After last week, the Rome Film Festival gave Johansson its Best Actress award for the film "Her", now she disqualified from Golden Globes consideration. She may have a chance to win some awards this season for her voice-only performance as the operating system in Spike Jonze’s “Her,” but a Golden Globe won’t be one of them.
The vocal performance by the actress in Spike Jonze’s new romantic drama Her has been ruled ineligible by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for a supporting actress bid, according to sources close to the submission process. The final decision came today after an appeal from distributor Warner Bros.
In "Her," Johansson plays Samantha, an operating system for a near-future computer device. Throughout the film, Samantha forms a relationship with Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), the nebbishy man who installed Samantha in the first place. ("Her," which is being called "A Spike Jonze Love Story" in marketing materials, is out on Dec. 18.)
The actress performance as the disembodied voice with which Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love has won raves from many who’ve seen the film in advance screenings. But the part has fallen victim to a Hollywood Foreign Press Association rule that says voice performances are not eligible for acting awards, an HFPA source confirmed to TheWrap.
While Johansson won't wind up among the Golden Globe nominees when they're announced on Dec. 13, she's still eligible for nomination at both the Screen Actors Guild Awards and, most important, the Academy Awards. The 29-year-old took home Best Actress honors at the Rome Film Festival earlier in November, but Warner Bros. has her in the Best Supporting Actress category for stateside awards consideration.
The actress never appears onscreen but that’s the point of the story. Johansson has earned praise from critics for crafting a playful, fully rounded, down-to-earth character whose core dilemma is the lack of a physical body. She sees what Phoenix’s character sees, via the camera safety-pinned to his jacket pocket, and speaks to him through the tiny speaker in his ear. She’s always there, but not there there.
The Academy Awards and Screen Actors Guild have already deemed her work in the film as eligible for their supporting actress prize, but the Golden Globes group will not be voting on her for its Dec. 12 nominations.
Coincidentally, the Globes gave a “special award” to Robin Williams in 1993 for his voice work in Disney’s animated Aladdin.
Johansson and Warner Bros. declined to speak about the Globe decision. Reps for the HFPA would not respond on the record.
The Globes have restrictive rules in other categories as well. Earlier this year, they tried to disqualify the Swiss documentary “More Than Honey” from the Best Foreign Language Film category on the grounds that it was a doc, and docs weren’t eligible for the Globes.
Only when confronted with evidence that there was no such rule in their books did they relent, and allow it to be submitted – although the HFPA also instituted a new rule that will specifically disqualify documentaries from the category in the future.
In "Her," Johansson plays Samantha, an operating system for a near-future computer device. Throughout the film, Samantha forms a relationship with Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), the nebbishy man who installed Samantha in the first place. ("Her," which is being called "A Spike Jonze Love Story" in marketing materials, is out on Dec. 18.)
The actress performance as the disembodied voice with which Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love has won raves from many who’ve seen the film in advance screenings. But the part has fallen victim to a Hollywood Foreign Press Association rule that says voice performances are not eligible for acting awards, an HFPA source confirmed to TheWrap.
While Johansson won't wind up among the Golden Globe nominees when they're announced on Dec. 13, she's still eligible for nomination at both the Screen Actors Guild Awards and, most important, the Academy Awards. The 29-year-old took home Best Actress honors at the Rome Film Festival earlier in November, but Warner Bros. has her in the Best Supporting Actress category for stateside awards consideration.
The actress never appears onscreen but that’s the point of the story. Johansson has earned praise from critics for crafting a playful, fully rounded, down-to-earth character whose core dilemma is the lack of a physical body. She sees what Phoenix’s character sees, via the camera safety-pinned to his jacket pocket, and speaks to him through the tiny speaker in his ear. She’s always there, but not there there.
The Academy Awards and Screen Actors Guild have already deemed her work in the film as eligible for their supporting actress prize, but the Golden Globes group will not be voting on her for its Dec. 12 nominations.
Coincidentally, the Globes gave a “special award” to Robin Williams in 1993 for his voice work in Disney’s animated Aladdin.
Johansson and Warner Bros. declined to speak about the Globe decision. Reps for the HFPA would not respond on the record.
The Globes have restrictive rules in other categories as well. Earlier this year, they tried to disqualify the Swiss documentary “More Than Honey” from the Best Foreign Language Film category on the grounds that it was a doc, and docs weren’t eligible for the Globes.
Only when confronted with evidence that there was no such rule in their books did they relent, and allow it to be submitted – although the HFPA also instituted a new rule that will specifically disqualify documentaries from the category in the future.
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