27 Feb And the Winners Will Be…
It’s not just any Sunday. At least for some. Tomorrow is Oscar Sunday, a time to celebrate the talent of mostly glitzy white peeps – and dish about their rags. And if you live in Telluride, root for your favorites from the Telluride Film Fest. According to Cara Buckley, the Carpetbagger, of the New York Times, at least one is a shoe-in and another is a pick for Best Pic.
Maybe?
If ever there was a three-way race, it was this year’s contest. (Truth be told, it also happened in 2014, when the contenders were “12 Years a Slave,” “Gravity” and “American Hustle.”) The early favorite this year was Tom McCarthy’s quietly devastating “Spotlight,” about The Boston Globe’s investigation into the Roman Catholic Church’s cover-up of sexually abusive priests. As ardent as the admirers of “Spotlight” were, its position as an early front-runner position was helped by the dearth of strong contenders in the fall. Academy watchers speculated that the film lacked the panache to claim best picture, a sentiment that seemed to be proved true at the Producers Guild Awards, where “The Big Short,” about Wall Street skulduggery, landed top picture, to much surprise.
While all of the guilds share crossover membership with the academy, the producers’ group has often been a surefire predictor of Oscar winners, and also uses the same complicated preferential voting system that the academy does. The race grew more fraught when the top Screen Actors Guild Award went to “Spotlight,” and the Directors Guild gave its highest prize to Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s breathtakingly beautiful, and stupendously long, tale of frontier-era vengeance, “The Revenant.” Along with winning the Golden Globe for best dramatic feature and the biggest honor, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ top award, that western earned the most academy nominations (12). Going into the Oscars, it has the most momentum. “The Big Short,” in particular, or “Spotlight” could still pull an upset, but “The Revenant” has the strongest position….
Brie Larson, ‘Room.” For sure.
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