{"id":289563,"date":"2026-01-17T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289563\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:22:17","slug":"how-to-win-an-oscar-the-hustling-dirty-tricks-and-the-whispered-60m-campaigns-to-win-cinemas-biggest-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289563\/","title":{"rendered":"How to win an Oscar: the hustling, dirty tricks and the whispered $60m campaigns to win cinema\u2019s biggest prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe path to glory on Hollywood\u2019s biggest night often starts months before the ceremony. With Jessie Buckley tipped to add an Oscar to her Golden Globe, we look at the hoops the studios\u2028jump through to put their films front and centre\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jessie Buckley with co-star Paul Mescal in 'Hamnet'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ir 119787664.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jessie Buckley with co-star Paul Mescal in &#8216;Hamnet&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Jessie Buckley demonstrated a rare acting talent during her school years at the Ursuline in Thurles, Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Thanks to the support of then principal Mary Butler, she blossomed in several school plays, including a production of West Side Story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The path to glory on Hollywood\u2019s biggest night often starts months before the ceremony. With Jessie Buckley tipped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-289563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115911599651805302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}