Yahoo Lifestyle Will Ferrell Jokingly Calls Academy Awards' Documentary Branch 'Losers' After “Will & Harper” Oscar Snub: 'Suck It'
“You don’t want to hang out with the doc branch,” quipped Ferrell in an interview with Stephen Colbert about his movie’s lack of Oscar recognition
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Will Ferrell on Jan. 28; in 'Will & Harper'Will Ferrell would like a word or two with the Oscars.
Following his documentary Will & Harper not receiving any 2025 Academy Award nominations, the actor-producer, 57, invited the org’s documentary branch — in jest — to “suck it” while speaking to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Monday, Feb. 3.
“Ask me if we got Oscar-nominated,” the You’re Cordially Invited star said after Colbert, 60, praised the doc, which follows Ferrell and his transgender friend Harper Steele on a cross-country road trip.
“It’s such a good documentary, it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years,” responded Colbert. “It was beautiful, it was timely, it was heartfelt, I was inspired by it. How [about] the Oscar nomination?”
“We didn’t get it,” deadpanned the comedian.
When Colbert jokingly said, “F--- the Academy,” Ferrell chimed in, “Especially the doc branch,” referring to the nominators for the Oscars’ Best Documentary Feature prize. “You don’t want to hang out with the doc branch. What a bunch of losers.”
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Will Ferrell and Harper Steele in 'Will & Harper'Looking out at the Late Show audience, he jokingly added, “In fact, I hope there’s some of them here tonight. If you’re a member of the doc branch, suck it.”
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Will & Harper premiered to rave reviews at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival before releasing in theaters and on Netflix in September. Although it wasn’t nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the upcoming Oscars — or for Best Original Song for Kristen Wiig, Sean Douglas and Josh Greenbaum’s tune — it has earned numerous awards. The National Board of Review named it in the top five documentaries of 2024 and it’s among the documentary nominees at the upcoming BAFTA Awards.
The documentaries that are competing for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards are Black Box Diaries, No Other Land, Porcelain War, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat and Sugarcane.
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