While I'm sure Jake would've gotten a nom, Annaleigh might've been shut out because of weird award show politics.
What kind of "weird award show politics" do you think would cause a two-time Tony nominee (and recent winner) who gave a near-universally acclaimed performance to be shut out? Ashford almost certainly would have been nominated if eligible, and almost certainly would have replaced Eva Noblezada, whose performance was not met with the kind of acclaim that was predicted for her.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
