Sean Connery, is that you?

Will Ferrell did not pull any punches (but might have cracked a few jokes and a Saturday Night Live callback) when it came to addressing his documentary, Will & Harper, not getting any Oscar nominations.

During a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, after the late-night host praised the film, Ferrell said to Colbert, “Ask me if we got Oscar-nominated.”

“It’s such a good documentary, it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years,” responded Colbert. “It was beautiful, it was timely, it was heartfelt, I was inspired by it. How was the Oscar nomination?”

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“We didn’t get it,” Ferrell said. Colbert expressed his apologies, and then jokingly added, “Well, f— those guys, right? F— the Academy, say it!”

“Especially the doc branch, the doc branch of the Academy,” Ferrell joked. “You don’t want to hang out with the doc branch. What a bunch of losers; in fact, I hope there’s some of them here tonight. See, if you’re a member of the doc branch — suck it!”

Will & Harper, which was named one of the top 5 documentary films of 2024 by the National Board of Review, follows Ferrell and his transgender friend (and fellow SNL alum) Harper Steele on a cross-country road trip. The film itself and “Harper and Will Go West,” a song co-written and performed by Kristen Wiig in the doc, were both shortlisted for an Oscar in the categories of Best Documentary and Best Original Song, but ultimately failed to make the final cut when the Academy Awards announced its nominations in January.

Ferrell jokingly telling the awards body to “suck it” feels particularly ironic given both his and Steele’s past with the show as mentioned in the documentary, but also because it comes on the heels of the sketch comedy series’ 50th anniversary special airing this weekend.

Longtime fans of the show will recall Sean Connery, as played by Darrell Hammond, famously taunting Ferrell’s Alex Trebek character to “suck it” during the beloved Celebrity Jeopardy sketches. (Or you can check it out, below.)