Five Oscar nominations that surprised — and how they happened

Parsing the Oscar nominations, everyone loves to focus on the "snubs," even though these omissions aren't really pointed slights but just the inevitable outcomes when you have too many worthy candidates for too few spots.

So instead, let's focus on the surprises, nominations we didn't see coming - or if we did, they felt like an exercise in optimism. Here are my favorite five.

YALITZA APARICIO / LEAD ACTRESS

Aparicio is just the second Mexican actress and the first indigenous woman to be nominated in the lead actress category. Her soulful