Eighth Grade's Elsie Fisher creates her own awards show because "sometimes other ones suck"

The Oscar nominations came and went yesterday and, as tends to happen each and every year, they were mostly filled with safe choices that don’t reflect the diversity of talent on display in Hollywood and beyond. Greta Gerwig’s Little Women direction, for example, was grossly overlooked, as were incredible films like Uncut Gems, Apollo 11, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, and The Farewell. The so-so, Scorsese-aping Joker, meanwhile, smeared its cake makeup across a staggering 11 nominations.
There’s been plenty of whinging online about it all—including from us!—but few have been as proactive in their displeasure as Elsie Fisher. Last night, he 16-year old Eighth Grade breakout launched the “first annual Elsie Awards,” which seeks to honor, well, movies that Fisher liked. “I’ve decided to start my own film awards because sometimes other ones suck,” she posted. And, while we’re not keen on every film angling for an Elsie, let’s just say we’d much rather watch movies with her than any of the Academy voters.
Impressively comprehensive, the Elsies don’t mimic the Academy’s categories, as she’ll be handing out awards for the year’s best horror and independent movies, as well as the year’s best young performer (one she handily would’ve nabbed back in 2018).
Some of the films she dug that the Academy ignored? Olivia Wilde’s riotous teen comedy Booksmart, for example, as well as underrated features like Joe Talbot’s The Last Black Man In San Francisco and Riley Stearns’ The Art Of Self-Defense.