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Oscar Nominations Analysis: Diverse, Global, Even Funny For A Change As ‘Oppenheimer’ Leads List With Few Genuine Surprises
If this morning’s Academy Awards announcement proved anything it is never bet against Diane Warren in your Oscar pool. Or John Williams. Warren’s 15th nomination in the Best Song catego…
Last year’s late-breaking underground guerilla campaign success for Andrea Riseborough in a barely seen movie was an outlier, a complete rarity now made even rarer in the social media age by the Academy adjusting its rules and making that kind of thing even more difficult to achieve going forward. The writing and directing branch of the Academy usually are the most welcoming to international filmmakers and this year was no different, particularly for Best Director which saw both Anatomy’s Justine Triet and Zone’s Jonathan Glazer take two of the spots in a race that left out American favorites Greta Gerwig ( Barbie) and Alexander Payne ( The Holdovers) and Bradley Cooper ( Maestro) among movies that received Best Picture nominations. With The Holdovers, Poor Things, and American Fiction(from first time director Cord Jefferson) added to the Best Picture mix it is a banner day for comedy at the Academy Awards, and well deserved.
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