Hollywood’s Oscar voters snubbed big names including Jennifer Lopez, Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro on Monday, while issuing a surprise first Academy Award nomination to actor Antonio Banderas for Spanish film Pain and Glory.Singer and actor Lopez was widely praised for her role as an enterprising pole dancer in Hustlers as was Murphy in Dolemite is My Name, but neither landed among the contenders for acting honours that will be awarded at the Oscars ceremony on February 9. Both had been nominated for Golden Globe awards.”The big surprise of the day has to be Jennifer Lopez not getting a best supporting actress nomination,” said Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman. “There was just so much buzz about it, so much expectation. A lot of people thought she was going to win.”
