The substance nominated for 5 Oscars

Coralie Fargeat’s body horror thriller The substance has received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

It was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Fargeat, Best Actress for Demi Moore, Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Director for Fargeat.

Leaning mostly on practical effects, the film follows Moore’s character Elisabeth Sparkle, a fading celebrity, as she takes a black market drug that creates a temporary younger version of herself named Sue (played by Margaret Qualley) and then must fight with the fallout.

Dennis Quaid also stars in the film, which premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival.

“Moore imbues his character with a visceral desperation, one that enriches the disturbing undercurrents of Fargeat’s film. She plays a woman who cannot shake the addiction of having youth at her fingertips despite its cutting effect on her psyche,” she wrote. The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lovia Gyarkye in her review.

“Moore imbues his character with a visceral desperation, one that enriches the disturbing undercurrents of Fargeat’s film. She plays a woman who cannot shake the addiction of having youth at her fingertips despite its cutting effect on her psyche,” she wrote. The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lovia Gyarkye in her review.

Moore won a Golden Globe for Best Actress at the Golden Globes earlier this month, where she gave an impassioned speech about what the recognition meant to her at this point in her career, saying she was at “a low point” when The substance come along.

“I had a woman say to me, ‘Just know that you’ll never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put the measuring stick down,'” she said. “And so today I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that drives me and of the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I belong.”