Cinema and Popcorn

BEST PICTURE BEST DIRECTOR BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Madigan is actually the frontrunner after winning the Actor Award (formely SAG) and the Critics’ Choices besides a big couple of critics prizes, but Weapons is a horror movie and it didn’t land any other nomination across the board - the last actress to achieve a Best Supporting Actress win as the sole nominee of her movie was Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and that win happened because Kate Winslet was placed in Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Reader (and she spent the whole awards season taking Best Supporting Actress prizes for that performance)… That’s why I am predicting Teyana Taylor  to win for the Best Picture buzzy One Battle After Another - she has only won the Golden Globe (she’s actually the only nominee to have been nominated for all the precursors) but she dominates the very beginning of OBAA as the fiery, complex and seductiv...

 

BEST PICTURE While I am quite optimistic and confident about the 8 first contenders, I am not so sure about the #9 and #10 seats. Neon is having an amazing year with Sentimental Value , It Was Just an Accident and The Secret Agent doing great with the awards bodies, but so it's No Other Choice . Can the distributor get 4 (!!!!) films in the final Best Picture nominees shortlist? If not, I consider No Other Choice as the most fragile of the bunch in the awards conversation. The final spot: I always bet on a blockbuster, but this year's reception of blockbuster has been kinda... lackluster actually. I had Wicked: For Good , but the second part is considerably less acclaimed than the first movie and even audiences recognize the songs are not as epic and the narrative is not as interesting... Can it get enough #1 votes? My guess is "not". Then I considered Avatar: Fire and Ash , which was received with underwhelming reviews, but it is still way too early to get the aud...