Oscar race is on! Studios have already published the release dates of its biggest award hopefuls and the reason I'm writing this piece this late in the season is due to Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon , which ended-up being postponed for a 2023 release date. It was Apple's biggest Oscar player this season and it leaves the newly-Best Picture winning studio with only Cha Cha Real Smooth as the only viable award vehicle for Apple this season. The thing is: Cha Cha Real Smooth is not as beloved as CODA was last year, but I expect it to crack here and there thanks to a strong campaign... still, a Best Picture nod looks like a longshot. Meanwhile, Searchlight's Good Luck to You, Leo Grande was deemed eligible for Oscar consideration since the AMPAS accepted an appeal from the distributor, which released the movie on Hulu streaming service by the time the Academy reversed the Oscar eligibility rules back to pre-COVID terms. The movie, the screenplay and, speci...
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