Deadline: At the Weinstein Company’s presentation in Cannes in May, Harvey Weinstein boldly predicted that Jake Gyllenhaal would get a Best Actor Oscar nomination for the company’s boxing picture Southpaw. And he backed it up when he unveiled the film for the first time in a private screening there a few days later. As he indicated then that it would be sweet revenge for the Academy’s inexplicable failure to nominate him for his superb work in last year’s Nightcrawler.
