Angelina Jolie is surely “devastated” over being snubbed by the Oscars after pouring her own pain into “Maria,” Hollywood insiders say.
Jolie, 49, spent months learning to sing for the role of Maria Callas — and said she made the opera singer’s anguish “personal to me”.
Although nominated for a Golden Globe, she missed out on a nod by both the SAG Awards and the Academy of Motion Pictures, which announced its contenders Thursday.
“Angelina will be devastated … look at all the press she did for the film — she wanted to get nominated,” a senior awards source said. “She did Jimmy Fallon, her first late-night show in over a decade. She even went to the Gotham awards. She did all these magazine covers.”
The star made her acting comeback in biopic “Maria” after taking a few years off, and a second Hollywood awards expert told Page Six that Jolie would undoubtedly be upset — adding the Oscars snub “wasn’t great for Angelina – or Netflix [which produced the film].”
A movie insider, meanwhile, insisted the snub comes down to Jolie’s very public divorce from Brad Pitt.
“This just shows that Hollywood is Team Brad,” said the insider. “The Globes showed that the foreign press loves her, but that’s not Hollywood. Nobody was going to go against Brad and give Angelina a vote … people just love Brad.”
Pitt and Jolie finally resolved their bitter divorce in December after eight years of intense legal fighting.
At the time, Jolie’s lawyer James Simon admitted that she was “exhausted” and trying to find healing for her family.
Another Tinseltown source, however, told Page Six, “The divorce is done, and yes, politics do come into play a little alongside the films and the performances. But the fact is that there are a lot of first-time nominees shows that we still have a healthy industry.”
Oscars’ Best Actress nominations went to Mikey Madison for “Anora,” Fernanda Torres for “I’m Still Here,” Demi Moore for “The Substance,” Karla Sofía Gascón for “Emilia Pérez” and Cynthia Erivo for “Wicked.”
Erivo is the only one of that group who has previously been nominated for an Academy Award, for 2019’s “Harriet.”
Jolie won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Girl, Interrupted” in 2000, and was nominated in the Best Actress category for “Changeling” in 2009. She was also received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2013.
Jolie’s sons Maddox, 23, and Pax, 21 — two of the six children she shares with Pitt — worked as production assistants on “Maria” and the star said they witnessed the toll the role took on her.
“The character [Callas] has a lot of pain and they’ve of course seen me go through a lot of things, but they hadn’t experienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually a parent hides from a child,” Jolie told the BBC. “So they were there to witness some of that, but then we would hug or they would bring me cups of tea.”
She added that it was “a new way” of finding out how to be honest with her children about her feelings.
Written by “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight, the film focuses on Callas’ final seven days before her death in 1977s, when the legendary Greek-American soprano was living in Paris.
“Maria” received one Oscar nomination, for Best Cinematography for Edward Lachman.
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