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How (Almost) Every Best Picture Nominee Can End Up With a Trophy


The participation-trophy ethos is alive and well at the Oscars.

However, Maestro took two prizes at this week’s Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards, so it’s fair to slot the Leonard Bernstein biopic in for the Suicide Squad Memorial Oscar. If Cillian Murphy or Emma Stone follow up their BAFTA wins with victory this weekend, their races are over; if Paul Giamatti or Lily Gladstone hold serve, it’ll go down to the wire. Interestingly enough, the release of Maestro also throws open the possibility for an “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” movie marathon, a quadruple feature of films about or including the four similarly initialed figures Stipe name-drops in the song:

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