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Lily Gladstone’s Oscars Run is Over, But Her Impact Remains

Lily Gladstone’s Oscars Run is Over, But Her Impact Remains

Lily Gladstone’s awards run for Killers of the Flower Moon was historic, with the performer knocking down milestone after milestone: first Indigenous Golden Globe and SAG winner and first Native American Oscar nominee. Although the votes fell just short of securing her that final superlative — Poor Things’ Emma Stone won the Academy Award for best actress — the Gladstone effect will continue to ripple throughout the industry, say Native members of the community. Spirit Rangers writer Joey Clift was at a viewing party with other Native creatives on Sunday night. “To see a traditional Osage group performing a song, to be included in the conversation, being honored by this industry that for 100 years hasn’t honored us in that way, it feels like anything’s possible,” he says. “I was having this feeling of for the first time being allowed in the room in a real way.” TV writer Lucas Brown Eyes (Young & Hungry, Alexa & Katie) agrees. “Every Native I know was super pumped. They were watching with their kids. It was almost …

Lily Gladstone’s snub at the Oscars highlights the Academy’s complicated Indigenous history

Lily Gladstone’s snub at the Oscars highlights the Academy’s complicated Indigenous history

The long, grueling awards season was supposedly leading to a historic moment for first-time Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone — until it didn’t.  The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actress was the first Native American person nominated in the competitive lead actress category. During awards season, cinephiles and critics alike predicted that Gladstone would take home the gold statute. Especially since she had already won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance; all that was left for the actress to take was the esteemed Oscar. Even the night felt like it was primed for Gladstone as the Osage Nation performed their film’s nominated song “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” at the awards ceremony. But alas, in a close competition, Emma Stone snagged the prize for her performance in “Poor Things.” The loss felt shocking and demoralizing even though there was always a chance for Stone to snag the award. But it felt all the more heightened as we glance at history. Out of the total 96 best actress wins, only two women of …

Oscars: Emma Stone wins best actress, ends Lily Gladstone’s historic run

Oscars: Emma Stone wins best actress, ends Lily Gladstone’s historic run

When Lily Gladstone was nominated for the lead actress Oscar for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” she sparked a wave of hope inside and outside Hollywood that she would become the first Native American to win the prize, in the Academy Awards’ 96th year. And though she received a robust wave of applause when her name was announced during the presentation of the nominees, her journey ended in disappointment as “Poor Things’” Emma Stone claimed the lead actress honor instead. “It’s not about me — it’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts,” said Stone, in tears, upon claiming her second lead actress Oscar, having previously won for “La La Land” in 2017. There was surprise in the room and even on stage: Jennifer Lawrence, one of the presenters, lifted her hands to her mouth in shock as Michelle Yeoh read Stone’s name. The honor followed on the heels of her BAFTA win for Yorgos Lanthimos’ puckish spin on the costume drama, in which Stone plays …

Lily Gladstone’s ‘Most Likely to Win an Oscar’ Classmate Has a Message for Her Now That She’s an Oscar Nominee

Lily Gladstone’s ‘Most Likely to Win an Oscar’ Classmate Has a Message for Her Now That She’s an Oscar Nominee

Lily Gladstone is one step closer to fulfilling “the prophecy” of becoming an Academy Award winner and her high school classmate could not be more excited for her.  Talking with ET’s Cassie DiLaura following the nomination for his fellow “most likely to win an Oscar” superlative holder, Josh Ryder says he is happy to see Gladstone, 37, “rightfully” get the recognition she deserves for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon.  “I don’t think I had the capacity necessarily to think, or the understanding of what it would take to put oneself in that position to be nominated for an Oscar and Lily has done it,” Ryder tells ET. “And it is extraordinary that she did such high-caliber work, and is getting recognized for it rightfully.” As for their recent viral moment where the pair is seen in their high school yearbook, posing dramatically with a small statuette to evoke the look of an Oscar win, Ryder — the owner of Betty Restaurant and Bar in Seattle — echoed Gladstone’s thoughts about it bringing …

Lily Gladstone’s acceptance speech shows why we need to save endangered languages

Lily Gladstone’s acceptance speech shows why we need to save endangered languages

When Lily Gladstone accepted her historic Golden Globe award earlier this month, the “Killers of the Flower Moon” star didn’t just express her thanks. She introduced herself. She said her name. She said “I love you.” And she said it in Blackfeet. “One of the first things we’re taught is you say your name, you say where you’re from and you say hello to everyone, ‘Hello, my friends,’” she explained later. “So it was one of the more natural things I could do in the moment.” It was a greeting received around the globe, in a language spoken only by a few thousand people. There are roughly 7,000 languages in the world. And UNESCO has estimated that 3,000 of them — including Yiddish, Irish and Blackfoot — are endangered and could be lost by the end of the century. That’s one language every two weeks. Potentially gone. Languages don’t just randomly go missing. They don’t disappear because the world is becoming a smaller place, or because a common tongue automatically a good thing. Their precarity or …