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How to Bet on Oscar Season
Two movie columnists explain how they are making sense of this year’s Academy Awards contenders.
Far be it from me to tell major institutions in the entertainment industry how to do their jobs, but the Toronto International Film Festival and the Primetime Emmy Awards need to figure out a way to not converge every September, driving us into a frenzy of small-screen glitz and big-screen potential as we attempt to cover them both simultaneously. Some other movies that might straddle the line between box-office and award success that you didn’t mention, Wicked($20) and Mufasa: The Lion King($20), could become pretty huge hits while also contending in Oscar craft and music categories, if not the major ones. This year, along with that zippy little hedgehog, there are potential box-office grabs for Spider-villains Venom($10) and Kraven($5), as well as The Rock and Chris Evans rescuing jacked Santa J.K. Simmons in Red One($5), a movie that I could very much see making huge Thanksgiving bank while we all bemoan the state of blockbuster filmmaking.
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