Amanda Seyfried recently told The New Yorker that winning an Oscar is not important to her. She said she had “come this far” without an Academy Award, so “why do we need one now?”
“Do you remember who won in the last 10 years? It’s not the wins that matter. It’s the nominations,” Seyfried said. “It moves you forward. That’s a fact. Now, do you need it in a week or two? Or do you need it all the time? No, of course not. Is that great? Of course it does for all sorts of reasons. But it’s not necessary. Longevity in an actor’s career is by design. Longevity is about the deliberate choice to make art in the middle of something fun and expensive and big commercial.”
Seyfried has never won an Oscar, but she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 2021 for Mank. Her performance in “Ang Lee” in December earned her nominations for Best Actress at the Golden Globe and Critics Circle Awards, perhaps foreshadowing an Academy nomination.
Seyfried said that even if she doesn’t get an Oscar nomination this year, she feels like she’s “already proven” and is making progress toward “getting people to trust me to do difficult things.”
“We all have ups and downs in our careers and how we are seen can change from day to day. But I am consistent in my choices and consistent in my values and needs,” she added. “I’m sitting pretty now, too, because ‘The Housemaid’ made me money. That’s not always the case. Sometimes I’m in ‘Mamma Mia!'” Sometimes you’ll do something like ‘Ted 2’ or ‘A Million Dead Westerns,’ both of which were supposed to be big box office hits but didn’t do well at the box office. ”
