Jacob Elordi earns an Oscar nomination for Frankenstein as the Creature, an outsider performance built on empathy instead of fear. Guillermo del Toro's version doesn't chase shock.
It turns the monster into the most human presence on screen, and lets the tragedy land like a portrait of longing.
Elordi's nomination reads as the clearest signal of what the film is doing: not reanimating a classic, but reframing it.