack up against the Friday Night Lights alum’s work.

“Jesse Plemons gives one of the greatest performances of all time,” Duran says in the video. “Jesse Plemons in this film gives [a] Daniel Day-Lewis–, Sidney Poitier–level transcendent performance that I worry is being completely overlooked for f—in’ Chalamet’s Marty Supreme, which was a very good performance, but wasn’t — what Plemons does in this movie is beyond.”

Before the Oscar nominations were announced, Dunst shared a still of Plemons in Bugonia on Jan. 9. “Some top-level s—,” she wrote in her Instagram caption.

[From EW]

That’s all she posted, just praise for her husband. She didn’t single out any of the nominees, she didn’t argue that this guy or that guy should not have been nominated to ensure Jesse’s nomination. But her posts caused this weird meltdown among Timothee Chalamet’s fans, who tried to “cancel” Dunst because they believed she was coming for their man. They’re really telling on themselves, right? How do they go from “Plemons should have been nominated” to “Chalamet doesn’t deserve HIS nomination?” Look at the line-up again – who is the weakest link? Arguably Ethan Hawke. But you don’t see Hawke’s fans beefing with Kiki.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images, Kirsten’s IG Stories.

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9 Responses to “Kirsten Dunst: Jesse Plemons should have been Oscar-nominated”

  1. Lady Esther says:

    I mean…Chalamet isn’t wrong to feel self-conscious; he’s the one that doesn’t belong IMO. Ethan Hawke is absolutely a superior actor so he belongs there. And I’m Team Kiki because Jesse Plemons is developing into a Philip Seymour Hoffman – he’s THAT good.

    Chalamet makes noise and fuss and dates a Kardashian and demands unearned kudos. I’ve not seen him in anything with a performance that impressive. Isn’t Marty Supreme just his Catch Me If You Can? DiCaprio did it better….

  2. Eliza says:

    He was good, but certainly not Oscar worthy. There were moments when “Landry” his character from FNL was visible.
    Mostly you just felt sorry for his character.
    Emma’s character sucked you in. That’s acting.

  3. Lili says:

    i wont be upset if either Ethan Hawke or Michael B win Ethan because i just love him as an actor mainly in the linklater movies

  4. Jegede says:

    Jesse was absolutely robbed!!!!!!!!!!!😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

  5. Crystal says:

    The podcast she shared was a little mean-spirited imo (it’s not like there wasn’t uncertainty about some of the other spots) but she’s entitled to her opinion.
    Plemons is talented but he is absolutely no Sidney Poitier. What a crazy thing for them to say, honestly.

    Anyway these meltdowns happen every year when nominations come out.

  6. Jais says:

    I’m a Jesse plemmons fan so I approve her message.

  7. butterflystella says:

    I re-watched Sinners and watched (1st time) Bugonia over the weekend. Absolutely love Sinners! Jesse was the best part of Bugonia, in my opinion, but I didn’t think the movie was award worthy. Weird ending…

  8. Crystal says:

    Also this is an unpopular opinion but I sort of side-eye him as a partner, they’re cute together and he’s really talented but she’s one of my favorite actresses and I notice that in his own interviews she basically doesn’t exist. She’s constantly shouting him out in magazines and talk shows and expressing appreciation and then it’ll be like in one interview he’ll say “I needed to get home, I hadn’t seen my boys for 6 months” and it’s like the mother of his kids is absent. I’ve never seen him promote one of her projects or do something similar at least on the level of what she does for him. And he’s distinguished enough in his career that I don’t really think it’s him trying to separate from her fame. But maybe it works for them.

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