Director Milos Forman has a novel explanation for why Jim Carrey didn't get an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the late comedian Andy Kaufman in his film Man on the Moon.
"He's so good you don't see acting," Forman said at the Berlin International Film Festival. "You see Andy Kaufman.
You don't see the sweat of acting, which not everyone appreciates."
Some critics, however, might say the omission of Carrey could also have something to do with the fact that few people saw the box office bomb.
Forman said he was shocked at the snub, adding that he had never worked with an actor "who gives so much of his heart and soul and mind to his work."
Carrey has never been nominated for an Academy Award, although he has won two Golden Globes for best actor from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, including one for Man on the Moon.
* It appears that being nominated for an Oscar is good enough for Chloe Sevigny - she's all but conceded the Best Supporting Actress award to Angelina Jolie for her stunning work alongside Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted.
But in the interests of brevity, Academy voters have a compelling reason to consider Chloe. In the unlikely event that the Boys Don't Cry co-star is chosen, Sevigny promises that her acceptance speech will be only one sentence long.
"I'm not going to be up there gushing," she says. "Don't you think it's so boring when they thank everybody?
"If you thank one person, then you have to thank everybody. Then people get mad at you if you forget to thank them - and they make you take out ads in Variety, and you know how expensive they are."
Sevigny is busy promoting Mary Harron's controversial American Psycho, in which she plays a secretary to Christian Bale's Wall Street serial killer.
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