Will Ferrell tells Oscars to suck it after Will & Harper doc gets snubbed: Losers

Will Ferrell gave the proverbial middle finger to the Oscars.The “Anchorman” actor, 57, joked about the Academy snubbing his inspiring documentary, “Will & Harper,” from the 2025 nominations list.“Ask me if we got Oscar-nominated,” Ferrell said to Stephen Colbert on a recent episode of “The Late Show.”“It’s such a good documentary, it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years,” Colbert, 60, told Ferrell.“It was beautiful, it was timely, it was heartfelt, I was inspired by it,” Colbert continued, before asking, “Tell me, how was the Oscar nomination?”“We didn’t get it,” Ferrell bluntly said. Colbert told Ferrell he was sorry about the snub, adding, “Well, f–k those guys, right?”“I know, right? Thank you,” Ferrell said.“F–k the academy.

Say it!” Colbert told Ferrell.“Especially the doc branch, the doc branch of the academy,” Ferrell said in a mocking tone.“You don’t want to hang out with the doc branch.

What a bunch of losers.”He added, “In fact, I hope there’s some of them here tonight.See, if you’re a member of the doc branch — suck it!”“Will & Harper” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year before being released by Netflix in September.The documentary follows Ferrell and his friend and fellow “SNL” alum Harper Steele’s 17-day road trip across the country “to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self” after Steele came out as transgender in 2022.The National Board of Review named the film a Top 5 documentary of the year.The doc was shortlisted for two Oscars, for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song (Kristen Wiig’s “Harper and Will Go West”), but the doc ultimately didn’t get any nominations from the academy.Instead, “Black Box Diaries,” “No Other Land,” “Porcelain War,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” and “Sugarcane” scored nods in the Best Documentary Feature category, while the Best O...