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Bring on the Oscars Chaos
The 2025 Academy Awards race will be the most wide-open movie season in years. I can’t wait.
Another Croisette breakout was Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, an extremely divisive film that my colleague Bilge Ebiri described as “a cross between Mrs. Doubtfire and Sicario reimagined as a musical.” It co-stars Selena Gomez and got bought by Netflix, thus ensuring it will be the most talked-about movie in America for a period of between four months and four days. Nickel Boys also nabbed the plumb opening-night spot at the New York Film Festival, while closing-night honors go to Steve McQueen’s as-yet-unseen Blitz, which combines two of the Oscars’ favorite things: World War II and Saoirse Ronan. Still coming down the pike are Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, a follow-up to a Best Picture winner; Jon M. Chu’s Wicked, an adaptation of the first half of the famed musical; and James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, a biopic of obscure Nobel laureate Robert Zimmerman.
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