Overview
- The film earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Chloé Zhao, Best Actress for Jessie Buckley, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
- Jessie Buckley praised co-star Paul Mescal after he missed a supporting-actor nomination, calling his contribution essential to what the film achieved.
- Author Maggie O’Farrell, a first-time nominee for Adapted Screenplay, said the recognition was unexpected and described her on-set experience as deeply collaborative.
- Maggie O’Farrell detailed how she and Zhao disassembled the 360-page novel into a roughly 90-page screenplay, selecting core strands and letting the film take its own shape.
- Buckley and Zhao discussed a key unscripted scream captured on set, with Zhao lauding Buckley’s exhaustive preparation and physical commitment.