Twitter had a lot of feelings about Tiffany Haddish’s Oscar snub
Tiffany Haddish and actor Andy Serkis announced the 2018 Oscar nominations this morning, which was especially great because Haddish hilariously mispronounced so many actors’ names and elevated the nomination announcements into a must-see live event. However, having both Haddish and Serkis read the list of nominated actors was cruelly ironic in a way, because both were snubbed by the Academy.
Serkis is the motion caption actor in literally all of your favorite movies (Caesar in the Planet of the Apes series, Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, Kong in King Kong) and has been serving up glorious performances for most of his career. Yet he has never been nominated. As for Haddish, show us another performance by a woman this year as memorable as her breakout role in Girls Trip. There were so many powerful film performances by women in 2017, but none that had you talking and tweeting and texting your friends like you did after you watched Haddish do her thing.
Many will argue that Girls Trip is a raunchy comedy and therefore not Oscar caliber, but don’t forget about Bridesmaids in 2012. Bridesmaids was nominated for two Oscars: Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Melissa McCarthy. Many people are comparing the roles because both Haddish and McCarthy gave breakout comic performances in broad R-Rated comedies about a group of women.
As for Haddish’s Oscar snub, Twitter has weighed in with opinions.
Tiffany Haddish was snubbed she should’ve been the only one nominated for best supporting actress
— Taylor Hall (@taynichall) January 23, 2018
WAIT HOLD UP @TiffanyHaddish GOT SNUBBED AGAIN? pic.twitter.com/wzjbvIOfiG
— Defective Bad Janet (@igitot) January 23, 2018
Bummed that Tiffany Haddish had to stand there & listen while she got snubbed for Supporting Actress. #OscarNoms
— Matt Polidoro (@Polidorable) January 23, 2018
Bringing out Andy Serkis and Tiffany Haddish for the #OscarNoms ist like bringing out Amy Adams as a presenter the year she was snubbed.
— Mika Engelhardt (@MikaEn2305) January 23, 2018
If I’m Tiffany Haddish and the Oscars snubbed me I’m fucking up everybody names too. Lol just a concept …
— the VILLAIN.💎 (@BriiiCarter) January 23, 2018
@TiffanyHaddish ya got snubbed. You were the best thing this year.
— Low Cut Connie (@LowCutConnie) January 23, 2018
Some are frustrated that she was shut out of both the Golden Globes and, now, the Oscars.
@TiffanyHaddish & @girlstripmovie were both snubbed again 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 #OscarNoms
— Mike McMillan (@Mike_D_McMillan) January 23, 2018
Others are echoing our comparison to McCarthy’s nomination for Bridesmaids.
So are we gonna talk about how Melissa McCarthy was nominated for an Oscar but not @TiffanyHaddish? Tiff was hilarious in girls trip and on McCarthy's level if not higher. Love them both btw #bestsupportingactress #snubbed
— Nicole Beharie’s Burner Account (@TheRealSydJ) January 23, 2018
Haddish, however, had the best reaction to her own snub. She retweeted this fan who joked that had she been nominated, she would have mispronounced her own name.
Would have been cool if @TiffanyHaddish got to read her own name as a nominee and pronounced it Tiffany Haddock #OscarNoms
— Nikki Novak (@NikkiNovak) January 23, 2018
We don’t deserve this woman.
