Lily Gladstone Says ‘It’s Irrelevant Whether or Not I’ Won the Oscar and ‘Nobody Was Upset’ Back Home Over the Loss: ‘Flower Moon’ Did Its Job

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Lily Gladstone went back home to the Blackfeet reservation after her lengthy awards season with “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and “nobody was upset” that she didn’t win the Oscar for best actress.

Gladstone was a frontrunner for the Academy Award alongside Emma Stone, but it was Stone who prevailed on Oscars night thanks to her performance in “Poor Things.” It turns out some of the Blackfeet Nation leaders assumed Lily would be coming home with the gold. “It was funny, the organizers of the event called me beforehand and they said that they’d got a bunch of little cardboard cut-outs of gold-man statues that looked like an Oscar, to give to the kids,” Gladstone recently told Empire magazine. “They asked if that was okay, or if it was gonna hurt my feelings.

I said: ‘No, absolutely not.’ That’s just the whole thing of award campaigns and the competitive nature of pitting art against art.

Clearly this film, in this moment, had meaning. It did its job.” “But yeah, nobody was upset that it didn’t happen,” she continued about the Oscar loss. “I feel like when the Golden Globe happened, a lot of people who are very far away from the industry just kind of thought it was the Oscars.