Amanda Seyfried recently told The New Yorker that winning an Oscar is not important to her. She said that she’s “gotten this far” without an Academy Award, so “why would I need one now?”
“Do you remember who won in the past ten years? It’s not the win that’s important. It’s the nomination,” Seyfried said. “It does thrust you forward. That’s a fact. Now, do I need one in a week or two or whenever? No, of course, I don’t. Would it be great? Of course it would, for every reason. But it isn’t necessary. Longevity in an actor’s career is designed. Longevity is about deliberate choices to make art among the big commercial things that are fun and pay.”
Seyfried has never won an Oscar, but she scored a best supporting actress nomination in 2021 for her work in “Mank.” Her performance in December’s “The Testament of Ann Lee” earned her a best actress nomination at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice, possibly foreshadowing a nomination from the Academy.
Even if she misses out on an Oscar nod this year, Seyfried said she has “already proven” herself and feels she is making strides toward “getting people to trust me to do hard things.”
“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 added. “I’m also sitting pretty right now, because ‘The Housemaid’ made money. That’s not always the case. Sometimes you’re in ‘Mamma Mia!’ Sometimes, you do something like ‘Ted 2,’ or ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West,’ which were both supposed to do big box-office, and underperformed.”
