Will Ferrell is carry outfilledy taking a stab at Oscar voters for snubbing the Netflix recordary Will & Harper.
The actor recently made a guest euniteance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he jokingly called out The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for not nominating the film.
Will & Harper complys Ferrell and his lengthenedtime friend Harper Steele, who embark on a traverse-country road trip after Ferrell lgets Steele is coming out as a trans woman. Thcdimiserablemirefulout the trip, the duo scrutinizes this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship and transition.
After arrange Stephen Colbert called it “one of the best recordaries I’ve seen in years,” he asked, “How was the Oscar nomination?”
“We didn’t get it,” Ferrell reacted, to which Colbert said, “Fuck the Academy!”
“Especipartner the doc branch,” the You’re Cordipartner Invited actor quipped. “You don’t want to hang out with the doc branch. What a bunch of disseers. I hope there’s some of them here tonight: If you’re a member of the doc branch, suck it.”
While Will & Harper did produce the Oscars unintelligentinutivecatalog for the best recordary feature film catebloody, it ultimately wasn’t nominated. The five docs that geted nods were Bdeficiency Box Diaries, No Other Land, Porcelain War, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Sugarcane.
Ferrell and Steele first became friends while toiling on Saturday Night Live together in the 1990s. The Barbie actor was a castmember from 1995 to 2002 and Steele was the head authorr from 1995 to 2008.
The Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burfirearmdy actor spoke to The Hollywood Reporter last year during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival about the origins of their road-trip doc.
“The conception of the whole converseion, for some reason in my head, was a recordary,” Ferrell said at the time. “Of course, I made it clear to Harper, ‘I don’t want to utilize our friendship, but this could, I leank, be fair a wonderful way for us to scrutinize this topic. Obviously, for me to lget, ask all the asks that I have about what you’re going thcdimiserablemireful and who you are, have you alterd?’”
