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- Amanda Seyfried got candid in a New Yorker profile about her attitude toward earning nominations or wins at the Academy Awards
- “I’ve gotten this far without an Oscar. Why would I need one now?” said Seyfried, who was nominated in 2021 for Mank
- Earning an Oscar nod this year would “be great,” she acknowledged, “but it isn’t necessary”
Amanda Seyfried is not clamoring to be called an Academy Award winner.
Asked in a recent New Yorker interview if winning an Oscar at some point is “important” to her, Seyfried got frank, saying, “No. Do you remember who won in the past 10 years?”
The actress, whose movies The Testament of Ann Lee and The Housemaid were both released on the same day in December, added, “It’s not the win that’s important. It’s the nomination. It does thrust you forward. That’s a fact.”
Seyfried earned her first Oscar nomination in 2021 for playing Hollywood starlet Marion Davies in the David Fincher-directed biopic Mank. Following nominations for her work in the titular role in Ann Lee at this year’s Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, she could be in the running at the 2026 Academy Awards ceremony. (Nominations will be announced this Thursday, Jan. 22.)
“Do I need [an Oscar nomination] in a week or two or whenever? No, of course, I don’t. Would it be great? Of course it would, for every reason,” said Seyfried. “But it isn’t necessary. … I’ve gotten this far without an Oscar. Why would I need one now?”
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The Mean Girls actress added that she feels she’s “already proven” she can “do hard things” on screen, as evidenced by working in so many different genres.
“We all have ebbs and flows in our careers, and how we’re perceived can change from day to day, but I’m consistent in my choices and I’m consistent in my values and my needs,” she said.
Seyfried, who won an Emmy for Hulu’s The Dropout, also discussed her approach to making big and small screen projects.
“For me, all of it is art,” she said. The Paul Feig-directed The Housemaid “is a thriller that didn’t cost a lot to make, and made a lot of money and is a box-office hit. And yet every single choice I made in that movie was as artful as the choices I made in” the Mona Fastvold-directed Ann Lee.
The mother of two concluded, “I finally was able to marry the two in my heart and in my head, and I realized that is what I want for the rest of my career. I’m going to jump between genres as much as I can, and jump between indies and studios.”
The Testament of Ann Lee and The Housemaid are in theaters now.
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