Katie Holmes getting the big fat Oscar Snub?

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on November 15, 2006

Someone should remind Katie Holmes to beware the company she keeps.

No, I take that back. Someone should invent a time machine and go back to before she spawned a child with the poster child for crazy Scientologists everywhere - then warn her about with whom she associates herself. It would have saved a lot of people a lot of stress.

Now not only has Katie gone from America’s sweetheart to Tom Cruise’s contractually obligated reproductive vessel, but she is also supposedly being snubbed as an actress - by the people who made the movie. Another reminder why sometimes wolves eat their young.

The controversy, of course, started by the always entertaining Defamer.com and regurgitated to us by Monsters and Critics is that Katie’s name is absent from the screener copy of Thank You for Smoking sent out to critics and industry insiders for consideration during awards season. It forced me to run to my living room and grab my special awards screener just to verify. After stopping to feel cool because I have a stack of awards screeners, I did confirm that Katie’s name was absent whereas Adam Brody (who was in the film for a total of 3 minutes) was listed. Hmmm…

On a whole this is not a huge issue due to the fact that Katie really wasn’t that great in the film. This is a film that I absolutely loved, and will vote for when it comes time to dish out awards, but there were some far more memorable performances. While Aaron Eckhart dazzles the audiences with his wit, Katie just shows up - has some casual on-screen sex - and then turns into a scheming floozy. What is Oscar (or even MTV Award) worthy about that? Perhaps she should have gone fully nude…

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