Oscar snub for Katie Holmes?

By Stone Martindale Nov 14, 2006, 5:34 GMT

Fox's recent Jason Reitman directed film, "Thank You For Smoking" recently dispersed academy screeners "for your consideration," to Academy voters. The jacket of the screener is conspicuously missing a key player, Katie Holmes. Defamer.com reports that it was "an omission made even more glaring by the inclusion of pretty much everyone else who spoke a line in the film."

There was earlier controversy over Holmes one sex scene that mysteriously disappeared when screened at Sundance film festival, and Defamer speculates Fox "executives there are probably as put off by the idea of Holmes' Cruise era, contractually mandated, one-cursory-mating-session-per-billion-years sexuality as we all are, and don't want her baggage tainting the other deserving candidates from their film."

Thank You For Smoking depicts Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor (played by Aaron Eckhart) with a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become highly controversial. When a beautiful news reporter Heather Holloway (played by Katie Holmes) betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world comes close to collapsing.