Jenifer Lopez is poised to land her first oscar Norm for "Hustlers"

Toronto: Jennifer Lopez Is Poised to Land Her First Oscar Nom for 'Hustlers'

Has the film Academy's recent push for not only more diverse but also younger members actually moved the needle, as far as what sorts of films and performances wind up with Oscar nominations? A great test case will be Lorene Scafaria's Hustlers, a dramedy about a group of New York strippers who team up to con male patrons in order to survive the Great Recession, which features a leading performance by Jennifer Lopez that many here at the Toronto International Film Festival (where it premiered Saturday at Roy Thomson Hall and screened again Sunday at the Ryerson Theatre) feel is awards-worthy.

Adapted for the big screen by Scafaria (heretofore best known for writing and directing 2015's The Meddler) from a 2015 New York magazine article by Jessica Pressler that went viral, Hustlers invites comparisons to 9 to 5, the 1980 classic about women facing nonsense in the workplace, and Widows, a 2018 film about women who team up to commit crimes, but also to a host of male-centric films that the Academy actually embraced. Among them: 1995's The Usual Suspects (which was structured around an interrogation and flashbacks, just like Hustlers, and took home acting and screenplay Oscars) and just about every Martin Scorsese film about the sense of brotherhood felt by men committing crimes together, especially 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street (which captures the desire for — and price of — a life of excess in and around New York's financial district, just like Hustlers, and wound up with five Oscar nominations, including picture, screenplay and two for acting

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