Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar Nome calls out the 2004 ad for Shohreh Aghdachloo

There may be hope Andrea Riseborough to maintain her Oscar nomination for “to LeslieGiven a similar case did not rule out another surprising candidate from the past, The month of Aghdashlo.

In 2004, the Academy was preparing for a new voting schedule. Here comes new rules for studio marketers that will take some of the negativity and vitriol out of awards season. However, on February 20, 2004, four days before the Oscar voting deadline, a print advertisement appeared in an issue of The Daily Telegraph. variety She centered on the powerful role of Shohra Aghdashloo in “House of Sand and Fog” (2003).

The ad used four excerpts from print and television news stories praising the supporting actress. Three of them referred to Renée Zellweger as “she’s going to win” and Aghdachloo as “she should win.”

Bruce Davis, the Academy’s executive director at the time, called it an “attack declaration”.

Both DreamWorks president Jeffrey Katzenberg and Terry Press, the studio’s head of marketing, issued apologies after scrutiny, with the former telling the Los Angeles Times, “We made a very bad and unwise mistake.”

Aghdashloo lost the Oscar to Renee Zellweger for Cold Mountain in 2003.

While no official complaints have been made about Riseborough’s nomination to the Academy, sources and insiders have expressed negativity, accusing her camp of violating Academy rules for campaigns. One Instagram post from the “To Leslie” account It was among the potential violations. It quotes Richard Roeper’s Top 10 Movies of 2022 mentioning Cate Blanchett’s performance in “Tár” breaking the no rule. 11, which reads in part, “Any tactic of singling out ‘competition’ by name or titles is expressly forbidden.” This post has since been deleted.

If Riseborough’s campaign violates Academy rules, the organization can revoke the nomination, which has happened only nine times in Oscar history, but never in acting.

According to sources, the Academy board was already scheduled to meet this Tuesday and will include Riseborough’s nomination as part of the agenda.