Though Will & Harper gained loads of hearts, it didn’t safe an Oscar nomination.
Following the success of his and fellow SNL alum Harper Steele‘s Netflix documentary, Will Ferrell jokingly referred to as out The Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences for snubbing their movie.
“We didn’t get it,” famous Ferrell on The Late Present, earlier than host Stephen Colbert sympathized, “F— the Academy!”
Ferrell added, “Particularly the doc department. You don’t need to hang around with the doc department. What a bunch of losers. I hope there’s a few of them right here tonight: When you’re a member of the doc department, suck it.”
After Will & Harper was shortlisted by the Oscars in December, it didn’t make the nominee record final month. The titles up for Documentary Characteristic Movie embrace Black Field Diaries, No Different Land, Porcelain Battle, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Sugarcane. The 97th Academy Awards air stay on Sunday, March 2 at 4pm PT on ABC.
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Directed by Josh Greenbaum, Will & Harper follows Ferrell as he finds out former SNL author Steele, his shut good friend of 30 years, is popping out as a transgender girl. The 2 determine to embark on a cross-country highway journey to course of this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition and America.
After assembly on SNL and co-writing Netflix’s Eurovision Track Contest: The Story of Fireplace Saga (2020), Steele introduced her transition to Ferrell and family members in 2022.
Following its Sundance premiere final January, Netflix scooped up Will & Harper in an eight-figure deal.
