Oscars 2025 nominations: Kneecap fail to receive any nominations
The 2025 Oscar nominations have been announced, and Kneecap’s self-titled movie, Kneecap, has failed to make it onto the shortlist. If it had received a nomination, it would have been the third Irish movie in history to be put forward for ‘Best International Feature’.
The lack of nomination will come as a shock to many as the movie received praise from fans and critics alike and has swept alternate award ceremonies.
When talking about being longlisted for an award, Kneecap writer and director Rich Peppiatt said, “If someone had walked into the pub in 2019 – back when me and Kneecap were still dreaming up what this movie could be – and they told us five years later we’d be in the running for an Oscar,” he said, “We’d probably have asked for a blast of whatever they were smoking.”
Peppiatt continued, “It’s been a rollercoaster journey marked by a huge amount of hard graft and plenty good fun, and making it to that hallowed Hollywood red carpet would certainly be a grand way to finish it all off.”
It wasn’t meant to be, as the films that received nominations for ‘Best International Feature’ include I’m Still Here, The Girl The Needle, Emilia Pérez, The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Flow.
The film has received nominations for other major film awards and has been submitted for six Bafta Awards, including ‘Outstanding British Film’, ‘Outstanding Debut by a British Writer’, ‘Director or Producer’, ‘Best Film Not In An English Language’, ‘Original Screenplay’, ‘Editing’, and ‘Casting’.
The band responded via their social media, sharing “Fuck the Oscars. Free Palestine,” clearly making their feelings about the snub known.
The Oscars Ceremony will take place on March 2nd at the Dolby Theatre.
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