Jennifer Aniston was snubbed for a Spirit Award nomination for Cake: LOL?

What happens if, after all of her hair-tossing and hustling, Jennifer Aniston doesn’t even get nominated for anything for Cake? I mean, would that be funny or would the schadenfreude be too heavy and we would actually feel sorry for her? I’ve always side-eyed the manufactured (and bought and paid for) “Oscar hype” around Aniston’s “going fug for Oscar” role in Cake, but I thought some awards shows would throw her a bone with a nomination or two. But Aniston couldn’t even wrangle an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Cake was completely shut out of the Spirit Awards!!! Oh well… maybe she’ll get a Golden Globe nomination. Snort.

Another thing that puzzled me about the manufactured Oscar buzz? The fact that a trailer hadn’t been cut and released months ago! It’s the weirdest thing. But maybe it had something to do with the fact that no one had any interest in buying Cake? Maybe it had something to do with the last-minute wrangling to get Cinelou a distribution arm, specifically so they could distribute Cake? Whatever it was, it was a bad decision to let all of these weeks go by without releasing a trailer. They finally released one this week:

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It does have a decent cast – Sam Worthington, Anna Kendrick, Felicity Huffman, Adriana Barraza, Mamie Gummer and many more. I wonder… would this film have more legitimate buzz if it starred someone like Julianne Moore? Also: does Aniston’s character have a sexual relationship with Sam Worthington? Hm.

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