{"id":614047,"date":"2023-02-01T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=614047"},"modified":"2023-02-11T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T10:45:00","slug":"to-leslie-review-round-up-what-critics-thought-of-the-controversial-oscars-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/to-leslie-review-round-up-what-critics-thought-of-the-controversial-oscars-contender","title":{"rendered":"To Leslie review round-up: What critics thought of the controversial Oscars contender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Leslie , the small indie movie that took in just $27,000 (&#163;22,000) at the box office, has been making headlines in recent weeks for its passionate Oscars campaign. Cate Blanchett singled out Andrea Riseborough&#8217;s lead performance while accepting an award for her own film T&#225;r. Edward Norton wrote an entire Twitter thread about her &#8220;physically harrowing&#8221; portrayal. And Kate Winslet called Riseborough&#8217;s turn &#8220;the greatest female performance on screen I have ever seen in my life&#8221;. Last week, it was announced that Riseborough had secured a Best Actress nomination for her role in the film, as a spiralling single mother who wins the lottery. The Academy then launched a review into campaign procedures, and the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite began to trend on social media, with some pointing out that actors Viola Davis ( The Woman King ) and Danielle Deadwyler ( Till ) had been snubbed in the nominations. Riseborough will not have her nomination stripped, but the Academy has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Leslie, the small indie movie that took in just $27,000 (&#163;22,000) at the box office, has been making headlines in recent weeks for its passionate Oscars campaign.Cate Blanchett singled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}