Jessie Buckley nominated for Best Actress Oscar for 'Hamnet' performance as Paul Mescal misses out

"This is Buckley's second Oscar nomination after the Kerry actor was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2021 drama The Lost Daughter. She lost out to Ariana DeBose in West Side Story on that occasion at the 94th Academy Awards, but this time Buckley is seen as the overwhelming favourite to take home the Best Actress Oscar on March 15. This time out, Buckley faces competition for the Oscar from Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You), Emma Stone (Bugonia), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue) and Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)."

"The Oscar nomination for Hamnet comes after a number of significant wins for Buckley for the role, including the Golden Globe for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture Drama and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name written by Irish author Maggie O'Farrell and gives a fictional account of Shakespeare and Hathaway's lives in the wake of the death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet."

"Hamnet stars Buckley as Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare also known historically as Anne Hathaway, and Mescal as Shakespeare. There is even more cause for celebration for the Irish with Bugonia, co-produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Irish production company Element Pictures, nominated for Best Picture. For Best Supporting Actor, Mescal lost out to Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro (both One Battle After Another), Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value), Delroy Lindo (Sinners) and Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)."

Buckley received a Best Actress nomination for her role in Hamnet, while Paul Mescal did not secure a Best Supporting Actor nomination. Hamnet also earned a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Maggie O'Farrell and Chloe Zhao and contributed producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe to Bugonia's Best Picture nomination. Buckley previously won a Golden Globe and the Critics' Choice Award for the role and is considered the overwhelming favourite for the Best Actress Oscar on March 15. The film adapts Maggie O'Farrell's novel and fictionalises the aftermath of the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet.

Read at Irish Independent