{"id":481845,"date":"2025-10-08T02:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/481845\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:51:11","slug":"paul-mescal-pushed-for-hamnet-oscars-awards-recognition-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/481845\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Mescal Pushed for &#8216;Hamnet&#8217; Oscars Awards Recognition (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFor his critically acclaimed portrayal of playwright <strong>William Shakespeare<\/strong> in <strong>Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/strong>\u2019s fall film fest darling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/hamnet\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hamnet_1\" data-tag=\"hamnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamnet<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paul-mescal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-mescal_1\" data-tag=\"paul-mescal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Mescal<\/a><\/strong> will be promoted this awards season for best supporting actor \u2014\u00a0as opposed to best actor \u2014 honors, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThere has been widespread speculation about which path would be pursued by Mescal \u2014 a best actor Oscar nominee in 2023 for 2022\u2019s Aftersun\u00a0\u2014 and his backers, including Hamnet distributor Focus Features. But a decision has only just been solidified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhile Hamnet is a film about the love and loss experienced by William and Agnes Shakespeare, the fact of the matter is that Agnes \u2014\u00a0played by <strong>Jessie Buckley<\/strong>, a frontrunner for the best actress Oscar \u2014 is actually featured in quite a bit more of the film than her famous husband: Mescal appears in 44 minutes and 57 seconds (or 36 percent of the full runtime), whereas Buckley appears in 63 minutes and 49 seconds (or 51 percent of the full runtime).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn other words, it\u2019s not a stretch to argue that Mescal\u2019s performance is, in fact, supporting Buckley\u2019s. And besides, it\u2019s sort of all right there in the film\u2019s plot: part of Agnes\u2019 frustration with William, as expressed in the film, is that he is away in London for large chunks of time while she is back at home without him dealing with challenges related to their children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhile there is no reason to believe this factored into the Mescal decision, it is nevertheless the case that the 29-year-old is the clear lead of another awards hopeful, Mubi\u2019s The History of Sound, so having him go supporting for Hamnet also serves to keep him from splitting the votes of his own fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHamnet had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, where it was the talk of the fest. It then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People\u2019s Choice Award, which is often a harbinger of Oscar success. It next plays at several regional film festivals en route to Focus releasing it in select theaters on Nov. 27 and then wide on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For his critically acclaimed portrayal of playwright William Shakespeare in Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s fall film fest darling Hamnet, Paul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,153073,14673,153075,9375,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-481845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hamnet","11":"tag-oscars","12":"tag-oscars-2026","13":"tag-paul-mescal","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115336281130710421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}